6“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
7“If a man gdelivers to his neighbor money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, hif the thief is found, he shall pay double.
8“If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the ijudges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods.
9“For any kind of trespass, whether it concerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his, the jcause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
10“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, is hurt, or driven away, no one seeing it,
11“then an koath of the LORD shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.
12“But lif, in fact, it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.
13“If it is mtorn to pieces by a beast, then he shall bring it as evidence, and he shall not make good what was torn.
14“And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it becomes injured or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make it good.
15“If its owner was with it, he shall not make it good; if it was hired, it came for its hire.
Moral and Ceremonial Principles
16n“If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to be his wife.
17“If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the obride-price of virgins.
18p“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
19q“Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.
20r“He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
21s“You shall neither mistreat a 2stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22t“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
23“If you afflict them in any way, and they ucry at all to Me, I will surely vhear their cry;
24“and My wwrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; xyour wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
25y“If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him zinterest.
26a“If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
27“For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am bgracious.
28c“You shall not revile God, nor curse a druler of your people.
29“You shall not delay to offer ethe first of your ripe produce and your juices. fThe firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.
30g“Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother hseven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
31“And you shall be iholy men to Me: jyou shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
Exodus 23
Justice for All
1“You ashall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an bunrighteous witness.
2c“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; dnor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.
3“You shall not show partiality to a epoor man in his dispute.
4f“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
5g“If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.
6h“You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
7i“Keep yourself far from a false matter; jdo not kill the innocent and righteous. For kI will not justify the wicked.
8“And lyou shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
9“Also myou shall not oppress a 1stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
The Law of Sabbaths
10n“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,
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 beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your 2olive grove.
12o“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
13“And in all that I have said to you, pbe circumspect and qmake no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.
Three Annual Feasts
(Ex. 34:18–26; Deut. 16:1–17)
14r“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year:
15s“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; tnone shall appear before Me empty);
16u“and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and vthe Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
17w“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord 3GOD.
18x“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened ybread; nor shall the fat of My 4sacrifice remain until morning.
19z“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. aYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
The Angel and the Promises
20b“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21“Beware of Him and obey His voice; cdo not provoke Him, for He will dnot pardon your transgressions; for eMy name is in Him.
22“But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then fI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
23g“For My Angel will go before you and hbring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will 5cut them off.
24“You shall not ibow down to their gods, nor serve them, jnor do according to their works; kbut you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
25“So you shall lserve the LORD your God, and mHe will bless your bread and your water. And nI will take sickness away from the midst of you.
26o“No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will pfulfill the number of your days.
27“I will send qMy fear before you, I will rcause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28“And sI will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.
29t“I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
30“Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.
31“And uI will set your 6bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the 7River. For I will vdeliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
32w“You shall make no 8covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33“They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, xit will surely be a snare to you.”
Exodus 24
Israel Affirms the Covenant
1Now He said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, aNadab and Abihu, band seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
2“And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him.”
3So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the 1judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, c“All the words which the LORD has said we will do.”
4And Moses dwrote 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 epillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered fburnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.
6And Moses gtook half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7Then he htook the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.”
8And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is ithe blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.”
On the Mountain with God
9Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
10and they jsaw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of ksapphire stone, and it was like the lvery2 heavens in its clarity.
11But on the nobles of the children of Israel He mdid not 3lay His hand. So nthey saw God, and they oate and drank.
12Then the LORD said to Moses, p“Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you qtablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”
13So Moses arose with rhis assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
14And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and sHur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.”
15Then Moses went up into the mountain, and ta cloud covered the mountain.
16Now uthe glory of the LORD rested 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.
17The sight of the glory of the LORD was like va consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And wMoses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 25
Offerings for the Sanctuary
(Ex. 35:4–9)
1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2“Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring Me an 1offering. aFrom everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My offering.
3“And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
4“blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair;
5“ram skins dyed red, 2badger skins, and acacia wood;
6b“oil for the light, and cspices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
7“onyx stones, and stones to be set in the dephod and in the breastplate.
8“And let them make Me a esanctuary,3 that fI may dwell among them.
9“According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
The Ark of the Testimony
(Ex. 37:1–9)
10g“And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
11“And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and shall make on it a molding of hgold all around.
12“You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners; two rings shall be on one side, and two rings on the other side.
13“And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
14“You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried by them.
15i“The poles shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
16“And you shall put into the ark jthe Testimony which I will give you.
17k“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 width.
18“And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
19“Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat.
20“And lthe cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
21m“You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and nin the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.
22“And othere I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from pbetween the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
The Table for the Showbread
(Ex. 37:10–16)
23q“You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
24“And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold all around.
25“You shall make for it a frame of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a gold molding for the frame all around.
26“And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.
27“The rings shall be close to the frame, as holders for the poles to bear the table.
28“And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
29“You shall make rits dishes, its pans, its pitchers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.
30“And you shall set the sshowbread on the table before Me always.
The Gold Lampstand
(Ex. 37:17–24)
31t“You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece.
32“And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side.
33u“Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower—and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.
34v“On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower.
35“And there shall be a knob under the first two branches of the same, a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.
36“Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be one hammered piece of pure gold.
37“You shall make seven lamps for it, and wthey shall arrange its lamps so that they xgive light in front of it.
38“And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold.
39“It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
40“And ysee to it that you make them according to the pattern wh
ich was shown you on the mountain.
Exodus 26
The Tabernacle
(Ex. 36:8–38)
1“Moreover ayou shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine woven linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of cherubim you shall weave them. The Plan of the Tabernacle
2“The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. And every one of the curtains shall have 1the same measurements.
3“Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
4“And you shall make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set, and likewise you shall do on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set.
5“Fifty loops you shall make in the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is on the end of the second set, that the loops may be clasped to one another.
6“And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that it may be one tabernacle.
7b“You shall also make curtains of goats’ hair, to be a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
8“The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; and the eleven curtains shall all have the same measurements.
9“And you shall couple five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the forefront of the tent.
10“You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set.
11“And you shall make fifty bronze clasps, put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
12“The remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
13“And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and on that side, to cover it.
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