 出:1.(ex)   [出谷紀]    [Exotus]    [共 4O 章]   [思高聖經]

            上編 以色列人出離埃及(1-18)

 出:1.1      [以色列人在埃及興旺]  以色列的兒子們，各帶了家眷，同雅各伯來到埃及；他們的名字記載如下：
 出:1.2      勒烏本、西默盎、肋未和猶大，
 出:1.3      依撒加爾，則步隆和本雅明丹，
 出:1.4      和納裴塔里，加得和阿協爾。
 出:1.5      他們全是雅各伯所生的，一共七十人；若瑟那時已經在埃及。
 出:1.6      若瑟和他的眾兄弟，以及這一代的人死了以後，
 出:1.7      以色列的子孫生育繁殖，數目增多，極其強盛，佈滿了那地。
 出:1.8      [受壓迫]  有位不認識若瑟的新王興起，統治了埃及。
 出:1.9      他對自己的人民說：「看以色列子民，比我們又多又強。
 出:1.10     來，我們要用智謀對付他們，免得他們繁盛起來，一遇戰爭，就去與我們的敵人聯合，攻擊我們，然後離開此地。」
 出:1.11     於是派定督工管制他們，以苦役壓迫他們，叫他們給法朗建築丕通和辣默色斯兩做貯貨城。
 出:1.12     但是越壓迫他們，他們越增多，也越繁殖，以至埃及人都怕以色列子民。
 出:1.13     於是埃及人更嚴厲地強迫以色列子民做苦工，
 出:1.14     強迫他們作和泥做磚的苦工，田間的一切勞工，以及種種苦工，使他們的生活十分痛苦。
 出:1.15     [殘害男嬰]  埃及王又吩咐為希伯來女人接生的收生婆，一個名叫史斐辣，一個名叫普亞的說
 出:1.16     「你們為希伯來女人接生時，要看著她們臨盆! 若是男孩，就殺死；若是女孩，就讓她活著。」
 出:1.17     但是收生婆敬畏天主，沒有照埃及王的吩咐去作，保留了男孩的性命。
 出:1.18     埃及王將收生婆召來，問她們說：「你們為什麼這樣做，竟叫男孩活著呢﹖」
 出:1.19     收收婆回答法朗說：「希伯來女人和埃及女人不同，她們富有生機，收生婆還沒有來，她們已生產了。」
 出:1.20     天主遂恩待了收生婆。以色列的子民更加增多起來，更加強盛。
 出:1.21     因為收生婆敬畏天主，天主就使她們家門興旺。
 出:1.22     法朗於是訓令他的全體人民說：「凡希伯來人所生的男孩，你們應把他丟在尼羅河裏；凡是女孩，留她活著! 」
  
 出:2.1      [梅瑟誕生]  有肋未家族的一個男子娶了肋未家族的一個女人為妻。
 出:2.2      這女人懷孕生了一個兒子，見他俊美，就把他藏了三個月。
 出:2.3      以後不能再藏了，就拿了一個蒲草筐子，塗上瀝青和石漆，把孩子放在裏面，將筐放在尼羅河邊的蘆葦叢中。
 出:2.4      孩子的姐姐遠遠的站著，想知道孩子究竟怎樣。
 出:2.5      當時法朗的一個公主下到尼羅河邊洗澡，使女們在河邊上徘徊。公主發現蘆葦叢中那個筐子，就吩咐自己的使女將筐子取來。
 出:2.6      她打開一看，見有一個孩子正在哭涕，就動了可憐他的心說：「這必是一個希伯來人的孩子。」
 出:2.7      孩子的姐姐就對法朗的公主說：「你願意我去從希伯來婦女中給你請一個奶媽，為你乳養這個孩子嗎﹖」
 出:2.8      法朗的公主回答說：「你去罷! 」少女便去叫了孩子的母親來。
 出:2.9      法朗的公主對她說：「你將這孩子抱去，為我乳養他，我必給你工錢。」那婦人就接過去，乳養這個孩子。
 出:2.10     孩子長大了，那婦人就把他帶到公主那裏；公主遂收他作自己的兒子，給他起名叫梅瑟，說：「因為我從水裏拉出了他。」
 出:2.11     [梅瑟逃往米德楊]  過了許久梅瑟已經長大，有一次出去探望自己的同胞，看見他們作苦工，又見一個埃及人打他的一個同胞希伯來人；
 出:2.12     他向四面一望，見沒有人，便將那埃及人打死，將他埋在沙土中。
 出:2.13     第二天他又出去，見兩個希伯來人打架，就對那無理的一方說：「你為什麼打你同族的人﹖」
 出:2.14     那人回答說：「誰立了你作我們的首領和判官﹖難到你想殺我，像殺那埃及人一樣嗎﹖」梅瑟就害怕了，心裏想：「那事一定叫人知道了! 」
 出:2.15     法朗聽說這事，就想殺死梅瑟；而梅瑟卻離開法朗逃走，去了米德楊地，坐在井邊。
 出:2.16     米德楊的司祭有七個女兒，她們來打水，灌滿水槽，要飲父親的羊群。
 出:2.17     別的牧童來了，趕走了她們；梅瑟便起來保護了她們，也飲了她們的羊。
 出:2.18     她們回到父親勒烏爾那裏，父親問她們說：「你們今天為什麼回來的這麼快﹖」
 出:2.19     她們回答說：「有一個埃及人救我們擺脫了牧童的手，還給我們打水飲了羊群。」
 出:2.20     他對女兒們說：「他在那裏﹖你們為什麼撇下他﹖去請他來吃飯! 」
 出:2.21     於是梅瑟決定住在那人那裏，那人將自己的女兒漆頗辣給了梅瑟為妻。
 出:2.22     她生了一個兒子，梅瑟給他起名叫革爾熊，因為他說：「我在外方作了旅客。」
 出:2.23     過了很久，埃及王死了。那時以色列子民由於勞苦工作，都嘆息哀號：他們因勞役所發出的求救聲，升到天主面前。
 出:2.24     天主聽見了他們的哀號，就記起了他與亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所立的盟約。
 出:2.25     天主遂眷顧了以色列子民，特別垂念他們。
  
 出:3.1      [天主召梅瑟]  那時梅瑟為他的岳父，米德楊的司祭耶特洛放羊；一次他趕羊往曠野裏去，到了天主的山曷勒布。
 出:3.2      上主的使者從荊棘叢的火焰中顯現給他；他遠遠看見那荊棘為火焚燒，而荊棘卻沒有燒毀。
 出:3.3      梅瑟心裏說：「我要到那邊看看這個奇異的現象，為什麼荊棘燒不毀﹖」
 出:3.4      上主見他走來觀看，天主便由荊棘叢中叫他說：「梅瑟! 梅瑟! 」他答說：「我在這裏。」
 出:3.5      天主說：「不可到這邊來! 將你腳上的鞋脫下，因為你所站的地方是聖地。」
 出:3.6      又說：「我是你父親的天主，亞巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主，雅各伯的天主。」梅瑟因為怕看見天主，就把臉遮起來。
 出:3.7      上主說：「我看見我的百姓在埃及所受的痛苦，聽見他們因工頭的壓迫而發出的哀號；我已注意到他們的痛苦。
 出:3.8      所以我要下去拯救百姓脫離埃及人的手，領他們離開那地方，到一個美麗寬闊的地方，流奶流蜜的地方，就是客納罕人、赫特人、阿摩黎人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人的地方。
 出:3.9      現在以色列子民的哀號已達於我前，我也親自看見埃及人加於他們的壓迫。
 出:3.10     所以你來，我要派你到法朗那裏，率領我的百姓以色列出離埃及。」
 出:3.11     梅瑟對天主說：「我是誰，竟敢去見法朗，率領以色列子民出離埃及﹖」
 出:3.12     上主回答說：「我必與你同在；幾時你將我的百姓由埃及領出來，你們要在這座山上崇拜天主，你要以此作為我派你的憑據。」
 出:3.13     [啟示上主的名字]  梅瑟對天主說：「當我到以色列子民那裏，向他們說：你們祖先的天主打發我到你們這裏來時，他們必要問我：他叫什麼名字﹖我要回答他們什麼呢﹖」
 出:3.14     天主向梅瑟說：「我是自有者。」又說：「你要這樣對以色列子民說：那「自有者」打發我到你們這裏來。」
 出:3.15     天主又對梅瑟說：「你要這樣對以色列子民說：上主，你們祖先的天主，亞巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主和雅各伯的天主，打發我到你們這裏來，這是我的名字，直到永遠；這是我的稱號，直到萬世。
 出:3.16     你去召集以色列的長老，對他們說：上主，你們祖先的天主，亞巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主和雅各伯的天主顯現給我說：我實在注意到你們和你們在埃及所遭遇到的一切。
 出:3.17     因此我決意領你們擺脫埃及人的壓迫，到客納罕人，赫特人，阿摩黎人，培黎齊人，希威人和耶步斯人的地方，即流奶流蜜的地方去。
 出:3.18     他們必會聽你的話。你要同以色列的長老去見埃及王，對他說：上主，希伯來人的天主遇見了我們；現今請讓我們走三天的路程，到曠野裏向上主我們的天主舉行祭獻。
 出:3.19     但是我知道，若不用強硬的手段，埃及王決不會讓你們走。
 出:3.20     因此，我要在埃及伸手顯各種奇蹟，打擊那地；以後他才放你們走。
 出:3.21     我必要使這百姓在埃及人眼中蒙恩，因此，你們離去時不致空手而去。
 出:3.22     各個婦人應向鄰舍的婦女，向住在自己家中的女人索取金鉓、銀飾和 衣服，穿戴在你們子女身上：這樣你們就剝奪人埃及人。」
  
 出:4.1      [棍杖變蛇]  梅瑟回答說：「他們必然不肯相信我，也不肯聽我的話，而對我說：上主沒有顯示給你。」
 出:4.2      上主問他說：「你手裏拿的是什麼﹖」他回答說：「一根棍杖。」
 出:4.3      上主說：「將棍杖扔在地上! 」他便將棍杖扔在地上，棍杖即刻變成了一條蛇；梅瑟一見，就逃避了。
 出:4.4      上主向梅瑟說：「伸手捉著蛇的尾巴! ──他便伸手捉住，那條蛇在他手裏又變成一根棍杖。──
 出:4.5      好叫他們相信上主，他們祖先的天主，亞巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主和雅各伯的天主曾顯示給你。」
 出:4.6      上主又對他說：「將你的手插在懷裏! 」他就將手插在懷裏；及至抽出手來，見手上患了癩瘡，像雪那樣白。
 出:4.7      天主又說：「將你的手再插進懷裏! ──他就把手再插進懷裏；及至從懷裏抽出時，見手已經恢復原狀，像別的肌肉一樣。──
 出:4.8      如果他們不肯信你，也不信服第一個奇蹟，必定信服第二個奇蹟。
 出:4.9      如果連這兩個奇蹟也不信，也不聽你的話，你就從尼羅河裏取些水，倒在旱地上；你從河裏取的水必在旱地上變成血。」
 出:4.10     梅瑟對上主說：「吾主，請原諒! 我不是個有口才的人，以前不是，你向你的僕人說話以後，也不是；我原是笨口結舌的人。」
 出:4.11     上主回答他說：「是誰給人一個嘴﹖是誰使人口啞耳聾，眼明眼瞎呢﹖不是我上主嗎﹖
 出:4.12     現在你去，我要幫助你說話，指教你該說什麼。」
 出:4.13     梅瑟回答說：「吾主，請原諒! 你要打發誰，就打發誰去吧! 」
 出:4.14     上主向梅瑟發怒說：「不是有你的哥哥肋未人亞郎嗎﹖我知道他是有口才的，他現在正前來迎接你；他見了你，心中必要快樂。
 出:4.15     你可向他說話，將你應該說的話放在他口中。我要幫助你，也幫助他說話，指教你們應做什麼。
 出:4.16     他要代替你向百姓說話，作你的口舌；你對他是代替天主。
 出:4.17     你手中要拿著這根棍杖，用來行奇蹟。」
 出:4.18     [梅瑟回埃及]  於是梅瑟起來回到他岳父耶特洛那裏，對他說：「請讓我回到埃及我兄弟那裏，看看他們還健在嗎﹖」耶特洛對梅瑟說：「你平安去罷! 」
 出:4.19     上主在米德楊對梅瑟說：「起身回埃及去! 因為那些想殺害你的人都死了。」
 出:4.20     梅瑟遂帶著妻子孩子，叫他們騎在驢上，起身回埃及國去了；梅瑟手中拿著天主的棍杖。
 出:4.21     上主對梅瑟說：「你回到埃及，要將我交於你行的一切奇蹟，行於法朗面前；但我要使他心硬，不肯放百姓走。
 出:4.22     你要對法朗說：上主這樣說：以色列是我的長子。
 出:4.23     我命你，讓我的兒子去崇拜我。你若拒絕放他們走，我必要殺你的長子。」
 出:4.24     梅瑟在路上住宿的時候，上主遇著他，要想殺他。
 出:4.25     漆頗辣急忙拿了一塊石刀，將他兒子的包皮割下，拿包皮接觸他的腳說：「你真是我的血郎。」
 出:4.26     這樣上主就放了他。當時漆頗辣說：「血郎。」是因了割損的原故。
 出:4.27     其時上主向亞郎說：「你往曠野去迎接梅瑟! 」他就去了。在天主的山旁預見了梅瑟，口親了他。
 出:4.28     梅瑟把上主打發他所說的一切話和命他行的奇蹟，都告訴了亞郎。
 出:4.29     梅瑟和亞郎遂去召集了以色列子民所有的長老。
 出:4.30     亞郎講述了上主向梅瑟所說的一切話，也當著百姓行了那些奇蹟；
 出:4.31     百姓就都信了，也都高興，因為上主眷顧了以色列子民，也垂念了他們的痛苦。他們遂都俯伏叩拜。
  
 出:5.1      [梅瑟初見法朗]  此後，梅瑟同亞郎去見法朗說：「以色列的天主雅威這樣說：「你應放我的百姓走，好叫他們在曠野裏過節敬拜我。」
 出:5.2      法朗問說：「誰是雅威，我該聽他的命，放以色列走﹖我不認識雅威，也不放以色列走。」
 出:5.3      他們回答說：「希伯來人的天主遇見了我們。請讓我們走三天的路到曠野裏，向上主我們的天主獻祭，免得他用瘟疫刀兵擊殺我們。」
 出:5.4      埃及王回答他們說：「梅瑟、亞郎啊! 你們為什麼妨礙百姓工作呢﹖去服你們的勞役罷! 」
 出:5.5      法朗又說：「現在他們比本地的人民還多，你們竟然叫他們歇工﹖」
 出:5.6      那一天法朗命令那些百姓中的監工和工頭說：「
 出:5.7      你們以後不要再像往日一樣，給百姓做磚用的草楷，叫他們自己去拾草。
 出:5.8      但你們仍向他們要往日所做的同樣磚數，一點也不可減少，因為他們懶惰，所以才吶喊說：我們要去向我們的天主獻祭。
 出:5.9      應給這些人加重工作，使他們只工作，而不聽謊言。」
 出:5.10     [苦工加重]  百姓中的監工頭遂出去向百姓說：「法朗這樣吩咐：我不再給你們草楷。
 出:5.11     你們看那裏能找到草楷，就到那裏去拾罷! 但應有的工作一點也不可減少。」
 出:5.12     百姓就分散到埃及全境，拾取麥莖充當草楷。
 出:5.13     監工催迫說：「你們每天應該完成當天的工作，像從前有草楷時一樣。」
 出:5.14     法朗的監工責打他們所派出的以色列子民的工頭說：「你們昨天今天為什麼沒有完成像前天所做的磚數呢?」
 出:5.15     以色列子民的工頭遂去向法朗訴苦說：「你為什麼這樣對待你的僕人們呢﹖
 出:5.16     不給你僕人們草楷，只對我們說：做磚罷! 原是你人民的錯，你卻來打你的僕人們。」
 出:5.17     法朗回答說：「你們太懶惰了! 所以說：讓我們去祭獻上主!
 出:5.18     現在都快去作工! 決不供給你們草楷，但是磚卻該如數交上。
 出:5.19     以色列子民的工頭因所出的命令說：你們每天應做的磚數，不得減少，」便知自己更陷於困難中。
 出:5.20     [梅瑟受責哀求天主]  工頭們由法朗那裏出來，遇見梅瑟和亞郎正等候他們，
 出:5.21     就對他們說：「願上主鑒察懲罰你們! 你們使我們在法朗和他臣僕眼中成了可恨的，就好像把刀交在他們手中，宰殺我們。」
 出:5.22     梅瑟回到上主那裏說：「吾主，你為什麼折磨這百姓﹖為什麼偏偏打發我呢﹖
 出:5.23     自從我到法朗那裏，奉你的名講話以來，他更加折磨這百姓，而你也沒有拯救你的百姓。」
  
 出:6.1      [啟示雅威聖名]  上主回答梅瑟說：「現在你就要看見我對法朗所要作的；在強硬的手臂下，他必放走他們；在強硬的手腕下，他必將他們逐出自己的國境。」
 出:6.2      天主訓示梅瑟說：「我是雅威。
 出:6.3      我曾顯現給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯為「全能的天主，」但沒有以「雅威」的名字將我啟示給他們。
 出:6.4      我也與他們立了約，許下將他們寄居而作客的客納罕地賜給他們。
 出:6.5      如今我聽見了以色列子民因埃及人的奴役而發的哀號，想起了我的約。
 出:6.6      為此你應該對以色列子民說：我是上主，我要使你們擺脫埃及人的虐待，拯救你們脫離他們的奴役，用伸開的手臂，藉嚴厲的懲罰救贖你們。
 出:6.7      我要以你們作我的百姓，我作你們的天主。你們將承認我是上主，你們的天主，使你們擺脫埃及人的虐待。
 出:6.8      我領你們要去的地方，就是我舉手誓許給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯的地方；我要把那地方賜給你們作產業。──我是上主。」
 出:6.9      梅瑟將這些話告訴了以色列子民，但他們由於苦工喪氣，不肯聽梅瑟的話。
 出:6.10     上主訓示梅瑟說：「
 出:6.11     你去告訴埃及王法朗說：」叫他將以色列子民由他國中放走。」
 出:6.12     梅瑟當面回答上主說：「以色列子民既不肯聽我，法朗又怎肯聽我﹖況且我又是笨口結舌的人。」
 出:6.13     上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎，命令他們去見以色列子民和埃及王法朗，好領以色列子民出離埃及國。
 出:6.14     [梅瑟和亞郎的族譜]  以下是他們家族的族長：以色列的長子勒烏本的兒子：有哈諾客、帕路、赫茲龍和加爾米：以上是勒烏本的家族。
 出:6.15     西默盎的兒子：有耶慕耳、雅明、敖哈得、雅津、祚哈爾和客納罕女子生的兒子沙烏耳：以上是西默盎的家族。
 出:6.16     以下是肋未的兒子和他們後代的名字：格爾雄、刻哈特和默辣黎。肋未享年一百三十七歲。
 出:6.17     革爾雄的兒子有：里貝尼和史米以及他們的家族。
 出:6.18     刻哈特的兒子：有阿默蘭、依茲哈爾、赫貝龍、烏齊耳。刻哈特享年一百三十三歲。
 出:6.19     默辣黎的兒子有：瑪赫里和慕史：以上是勒未各家族和他們的後代。
 出:6.20     阿默蘭娶了自己的姑母約革貝得為妻，她給他生了亞郎和梅瑟。阿默蘭享年一百三十七歲。
 出:6.21     依茲哈爾的兒子有：科辣黑、乃斐格和齊革黎。
 出:6.22     烏齊耳的兒子：有米沙耳、厄里匝番和息特黎。
 出:6.23     亞郎娶了阿米納達布的女兒，納赫雄的姐妹厄里舍巴為妻，她給亞郎生了納達布、阿彼胡、厄肋阿匝爾和依塔瑪爾。
 出:6.24     科辣黑的兒子：有阿息爾、厄耳卡納和阿彼雅撒夫：以上是科辣黑的各家族。
 出:6.25     亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾娶了普提耳的一個女兒為妻，她給他生了丕乃哈斯：以上是肋未人各支屬的族長。
 出:6.26     天主曾向亞郎和梅瑟說過:「你們應領以色列子民一隊一隊地出埃及國。」
 出:6.27     這個梅瑟和亞郎曾向埃及王法朗說過：要將以色列子民從埃及領出來。
 出:6.28     當上主在埃及國對梅瑟說話的那一天，
 出:6.29     上主曾對梅瑟說：「我是上主。你應該把我對你所說的一切話告訴埃及王法朗。」
 出:6.30     梅瑟當面回答上主說：「看，我是個笨口結舌的人，法朗怎麼肯聽我﹖」
  
 出:7.1      [梅瑟奉命再見法朗]  上主向梅瑟說：「看，我使你在法朗前像神一樣，你的哥哥亞郎將作你的代言人。
 出:7.2      凡我吩咐你的一切，你要告訴你的哥哥亞郎，要他對法朗講話，叫他放以色列子民離開他的國境。
 出:7.3      我卻要使法朗心硬，為此在埃及國要增多我的奇蹟和異事。
 出:7.4      但因法朗不聽從你們，我要向埃及伸手，藉嚴厲的懲罰，將我的軍隊，我的百姓以色列子民，從埃及國領出來。
 出:7.5      當我向埃及人伸手，將以色列子民從埃及人中間領出來的時候，他們要承認我是上主。」
 出:7.6      梅瑟和亞郎就受命行事；上主怎樣吩咐，他們就怎樣行了。
 出:7.7      當他們去與法朗會談的時候，梅瑟八十歲，亞郎八十三歲。
 出:7.8      上主對梅瑟和亞郎說：「
 出:7.9      如果法朗要求你們說：你們顯個奇蹟，給你們作證罷! 你就吩咐亞郎說：將你的棍杖扔在法朗的面前，棍杖就會變成一條蛇。」
 出:7.10     。梅瑟和亞郎就去見法朗，照上主的吩咐做了：亞郎將棍杖扔在法朗和他的臣僕面前，棍杖就變成了一條蛇。
 出:7.11     法朗將他的智者和術士召來，這些埃及的巫士也用他們的巫術作了同樣的事：
 出:7.12     他們每人扔下自己的棍杖，也都變成了蛇，但亞郎的棍杖卻吞了他們的棍杖。
 出:7.13     法朗仍然心硬，不肯聽他們的話，正如上主所說。
 出:7.14     [第一災、水變血]  上主對梅瑟說：「法朗硬了心，拒絕釋放百姓。
 出:7.15     明天早晨你去見法朗。他去水邊的時候，你要站在尼羅河邊迎住他；手中拿著那根變過蛇的棍杖。
 出:7.16     你對他說：上主，希伯來人的天主打發我來見你說：你應放我的百姓到曠野中去崇拜我；但到現在你仍沒有聽從。
 出:7.17     上主這樣說：看，我要用我手中拿的棍杖擊打河水，水就變成血，如此你必承認，我是上主。
 出:7.18     河中的魚都要死，河水都要腥臭，埃及人不能再喝河中的水。」
 出:7.19     上主對梅瑟說：「你向亞郎說：拿起你的棍杖，將手伸在埃及的水上，即伸在河、溝渠、池沼和一切水塘之上，水都要變成血；如此埃及全國，連木器石器中的水也都要變成血。」
 出:7.20     梅瑟和亞郎就照了上主的吩咐作了：亞郎在法朗和他臣僕的面前，舉起棍杖一打河水，所有的河水都變成了血；
 出:7.21     河中的魚都死了，河水都腥臭不堪，埃及人不能再喝河中的水；埃及遍地是血。
 出:7.22     埃及的巫士用他們的巫術也行了同樣的事，因此法朗仍舊心硬，不肯聽信梅瑟和亞郎，正像上主所說的。
 出:7.23     法朗轉身回到宮中，沒有把事放在心上。
 出:7.24     因為全埃及的人不能喝河中的水，便在河的附近掘水喝。
 出:7.25     [第二災、蝦蟆]  上主擊打河水後，滿了七天，
 出:7.26     上主又對梅瑟說：「你去見法朗向他說：上主這樣說：你該放我的百姓走，好叫他們去崇拜我。
 出:7.27     你若拒絕不放, 我要用蝦蟆打擊你的全境。
 出:7.28     河中要滋生蝦蟆，牠們要上來進入你的宮殿和臥室，爬上你的床榻，進入你臣僕和你百姓的房屋，進入你的爐灶和搏麵盆。
 出:7.29     這些蝦蟆要爬到你、你百姓、你臣僕的身上。」
  
 出:8.1      上主對梅瑟說：「你給亞郎說：將你手中的棍杖伸在河、溝渠和池沼之上，使蝦蟆上到埃及地上。」
 出:8.2      亞郎將手一伸在埃及的水上，蝦蟆就上來遮蓋了埃及地。
 出:8.3      而巫士也用巫術作了同樣的事，使蝦蟆上到了埃及地。
 出:8.4      法朗召梅瑟和亞郎來說：「請你們祈求上主，使這些蝦蟆離開我和我的人民，我必放這百姓去祭獻天主。」
 出:8.5      梅瑟回答法朗說：「請給我指定，叫我幾時為你，為你的臣僕和你的人民祈求，使蝦蟆離開你和你的宮殿，而只留在河中! 」
 出:8.6      法朗說：「明天。」梅瑟回答說：「就照你說的話作，為叫你知道，沒有誰能相似上主，我們的天主。
 出:8.7      蝦蟆必要離開你，你的宮殿，你的臣僕和你的人民，而只留在河中。」
 出:8.8      於是梅瑟和亞郎離開法朗走了。梅瑟遂呼求上主，除去加於法朗的蝦蟆。
 出:8.9      上主就照梅瑟所求的作了；在房屋、院庭和田地中的蝦蟆都死了。
 出:8.10     人把蝦蟆堆成堆，遍地發出腥臭。
 出:8.11     法朗見災情減輕，又硬了心，不肯聽梅瑟和法郎的話，正如上主所說。
 出:8.12     [第三災、蚊子]  上主又對梅瑟說：「你給亞郎說：伸你的棍杖擊打地上的塵土，塵土要在埃及全地變成蚊子。」
 出:8.13     他們便照樣作了；亞郎伸手，用棍杖擊打地上塵土，蚊子就來到人和牲畜的身上。埃及全國的塵土都變成了蚊子。
 出:8.14     巫士也想照樣用巫術產生蚊子，但沒有成功。蚊子仍留在人和牲畜的身上。
 出:8.15     巫士向法朗說：「這是天主的手指。」但是法朗還是心硬，不肯聽從梅瑟和亞郎，正如上主所說的。
 出:8.16     [第四災、狗蠅]  上主對梅瑟說：「明天早晨，法朗往水邊去的時候，你要去見他對他說：上主這樣說：放我的百姓去崇拜我罷!
 出:8.17     你若不放走我的百姓，看，我要叫狗蠅到你和你臣僕，以及你人民身上，進入你的宮殿，埃及人的房屋和他們所在的地方都要充滿狗蠅。
 出:8.18     那時，我要使我百姓所住的哥笙地例外，在那裏沒有狗蠅，為叫你知道，在地上只有我是上主。
 出:8.19     我要將我的百姓同你的百姓分開。明早必發生這奇事。」
 出:8.20     上主就這樣行了：成群的狗蠅進了法朗的宮殿和他臣僕的房屋，埃及全境的土地都為狗蠅毀壞。
 出:8.21     法朗又召梅瑟和亞郎來說：「你們去，在此地祭獻你們的天主! 」
 出:8.22     梅瑟回答說：「決不能這樣行，因為我們給上主我們的天主所獻的祭物，是埃及人視為不可侵犯的。若是我們在埃及人前祭殺他們視為不可侵犯的東西，他們豈不用石頭打死我們﹖
 出:8.23     我們要走三天的路程，到曠野裏給上主我們的天主獻祭，全照他吩咐我們的。」
 出:8.24     法朗回答說：「我讓你們到曠野裏給上主你們的天主獻祭，但是不可走的太遠。也請你們為我祈禱。」
 出:8.25     梅瑟說：「我現在辭別你去祈求上主，明天狗蠅將會離開陛下，你的臣僕和你的人民，但希望陛下不再欺騙，不放百姓去給上主獻祭。」
 出:8.26     於是梅瑟離開法朗去祈求上主。
 出:8.27     上主便照梅瑟祈求的行了，叫狗蠅離開法朗、他的臣僕和人民，一個也沒有留下。
 出:8.28     但是這一次法朗還是心硬，不肯放走百姓。
  
 出:9.1      [第五災、獸疫]  上主對梅瑟說：「你去見法朗，向他說：上主希伯來人的天主這樣說：你應放走我的百姓，叫他們去崇拜我。
 出:9.2      你若拒絕不放，仍然扣留他們，
 出:9.3      看，上主的手必用一種嚴厲的瘟疫加在你田野間的一切牲畜：就是馬、驢、駱駝、牛、羊身上。
 出:9.4      上主要分清以色列子民的牲畜和埃及人的牲畜，凡是以色列子民的，一個也不死。
 出:9.5      上主規定了時間說：明天上主要在此地實行這事。」
 出:9.6      第二天上主便作了這事。埃及人的牲畜完全死了，但以色列子民的，一個也沒有死。
 出:9.7      法朗打發人去看，果然以色列子民的牲畜，連一個也沒有死。但是法朗仍然心硬，不肯放走百姓。
 出:9.8      [第六災、膿瘡]  上主又對梅瑟和亞郎說：「你們滿手抓把爐灰，梅瑟要在法朗眼前向天揚起。
 出:9.9      這灰要在埃及全國變成塵土，使全埃及國的人和牲畜身上生出紅疹和膿瘡。
 出:9.10     他們就取了爐灰站在法朗面前；梅瑟將灰向天揚起，人和牲畜身上便起了紅疹和膿瘡。
 出:9.11     巫士們因為生了瘡，不能站在梅瑟面前，因為巫士和一切埃及人身上都生了瘡。
 出:9.12     上主使法朗心硬，法朗仍不肯聽梅瑟和亞郎的話，正如上主向梅瑟說過。
 出:9.13     [第七災、冰雹]  上主對梅瑟說：「明天早晨你去見法朗，向他說：上主，希伯來人的天主這樣說：你要放走我的百姓，使他們去崇拜我。
 出:9.14     因為這一次我要使我的一切災禍降到你、你的臣僕和你的人民身上，為叫你知道全世界上沒有相似我的。
 出:9.15     現在如果我伸手用瘟疫打擊你和你的人民，你早已從地上消滅了。
 出:9.16     我所以保留你的原故，是為叫你看見我的能力，向全世界傳揚我的名。
 出:9.17     你若仍然固執壓迫我的百姓，不放走他們，
 出:9.18     看我明天此時要降下可怕的冰雹，是埃及建國以來直到現在所未有過的。
 出:9.19     所以你快派人把你的牲畜和田野間的一切，帶到安全地方，因為凡在田野間的人和牲畜而不聚到屋內的，冰雹必降在他們身上，將他們砸死。」
 出:9.20     法朗的臣僕中凡害怕上主的話的，就叫自己的奴僕和牲畜逃避到家中；
 出:9.21     那不把上主的話放在心上的，就將奴僕和牲畜捨在田間。
 出:9.22     上主對梅瑟說：「向天伸開你的手，使冰雹降在埃及全國，降在人和牲畜身上，降在埃及國內田野間的植物上。」
 出:9.23     梅瑟把他的棍杖向天一伸，上主便叫打雷，下雹，閃電打在地上。上主使冰雹降在埃及地時，
 出:9.24     冰雹和冰雹中夾雜著不停的閃電，情形極其可怕，是全埃及國自從有人民以來所沒有過的。
 出:9.25     冰雹把埃及全境，田野間所有的一切，連人和牲畜都打死了，打壞了田野間的一切蔬菜，打斷了郊野的一切樹木；
 出:9.26     只有以色列子民所居住的歌笙地沒有冰雹。
 出:9.27     法朗打發人召梅瑟和亞郎來，對他們說：「這次我犯了罪，上主是正義的，我和我的人民都有罪過。
 出:9.28     請你們祈求上主! 天主的雷和冰雹已夠受了；我決放走你們，你們不要再留在這裏。」
 出:9.29     梅瑟回答他說「我出城後，就向上主伸手，雷必會停止，冰雹也不再降下，為叫你知道，大地是屬於上主的。
 出:9.30     但是我知道，你和你的臣僕，仍不敬畏上主天主。」
 出:9.31     麻和大麥都被打壞，因為大麥已經吐穗，麻也開花，
 出:9.32     只是小麥和粗麥，因為長的遲些，沒有被打壞。
 出:9.33     梅瑟離開法朗出了城，向上主伸手，雷和雹就停止了，雨也不往地上下了。
 出:9.34     法朗見雨、雹、雷都停止了，又再犯罪，他和他的臣僕又心硬了。
 出:9.35     法朗更加心硬，不肯放走以色列子民，正如上主藉梅瑟所說的。
  
 出:10.1     [第八災、蝗蟲]  上主對梅瑟說：「你去見法朗，因為我已使他和他臣僕心硬，要在他們中顯我的這些奇蹟，
 出:10.2     好叫你將我怎樣戲弄了埃及人，在他們中行了什麼奇蹟，都講給你的子孫聽，使你們知道我是上主。」
 出:10.3     於是梅瑟和亞郎去見法朗說：「上主，希伯來人的天主這樣說：你不肯在我前低頭要到幾時呢﹖放走我的百姓去崇拜我罷!
 出:10.4     如果你再拒絕放走我的百姓，看，明天我要使蝗蟲進入你的境內。
 出:10.5     蝗蟲要遮蓋地面，甚至看不見地；蝗蟲要吃盡免於冰雹而給你們留下的一切，也要吃盡田野間給你們生長的一切樹木。
 出:10.6     你的宮殿，你的臣僕和所有埃及人的房屋都要充滿蝗蟲：這是你的祖宗和你祖宗的祖宗入世以來，直到今天所沒有見過的災禍。」梅瑟遂轉身離開法朗走了。
 出:10.7     法朗的臣僕們向法朗說：「這人陷害我們要到幾時呢﹖釋放這些人去崇拜上主他們的天主罷! 埃及已經滅亡，你還不知道嗎﹖」
 出:10.8     梅瑟和亞郎被召到法朗那裏，法朗對他們說：「你們去崇拜上主你們的天主罷! 但那要去的是些什麼人﹖」
 出:10.9     梅瑟回答說：「我們要帶領少年老年同去，要帶領兒女，牛羊同去，因為我們要過上主的節日。」
 出:10.10    法朗向他們說：「如果我放走你們和你們的孩子，就讓上主同你們在一起罷! 顯然你們不懷好意 !
 出:10.11    絕對不成! 只是你們的男子可以去崇拜上主，這原是你們所要求的。」隨後把他們從法朗前趕出去。
 出:10.12    上主對梅瑟說：「你向埃及地伸開你的手，使蝗蟲來到埃及地，吃盡冰雹從地上所剩餘的一切植物。」
 出:10.13    梅瑟向埃及地伸開他的棍杖，上主就使東風在地上颳了一整天一整夜，到了早晨，東風吹來了蝗蟲。
 出:10.14    蝗蟲到了埃及國，落在埃及全境，那樣多法，確是空前絕後。
 出:10.15    蝗蟲遮蓋了地面，大地變黑。蝗蟲吃盡了冰雹所剩下的一切植物和一切果實，這樣埃及全國無論是樹上或是田野間的植物上，沒有留下半點青葉。
 出:10.16    法朗急速將梅瑟和亞郎召來，說：「我得罪了上主你們的天主，也得罪了你們。
 出:10.17    現今請你們寬赦我的罪罷! 只這一次! 求上主你們的天主，快叫這致命的災禍離開我。」
 出:10.18    梅瑟從法朗那裏出來，祈求了上主。
 出:10.19    上主就換了強烈的西風，將蝗蟲捲去，投入紅海，在埃及四境沒有留下一個蝗蟲。
 出:10.20    上主又使法朗心硬，他仍不肯放走以色列子民。
 出:10.21    [第九災、黑暗]  上主對梅瑟說：「將你的手向天伸開，使黑暗降在埃及國。這黑暗似乎可以觸摸。」
 出:10.22    梅瑟向天伸開手，濃密的黑暗就降在埃及國，有三天之久。
 出:10.23    三天之內，人彼此不能看見，也不能離開自己的地方；但是以色列子民那邊，卻有光明照耀他們所住的地方。
 出:10.24    法郎召梅瑟和亞郎來說：「你們去崇拜上主罷! 你們的孩子可與你們同去，只把牛羊留下! 」
 出:10.25    梅瑟回答說：「你本人應該給我們犧牲和全燔祭的祭品，叫我們獻於上主我們的天主。
 出:10.26    我們的牲畜也都要跟我們同去，連一個蹄子也不留下，因為我們要用這些來崇拜上主我們的天主；並且未到那裏之前，我們還不知道要用什麼崇拜上主。」
 出:10.27    上主又使法朗心硬，他仍不肯放走他們。
 出:10.28    法朗對梅瑟說：「離開我去罷! 你要小心，不要再見我面，因為你見我面的那一天，你必要死! 」
 出:10.29    梅瑟回答說：「就照你的話好了! 我再不見你的面。」
  
 出:11.1     [第十災的警告]  上主對梅瑟說：「還有一種災禍，我要降在法朗和埃及人身上，以後他必要釋放你們離開此地；他釋放你們的時候，是驅逐你們離開此地。
 出:11.2     你要講給百姓聽，叫他們男女各向自己的鄰舍要求金銀之物。」
 出:11.3     上主使百姓在埃及人前蒙恩，同時梅瑟在埃及國，在法朗的臣僕和百姓眼中，也成了偉大的人物。
 出:11.4     梅瑟說：「上主這樣說：半夜時，我要走遍埃及。
 出:11.5     凡埃及國，從坐寶座的法朗的長子，直到推磨的婢女的長子，以及牲畜的一切頭胎，都要死亡。
 出:11.6     埃及全國要有大哀號，是從前沒有，以後也不會再有的哀號。
 出:11.7     至於以色列子民，連狗也不敢向他們和他們的牲畜吠叫，為叫你們知道，上主已將以色列子民和埃及人分開，
 出:11.8     以後你的這些臣僕全都要到我跟前，跪下哀求我說：你和那跟從你的百姓都去罷! 然後我才離去。」梅瑟氣憤憤地離開法郎出去了。
 出:11.9     上主對梅瑟說：「法朗不聽從你們，使我的奇蹟在埃及國多起來。」
 出:11.10    梅瑟和亞郎在法朗面前行了這些奇蹟；但是上主使法朗的心硬，仍不肯放以色列子民離開自己的國家。
  
 出:12.1     [逾越節的法律]  上主在埃及國訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：「
 出:12.2     你們要以本月為你們的正月，為你們算是一年的首月。
 出:12.3     你們應訓示以色列會眾，本月十日，他們每人照家族準備一隻羔羊，一家一隻。
 出:12.4     若是小家庭，吃不了一隻，家長應和附近的鄰居按照人數共同預備，並照每人的飯量估計當吃的羔羊。
 出:12.5     羔羊應是一歲無殘疾的公羊，要由綿羊或山羊中挑選。
 出:12.6     把這羔羊留到本月十四日，在黃昏的時候，以色列全體會眾便將牠宰殺。
 出:12.7     各家都應取些血塗在吃羔羊的房屋的兩門框和門楣上。
 出:12.8     在那一夜要吃肉；肉要用火烤了，同無酵餅及苦菜一起吃。
 出:12.9     肉切不可吃生的或水煮的，只許吃火烤的。頭、腿和五臟都應吃盡。
 出:12.10    一點也不許留到早晨；若是早晨還有剩下的，都要用火燒掉。
 出:12.11    你們應這樣吃：束著腰，腳上穿著鞋，手裏拿著棍杖，急速快吃：這是向上主守的逾越節。
 出:12.12    這一夜我要走遍埃及全國，將埃及國一切首生，無論是人是牲畜都要殺死，對於埃及的眾神，我也要嚴加懲罰：我是上主。
 出:12.13    這血在你們所住的房屋上，當作你們的記號：我打擊埃及國的時候，一見這血，就越過你們去，毀滅的災禍不落在你們身上。
 出:12.14    這一天將是你們的紀念日，要當作上主的節日來慶祝；你們要世世代代過這節日，作為永遠的法規。
 出:12.15    你們應一連七天吃無酵餅。第一天務要從你們家內將酵子除去，因為從第一天直到第七天，凡吃有酵之物的人，都應從以色列中剷除。
 出:12.16    第一天和第七天應召開聖會；這兩天一切勞工都不可作，只准你們準備每人吃的東西。
 出:12.17    你們應守無酵節，因為這一天我領你們的軍旅出離了埃及國，所以你們要世世代代守這一天，作為永遠的法規。
 出:12.18    從正月十四日晚起，到二十一日晚為止，你們應吃無酵餅。
 出:12.19    七天內，在你們的家內不准有酵子，因為凡吃了有酵之物的，不論他是外方人或是本地人，都應從以色列會眾內剷除。
 出:12.20    任何有酵之物，不准你們吃；在你們所居住之處，都應吃無酵餅。」
 出:12.21    [逾越節的建立]  梅瑟召集了以色列眾長老來，向他們說：「你們去為你們的家屬準備一隻羊，宰殺作逾越節羔羊。
 出:12.22    拿一束牛膝草蘸在盆中血裏，用盆中的血，塗在門楣和兩旁的門框上；你們中誰也不准離開自己的房門，直到早晨。
 出:12.23    因為上主要經過，擊殺埃及人；他一見門楣和兩門框上有血，就越過門口，不容毀滅者進你們的房屋。
 出:12.24    你們應遵守這規定，作為你們子孫的永遠法規。
 出:12.25    日後你們到了上主許給你們的地方，應守這禮。
 出:12.26    將來你們的子孫若問你們這禮有什麼意思，
 出:12.27    你們應回答說：這是獻於上主的逾越節祭：當上主擊殺埃及人的時候，越過了在埃及的以色列子民的房屋，救了我們各家。」於是百姓都屈膝朝拜。
 出:12.28    以色列子民就去奉行了。上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟和亞郎，他們就怎樣作了。
 出:12.29    [第十災、殺長子]  那天半夜，上主擊殺了埃及所有的長子，從坐寶座的法朗的長子，直到坐監者的長子，以及一切頭胎牲畜。
 出:12.30    在這一夜，法朗，他所有的臣僕和全埃及人都起來；在埃及發生了大哀號，因為沒有一家不死人的。
 出:12.31    夜間法朗召梅瑟和亞郎來說：「你們和以色列子民都起身離開我的百姓走罷! 照你們所要求的，去崇拜上主罷!
 出:12.32    也照你們所要求的，帶著你的羊群牛群去罷! 也為我求祝福。」
 出:12.33    埃及人催迫這百姓趕快離開此地，因為他們說：「我們快要死盡! 」
 出:12.34    百姓便把沒有發酵的麵團和麵盆包在外衣內，背在肩上。
 出:12.35    以色列子民也照梅瑟所吩咐的作了，向埃及人要求金銀之物和衣服。
 出:12.36    上主使百姓在埃及人眼中蒙恩，給了他們所要求的；他們這樣劫奪了埃及人。
 出:12.37    [以色列離埃及]  以色列人民從辣默色斯起程向穌苛特進發。步行的男子約六十萬，家屬不算在內。
 出:12.38    同他們一起走的，還有很多外族人，也帶著自己的羊群、牛群和大批的牲畜。
 出:12.39    他們把從埃及帶出來的未發酵的麵團烤成無酵餅，因為他們急迫離開埃及，不能耽擱，來不及準備行糧。
 出:12.40    以色列子民居留埃及共有四百三十年。
 出:12.41    四百三十年屆滿的那一天，上主的軍旅離開了埃及.。
 出:12.42    這一夜是上主領他們出離埃及所守的一夜，這一夜也是以色列子民世世代代向上主當守的一夜。
 出:12.43    [參與逾越節宴的法律]  上主向梅瑟和亞郎說：「有關逾越節祭餐的法規如下：任何外方人不准參加這祭餐。
 出:12.44    凡用錢買來的奴隸，受過割損禮後，方可參加。
 出:12.45    旅客和傭工不得參加。
 出:12.46    應在同一間房屋內吃盡，不可將肉塊帶到屋外，也不可將骨頭折斷。
 出:12.47    以色列全會眾都應舉行此祭餐。
 出:12.48    若有同你在一起居住的外方人，願向上主舉行逾越節祭餐，他家所有的男子應受割損禮，然後才准前來舉行，如本地人一樣；但未受割損禮的人決不許參加。
 出:12.49    本地人和住在你們中間的外方人同屬一例。」
 出:12.50    全以色列子民就都奉行了。上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟和亞郎，他們就怎樣作了。
 出:12.51    就在這一天，上主將以色列子民一隊一隊地領出了埃及。
  
 出:13.1     [奉獻長子的法律]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 出:13.2     以色列子民中，無論是人或牲畜，凡是開胎首生的，都應祝聖於我，屬於我。」
 出:13.3     梅瑟向百姓說：「你們應當記念從埃及，從為奴之家出來的這一天，因為上主在這一天用強有力的手臂，從那裡領出了你們，故此不可吃有酵的食物。
 出:13.4     今天你們出來正在「阿彼布」月。
 出:13.5     幾時上主領你們進了客納罕人、赫特人、阿摩黎人、希威人和耶步斯人的地方，就是他向你的祖先起誓應許給你那流奶流蜜之地，你應在這一月舉行此禮：
 出:13.6     七天之內應吃無酵餅，第七天是敬禮上主的節日。
 出:13.7     七天之內吃無酵餅，在你面前不可有發酵之物，在你四境之內也不可見有酵母。
 出:13.8     在那一天要告訴你們的兒子說：是因為上主在我出埃及時，為我所行的事。
 出:13.9     應把這事做你手上的記號，做你額上的記念，好使上主的法律常在你口中，因為上主用強有力的手臂，領你出了埃及。
 出:13.10    所以你應年年按照定期遵守這規定。
 出:13.11    當上主照他起誓向你和你祖先所許的話，領你到了客納罕人的地方，將那地給了你之後，
 出:13.12    你應將一切開胎首生者歸於上主；你牲畜中，凡開胎首生的牲畜，亦應歸於上主。
 出:13.13    凡首生的驢，應用羊贖回；你若不贖回，應打斷牠的頸項。你的子孫中，凡是長子，你應贖回。
 出:13.14    將來若你的兒子問你：這是什麼意思﹖你要回答他說：這是因為上主用強有力的手臂領我們出離了埃及，出離了為奴之家。
 出:13.15    原來法朗頑固，不釋放我們，上主就把埃及國一切首生者，不拘是人或牲畜的首生者都殺了，為此我把一切首開母胎的雄性都祭獻於上主；但首生的男孩，我卻要贖回。
 出:13.16    應將這事作你手上的記號，作你額上的標誌，記念上主用強有力的手臂領我們出了埃及。」
 出:13.17    [往紅海進行]  法朗放走百姓以後，天主沒有領他們走培肋舍特地的近路，因為上主想：「怕百姓遇見戰爭而後悔，再回到埃及。」
 出:13.18    因此天主領百姓繞道，走向靠紅海的曠野。以色列子民都武裝著離開了埃及。
 出:13.19    梅瑟也帶了若瑟的骨骸，因為若瑟曾叫以色列的兒子們起誓說：「天主必要眷顧你們，那時你們應把我的骨骸從此地帶回去。」
 出:13.20    他從穌苛特起程前行，就在位於曠野邊緣的厄堂安了營。
 出:13.21    上主在他們前面行，白天在雲柱裏給他們領路，夜間在火柱裏光照他們，為叫他們白天黑夜都能走路：
 出:13.22    白天的雲柱，黑夜的火柱，總不離開百姓面前。
  
 出:14.1     [從厄堂到紅海]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 出:14.2     你吩咐以色列子民轉回，在米革多耳及海之間的丕哈希洛特前，面對巴耳責豐安營，即在巴耳責豐之前，靠近海邊安營。
 出:14.3     如此，法朗必然以為以色列子民在國境內迷了路，曠野困住了他們。
 出:14.4     我要使法郎心硬，在後面追趕他們，這樣我將在法郎和他全軍身上，大顯神能，使埃及人知道我是上主。」以色列子民就照樣作了。
 出:14.5     [法郎追趕以色列]  有人報告埃及王說：那百姓逃走了。法郎和他的臣僕對那百姓變了心，說：「我們放走以色列人，不再給我們服役，這是作的什麼事﹖」
 出:14.6     法郎遂命人準備他的車，親自率領兵士，
 出:14.7     還帶了六百輛精良戰車和埃及所有的戰車，每輛車上都有戰士駕駛。
 出:14.8     上主使埃及王法郎心硬，在後面追趕以色列子民；當以色列子民大膽前行的時候，
 出:14.9     埃及人在後面追趕他們，法郎所有的車馬、騎士和步兵就在靠近丕哈希洛特，巴耳責豐對面，以色列子民安營的地方趕上了。
 出:14.10    當法郎來近的時候，以色列子民舉目，看見埃及人趕來，都十分恐怖，向上主哀號，
 出:14.11    也向梅瑟說：「你帶我們死在曠野裏，難道埃及沒有墳墓嗎﹖你為什麼這樣待我們，將我們從埃及領出來﹖
 出:14.12    我們在埃及不是對你說過這話：不要擾亂我們，我們甘願服侍埃及人，服侍埃及人比死在曠野裏還好啊! 」
 出:14.13    梅瑟向百姓說：「你們不要害怕，站著別動，觀看上主今天給你們施的救恩，因為你們所見的埃及人，永遠再見不到了。
 出:14.14    上主必替你們作戰，你們應安靜等待。」
 出:14.15    [過紅海]  上主向梅瑟說：「你為什麼向我哀號，吩咐以色列子民起營前行。
 出:14.16    你舉起棍杖，把你的手伸到海上，分開海水，叫以色列子民在海中乾地上走過。
 出:14.17    你看，我要使埃及人的心硬，在後面追趕以色列子民；這樣我好在法郎和他全軍，戰車和騎兵身上，大顯神能。
 出:14.18    我向法郎，向他的戰車和騎兵大顯神能的時候，埃及人將會知道我是上主。」
 出:14.19    在以色列大隊前面走的天主的使者，就轉到他們後面走，雲柱也從他們前面轉到他們後面停下，
 出:14.20    即來到埃及軍營和以色列軍營中間；那一夜雲柱一面發黑，一面發光，這樣整夜軍隊彼此不能接近。
 出:14.21    梅瑟向海伸手，上主就用極強的東風，一夜之間把海水颳退，使海底成為乾地。水分開以後，
 出:14.22    以色列子民便在海中乾地上走過，水在他們左右好像牆壁。
 出:14.23    [埃及人沉沒海中]  隨後埃及人也趕來，法郎所有的馬、戰車和騎兵，都跟著他們來到海中。
 出:14.24    到了晨時末更，上主在火柱和雲柱上，窺探埃及軍隊，使埃及的軍隊混亂。
 出:14.25    又使他們的車輪脫落，難以行走，以致埃及人說：「我們由以色列人前逃走罷! 因為上主替他們作戰，攻擊埃及人。」
 出:14.26    上主對梅瑟說：「向海伸出你的手，使水回流到埃及人、他們的戰車和騎兵身上。」
 出:14.27    到了天亮，梅瑟向海伸手，海水流回原處；埃及人迎著水逃跑的時候，上主將他們投入海中。
 出:14.28    回流的水淹沒了法郎的戰車、騎兵和跟著以色列子民來到海中的法郎軍隊，一個人也沒有留下。
 出:14.29    但是以色列子民在海中乾地上走過去，水在他們左右好像牆壁。
 出:14.30    這樣上主在那一天從埃及人手中拯救了以色列人。以色列人看見了埃及人的屍首浮在海邊上。
 出:14.31    以色列人見上主向埃及人顯示的大能，百姓都敬畏上主，信了上主和他的僕人梅瑟。
  
 出:15.1     [凱旋歌]  那時梅瑟和以色列子民唱了這篇詩歌，歌頌上主說：
 出:15.2     [我要歌頌上主，因他獲得全勝，將馬和騎士投於海中。]  上主是我的力量和保障，他作了我的救援。他是我的天主，我要頌揚他；是我祖先的天主，我要讚美他。
 出:15.3     上主是戰士，名叫「雅威。」
 出:15.4     法郎的戰車軍隊，他投於海中，使他的良將沉於紅海。
 出:15.5     浪濤淹沒了他們，像大石沉入海底。
 出:15.6     上主，你的右手大顯神能；上主，你的右手擊碎了敵人。
 出:15.7     以你無比的威嚴，毀滅了你的敵人；你發出的怒火，燒滅他們像燒麥楷。
 出:15.8     你鼻孔一噴氣，大水聚集，浪濤直立如堤，深淵凝固於海心。
 出:15.9     仇人說：「我要追擊擒獲，分得獵物，才心滿意足；我要拔刀出鞘，親手斬滅。」
 出:15.10    但你一噓氣，海將他們覆沒，像鉛沉入深淵。
 出:15.11    上主，眾神誰可與你相比﹖誰能像你那樣，神聖尊威，光榮可畏，施行奇蹟!
 出:15.12    你伸出右手，大地就吞了他們；
 出:15.13    以你的慈愛，領出了你所救的百姓；憑你的能力，領他們進入了你的聖所。
 出:15.14    外邦聽了，必驚慌顫慄，恐怖籠罩了培肋舍特居民；
 出:15.15    那時厄東的酋長驚惶失措，摩阿布的首領嚇得發抖，客納罕的居民膽顫心寒。
 出:15.16    驚慌與恐怖降在他們身上；因你大能的手臂，他們像石塊僵立不動，直到你的百姓走過，上主! 直到你所救贖的百姓走過。
 出:15.17    上主，你引領他們，吾主，在你為物業的山上，在你為自己準備的住所，在你親手建立的聖所，培植了他們。
 出:15.18    上主為王，萬世無疆!
 出:15.19    法郎的馬、戰車和騎兵一到海中，上主就使海水回流，淹沒了他們；以色列子民卻在海中乾地上走過。
 出:15.20    此時亞郎的姐妹女先知米黎盎手中拿著鼓，眾婦女也都跟著她，拿著鼓舞蹈。
 出:15.21    米黎盎應和他們說：「你們應歌頌上主，因他獲得全勝，將馬和騎士投入海中。」
 出:15.22    [變苦水為甜水]  以後梅瑟命以色列人由紅海起營，往叔爾曠野去；他們在曠野裏走了三天，沒有找到水。
 出:15.23    隨後，到了瑪辣，但不能喝瑪辣的水，因為水苦；因此稱那地為瑪辣。
 出:15.24    那時百姓抱怨梅瑟說：「我們喝什麼呢﹖」
 出:15.25    梅瑟遂呼號上主，上主便指給他一塊木頭；他把木頭扔在水裏，水就變成甜水。上主在那裏給百姓立定了法律和典章，也在那裏試探了他們。
 出:15.26    上主說：「你若誠心聽從上主你天主的話，行他眼中視為正義的事，服從他的命令，遵守他的一切法律，我決不把加於埃及人的災殃，加於你們，因為我是醫治你的上主。」
 出:15.27    以後他們到了厄林，那裏有十二股水泉，七十棵棕樹。他們便在那裏靠近水邊安了營。
  
 出:16.1     [百姓再抱怨]  以色列子民全會眾從厄林起程，來到厄林和西乃之間的欣曠野，時在離埃及後第二月第十五日。
 出:16.2     以色列子民全會眾在曠野裏都抱怨梅瑟和亞郎。
 出:16.3     以色列子民向他們說：「巴不得我們在埃及國坐在肉鍋旁，有食物吃飽的時候，死在上主的手中! 你們領我們到這曠野裏來，是想叫這全會眾餓死啊! 」
 出:16.4     上主向梅瑟說：「看，我要從天上給你們降下食物，百姓要每天出去收斂當日所需要的，為試探他們是否遵行我的法律。
 出:16.5     但到第六天，他們準備帶回來的食物要比每天多一倍。」
 出:16.6     梅瑟和亞郎對全以色列子民說：「今晚你們要知道，是上主領你們出了埃及國；
 出:16.7     明早你們要看見上主的榮耀，因為你們抱怨上主的話，他已聽見了。我們算什麼﹖你們竟抱怨我們! 」
 出:16.8     梅瑟又說：「晚上上主要給你們肉吃，早晨你們可以吃飽，因為上主聽見了你們抱怨他所說的怨言。我們算什麼﹖你們不是抱怨我們，而是抱怨上主。」
 出:16.9     [瑪納]  梅瑟向亞郎說：「你向以色列子民全會眾說：你們應走到上主前，因為他聽見了你們的怨言。」
 出:16.10    亞郎正向以色列子民全會眾說話的時候，他們轉面朝向曠野，看見上主的榮耀顯現在雲彩中。
 出:16.11    那時上主向梅瑟說：「
 出:16.12    我聽見了以色列子民的怨言。你給他們說：黃昏的時候你們要有肉吃，早晨要有食物吃飽，這樣你們就知道，我是上主，你們的天主。」
 出:16.13    到了晚上，有鵪鶉飛來，遮蓋了營幕；到了早晨，營幕四周落了一層露水。
 出:16.14    露水昇化之後，在曠野的地面上，留下稀薄的碎屑，稀薄得好像地上的霜。
 出:16.15    以色列子民一見，就彼此問說：「這是什麼﹖」原來他們不知道這是什麼。梅瑟告訴他們說：「這是上主賜給你們吃的食物。
 出:16.16    上主曾這樣吩咐說：你們應按每人的食量去收斂，按照你們帳幕的人數去拾取，每人一「曷默耳。」
 出:16.17    以色列子民就照樣作了；收斂的時候，有的多，有的少，
 出:16.18    但他們用「曷默耳」衝量時，那多收的，也沒有剩餘；那少收的，也沒有缺少；各人正按他們的食量收斂了。
 出:16.19    梅瑟向他們說：「誰也不准將一些留到早晨。」
 出:16.20    但他們沒有聽梅瑟的話；有些人把一些留到早晨，但都被虫子咬爛，發生臭味；梅瑟遂向他們發怒。
 出:16.21    於是他們每天早晨按各人的食量去收斂；太陽一發熱，就融化了。
 出:16.22    到了第六天他們收斂了兩倍的食物，每人二「曷默耳；」會眾的首領來向梅瑟報告此事。
 出:16.23    梅瑟向他們說：「上主曾這樣吩咐說：明天是安息日；是祝聖於上主的安息聖日；你們要烤的就烤罷! 要煮的，就煮罷! 凡吃了剩下的，應保留到次日。」
 出:16.24    他們就照梅瑟所吩咐的，把吃下剩下的，留到次日也沒有發臭，，也沒有虫咬。
 出:16.25    梅瑟說道：「今天吃這些罷! 因為今天是敬畏上主的安息日，今天在野外什麼也找不到。
 出:16.26    六天你們可去收斂，但第七天是安息日，什麼也沒有。」
 出:16.27    到了第七天，百姓中有人去收斂，但什麼也沒有找到。
 出:16.28    上主向梅瑟說：「你們不守我的命令和我的法律要到何時呢﹖
 出:16.29    看上主給你們立了安息日，為此到第六天他給你們兩天的食物；到第七天各人都應留在家內，不准任何人離開自己的地方。」
 出:16.30    這樣百姓在第七天守了安息日。
 出:16.31    以色列家給這食物取名叫「瑪納。」它像胡荽的種子那樣白，滋味好似蜜餅。
 出:16.32    梅瑟說：「上主這樣吩咐說：裝滿一「曷默耳」瑪納，留給你們的後代子孫，為使他們能看到我領你們出離埃及國時，在曠野裏養活你們的食物。」
 出:16.33    梅瑟向亞郎說：「拿一個罐子，裝滿一「曷默耳」瑪納，放在上主面前，留給你們的後代子孫。」
 出:16.34    亞郎就照上主吩咐梅瑟的話，將瑪納放在約版前面，保留起來。
 出:16.35    以色列子民吃瑪納四十年之久，直到進入有人居住的地方為止；他們吃瑪納，直到進入客納罕地的邊界。
 出:16.36    一「曷默耳」是一「厄法」的十分之一。
  
 出:17.1     [擊石出水]  以色列子民全會眾按照上主的吩咐，由欣曠野起程，一站一站地前行，然後在勒非丁安了營。在那裏百姓沒有水喝，
 出:17.2     因此百姓和梅瑟爭吵說：「給我們水喝罷! 」梅瑟回答他們說：「你們為什麼與我爭吵，為什麼試探上主﹖」
 出:17.3     因百姓在那裏渴望水喝，就抱怨梅瑟說：「你為什麼從埃及領我們上來﹖難道要使我們，我們的子女和牲畜都渴死嗎﹖」
 出:17.4     梅瑟向上主呼號說：「我要怎樣對待這百姓呢﹖他們幾乎願用石頭砸死我! 」
 出:17.5     上主回答梅瑟說：「你到百姓面前去，帶上幾個以色列長老，手中拿著你擊打尼羅河的棍杖去!
 出:17.6     看，我要在你面前站在曷勒布那裏的磐石上，你擊打磐石，就有水流出來，給百姓喝。」梅瑟就在以色列的長老眼前照樣作了。
 出:17.7     他稱那地方為瑪撒和默黎巴，因為以色列子民在那裏爭吵過，並試探過上主說：「上主是否在我們中間﹖」
 出:17.8     [與阿瑪肋克人作戰]  那時有阿瑪肋克人，在非勒丁同以色列人作戰。
 出:17.9     梅瑟向若蘇厄說：「你給我們選拔壯丁，明天去同阿瑪肋克人作戰，我手中拿著天主的棍杖，站在這高岡頂上。」
 出:17.10    若蘇厄就照梅瑟吩咐他的作了，去同阿瑪肋克作戰；同時梅瑟、亞郎和胡爾上了那高岡頂上。
 出:17.11    當梅瑟舉手的時候，以色列就打勝仗；放下手的時候，阿瑪肋克就打勝仗。
 出:17.12    終於梅瑟的手舉疲乏了。他們就搬了塊石頭來，放在他下邊，叫他坐下，亞郎和胡爾，一邊一個托著他的手：這樣他的手舉著不動，直到日落的時候。
 出:17.13    於是若蘇厄用刀劍打敗了阿瑪肋克和他的人民。
 出:17.14    上主向梅瑟說：「將這事寫在書上作為記念，並訓示若蘇厄，我要從天下把阿瑪肋克的記念完全消滅。」
 出:17.15    梅瑟築了一座祭壇，給它起名叫「雅威尼息，」
 出:17.16    說「向上主的旌旗舉手，上主必世世代代與阿瑪肋克作戰。」
  
 出:18.1     [耶特洛來見梅瑟]  梅瑟的岳父，米德楊的司祭耶特洛，聽說天主為梅瑟和自己的百姓以色列所行的一切，聽說上主將以色列人領出了埃及，
 出:18.2     梅瑟的岳父耶特洛便帶回梅瑟送回去的妻子漆頗辣,
 出:18.3     和他兩個兒子：──一個名叫革爾雄，因為梅瑟說：「我在外方作了旅客；」
 出:18.4     一個名叫厄里厄則爾，意謂：「我父親的天主是我的救援，救我脫離了法朗的刀劍。」──
 出:18.5     梅瑟的岳父耶特洛同梅瑟的兒子和妻子來到了梅瑟那裏，來到曠野，近天主的山，梅瑟安營的地方，
 出:18.6     便叫人告訴梅瑟說：「看，你的岳父耶特洛來見你，你的妻子和兩個兒子也一同來了。」
 出:18.7     梅瑟就出來迎接他的岳父，向他下拜，口親他，彼此問安，隨後進了營幕。
 出:18.8     梅瑟給他岳父講述了上主為以色列的原故，對法朗和埃及人所行的一切，以及路上遭遇的一切困難，上主怎樣拯救了他們。
 出:18.9     耶特洛聽了上主賜給以色列的各種恩惠，從埃及人手中拯救了他們，很是高興。
 出:18.10    耶特洛說：「上主應受讚頌，他從埃及人和法朗手中拯救了你們，由埃及人手中救出了這百姓。
 出:18.11    現今我知道「雅威」是眾神中最大的，因為他由那些傲慢對待以色列人的埃及人手中，救出這百姓。」
 出:18.12    梅瑟的岳父耶特洛向天主獻了全燔祭和犧牲，亞郎和以色列眾長老都來到天主前，同梅瑟的岳父聚餐。
 出:18.13    [耶特洛的建議]  次日，梅瑟坐著審判百姓的案件，百姓從早晨到晚上站在梅瑟前。
 出:18.14    梅瑟的岳父看見他對百姓所行的種種，就說：「你對百姓所作的是什麼事﹖為什麼你獨自一人管理，叫眾百姓從早晨到晚上站在你前﹖」
 出:18.15    梅瑟回答他岳父說：「因為百姓到我跟前詢問天主。
 出:18.16    他們有訴訟的事，就來到我跟前，我便在兩造之間施行審判，講明天主的典章和法律。」
 出:18.17    梅瑟的岳父對他說：「你這樣作不對。
 出:18.18    這不但使你自己疲乏，而且也使你同你一起的百姓疲勞不堪，因為這事超過你的力量，你獨自一人是不能勝任的。
 出:18.19    現在你聽我的話，我給你出一個主意。願天主與你同在! 你在天主前代表這個百姓，將他們的案件呈到天主前；
 出:18.20    也將典章和法律教訓他們，告訴他們應走的正路，應行的事項。
 出:18.21    你要從百姓中挑選有才能，敬畏天主，忠實可靠，捨己無私的人，派他們作千夫長、百夫長，五十夫長、十夫長，
 出:18.22    叫他們隨時審斷百姓的案件。若有任何重大案件，呈交你處理；其餘一切小案件，可由他們自己處理；叫他們與你分擔，你就輕鬆多了。
 出:18.23    你若這樣作，──天主也這樣命你──你就抵受得住，眾百姓也能平安，各歸其所。」
 出:18.24    梅瑟聽從了他岳父的話，也都照他說的行了。
 出:18.25    梅瑟從全以色列人中選拔了有才能的人，立他們作百姓的頭目，作千夫長、百夫長、五十夫長和十夫長，
 出:18.26    叫他們隨時審斷百姓的案件；重大的案件，呈交梅瑟處理；一切小案件，由他們自己處理。
 出:18.27    以後梅瑟送他岳父回了本地。
  
           中編 頒布約書(19-24)
  
 出:19.1     [西乃山下預告立約]  以色列子民離開埃及國後，第三個月初一那一天，到了西乃曠野。
 出:19.2     他們從勒非丁起程，來到西乃曠野，就在曠野中安了營；以色列人在那座山前安了營。
 出:19.3     梅瑟上到天主前，上主從山上召喚他說：你要這樣告訴雅各伯家，訓示以色列子民說：
 出:19.4     你們親自見了我怎樣對待了埃及人，怎樣好似鷹將你們背在翅膀上，將你們帶出來歸屬我。
 出:19.5     現在你們若真聽我的話，遵守我的盟約，你們在萬民中將成為我的特殊產業。的確，普世全屬於我，
 出:19.6     但你們為我應成為司祭的國家，聖潔的國民。你應將這話訓示以色列子民。」
 出:19.7     梅瑟就去召集百姓的長老，將上主吩咐他的那一切話，都在他們前說明了。
 出:19.8.    眾百姓一致回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的，我們全要作。」梅瑟遂將百姓的答覆轉達於上主。
 出:19.9.    上主向梅瑟說：「我要在濃雲中降到你前，叫百姓聽見我與你談話，使他們永遠信服你。」梅瑟遂向上主呈報了百姓的答覆。
 出:19.10    [結約的準備]  上主向梅瑟說：「你到百姓那裏，叫他們今天明天聖潔自己，洗淨自己的衣服。
 出:19.11    第三天都應準備妥當，因為第三天，上主要在百姓觀望之下降到西乃山上。
 出:19.12    你要給百姓在山周圍劃定界限說：應小心，不可上山，也不可觸摸山腳；凡觸摸那山的，應處死刑。
 出:19.13    誰也不可用手觸摸那人，而應用石頭砸死或用箭射死；不論是獸是人，都不得生存；號角響起的時候，他們才可上山。」
 出:19.14    梅瑟下山來到百姓那裏，叫他們聖潔自己，洗淨自己的衣服。
 出:19.15    他向百姓說：「到第三天應準備妥當，不可接近女人。」
 出:19.16    [天主顯現]  到了第三天早晨，山上雷電交作，濃雲密布，角聲齊鳴，此時在營中的百姓都戰戰兢兢。
 出:19.17    梅瑟叫百姓從營中出來迎接天主，他們都站在山下。
 出:19.18    此時西乃全山冒煙，因為上主在火中降到山上；冒出的煙像火窯的煙，全山猛烈震動。
 出:19.19    角聲越響越高；梅瑟遂開始說話，天主藉雷霆答覆他。
 出:19.20    上主降到西乃山頂上，召梅瑟上到山頂；梅瑟就上去了。
 出:19.21    上主向梅瑟說：「下去通告百姓：不可闖到上主面前觀看，免得許多人死亡。
 出:19.22    連那些接近上主的司祭們，也應聖潔自己，免得上主擊殺他們。」
 出:19.23    梅瑟答覆上主說：「百姓不能上西乃山，因你自己曾通告我們說：要在山的四周劃定界限，也宣佈這山是不可侵犯的。」
 出:19.24    上主向他說：「下去，你同亞郎一起上來，但司祭和百姓不可闖到上主前，免得我擊殺他們。」
 出:19.25    梅瑟便下到百姓那裏，通知了他們。
  
 出:20.1     [頒布十誡]  天主訓示以下這一切話說：「
 出:20.2     我是上主你的天主，是我領你出了埃及地、奴隸之所。
 出:20.3     除我之外，你不可有別的神。
 出:20.4     不可為你製造任何彷彿天上、或地上、或地下水中之物的雕像。
 出:20.5     不可叩拜這些像，也不可敬奉，因為我，上主，你的天主是忌邪的天主；凡惱恨我的，我要追討他們的罪，從父親直到兒子，甚至三代四代的子孫。
 出:20.6     凡愛慕我和遵守我誡命的，我要對他們施仁慈，直到他們的千代子孫。
 出:20.7     不可妄呼上主你天主的名；因為凡妄呼他名的人，上主決不讓他們免受懲罰。
 出:20.8     應記住安息日，守為聖日。
 出:20.9     六天應該勞作，作你一切的事；
 出:20.10    但第七天是為恭敬上主你的天主當守的安息日；你自己、連你的兒女、你的僕婢、你的牲口，以及在你中間居住的外方人，都不可作任何工作。
 出:20.11    因為上主在六天內造了天地、海洋和其中一切，但第七天休息了，因此上主祝福了安息日，也定為聖日。
 出:20.12    應孝敬你的父親和你的母親，好使你在上主你的天主賜給你的地方，延年益壽。
 出:20.13    不可殺人。
 出:20.14    不可姦淫。
 出:20.15    不可偷盜。
 出:20.16    不可作假見證，害你的近人。
 出:20.17    不可貪你近人的房舍。
 出:20.18    [不可貪戀你近人的妻子、僕人、婢女、牛驢及你近人的一切。]  眾百姓看見打雷、打閃、吹角、冒煙的山，都戰兢害怕，遠遠站著，
 出:20.19    對梅瑟說：「你同我們說話罷! 我們定要聽從，不要天主同我們說話，免得我們死亡。」
 出:20.20    梅瑟回答百姓說：「不要害怕! 因為天主降臨是為試探你們，使你們在他面前常懷敬畏之情，不致犯罪。」
 出:20.21    百姓遠遠站著，梅瑟卻走近天主所在的濃雲中。
 出:20.22    [指示修建祭壇]  上主向梅瑟說：「你這樣訓示以色列子民說：你們親自見過我從天上同你們說了話。
 出:20.23    為此，你們決不可製造金銀神像，同我放在一起；你們萬不可作。
 出:20.24    你應用土為我築一祭壇，在上面祭獻你的全燔祭與和平祭，以及你的牛羊；凡在我叫你稱頌我名的地方，我必到你那裏祝福你。
 出:20.25    你若用石頭為我築一祭壇，不可用打成方塊的石頭建築，因為在石頭上動用了你的刀鑿，就把石頭褻瀆了。
 出:20.26    [你不可沿著台階登我的祭壇，免得暴露你的裸體。]  出谷紀
  
 出:21.1     [僕婢法]  你要在眾人前立定這些法度：
 出:21.2     使你買了一個希伯來人作奴隸，他只勞作六年，第七年應自由離去，無須贖金。
 出:21.3     若單身而來，也應單身而去；他若娶了妻子來的，也應讓他的妻子與他同去。
 出:21.4     主人給他娶了妻子，妻子也生了子女，妻子和子女都應歸於主人，他仍要單身離去。
 出:21.5     是那奴隸聲明說：我愛我的主人和妻子子女，我不願離去作自由人。
 出:21.6     的主人應領他到天主前，然後領他到門口或門框前，用錐子穿透他的耳朵，如此他可長久服事主人。
 出:21.7     使有人將女兒賣作婢女，她不可像男僕那樣離去。
 出:21.8     主人已定她為自己的妻子，以後又厭惡了她，應許她贖身，但因主人對她失了信，不能把她賣給外方人民。
 出:21.9     主人定了她作自己兒子的妻子，就應以待女兒的法律待她。
 出:21.10    主人為自己另娶了一個，對前妻的飲食、衣服與合歡之誼，不可減少。
 出:21.11    對她不實行這三條，她可以離去，無贖金或代價。
 出:21.12    [殺人或傷人的賠償法]  凡打人至死的，應受死刑。
 出:21.13    若不是有意殺人，而是天主許他的手行的，我給你指定一個他可以逃避的地方。
 出:21.14    使有人向人行兇，蓄意謀殺，應將他由我的祭壇前抓來處死。
 出:21.15    打父親或母親的，應受死刑。
 出:21.16    拐帶人口的，無論已將人賣了，或者還在他手中，都應受死刑。
 出:21.17    咒罵父親或母親的，應受死刑。
 出:21.18    使兩人吵架，一人用石頭或鋤頭打了另一人，被打的人未死，卻應臥床休養，
 出:21.19    以後若能起床，能扶杖出外，打他的人，可免處分，但應賠償他失業的損失，把他完成醫好。
 出:21.20    使有人用棍杖打奴僕或婢女被打死在他手中，必受嚴罰。
 出:21.21    若奴婢還活了一兩天，便不受處分，因為他是用銀錢買來的。
 出:21.22    使人們打架，撞傷了孕婦，以致流產，但沒有別的損害，傷人者為這罪應按女人的丈夫所提出的，判官所斷定的，繳納罰款。
 出:21.23    有損害，就應以命償命，
 出:21.24    眼還眼，以牙還牙，以手還手，以腳還腳，
 出:21.25    烙還烙，以傷還傷，以疤還疤。
 出:21.26    使有人打壞奴僕或婢女的一隻眼睛，為了他的眼睛應讓他自由離去。
 出:21.27    有人打掉奴隸或婢女的一隻牙，為了他的牙應讓他自由離去。
 出:21.28    牲畜傷人賠償法]  牛無論牴死男或女，應用石頭砸死這牛，並且不許吃牠的肉，牛主不受懲罰。
 出:21.29    若這隻牛以前牴過人，牛主也受過警告，而仍不加防範，這牛無論牴死男女，牛應砸死，牛主也應受死刑。
 出:21.30    是給他提出了贖價，他應照所提出的一切數目繳納贖命罰金。
 出:21.31    若牴死了男女兒童，也應照這法律處理。
 出:21.32    若牴死了一個奴僕或婢女，應給僕婢的主人三十銀「協刻耳，」牛應砸死。
 出:21.33    傷害牲畜賠償法]  假使有人敞著旱井，或挖掘旱井時，不加掩蓋，無論牛或驢陷在裏面，
 出:21.34    主應賠償，應給牛主銀錢，死的牲畜歸自己。
 出:21.35    使一人的牛牴死別人的牛，應把活牛賣了，銀錢平分，死牛也平分。
 出:21.36    若查明這隻牛從前牴死過牛，牛主又不加以防範，牛主應該賠償，以牛還牛，死牛歸自己。
 出:21.37    偷竊賠償法]  假使有人偷了牛或羊，無論是宰了或賣了，應用五頭牛賠償一頭牛，四隻羊賠償一隻羊。
  
 出:22.1     竊賊若在挖窟窿時，被人逮住打死，打的人沒有流血的罪。
 出:22.2     若太陽已出來，打的人就有流血的罪。竊賊必須償還，他若一無所有，應賣身還他所偷之物。
 出:22.3     所偷之物無論是牛或驢或羊，若在他手中被尋獲時還活著，應加倍償還。
 出:22.4     假使有人在田地和葡萄園放牲口，讓牲口到別人的田地去吃，應拿自己田地或園中最好的出產賠償。
 出:22.5     假使放火燒荊棘而燒了別人的麥捆或莊稼或田地，點火的人應賠償。
 出:22.6     [託管物遺失賠償法]  假使有人將銀錢或物品交人保存，而銀錢或物品從這人家中被偷去，若賊人被尋獲，應加倍賠償。
 出:22.7     若尋不到賊人，家主應到天主前作證，自己沒有伸手拿原主之物。
 出:22.8     關於任何爭訟案件，不拘是對牛、驢、羊、衣服或任何遺失之物，若一個說：這是我的。兩人的案件應呈到天主前；天主宣佈誰有罪，誰就應加倍賠償。
 出:22.9     假使有人將驢、牛、羊，或任何牲口託人看守，若有死亡或斷了腿，或被搶走，而又沒有人看見，
 出:22.10    應在上主前起誓定斷兩人的案件，證明看守者沒有動手害原主之物；原主若接受起的誓，看守者就不必賠償；
 出:22.11    若是由他手中偷去，他應賠償原主；
 出:22.12    若被野獸撕裂了，他應帶回作證明，為撕裂之物就不必賠償。
 出:22.13    假使有人借用人的牲口，牲口若斷了腿或死亡，而原主不在場，就應賠償。
 出:22.14    若原主在場，就不必賠償；若是僱來的，已有傭金作賠償。
 出:22.15    [保障人權法]  假使有人引誘沒有訂婚的處女，而與她同睡，應出聘禮，聘她為妻。
 出:22.16    若她的父親堅決不肯將女兒嫁給他，他應付出和給處女作聘禮一樣多的銀錢。
 出:22.17    女巫，你不應讓她活著。
 出:22.18    凡與走獸交合的，應受死刑。
 出:22.19    在唯一上主以外，又祭獻外神的，應被毀滅。
 出:22.20    對外僑，不要苛待和壓迫，因為你們在埃及也曾僑居過。
 出:22.21    對任何寡婦和孤兒，不可苛待；
 出:22.22    若是苛待了一個，他若向我呼求，我必聽他的呼求，
 出:22.23    必要發怒，用刀殺死你們：這樣，你們的妻子也要成為寡婦，你們的兒子也要成為孤兒。
 出:22.24    如果你借錢給我的一個百姓，即你中間的一個窮人，你對他不可像放債的人，向他取利。
 出:22.25    若是你拿了人的外氅作抵押，日落以前，應歸還他，
 出:22.26    因為這是他唯一的鋪蓋，是他蓋身的外氅；如果沒有它，他怎樣睡覺呢﹖他若向我呼號，我必俯聽，因為我是仁慈的。
 出:22.27    不可咒罵天主，不可詛咒你百姓的首長。
 出:22.28    不可廷遲你豐收的五榖和初搾的油；你子孫中的長子，都應獻給我。
 出:22.29    對你牛羊的生也應這樣行；七天同牠的母親在一起，第八天應把獻給我。
 出:22.30    你們為我應做聖善的人；田間被野獸撕裂的肉，不可以吃，應仍給狗吃。
  
 出:23.1     [判官應有的正義]  不可傳播謠言；不可與惡人攜手作假見証。
 出:23.2     不可隨從多數以附和惡事；在爭訟的事上，不可隨從多數說歪曲正義的話。
 出:23.3     在爭訟的事上，也不可偏袒弱小。
 出:23.4     假使你遇見你仇人的牛或驢迷了路，應給他領回去。
 出:23.5     假使你遇見你仇人的驢跌臥在重載下，不可棄而不顧，應幫助驢主卸下重載。
 出:23.6     你對窮人的訴訟，不可歪曲他的正義。
 出:23.7     作偽的案件，你應戒避。不可殺無辜和正義的人，因為我決不以惡人為義人。
 出:23.8     不可受賄賂，因為賄賂能使明眼人眼瞎，能顛倒正義者的言語。
 出:23.9     不可壓迫外僑，因為你們在埃及國也作過外僑，明瞭在外作客的心情。
 出:23.10    [安息年與安息日]  你應種地六年之久，收穫地的出產；
 出:23.11    但第七年，你應讓地休息，把出產留給你百姓中的窮人吃；他們吃剩的，給野獸吃。對葡萄和橄欖園，也應這樣行。
 出:23.12    六天內你應工作，第七天要停工，使你的牛驢休息，使你婢女的兒子和外僑都獲得喘息。
 出:23.13    凡我吩咐你們的，都應遵守。你們不可提及外神的名字，決不可讓人由你口中聽到。
 出:23.14    [以色列的慶節]  每年三次應為我舉行慶節。
 出:23.15    應遵守無酵節：照我所命的，在阿彼布月所定的日期，七天之久吃無酵餅，因為你在這個月離開了埃及。誰也不可空著手到我台前來。
 出:23.16    又應遵守收成節，即你在田地播種勞力之後，獻初熟之果的慶節。還應遵守收藏節，即在年尾，由田地中收斂你勞力所得的慶節。
 出:23.17    你所有的男子一年三次應到上主台前來。
 出:23.18    不可同酵麵一起祭獻犧牲的血；不可把我節日的犧牲脂肪留到早晨。
 出:23.19    你田中最上等的初熟之果，應獻到上主你天主的殿中；不可煮山羊羔在其母奶中。
 出:23.20    [應許與訓戒]  看我在你面前派遣我的使者，為在路上保護你，領你到我所準備的地方。
 出:23.21    在他面前應謹慎，聽他的話，不可違背他，不然他決不赦免你們的過犯，因為在他身上有我的名號。
 出:23.22    如果你聽從他的話，作我所吩咐的一切，我要以你的仇人為仇，以你的敵人為敵。
 出:23.23    我的使者將走在你前，領你到阿摩黎人、赫特人、培黎齊人、客納罕人、希威人和耶步斯人那裏；我要消滅他們。
 出:23.24    他們的神像，你不可朝拜，也不可事奉，也不可作那些人所作的；反之，應徹底破壞那些神像，打碎他們的神柱。
 出:23.25    你們事奉上主你們的天主，他必祝福你們的餅和水，使疾病遠離你們。
 出:23.26    在你境內沒有流產和不育的婦女；我要滿你一生的壽數。
 出:23.27    我要在你前顯示我的威嚴；凡你所到之處，我要使那裏的百姓慌亂，使你的一切仇敵見你而逃。
 出:23.28    我要在你前打發黃蜂，將希威人、客納罕人和赫特人，由你面前趕走。
 出:23.29    我不在一年之內將他們由們你面前趕走，免得田地荒蕪，野獸多起來害你。
 出:23.30    我要漸漸將他們由你面前趕走，一直到你繁殖增多起來，能佔領那地為止。
 出:23.31    我要劃定你的國界，由紅海直到培肋舍特海，從曠野直到大河；並將那地的居民交在你手中，你要將他們由你面前趕走，
 出:23.32    決不可與他們和他們的神立約，
 出:23.33    決不准他們住在你境內，免得引你得罪我，引你事奉他們的神：這為你是一種陷阱。」
  
 出:24.1     [立約的儀式]  上主以後向梅瑟說：「你和亞郎、納達布、阿彼胡，以及以色列長老中的七十人到上主那裏；你們都在遠處跪下朝拜。
 出:24.2     然後梅瑟一人要走近上主，別人不可走近，百姓也不准同他上山。」
 出:24.3     梅瑟下來將上主的一切話和誡命講述給百姓聽，眾百姓都同聲回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的話，我們全要奉行。」
 出:24.4     梅瑟遂將上主的一切話記錄下來。第二天清晨，梅瑟在山下立了一座祭壇，又按以色列十二支派立了十二根石柱，
 出:24.5     又派了以色列子民的一些青年人去奉獻全燔祭，宰殺了牛犢作為獻給上主的和平祭。
 出:24.6     梅瑟取了一半血，盛在盆中，取了另一半血洒在祭壇上。
 出:24.7     然後拿過約書來，唸給百姓聽。以後百姓回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的話，我們必聽從奉行。」
 出:24.8     梅瑟遂拿血來洒在百姓身上說：「看，這是盟約的血，是上主本著這一切話同你們訂立的約。」
 出:24.9     隨後梅瑟、亞郎、納達布、阿彼胡和以色列長老中的七十人上了山，
 出:24.10    看見了以色列的天主，看見在他腳下好像有一塊藍玉作的薄板，光亮似藍天。
 出:24.11    他們雖看見了天主，天主卻沒有下手害以色列的首領們，他們還能吃能喝。
 出:24.12    [梅瑟獨自留在山上]  以後上主向梅瑟說：「你上山到我台前，停留在那裏，我要將石版，即我為教訓百姓所寫的法律和誡命交給你。」
 出:24.13    梅瑟和他的侍從若蘇厄起身上天主的山時，
 出:24.14    梅瑟向長老們說：「你們在這裏等候我們回到你們這裏。你們有亞郎和胡爾同你們在一起。誰有爭訟的事，可到他們那裏去。」
 出:24.15    梅瑟上了山，雲彩就把山遮蓋了。
 出:24.16    上主的榮耀停在西乃山上，雲彩遮蓋著山共六天之久，第七天上主從雲彩中召叫了梅瑟。
 出:24.17    上主的榮耀在以色列子民眼前，好像烈火出現在山頂上。
 出:24.18    梅瑟進入雲彩中，上了山；梅瑟在山上停留了四十天，四十夜。
  
           下編 制定宗教敬禮(25-40)
  
 出:25.1     [捐獻修建聖所的材料]訓示梅瑟說：「
 出:25.2     你吩咐以色列子民，叫給我獻儀。凡甘心樂捐的人，你們可以收下他們獻於我的獻儀。
 出:25.3     以下是你們要接受的獻銀銅，
 出:25.4     紫色、紅色、朱紅色的細麻和山羊毛，
 出:25.5     染紅的公羊皮、海豚皮木，
 出:25.6     燈油，為傅體用的油和香料，
 出:25.7     紅瑪瑙石和為鑲在「厄和胸牌上的各種寶石。
 出:25.8     他們要為我建造一座聖讓我住在他們中間。
 出:25.9     我現今指示你作帳棚和切器皿的式樣，要完全按照式樣去製造。
 出:25.10    [約櫃式樣]  應用皂莢一個櫃，長二吋半，寬一肘半，高一肘半；
 出:25.11    要內外全包上純金，上應鑲上金花邊。
 出:25.12    鑄四個金環，安在櫃的這邊兩個，那邊兩個。
 出:25.13    用皂莢木作兩根杠桿，；
 出:25.14    將杠桿穿入櫃邊的環內櫃之用。
 出:25.15    穿入櫃環內的杠桿，不。
 出:25.16    將我要交給你的約版放。
 出:25.17    用純金做贖罪蓋，長二
 出:25.18    寬一肘半。在贖罪蓋的鎚工造一對金革魯賓，
 出:25.19    在這端做一個革魯賓，做一個革魯賓，應使兩端的革魯賓與贖罪蓋連在一起。
 出:25.20    革魯賓的翅膀應伸開遮蓋；他們的臉彼此相對，面朝贖罪蓋。
 出:25.21    你把贖罪蓋安裝在約櫃將我交給你的約版放在櫃內。
 出:25.22    我要在那裏與你會晤，蓋上，從約櫃上的兩革魯賓中間，將我命令以色列子民的一切事，都告訴給你。
 出:25.23    [供桌式樣]  用皂莢木供桌，長二肘，寬一肘，高一肘半，
 出:25.24    包上純金，周圍做上金
 出:25.25    周圍做上一掌寬的框子四周也做上金花邊。
 出:25.26    還要作四個金環，將這安在桌四腳的角上。
 出:25.27    環子要靠近框子，為穿的杠桿。
 出:25.28    用皂莢木做兩根杠桿，，為抬供桌之用。
 出:25.29    再製造供桌上的盤、碟奠祭用的爵，全用純金製造。
 出:25.30    要常常在供桌上，在我上供餅。
 出:25.31    [燈台式樣]  用純金製燈台，要用鎚工打成這燈台；燈台燈幹和花朵，即花托與花瓣，都應由燈台發出。
 出:25.32    燈台兩面發出六叉：這，那面三叉。
 出:25.33    在一叉上應有像杏花的，有花托和花瓣；在另一叉上應有像杏花的三朵花，有花托和花瓣；由燈台所發出的六叉都要這樣。
 出:25.34    在燈台的直幹上應有像四個花朵，有花托和花瓣。
 出:25.35    由燈幹發出的每兩叉之有一個花朵；從燈幹發出的六個叉都應如此。
 出:25.36    這些花朵和燈叉應由燈，全用整塊純金鎚成。
 出:25.37    燈台上應做七盞燈，把放上，使光照耀燈台前面的空間。
 出:25.38    燈台的燈剪和碟子，應的。
 出:25.39    為製造燈台和這些用具一「塔冷通」鈍金。
 出:25.40    要留神按照在山上指示式樣去做。
  
 出:26.1     [帳棚的布幔和頂]  至於帳棚，應用十幅布幔做成；布幔用捻的細麻，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線織成，用鏽工繡上革魯賓。
 出:26.2     每幅布幔長二十八肘，寬四肘；每幅布幔都是一樣的尺寸。
 出:26.3     五幅布幔相連縫在一起，另五幅也相連縫在一起。
 出:26.4     在這一組布幔末幅的邊上，應做上紫色的鈕；另一組布幔末幅的邊上，也應這樣作。
 出:26.5     在這一幅上應做五十個鈕，在另一組布幔末幅的邊上，也應做上五十個鈕，這些鈕彼此相對。
 出:26.6     又做五十個金鉤，用鉤子使兩組布幔彼此相連，成為一個帳棚。
 出:26.7     再用山羊毛做布幔，作帳棚頂之用；共做布幔十一幅。
 出:26.8     每幅長三十肘，寬四肘；十一幅布幔都是一樣的尺寸。
 出:26.9     五幅布幔縫在一起，另六幅也縫在一起，但第六幅應在棚頂前面疊起。
 出:26.10    在這一組布幔末幅的邊上，做上五十個鈕，在另一組布幔末幅的邊上，也做上五十個鈕，
 出:26.11    再製五十個銅鉤穿入鈕內：這樣使棚頂連結在一起，成為一個。
 出:26.12    至於棚頂布幔多出的那一部份，即餘下的半幅布幔，應垂在帳棚後邊。
 出:26.13    棚頂布幔的長度多出來的每邊一肘，應垂在帳棚的兩邊，好遮住帳棚。
 出:26.14    再用染紅的公羊皮蒙在棚頂上，上邊再蒙上海豚皮。
 出:26.15    [帳棚的木架]  應用皂莢木做支帳棚用的木板。
 出:26.16    每塊木板高十肘，寬一肘半。
 出:26.17    每塊木板下要做兩個筍頭，彼此並列；帳棚所有的木板，全都這樣做。
 出:26.18    支帳棚的木板，在向陽的一面，即南邊，應做二十塊木板；
 出:26.19    在二十塊木板下邊做四十個銀卯座，每塊木板下兩個卯座，為安木板的兩筍頭。
 出:26.20    為帳棚的另一面，即北邊，也應做二十塊木板，
 出:26.21    也做四十個銀卯座，每塊木板下兩個卯座。
 出:26.22    為帳棚的後面，即西邊，要做六塊木板；
 出:26.23    在帳棚後面的兩角上，各做兩塊木板；
 出:26.24    木板下端應是雙的，直到上端第一環，都應是雙的。兩塊木板都應這樣做，形成兩個角。
 出:26.25    所以共有八塊木板，十六個銀卯座，每塊木板下兩個卯座。
 出:26.26    再用皂莢木做橫木：為帳棚的這一面木板做五根，
 出:26.27    為帳棚另一面木板，也做五根橫木；為帳棚後面，即西邊的木板，也做五根橫木。
 出:26.28    在木板中間的那根橫木，應從這頭穿到那頭。
 出:26.29    木板應包上金，穿橫木的環子應是金做的，橫木也包上金。
 出:26.30    應依照在山上指示給你的式樣，建造帳棚。
 出:26.31    [帳幔與門簾]  應用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻做帳幔，用繡工繡上革魯賓。
 出:26.32    將帳幔掛在四根包金的皂莢木柱子上；柱釘應是金的，柱子應安在四個銀卯座上。
 出:26.33    帳幔懸在鉤上；將約櫃抬到裏面即帳幔後面：這樣帳幔給你們隔成聖所和至聖所。
 出:26.34    將贖罪蓋安在至聖所內的約櫃上。
 出:26.35    將供桌放在帳幔外邊；將燈台安置在帳棚的南邊，對著供桌，所以應把供桌放在北邊。
 出:26.36    再用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻，編織會幕的門簾。
 出:26.37    為掛門簾應做五根皂莢木柱子，包上金，柱釘應是金的；為柱子再鑄五個銅卯座。
  
 出:27.1     [全燔祭壇式樣]  應用皂莢木做一祭壇：長五肘，寬五肘，祭壇為方形，高三肘。
 出:27.2     在祭壇四角上做四翹角，四翹角應由祭壇突出，祭壇要包上銅。
 出:27.3     再做收灰的盆、、盤、肉叉和火盆：這一切用具都應是銅做的。
 出:27.4     為祭壇要做一架銅格子，好像網的製法，在網的四角上安上四個銅環，
 出:27.5     將網安在壇下方的圍腰下，直到祭壇半腰。
 出:27.6     再為祭壇做兩根扛桿，杠桿是皂莢木的，包上銅。
 出:27.7     杠桿應穿在環子內；抬祭壇時，杠桿常在祭壇兩邊。
 出:27.8     祭壇應用木板做成，中心是空的。在山上怎樣指示了給你，就怎樣去做。
 出:27.9     [庭院式樣]  應做帳棚的庭院：為向陽的一面，即南面，用捻的細麻做庭院的帷幔；這一面長一百肘。
 出:27.10    柱子二十根，銅卯座二十個，柱鉤和橫棍是銀的。
 出:27.11    為北面也是一樣：帳幔長一百肘，柱子二十根，銅卯座二十個，柱鉤和橫棍是銀的。
 出:27.12    庭院的西面，帷幔寬五十肘，柱子十根，卯座十個。
 出:27.13    庭院的前面即東面，寬五十肘；
 出:27.14    這一邊帷幔十五肘，柱子三根，卯座三個；
 出:27.15    另一邊帷幔也十五肘，柱子三根，卯座三個。
 出:27.16    庭院的大門：門簾寬二十肘，是用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻織成的：柱子四根，卯座四個。
 出:27.17    庭院所有的柱子，周圍用銀橫棍連貫起來；所有的鉤子是銀的，卯座是銅的。
 出:27.18    庭院長一百肘，寬五十肘，高五肘；帷幔是細麻捻的，卯座是銅的。
 出:27.19    帳棚內凡是敬禮用的一切器物，帳棚和庭院的一切橛子，都是銅的。
 出:27.20    [燃燈規定]  你應吩咐以色列子民，叫他們把榨得的橄欖清油給你送來，為點燈用，好使燈時常點著。
 出:27.21    在會幕內，在約櫃前的帳幔外，亞郎和他的子孫應使這燈，由晚上到早晨，常在上主前點燃：這是以色列子民世世代代當守的常例。
  
 出:28.1     [揀選司祭規定禮服]  你應從以色列子民中叫你的哥哥亞郎同他的兒子們，即亞郎和他的兒子，納達布、阿彼胡、厄肋阿匝爾和衣塔瑪爾，一起來到你前，立他們作我的司祭。
 出:28.2     應給你的哥哥亞郎做聖衣，以示莊嚴美觀。
 出:28.3     凡我使之具備藝術天才的藝術人員，你應吩咐他們為亞郎做服裝，祝聖他作我的司祭。
 出:28.4     他們應做的服裝如下：胸牌、厄弗得、無袖長袍、織成的長衣、禮冠和腰帶。他們為你的哥哥亞郎和他的兒子們做這些聖衣，叫他們做我的司祭。
 出:28.5     他們應用金線，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和細麻去做。
 出:28.6     [厄弗得的式樣]  他們應用鏽工以金線，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線，和捻的細麻做厄弗得。
 出:28.7     兩條肩帶應結連在厄弗得的兩端。
 出:28.8     將厄弗得束在身上用的帶子，也應像厄弗得一樣的做法，與厄弗得連在一起，全是用金線、紫色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻做成。
 出:28.9     再取兩塊紅瑪瑙石，將以色列的兒子的名字刻在上面，
 出:28.10    六個名字刻在一塊寶石上，另六個名字刻在另一塊寶石上，全照他們出生的次序。
 出:28.11    以玉工雕刻法，好似刻印章，把以色列的兒子們的名字刻在這兩塊寶石上，嵌在金框內。
 出:28.12    再將這兩塊寶石，即以色列子民的紀念石，掛在厄弗得的肩帶上；亞郎要在上主前常在兩肩上帶著他們的名字，好獲得紀念。
 出:28.13    要做兩個金框，
 出:28.14    兩條純金的鍊子，要像做繩子一樣擰成，把這像繩子的金鍊結在框子上。
 出:28.15    [胸牌的式樣]  應以繡工做判斷的胸牌，像做厄弗得，用金線，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻去做。
 出:28.16    胸牌要方形，雙層，一作長，一作寬。
 出:28.17    將鑲嵌的寶石安裝在上面，排成四行：第一行：赤玉、青玉、翡翠：
 出:28.18    第二行：紫寶石、藍玉、金鋼石；
 出:28.19    第三行：黃瑪瑙、白瑪瑙、紫晶；
 出:28.20    第四行：黃玉、紅瑪瑙、水蒼玉；這些寶石都嵌在金框內。
 出:28.21    按照以色列的兒子的名字，寶石應有十二塊，按刻印法，每塊刻一個名字，代表十二支派。
 出:28.22    為胸牌再做兩條純金鍊子，像繩子一樣擰成。
 出:28.23    在胸牌上做兩個金環，將兩個金環安在胸牌的兩端，
 出:28.24    將那兩條金鍊結在胸牌兩端的環子上，
 出:28.25    把兩條鍊子的另兩端，結在那掛在厄弗得的肩帶前面的兩個框子上。
 出:28.26    再做兩個金環，安在胸牌的下兩端，靠近厄弗得的內邊緣上。
 出:28.27    再做兩個金環，安在厄弗得前面兩肩帶的下邊，靠近厄弗得帶子的上邊與肩帶相連結的地方。
 出:28.28    用一根紫繩把胸牌的環子繫在厄弗得的環子上，使胸牌結在厄弗得的帶子上，免得胸牌在厄弗得上移動。
 出:28.29    如此亞郎進聖所時，在他的胸前，在判斷的胸牌上帶著以色列兒子們的名字，為在上主前常獲得紀念。
 出:28.30    在決斷的胸牌內應放上烏陵和突明，幾時亞郎進到上主前常帶在亞郎胸前：如此亞郎在上主前時，胸前常帶著為以色列子民行決斷的工具。
 出:28.31    [長袍的式樣]  再為厄弗得做一無袖長袍，應全是紫色毛線的。
 出:28.32    中間留一領口，領口周圍叫織工做上邊，像戰袍的領口，免得破裂。
 出:28.33    在長袍底邊周圍做上紫色、紅色、珠紅色的毛線石榴；在石榴中間，周圍再做上金鈴鐺：
 出:28.34    如此在長袍底邊周圍，一個金鈴鐺，一個石榴；一個金鈴鐺，一個石榴。
 出:28.35    當亞郎穿著行禮時，能聽見他進聖所到上主前，或者出來的聲音，免得他死亡。
 出:28.36    [禮冠的式樣]  應用純金製一個牌子，在上面像刻印章刻上「祝聖於上主。」
 出:28.37    用紫繩子將牌子繫在禮冠上，即繫在禮冠的前面。
 出:28.38    那牌常在亞郎的額上，好叫亞郎擔當以色列子民祝聖各種聖物時，干犯聖物的罪過；那牌常在亞郎的額上，為使人民在上主前獲得悅納。
 出:28.39    應用細麻編製長衣，並用細麻做禮冠；腰帶應是編成的。
 出:28.40    [司祭的禮服]  也要為亞郎的兒子們做長衣、腰帶和頭巾，以示莊嚴美觀。
 出:28.41    你把這些服裝給你哥哥亞郎和他的兒子穿上；給他們傅油，授與聖職，祝聖他們做我的司祭。
 出:28.42    還應給他們用麻布做褲子，從腰部直到大腿，遮蓋他們的裸體。
 出:28.43    當亞郎和他的兒子們進入會幕或走近祭台，在聖所內行禮時，要穿上褲子，免得招致懲罰死亡：這為亞郎和他的後代是永遠的規律。
  
 出:29.1     [祝聖司祭儀式]  你為祝聖他們作我的司祭，應行以下的事：牽一頭公牛犢和兩隻無殘疾的公綿羊，
 出:29.2     準備無酵餅，油調的無酵糕，油抹的無酵薄餅：這些都應用細麥麵做成，
 出:29.3     放在籃子內，連籃子也帶來，並將那頭公牛和兩隻綿羊牽來；
 出:29.4     然後領亞郎和他的兒子們到會幕門口，先叫他們沐浴，
 出:29.5     以後拿過服裝來，給亞郎穿上長衣，和掛厄弗得的無袖長袍，佩上厄弗得和胸牌，繫上厄弗得帶子，
 出:29.6     把禮冠戴在他頭上，將金牌繫在禮冠上。
 出:29.7     再拿傅禮用的油倒在他頭上，給他傅油。
 出:29.8     以後叫他的兒子們前來，給他們穿上長衣，
 出:29.9     給他們束上腰帶，纏上頭巾；如此，使他們盡司祭之職，成為永遠的規律：你要這樣授與亞郎和他兒子們聖職。
 出:29.10    [祝聖司祭的祭獻]  以後把牛犢牽到會幕前邊，亞郎和他的兒子們按手在牛犢頭上。
 出:29.11    你要在上主前，在會幕門口宰殺那牛犢，
 出:29.12    取些牛血，用你的手指抹在祭壇的各角上，把其餘的血倒在祭壇腳前。
 出:29.13    再取出遮蓋內臟的一切脂肪、肝葉、兩腎和兩腎上的脂肪，放在祭壇上焚燒，使煙昇起。
 出:29.14    牛犢的肉、皮和糞，應在營外用火焚化，因為這是贖罪祭。
 出:29.15    以後把公綿羊牽來，亞郎和他的兒子們按手在羊頭上。
 出:29.16    然後你宰殺這羊，取些羊血洒在祭壇周圍。
 出:29.17    再把羊切成碎塊，把內臟和腿洗淨，放在肉塊與羊頭上，
 出:29.18    在祭壇上焚燒整個公綿羊，使煙昇起；這是獻給上主的全燔祭，是中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 出:29.19    再把另一隻公綿羊牽來，亞郎和他的兒子們按手在羊頭上。
 出:29.20    此後你宰殺這羊，取一些血，抹在亞郎和他兒子們的右耳垂上，抹在他們的右手拇指和右腳大趾上，其餘的血洒在祭壇周圍。
 出:29.21    以後取祭壇上的一點血和傅禮的油，洒在亞郎和他的衣服上，洒在他的兒子們和他們的衣服上：這樣他和他的衣服，他們和他們的衣服，都成了聖的。
 出:29.22    再從公綿羊身上取出脂肪、肥尾，遮蓋內臟的脂肪、肝葉，兩腎和兩腎上的脂肪以及右後腿，──因為這是授聖職時所獻的公綿羊；
 出:29.23    然後從擺在上主前的無酵餅籃內，拿出一個圓餅，一個油調的餅，一個薄餅，
 出:29.24    都放在亞郎和他兒子們手上，在上主前行奉獻的搖禮；
 出:29.25    以後從他們的手裏接過來，在祭壇上按全燔祭的禮儀焚燒，使煙昇起，作為上主悅納的馨香：這是獻給上主的火祭。
 出:29.26    以後你把亞郎受聖職時所獻的公綿羊的胸部拿來，在上主前行奉獻的搖禮，它就成了你的一分。
 出:29.27    你要聲明搖過的胸，舉過的腿，即亞郎和他兒子們受聖職時，所搖過的公綿羊的胸和所舉過的腿是聖的。
 出:29.28    這是亞郎和他的兒子們在以色列子民中永遠所享的權利，因為是舉過的祭品；舉過的祭品，就是從以色列子民所獻的和平祭品中，取出舉獻於上主的一部份。
 出:29.29    亞郎的聖衣應傳給他的子孫，他們穿上這些聖衣才能接受傅油，接受聖職。
 出:29.30    他的子孫中凡接位當司祭，進會幕在聖所行禮的，應七天之久穿這些聖衣。
 出:29.31    [祭餐]  你要拿受聖職時所獻的公綿羊，在聖處煮牠的肉。
 出:29.32    亞郎同他的兒子們須要在會幕門口吃這羊肉和籃中的餅，
 出:29.33    只許他們吃授聖職和祝聖他們時所獻的贖罪祭品，外人不許吃，因為是聖物。
 出:29.34    授聖職時所獻的祭肉和餅，若到早晨還有剩下的，應把剩下的用火焚化，不准再吃，因為是聖物。
 出:29.35    你應照我吩咐你的，向亞郎和他的兒子們行這一切：七天之久給他們行授職典禮。
 出:29.36    [祝聖全燔祭壇]  每天你應獻一隻牛犢當贖罪祭，為贖罪；你應在祭壇上行贖罪祭，使祭壇潔淨，而且要給祭壇傅油，使之為聖。
 出:29.37    要七天之久為祭壇行潔淨禮，使之為聖：如此祭壇就成了至聖的；凡觸摸祭壇的，也成為聖的。
 出:29.38    [每日的全燔祭]  你每天應照常在祭壇上奉獻兩隻一歲的羔羊：
 出:29.39    早晨獻一隻，傍晚獻一隻。
 出:29.40    與頭一隻羊同獻的，還有十分之一「厄法」細麵，調和上四分之一「辛」榨得的油，和四分之一「辛」的酒作奠祭。
 出:29.41    與傍晚那一隻同獻的，如早晨的素祭和奠祭一樣，作為上主悅納的一種馨香的火祭。
 出:29.42    這是你們世世代代，在會幕門口，在上主前應不斷獻的全燔祭；我要在那裏與你會晤，在那裏向你講話。
 出:29.43    我也要在那裏與以色列子民會晤，此地要因我的光榮被尊為聖。
 出:29.44    我要祝聖會幕和祭壇，也要祝聖亞郎和他的兒子們，使他們成為我的司祭。
 出:29.45    我要住在以色列子民中，作他們的天主。
 出:29.46    他們要承認我上主是他們的天主，領他們出離了埃及地，為住在他們中間：我上主是他們的天主。
  
 出:30.1     [香壇]  你應做焚香的壇，用皂莢木製造，
 出:30.2     長一肘，寬一肘，方形，高二肘，四角從壇上突出。
 出:30.3     壇、壇的上面、四壁、周圍和四角，都包上純金；壇周圍做上金花邊。
 出:30.4     壇兩側花邊下，做兩個金環，兩面都做，為穿杠桿，抬香壇之用。
 出:30.5     用皂莢木做兩根杠桿包上金。
 出:30.6     把香壇安置在約櫃前面掛的帳幔前，就是在我與你會晤的約櫃上的贖罪蓋之前。
 出:30.7     亞郎要在壇上焚燒香料；每天早晨整理燈盞時要焚香；
 出:30.8     晚間亞郎換放燈盞時也要焚香：這是你們世世代代在上主前不斷的焚香禮。
 出:30.9     在這壇上不准焚別的香，也不准獻全燔祭和素祭或奠祭。
 出:30.10    亞郎每年一次為在這壇的四角上行贖罪禮，用贖罪祭贖罪犧牲的血，每年一次為這壇行贖罪禮。你們世世代代應行此禮，將壇祝聖於上主為至聖之物。」
 出:30.11    [造會幕的人丁稅]  上主訓示梅瑟說：「
 出:30.12    當你統計以色列子民人數的時候，凡被統計的人，每人應獻給上主贖命金，免得在統計的時候，災禍降在他們身上。
 出:30.13    凡被統計過的，每人應按聖所的衡量繳納半「協刻耳，」──一「協刻耳」等於二十「革辣，」──這半「協刻耳」是給上主的獻儀。
 出:30.14    凡被統計過的，自二十歲以上起，要獻給上主獻儀：
 出:30.15    富的不多納，窮的也不少出，一概出半「協刻耳，」給上主作獻儀，作你們的贖命金。
 出:30.16    你從以色列子民所取得的贖命金，應拿來為會幕用。這是子民在上主前是一個記念，也贖回了你們的性命。」
 出:30.17    [銅盆]  上主訓示梅瑟說：「
 出:30.18    你應作一銅盆和銅盆座，為洗濯之用；把盆安在會幕和祭壇之間，盆中放上水，
 出:30.19    好叫亞郎和他的兒子們在盆中洗手洗腳。
 出:30.20    他們進會幕，或走近祭壇行禮，或向上主焚燒火祭時，要用水洗，免得死亡。
 出:30.21    他們應洗手洗腳，免得死亡：這為他和他的子孫世世代代是永遠的規律。」
 出:30.22    [傅禮的油]  上主訓示梅瑟說：「
 出:30.23    你要拿上等的香料：純正沒藥五百「協刻耳，」香肉桂為沒藥的一半，即二百五十「協刻耳，」香菖蒲二百五十「協刻耳，」
 出:30.24    桂皮按聖所的衡量五百「協刻耳，」橄欖油一「辛，」
 出:30.25    用這些材料配製傅禮用的聖油，像配製香膏的方法配製，作為傅禮用的聖油。
 出:30.26    用此油傅會幕和約櫃，
 出:30.27    供桌和其上的一切器具，燈台和一切用具，香壇，
 出:30.28    全燔祭壇和壇上的一切用具、盆和盆座。
 出:30.29    你祝聖過的，都成了至聖之物，凡接觸這些物件的，也成為聖的。
 出:30.30    你也要給亞郎和他的兒子們傅油，祝聖他們作我的司祭。
 出:30.31    你要吩咐以色列子民說：你們應世世代代以此為傅禮用的聖油，
 出:30.32    不准將此油倒在俗人身上，也不准用這配製的方法配製這樣的油，因為是聖油，你們應以為聖物。
 出:30.33    無論誰若配製這樣的油，或用這油傅了凡人，應將他從百姓中剷除。」
 出:30.34    [製香法]  上主向梅瑟說：「你要取這些香料：就是蘇合香、香螺和白松香；這些香料與純乳香應有相等的分量，
 出:30.35    以香膏的配製法配成香，再加上鹽，使之成為純潔和聖的。
 出:30.36    將一部份研成碎末，獻在會幕中的約櫃前，即我與你會晤的地方；這為你是至聖之物。
 出:30.37    你所配製的這種香，不准配製為自己用，應當作聖物，只為上主用。
 出:30.38    無論誰若配製這樣的香料，為聞香氣，應將他從百姓中鏟除。」
  
 出:31.1     [召集工程師]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 出:31.2     「看，從猶大支派，我已召叫了胡爾的孫子，烏黎的兒子貝匝肋耳來，
 出:31.3     以天主的神充滿了他，叫他有智慧、技能和知識，能製造各種工程，
 出:31.4     能設計圖案，能用金、銀、銅製造器物，
 出:31.5     能雕刻寶石，鑲嵌，雕刻木頭，製造各種工程。
 出:31.6     我又使丹支派阿希撒瑪客的兒子敖曷里雅布與他合作；也把智慧賜給一切有藝術技能的人，好完成我吩咐你的一切：
 出:31.7     會幕、約櫃和上面的贖罪蓋及屬於會幕的一切用具，
 出:31.8     供桌和桌上的一切器物，純金的燈台和燈台的一切器物和香壇，
 出:31.9     全燔祭壇和一切器物，盆和盆座，
 出:31.10    行禮的衣服，亞郎大司祭的聖衣和他兒子們行祭的服裝，
 出:31.11    傅禮用的油和為聖所焚的香。他們應全照我吩咐你的去作。」
 出:31.12    [守安息日]  上主訓示梅瑟說：「
 出:31.13    你要吩咐以色列子民說：你們務要守我的安息日，這是我與你們之間世世代代的記號，使你們知道，我是祝聖你們的上主。
 出:31.14    所以你們應守安息日，因為這日為你們是聖日，那褻瀆這聖日的，應受死刑；凡在這日工作的，應從百姓中鏟除。
 出:31.15    六日中可以工作，但第七日應完全安息，因為是獻於上主的聖日；凡在安息日工作的，應受死刑。
 出:31.16    以色列子民要守安息日，世世代代要過安息日，作為永遠的盟約。
 出:31.17    這是我與以色列子民之間的永遠記號，因為上主六天造了天地，第七天停工休息。」
 出:31.18    [賜約版]  上主在西乃山上向梅瑟說完了話，交給他兩塊約版，即天主用手指所寫的石版。
  
 出:32.1     [拜金牛]  百姓見梅瑟遲遲不下山，就聚集到亞郎跟前，對他說：「起來，給我們製造一尊神像，在我們前面引路，因為那領我們出埃及國的梅瑟，不知道遭遇了什麼事。」
 出:32.2     亞郎給他們說：「你們去摘下你們的妻子、兒女所配戴的金耳環，給我送來。」
 出:32.3     眾百姓即將他們耳上的金環摘下，送到亞郎跟前。
 出:32.4     亞郎從他們手裏接過來，製了一個模型，用來鑄了一個牛像。他們遂說：「以色列，這就是領你出埃及國的天主。」
 出:32.5     亞郎一見，就在牛犢前築了一座祭壇，宣布說：「明日是上主的慶節。」
 出:32.6     次日清晨，他們起來，就奉獻了全燔祭和和平祭；以後百姓坐下來吃喝，起來玩樂。
 出:32.7     [梅瑟求天主息怒]  上主訓示梅瑟說：「你下去! 因為你從埃及國領出來的百姓敗壞了。
 出:32.8     他們很快就離開了我給他們指示的道路，為自己鑄了一個牛犢，朝拜牠，向牠祭獻並且說：「以色列，這就是領你出埃及的天主。」
 出:32.9     上主又向梅瑟說：「我看這百姓，真是一個執拗的百姓!
 出:32.10    你且由我向他們發怒，消滅他們；我要使你成為一個大民族。」
 出:32.11    梅瑟求上主他們的天主息怒說：「上主，你為什麼要向你用大力，用強硬的手臂，由埃及國領出來的百姓發怒呢﹖
 出:32.12    為什麼要叫埃及人說：他是惡意領他們出來，要在山中殺死他們，由地面上絕滅他們呢﹖求你息怒，撤銷要加於你百姓的災禍。
 出:32.13    求你記念你的僕人亞巴郎、依撒格和以色列，你曾指著自己向他們起誓說：我要使你們的後裔，像天上的繁星那樣多；我所許的那整個地方，必賜給你們的後裔，叫他們永遠佔有。」
 出:32.14    上主遂撤銷了要加於百姓的災禍。
 出:32.15    [梅瑟怒碎約版]  梅瑟轉身下山，手中拿著兩塊約版，版兩面都寫著字，前面後面都有字。
 出:32.16    版是天主做的，字是天主寫的，刻在版上。
 出:32.17    若蘇厄一聽見百姓喧嘩的聲音，就對梅瑟說：「營裏有戰爭的聲音。」
 出:32.18    梅瑟回答說：「這不是戰勝的歌聲，也不是戰敗的吵聲，我聽見的是應和的歌聲。」
 出:32.19    當梅瑟走近營幕的時候，見了那牛犢，看見人歌舞，遂大發憤怒，把兩塊石版由手中拋出，摔碎在山下。
 出:32.20    隨後拿過他們所造的牛犢，投在火中焚燒，搗成細末，撒在水面上，叫以色列子民喝。
 出:32.21    梅瑟對亞郎說：「這百姓對你作了什麼，你竟使他們陷於重罪﹖」
 出:32.22    亞郎回答說：「我主，請不要生氣! 你知道這百姓傾向於惡。
 出:32.23    他們對我說：請給我們製一神像，在我們前面引路，因為那領我們出埃及國的梅瑟，不知道遭遇了什麼事。
 出:32.24    我給他們說：誰有金子，就摘下來! 他們遂給我送來。我把金子投在火中，這牛犢便出來了。」
 出:32.25    [懲罰拜金牛者]  梅瑟見百姓這樣放肆，──因為亞郎放縱了他們，成了敵人的笑柄；──
 出:32.26    就站在營幕門口說：「凡屬上主的，到我跟前來! 」於是肋未的子孫聚到梅瑟前。
 出:32.27    梅瑟向他們說：「上主，以色列的天主這樣說：每人要把刀配在腰間，在營中往來，從這門到那門，要殺自己的兄弟、朋友和親人。」
 出:32.28    肋未的子孫就照梅瑟的吩咐作了，那一天百姓中被殺的約有三千人。
 出:32.29    梅瑟說：「今天你們應接受奉事上主的聖職，因為你們每人犧牲了自己的兒子和兄弟，上主今日必賜福與你們。」
 出:32.30    到了次日，梅瑟向百姓說：「你們犯了重罪，現在我要上到上主台前，也許我能為你們贖罪。」
 出:32.31    梅瑟回到上主那裏說：「唉! 這百姓犯了重罪，為自己製造了金神像。
 出:32.32    現在只求你赦免他們的罪，不然，就把我從你所記錄的冊子上抹去罷! 」
 出:32.33    上主回答梅瑟說：「誰犯罪得罪我，我就把誰從我的冊子上抹去。
 出:32.34    現在你去領我的百姓到我吩咐你的地方去。看，我的使者在你前面引路。在我懲罰之日，我必懲罰他們的罪。」
 出:32.35    以後上主打擊了百姓，因他們敬拜了亞郎製造的牛犢。
  
 出:33.1     [起程的命令]  上主向梅瑟說：「你和你從埃及國領出的百姓離開這裏，上那地方去；關於此地，我曾誓許給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯說：我要將此地賜給你的後裔。
 出:33.2     我要打發使者在你面前，我要驅逐客納罕人、阿摩黎人、赫特人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人。
 出:33.3     你往流奶流蜜之地時，我不與你同行，因為你是個執拗的百姓，免得我在路上消滅你。」
 出:33.4     百姓一聽這凶信，都表示悲痛，沒有人再穿戴裝飾品。
 出:33.5     上主向梅瑟說：「你告訴以色列子民：你們是個執拗的百姓，我若與你同行，只一會兒，我必把你消滅。現在你把裝飾品卸下，看我要怎樣待你。」
 出:33.6     以色列子民從離開曷勒布山，就卸去了裝飾品。
 出:33.7     [會幕]  梅瑟往往將那帳幕支搭在營外，離營遠些；他稱此帳幕為「會幕。」凡求問天主的，要到營外的帳幕那裏。
 出:33.8     每當梅瑟往會幕那裏去的時候，眾百姓都起來，每人站在自己帳幕門口，觀望梅瑟直到他進入會幕。
 出:33.9     當梅瑟進入會幕的時候，雲柱降下，停在會幕門口，上主便向梅瑟談話。
 出:33.10    眾百姓一見雲柱停止在會幕門口，百姓就起來，俯伏在自己的帳幕門口。
 出:33.11    上主同梅瑟面對面地談話，就如人同朋友談話一樣。梅瑟回營以後，他的侍從，一個年輕人，即農的兒子若蘇厄總不離開會幕。
 出:33.12    [梅瑟求見天主的榮耀]  梅瑟對上主說：「看，你吩咐了我，叫我引領這百姓，但沒有告訴我，你派誰與我同去。你還說過：提名選了你，你在我眼中得了寵。
 出:33.13    如果我真在你眼中得寵，求你把你的道路指示給我，叫我認識你，好在你眼中得寵。也請記得這民族是你的百姓。」
 出:33.14    上主回答說：「我必親自去，使你獲得安所。」
 出:33.15    梅瑟對上主說：「你若不親自去，也別叫我們從這裏上去。
 出:33.16    人怎樣知道我和你的百姓在你眼中得寵，豈不是因你與我們同行，而我和你的百姓有別於地面上所有的人民﹖」
 出:33.17    上主回答說：「連你所求的事，我也要作，因為你在我眼中得了寵，我提名選了你。」
 出:33.18    梅瑟又說：「求你把你的榮耀顯示給我。」
 出:33.19    上主答說：「當我在你前呼喊「雅威」名號時，我要使我的一切美善在你面前經過。我要恩待的就恩待，要憐憫的就憐憫。」
 出:33.20    又說：「我的面容你決不能看見，因為人見了我，就不能再活了。」
 出:33.21    上主又說：「看，靠近我有個地方，你可站在那塊磐石上。
 出:33.22    當我的榮耀經過時，我把你放在磐石縫裏，用我的手遮掩你，直到我過去。
 出:33.23    當我縮回我的手時，你將看見我的背後，但我的面容，卻無法看見。」
  
 出:34.1     [重造約版]  上主向梅瑟說：「你要鑿兩塊石版，和先前的一樣；我要把你摔碎的石版上的字，再刻在石版上。
 出:34.2     明天早晨你要準備好，清早上西乃山，在山頂上站在我前。
 出:34.3     不准任何人同你上山，全山不可有一個人，也不准在這山下放牛羊。」
 出:34.4     梅瑟便鑿了兩塊石版，和先前的一樣；照上主的吩咐，清早起來，上了西乃山，手中拿著兩塊石版。
 出:34.5     [上主顯現]  上主乘雲降下，站在梅瑟身旁，他便呼喊「雅威」名號。
 出:34.6     上主由他面前經過時，大聲喊說：「雅威，雅威是慈悲寬仁的天主，緩於發怒，富於慈愛忠誠，
 出:34.7     對萬代的人保持仁愛，寬赦過犯、罪行和罪過，但是決不豁免懲罰，父親的過犯向子孫追討，直到三代四代。」
 出:34.8     梅瑟急忙俯伏在地朝拜，
 出:34.9     說：「吾主，若是我真在你眼中得寵，求吾主與我們同行；這百姓固然執拗，但求你寬免我們的過犯和罪惡，以我們為你的所有物。」
 出:34.10    [約書中的精華]  上主說：「看，我要立約：我在你的全百姓前所要行的奇跡，是在普世萬國未行過的；你四周的人民要看見上主的作為，因為我藉你所行的是可怕的事。
 出:34.11    你應注意我今日吩咐你的事：我要從你面前驅逐阿摩黎人、客納罕人、赫特人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人。
 出:34.12    你要注意：你每到一地，不可與那地方的居民立盟，恐怕他們成了你中間的陷阱。
 出:34.13    你應拆毀他們的祭壇，打碎他們的神柱，砍斷他們的木偶。
 出:34.14    不准你朝拜別的神，因為上主名為忌邪者，他是忌邪的天主。
 出:34.15    不准你與當地的人民結盟，免得他們與自己的神行淫，給自己的神獻祭時，請你去吃他們的祭物，
 出:34.16    又免得你為你的兒子娶他們的女兒為妻；當他們的女兒與自己的神行淫的時候，也使你的兒子與她們的神行淫。
 出:34.17    不准為你鑄造神像。
 出:34.18    你要按照我所吩咐的，在阿彼布月所定的日期內，守無酵節，七天之久吃無酵餅，因為在阿彼布月你出離了埃及。
 出:34.19    凡初開母胎的都應歸於我；你的牲畜中，凡首生的公牛羊，都應歸於我。
 出:34.20    首生的驢，應用羊贖回；若不贖回，應打斷牠的頸項。你的子孫中，凡是長子，你應贖回。空著手的，不可到我台前來。
 出:34.21    你六天作工，但第七天應安息，連在耕種收穫的時期，也要安息。
 出:34.22    在收穫初熟麥子時，應過七七節；在年尾過收藏節。
 出:34.23    凡你所有的男子，一年三次應去朝拜主，上主，以色列的天主。
 出:34.24    幾時我從你面前趕走異民，擴展了你的疆域之後，你一年三次上去朝拜上主你天主的時候，沒有人敢圖謀你的國土。
 出:34.25    不可同酵麵一起給我祭獻犧牲的血；逾越節的犧牲，不可留到早晨。
 出:34.26    你田中最上等的初熟之果，應獻到上主你的天主的殿中。不可煮羊羔在其母奶之中。」
 出:34.27    以後上主向梅瑟說：「你要記錄這些話，因為我依據這些話同你和以色列子民立了約。」
 出:34.28    梅瑟在那裏同上主一起，停留了四十天四十夜，沒有吃飯，也沒有喝水；把盟約的話，即十句話，寫在石版上。
 出:34.29    [梅瑟面容發光]  梅瑟從西乃山下來的時候，手中拿著兩塊約版；他下山的時候，未發覺自己的臉皮，因同上主說過話，而發光。
 出:34.30    亞郎和全以色列子民一看見他的臉皮發光，都害怕接近他。
 出:34.31    梅瑟召呼他們過來，亞郎和全會眾的首領才敢回到他跟前，梅瑟就同他們談了話。
 出:34.32    以後全以色列子民也來到他跟前，他把上主在西乃山上同他所說的一切，都吩咐了他們。
 出:34.33    梅瑟向他們講完話，就用首帕蒙上自己的臉。
 出:34.34    幾時梅瑟到上主台前去同他談話，就揭去首帕，直到出來的時候；他出來後，就對以色列子民講明上主吩咐的事，
 出:34.35    以色列子民觀看梅瑟的臉，見梅瑟的臉皮發光。以後梅瑟再用首帕蒙上自己的臉，直到再去同上主談話。
  
 出:35.1     [安息日的法律]  梅瑟召集以色列子民全會眾，向他們說：「這是上主吩咐你們應遵行的事：
 出:35.2     六日內作工，第七日為你們是聖日，應完成為上主安息；凡在這一日作工的，應受死刑。
 出:35.3     安息日不准在你們住的一切地方生火。」
 出:35.4     [獻禮的命令]  梅瑟又訓示以色列子民全會眾說：「上主這樣命令說：
 出:35.5     由你們財物中取一份作獻儀，獻給上主；凡甘心樂捐的，可獻於上主的獻儀是：金、銀、銅，
 出:35.6     紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線、細麻和山羊毛，
 出:35.7     染紅的公羊皮、海豚皮和皂莢木，
 出:35.8     燈油，為製傅禮的油和焚香用的香料，
 出:35.9     紅瑪瑙石和為鑲在厄弗得和胸牌上的寶石。
 出:35.10    你們中間凡有天才的人，都要來製造上主所命令的一切：
 出:35.11    帳棚、棚頂和棚罩，鉤子、木板、橫木、柱子和卯座，
 出:35.12    約櫃和杠桿、贖罪蓋、遮贖罪蓋的帳幔，
 出:35.13    供桌和杠桿，並一切器具，以及供餅，
 出:35.14    燈台及其用具，燈盞與燈油，
 出:35.15    香壇和杠桿，傅禮的油、香料、帳棚入口的門簾，
 出:35.16    全燔祭壇和祭壇的銅格子、杠桿及一切器具，盆和盆座，
 出:35.17    庭院的帷幔、柱子、卯座並院門的簾子，
 出:35.18    帳棚的橛子、庭院的橛子和繩索，
 出:35.19    聖所內行禮的祭服，亞郎大司祭的聖衣，以及他兒子們行祭的服裝。」
 出:35.20    [人民的獻儀]  於是以色列子民全會眾離開梅瑟而去。
 出:35.21    凡甘心情願捐獻的人都來送給上主獻儀，為製造會幕和會幕中的一切用具及聖衣之用；
 出:35.22    無論男女，凡甘心樂捐的，都把金針、耳環、戒指、項鍊和各樣金器送來，各人都把金子奉獻給上主作獻儀。
 出:35.23    凡有紫色、紅色、朱紅色毛線、細麻、山羊毛、染紅的公羊皮、海豚皮的，也都送來。
 出:35.24    凡願奉獻銀子和銅的，也送來，奉獻給上主作獻儀；凡有皂莢木的，也送來，為製造各種應用之物。
 出:35.25    凡技巧的婦女都親手紡線，把所紡的紫色、紅色、朱紅色毛線和細麻送來。
 出:35.26    凡具有藝術才能的婦女都紡了毛線。
 出:35.27    首長奉獻了紅瑪瑙石，鑲在厄弗得和胸牌上的寶石，
 出:35.28    香料和油，為點燈，為製傅禮的油，為製焚香而用。
 出:35.29    以色列子民，無論男女，凡甘心樂捐，為製造上主藉梅瑟所吩咐的一切工程的，都自願向上主奉獻了禮品。
 出:35.30    [派定工程師]  梅瑟向以色列子民說：「你們看，上主已提名，召叫了猶大支派的烏黎的兒子，胡爾的孫子貝匝肋耳，
 出:35.31    使他充滿天主的神，使他有智慧、技能和知識，能作各種工程，
 出:35.32    能設計圖案，能用金、銀、銅製造器物，
 出:35.33    能雕刻寶石，加以鑲嵌，雕刻木頭，製造各種藝術工程。
 出:35.34    上主又賜給他和丹支派的阿希撒瑪客的兒子敖曷里雅布領導的才能，
 出:35.35    使他們充滿藝術的才能，能雕刻刺繡，並用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和細麻作繡花及編織的各種工作，能作各種工程，能設計圖案。」
  
 出:36.1     [停止捐獻]  貝匝肋耳和敖曷里雅布以及所有各種技工，即上主賜給他們才能智慧為明瞭做聖所的一切工程的人，全按照上主所吩咐的一切去做。
 出:36.2     梅瑟將貝匝肋耳和敖曷里雅布以及上主賜給他們才能的一切技工，並所有心甘情願來工作的人，都叫了來。
 出:36.3     他們當著梅瑟的面，接收了以色列子民為建造聖所的各種工程送來的一切獻儀。但以色列子民仍天天早晨將自願的獻儀送來；
 出:36.4     因此建造聖所各種工程的技工，人人都停止他們所做的工程，
 出:36.5     來向梅瑟說：「百姓送來的太多，已超過上主命令為完成這工程所需要的。」
 出:36.6     梅瑟遂吩咐在營中傳令說：「無論男女，不必再為聖所的工程送獻儀。」百姓這才停止不送。
 出:36.7     送來的材料足夠全工程之用，而且有餘。
 出:36.8     [製帳棚的布幔和頂]  在作工的人中，最有技術的工人用十幅布幔做了帳棚；布幔是用捻的細麻，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線做的，用繡工繡上革魯賓。
 出:36.9     每幅布幔長二十八肘，寬四肘；每幅布幔都是一樣的尺寸。
 出:36.10    五幅布幔相連縫在一起，另五幅相連縫在一起。
 出:36.11    在這一組布幔末幅的邊上做了紫色的鈕，在另一組布幔末幅的邊上也照樣做了；
 出:36.12    在這一幅上做了五十個鈕，在另一組布幔末幅的邊上，也做了五十個鈕；這些鈕都彼此相對。
 出:36.13    又做了五十個金鉤，用金鉤使布幔彼此相連，這樣成了一個帳棚。
 出:36.14    又用山羊毛做了布幔，作帳棚頂用，共做了十一幅布幔，
 出:36.15    每幅長三十肘，寬四肘；十一幅布幔都是一樣尺寸。
 出:36.16    將五幅布幔縫在一起，
 出:36.17    將另六幅也縫在一起；在這一組布幔末幅的邊上做了五十個鈕，在另一組布幔末幅的一邊上，也做了五十個鈕；
 出:36.18    又製了五十個銅鉤，使棚頂連結在一起，成為一個。
 出:36.19    以後用染紅的公羊皮作了棚頂的罩，上邊又蒙上一塊海豚皮的罩。
 出:36.20    [帳棚的木架]  為支帳棚，用皂莢木做了豎立的木板。
 出:36.21    每塊木板高十肘，寬一肘半。
 出:36.22    每塊木板下有兩個筍頭彼此並列；帳棚的一切木板，都是這樣做。
 出:36.23    支帳棚的木板，在向陽的一面，即南邊，做了二十塊木板；
 出:36.24    在二十塊木板下邊做了四十個銀卯座，每塊木板下兩個銀卯座，為安木板的兩筍頭。
 出:36.25    為帳棚的另一面，即北邊，也做了二十塊木板，
 出:36.26    也做了四十個銀卯座，每塊木板下兩個卯座。
 出:36.27    為帳棚的後面，即西邊做了六塊木板。
 出:36.28    在帳棚的後面的兩角上，做了兩塊木板，
 出:36.29    木板下端是雙的，直到上端第一環都是雙的；兩塊木板都照樣做了，形成兩個角。
 出:36.30    所以共有八塊木板，十六個銀卯座，每塊板下兩個卯座。
 出:36.31    又用皂莢木做了橫木為帳棚這一面木板做了五根，
 出:36.32    為帳棚另一面木板，也做了五根橫木，為帳棚後面即西邊的木板，也做了五根橫木。
 出:36.33    又做了木板中間的那根橫木，從這頭穿到那頭。
 出:36.34    木板上包了金；做了穿橫木的金環，橫木上也包了金。
 出:36.35    [帳幔與門簾]  隨後用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻，做了一個帳幔，用繡工繡上革魯賓。
 出:36.36    為掛帳幔做了四根皂莢木柱子，包上金，柱釘是金的，又鑄了四個銀卯座。
 出:36.37    又做了會幕的門簾，是用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻編成的。
 出:36.38    為掛門簾，又做了五根柱子和柱釘，柱帽和橫棍包了金；又做了五個銅卯座。
  
 出:37.1     [製造約櫃]  貝匝肋耳用皂莢木做了一個櫃，長二肘半，寬一肘半，高一肘半，
 出:37.2     裏外包上了純金，周圍做了金花邊。
 出:37.3     鑄了四個金環，安在四個腳上：這邊兩個，那邊兩個。
 出:37.4     又用皂莢木做了杠桿，包上了金。
 出:37.5     將杠桿穿入約櫃邊的環內，作抬櫃之用。
 出:37.6     又用純金做了贖罪蓋，長二肘半，寬一肘半。
 出:37.7     又做了一對金革魯賓，由贖|罪蓋兩端用鎚工做成；
 出:37.8     在這端做了一個革魯賓，在那端做了一個革魯賓；贖罪蓋兩端的革魯賓與贖罪蓋連在一起；
 出:37.9     革魯賓的翅膀，伸展其上，翅膀遮著贖罪蓋；他們的臉彼此相對，面朝贖罪蓋。
 出:37.10    [製作供桌]  又用皂莢木做了供桌，長二肘，寬一肘，高一肘半，
 出:37.11    包上了純金，周圍做了金花邊，
 出:37.12    周圍做了一掌寬的框子，框子周圍，也做了金花邊。
 出:37.13    又鑄了四個金環，將金環安在桌四腳的角上。
 出:37.14    環子靠近框子，為穿抬供桌的杠桿.。
 出:37.15    又用皂莢木做了杠桿，包上金，為抬供桌之用。
 出:37.16    又用純金做了供桌上的器物：盤、碟、杯和為奠祭用的爵。
 出:37.17    [燈台]  又用純金做了燈台：燈台同燈座以及燈幹，全用鎚工做成；花朵，即花托和花瓣，都由燈台發出。
 出:37.18    燈台兩面發出了六叉：這面三叉，那面三叉。
 出:37.19    在一叉上，有像杏花的三朵花，都有花托和花瓣；在另一叉上也有像杏花的三朵花，都有花托和花瓣；由燈台發出的六叉都是一樣。
 出:37.20    在燈台的直幹上，有像杏花的四個花朵，都有花托和花瓣。
 出:37.21    由燈幹發出的每兩叉之下，各有一個花朵；從燈幹發出的六個叉都是如此。
 出:37.22    這些花朵和燈叉，都從燈台發出，全是用整塊純金搥成。
 出:37.23    又做了燈台上的七盞燈，以及純金的燈剪和碟子。
 出:37.24    為做燈台和一切用具，用了一塔冷通純金。
 出:37.25    [香壇]  以後用皂莢木做了香壇，長一肘，寬一肘，方形，高二肘，四角從壇上突出。
 出:37.26    又用純金包了壇、壇的上面、四壁、周圍和四角；壇周圍做了金花邊。
 出:37.27    壇兩側花邊下，做了兩個金環，兩面都有，為穿杠桿抬壇之用。
 出:37.28    又用皂莢木做了杠桿，包上了金。
 出:37.29    以後又以配製香料的方法，做了為傅禮用的聖油，和為焚香用的純香料。
  
 出:38.1     [全燔祭壇]  用皂莢木做了全燔祭壇，長五肘，寬五肘，方形，高三肘。
 出:38.2     在祭壇四角上做了四翹角，四翹角由祭壇突出；祭壇包上了銅。
 出:38.3     以後做了祭壇的一切用具：盆、鏟、盤、肉叉和火盆：這一切用具是銅做的。
 出:38.4     為祭壇做了一架銅格子，好像網的製法，安在祭壇下方的圍腰下，直到祭壇半腰。
 出:38.5     又鑄了四個環子，安在銅格子的四角上，為穿杠桿用。
 出:38.6     用皂莢木做了杠桿，包了銅。
 出:38.7     把杠桿穿入祭壇兩側的環子內，好抬祭壇；祭壇是用木板做的，中心是空的。
 出:38.8     又用在會幕門口服務的婦女所用的銅鏡，做了銅盆以及盆座。
 出:38.9     [庭院]  築了庭院：為向陽的一面，即南面，用捻的細麻做了帷幔，共一百肘，
 出:38.10    柱子二十根，銅卯座二十個；柱鉤和橫棍是銀的。
 出:38.11    北面的帷幔也是一百肘，柱子二十根，銅卯座二十個；柱鉤和橫棍是銀的。
 出:38.12    西面的帷幔共五十肘，柱子十根，卯座十個；柱鉤和橫棍是銀的。
 出:38.13    前面，即東面，共五十肘；
 出:38.14    這邊的帷幔十五肘，柱子三根，卯座三個；
 出:38.15    那邊也是如此。庭院門口的兩邊，皆有帷幔十五肘，柱子三根，卯座三個。
 出:38.16    庭院四周所有的帷幔，都是用捻的細麻編成的。
 出:38.17    柱的卯座是銅的，柱鉤和橫棍是銀的，柱帽包上了銀；庭院所有的柱子都用銀橫棍連貫起來。
 出:38.18    庭院的門簾是用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻成的細麻編成的，寬二十肘，高五肘，與庭院的帷幔高度相等。
 出:38.19    門簾的柱子四根，銅卯座四個，銀柱鉤；柱帽包上了銀，橫棍是銀的。
 出:38.20    帳棚和庭院的一切橛子是銅的。
 出:38.21    [核計金銀銅的總數]  以下是為立帳棚即會幕的總賬，是照梅瑟的命令，肋未人在司祭亞郎的兒子依塔瑪爾指導下所計算的：──
 出:38.22    猷大支派烏黎的兒子，胡爾的孫子貝匝肋耳完成了上主吩咐梅瑟的一切；
 出:38.23    與他同事的有丹支派阿希撒瑪客的兒子敖曷里雅布，他會雕刻，會設計，會用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和細麻織繡。
 出:38.24    為建造聖所整個工程所使用的金子，即獻的金子，按聖所的衡量，共計二十九「塔冷通」零七百三十「協刻耳。」
 出:38.25    會眾登記者所繳納的銀子，按聖所的衡量，共計一百「塔冷通」零一千七百七十五「協刻耳。」
 出:38.26    凡二十歲以上來登記的，共六十萬三千五百五十人；每人繳納一「貝卡，」按聖所的衡量，合半「協刻耳。」
 出:38.27    為鑄聖所的卯座和門簾的卯座，用了一百「塔冷通」銀子：一百卯座，用一百「塔冷通」銀子，一「塔冷通」鑄一卯座。
 出:38.28    用那一千七百七十五「協刻耳」銀子做了柱鉤，包了柱帽，並做了連接柱子的橫棍。
 出:38.29    所奉獻的銅，共計七十「塔冷通」零二千四百「協刻耳。」
 出:38.30    用此銅做了會幕門的卯座、銅壇和壇下的銅格子，並壇的一切用具，
 出:38.31    庭院四周的卯座，庭院門口的卯座，帳棚所有的橛子，以及庭院四周所有的橛子。
  
 出:39.1     [大司祭的祭服]  以後用紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線，做了聖所內行禮穿的祭服，也做了為亞郎穿的聖衣，全照上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.2     [厄弗得]  用金線，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻，做了厄弗得，
 出:39.3     就是將金子鎚成了薄片，切成細線，以織工編織在紫色、紅色、朱紅色毛線和細麻之中。
 出:39.4     為厄弗得做了肩帶，結在厄弗得的兩端，連結在一起。
 出:39.5     那將厄弗得束在身上的帶子，像厄弗得一樣做成，與厄弗得連在一起，是用金線，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻成的細麻做成的，全按上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.6     將兩塊紅瑪瑙石修好崁在金框內，以刻印之法雕刻了以色列的兒子們的名字。
 出:39.7     將金框安在厄弗得的肩帶上，作為以色列子民的記念石，全照上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.8     [胸牌]  又以繡工用金線，紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線和捻的細麻做了胸牌，像做厄弗得一樣。
 出:39.9     做的胸牌是方形的，雙層，一柞長，一柞寬。
 出:39.10    上面安裝了四行寶石：第一行：赤玉、青玉、翡翠；
 出:39.11    第二行：紫寶石、藍玉、金鋼石；
 出:39.12    第三行：黃瑪瑙、白瑪瑙、紫晶；
 出:39.13    第四行：黃玉、紅瑪瑙、水蒼玉：這些寶石都鑲在金框內。
 出:39.14    寶石上有以色列的兒子們的名字，按他們的名字共十二塊；按刻印的方法，每塊刻上一個名字，代表十二支派。
 出:39.15    在胸牌上做了金的鍊子，像繩子一樣擰成。
 出:39.16    又做了兩個金框和兩個金環；將兩個金環安在胸牌的兩端。
 出:39.17    將兩條金鍊結在胸牌兩端的環子上。
 出:39.18    把兩條鍊子的另兩端結在兩框子上；把兩框子結在厄弗得肩帶的前面。
 出:39.19    又做了兩個金環，安在胸牌下兩端，靠近厄弗得的內邊緣上。
 出:39.20    還做了兩個金環，安在厄弗得的前面肩帶的下邊，靠近厄弗得帶子的上邊與肩帶相結連的地方。
 出:39.21    用一根紫繩，把胸牌的環子繫在厄弗得的環子上，使胸牌結在厄弗得的帶上子上，免得胸牌在厄弗得上移動：全照上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.22    [無袖長袍]  以後又為厄弗得做了一件無袖長袍，是織成的，全為紫色。
 出:39.23    長袍中間有一領口，像戰袍的領口；領口周圍鑲上邊，免得破裂。
 出:39.24    又在長袍底邊上，用捻的紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線做了石榴；
 出:39.25    又用純金做了鈴鐺，將鈴鐺繫在長袍底邊周圍的石榴中間，
 出:39.26    如此在長袍底邊周圍，一個鈴鐺，一個石榴；一個鈴鐺，一個石榴，為行敬禮穿：全照上主向梅瑟所吩附的。
 出:39.27    [司祭的禮服]  以後為亞郎和他的兒子們做了細麻長衣，是織成的。
 出:39.28    也做了細麻的禮冠，細麻的華麗頭巾，捻的細麻布褲子；
 出:39.29    又用捻的細麻及紫色、紅色、朱紅色的毛線編織了腰帶：全按上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.30    又用純金做了聖冠上的牌子，在上面像雕刻印章，刻上了「祝聖於上。」
 出:39.31    又用紫色繩子將這牌子繫在禮冠上：全按上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.32    [向梅瑟交代完成的工作]  帳棚、會幕的一切工程都完成了；凡上主向梅瑟所吩咐的，以色列子民都照做了。
 出:39.33    他們遂把帳棚運到梅瑟前，即帳幕和帳幕的一切用具：鉤子、木板、橫木、柱子、卯座，
 出:39.34    染紅的公山羊皮的頂罩，海豚皮的頂罩，作屏障的帳幔，
 出:39.35    約櫃和杠桿，贖罪蓋，
 出:39.36    供桌和桌上的一切用具，供餅，
 出:39.37    純金的燈台與燈盞，即擺在燈台上的燈盞及其一切用具，燈油，
 出:39.38    金祭壇，傅禮的油，馨香的香料，帳棚的門簾，
 出:39.39    銅祭壇、祭壇的銅格子、杠桿和一切用具，盆和盆座，
 出:39.40    庭院的帷幔、柱子和卯座，庭院的門簾、繩子和橛子，以及一切為會幕聖所內使用的器皿；
 出:39.41    聖所內行禮的祭服，司祭亞郎的聖衣，和他兒子們盡司祭職的衣服：
 出:39.42    以色列子民所作的一切工程，全是照上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:39.43    梅瑟查看了一切工程，見他們所行的，完全是照上主所吩咐的，遂祝福了他們。

 出:40.1     [豎立帳棚]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 出:40.2     「正月初一，你要豎立會幕的帳棚。
 出:40.3     把約櫃安放在裏面，用帷幔將約櫃遮起。
 出:40.4     把供桌搬進，擺上當供之物；把燈台搬進，安放上燈盞。
 出:40.5     把焚香的金壇安放在約櫃前邊，懸上帳棚的門簾。
 出:40.6     把全燔祭壇安置在會幕門口，
 出:40.7     把盆安置在會幕和祭壇之中，盆裏放上水。
 出:40.8     隨後豎立庭院四周的帷幔，懸上庭院的門簾。
 出:40.9     以後拿傅禮的油，給帳棚和其中的一切器具傅油，祝聖帳棚和其中的一切器具，使之成為聖物：
 出:40.10    即給全燔祭壇及其一切用具傅油，祝聖祭壇，使之成為至聖的；
 出:40.11    給盆和盆座傅油，使之成聖。
 出:40.12    以後叫亞郎和他的兒子們來近會幕門口，用水洗他們。
 出:40.13    給亞郎穿上聖衣，給他傅油，祝聖他作我的司祭。
 出:40.14    再叫他的兒子們前來，給他們穿上長衣，
 出:40.15    像給他們的父親傅油一樣，也給他們傅油，叫他們作我的司祭。給他們行傅油禮，表示他們世世代代，永遠盡司祭之職。
 出:40.16    梅瑟行了一切；上主怎樣吩咐他的，他就怎樣作了。
 出:40.17    [梅瑟遵從上主的吩咐]  於是第二年正月初一，帳棚就豎立起來了。
 出:40.18    梅瑟豎立了帳棚，安上卯座，放上木板，安上橫木，豎起柱子。
 出:40.19    將幕頂展開放在帳棚上，將幕頂的罩放在上面，全照上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:40.20    隨後取了約版放在櫃內，櫃旁穿上杠桿，將贖罪蓋安在約櫃上面。
 出:40.21    將櫃抬到帳棚內，懸上帳幔，遮住約櫃，如上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:40.22    以後把供桌放在會幕內，放在帳棚北邊，帳幔以外；
 出:40.23    在桌上於上主前擺上供餅，如上主吩咐梅瑟的。
 出:40.24    把燈台安置在會幕內，對著供桌，在帳棚南面。
 出:40.25    在上主前放上燈盞，如上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:40.26    把金祭壇安置在會幕內，帳幔的前邊。
 出:40.27    在壇上燃燒馨香的香料，如上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:40.28    又懸起帳棚的門簾。
 出:40.29    將全燔祭台安放在會幕門口，在上面奉獻全燔祭和素祭，如上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:40.30    將盆安置在會幕和祭壇之中，盆內放了水，為洗濯之用。
 出:40.31    梅瑟亞郎和他的兒子們在盆內洗腳。
 出:40.32    他們進入會幕或接近祭壇時，必先洗濯，如上主向梅瑟所吩咐的。
 出:40.33    隨後在帳棚和祭壇四周，豎起了庭院的帷幔，懸起了庭院的門簾：這樣梅瑟完成了所有的工程。
 出:40.34    [上主的榮耀遮蓋會幕]  那時雲彩遮蓋了會幕，上主的榮耀充滿了帳棚。
 出:40.35    梅瑟不能進入會幕，因為雲彩停在上面，上主的榮耀充滿了帳棚。
 出:40.36    在以色列子民整個的行程中，雲彩一從帳棚升起，他們就拔營前行；
 出:40.37    雲彩若不升起，他們就安營不動，直等雲彩升起。
 出:40.38    在他們整個行程中，上主的雲彩白天停在帳棚上，黑夜在雲中有火，以色列全家都能見到。  [出谷紀完篇]

 ex1.       [Exodus]   40 chapters   [出谷記]   [英文版]

 ex:1.1      These are the names of the sons of Israel who, accompanied by their households, migrated with Jacob into Egypt:
 ex:1.2      Rsuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
 ex:1.3      Iesachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
 ex:1.4      Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
 ex:1.5      The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
 ex:1.6      Now Joseph and all his brothers and that whole generation died.
 ex:1.7      But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They became so numerous and strong that the land was filled with them.
 ex:1.8      Then a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph , came to power in Egypt.
 ex:1.9      He said to his subjects, "Look how numerous and powerful the Israelite people are growing, more so than we ourselves!
 ex:1.10     Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase; otherwise, in time of war they too may join our enemies to fight against us, and so leave our country."
 ex:1.11     Accordingly, taskmasters were set over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the supply cities of Pithom and Raamses.
 ex:1.12     Yet the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread. The Egyptians, then, dreaded the Israelites
 ex:1.13     and reduced them to cruel slavery,
 ex:1.14     making life bitter for them with hard work in mortar and brick and all kinds of field work--the whole cruel fate of slaves.
 ex:1.15     The king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah and the other Puah,
 ex:1.16     When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women and see them giving birth, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live."
 ex:1.17     The midwives, however, feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt had ordered them, but let the boys live.
 ex:1.18     So the king summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you acted thus, allowing the boys to live?"
 ex:1.19     The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are robust and give birth before the midwife arrives."
 ex:1.20     Therefore God dealt well with the midwives. The people, too, increased and grew strong.
 ex:1.21     And because the midwives feared God, he built up families for them.
 ex:1.22     Pharaoh then commanded all his subjects, "Throw into the river every boy that is born to the Hebrews, but you may let all the girls live."
  
 ex:2.1      Now a certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
 ex:2.2      who conceived and bore a son. Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.
 ex:2.3      When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket, daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the river bank.
 ex:2.4      His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
 ex:2.5      Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river to bathe, while her maids walked along the river bank. Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.
 ex:2.6      On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying! She was moved with pity for him and said, "It is one of the Hebrews' children."
 ex:2.7      Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"
 ex:2.8      "Yes, do so," she answered. So the maiden went and called the child's own mother.
 ex:2.9      Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you." The woman therefore took the child and nursed it.
 ex:2.10     When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her son and called him Moses; for she said, "I drew him out of the water."
 ex:2.11     On one occasion, after Moses had grown up, when he visited his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor, he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.
 ex:2.12     Looking about and seeing no one, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
 ex:2.13     The next day he went out again, and now two Hebrews were fighting! So he asked the culprit, "Why are you striking your fellow Hebrew?"
 ex:2.14     But he replied, "Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses became afraid and thought, "The affair must certainly be known."
 ex:2.15     Pharaoh, too, heard of the affair and sought to put him to death. But Moses fled from him and stayed in the land of Midian. As he was seated there by a well,
 ex:2.16     seven daughters of a priest of Midian came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
 ex:2.17     But some shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses got up and defended them and watered their flock.
 ex:2.18     When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, "How is it you have returned so soon today?"
 ex:2.19     They answered, "An Egyptian saved us from the interference of the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock!"
 ex:2.20     "Where is the man?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him there? Invite him to have something to eat."
 ex:2.21     Moses agreed to live with him, and the man gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
 ex:2.22     She bore him a son, whom he named Gershom; for he said, "I am a stranger in a foreign land."
 ex:2.23     A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. Still the Israelites groaned and cried out because of their slavery. As their cry for release went up to God,
 ex:2.24     he heard their groaning and was mindful of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
 ex:2.25     He saw the Israelites and knew. . . .
  
 ex:3.1      Meanwhile Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
 ex:3.2      There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in fire flaming out of a bush. As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush, though on fire, was not consumed.
 ex:3.3      So Moses decided, "I must go over to look at this remarkable sight, and see why the bush is not burned."
 ex:3.4      When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He answered, "Here I am."
 ex:3.5      God said, "Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
 ex:3.6      I am the God of your father," he continued, "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
 ex:3.7      But the LORD said, "I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering.
 ex:3.8      Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
 ex:3.9      So indeed the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have truly noted that the Egyptians are oppressing them.
 ex:3.10     Come, now! I will send you to Pharaoh to lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."
 ex:3.11     But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and lead the Israelites out of Egypt?"
 ex:3.12     He answered, "I will be with you; and this shall be your proof that it is I who have sent you: when you bring my people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this very mountain."
 ex:3.13     "But," said Moses to God, "when I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' if they ask me, 'What is his name?' what am I to tell them?"
 ex:3.14     God replied, "I am who am." Then he added, "This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you."
 ex:3.15     God spoke further to Moses, "Thus shall you say to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. "This is my name forever; this is my title for all generations.
 ex:3.16     "Go and assemble the elders of the Israelites, and tell them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I am concerned about you and about the way you are being treated in Egypt;
 ex:3.17     so I have decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.
 ex:3.18     "Thus they will heed your message. Then you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent us word. Permit us, then, to go a three days' journey in the desert, that we may offer sacrifice to the LORD, our God.
 ex:3.19     "Yet I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless he is forced.
 ex:3.20     I will stretch out my hand, therefore, and smite Egypt by doing all kinds of wondrous deeds there. After that he will send you away.
 ex:3.21     I will even make the Egyptians so well-disposed toward this people that, when you leave, you will not go empty-handed.
 ex:3.22     Every woman shall ask her neighbor and her house guest for silver and gold articles and for clothing to put on your sons and daughters. Thus you will despoil the Egyptians."
  
 ex:4.1      "But," objected Moses, "suppose they will not believe me, nor listen to my plea? For they may say, 'The LORD did not appear to you.'"
 ex:4.2      The LORD therefore asked him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he answered.
 ex:4.3      The LORD then said, "Throw it on the ground." When he threw it on the ground it was changed into a serpent, and Moses shied away from it.
 ex:4.4      "Now, put out your hand," the LORD said to him, "and take hold of its tail." So he put out his hand and laid hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand.
 ex:4.5      "This will take place so that they may believe," he continued, "that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, did appear to you."
 ex:4.6      Again the LORD said to him, "Put your hand in your bosom." He put it in his bosom, and when he withdrew it, to his surprise his hand was leprous, like snow.
 ex:4.7      The LORD then said, "Now, put your hand back in your bosom." Moses put his hand back in his bosom, and when he withdrew it, to his surprise it was again like the rest of his body.
 ex:4.8      "If they will not believe you, nor heed the message of the first sign, they should believe the message of the second.
 ex:4.9      And if they will not believe even these two signs, nor heed your plea, take some water from the river and pour it on the dry land. The water you take from the river will become blood on the dry land."
 ex:4.10     Moses, however, said to the LORD, "If you please, LORD, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past, nor recently, nor now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and tongue."
 ex:4.11     The LORD said to him, "Who gives one man speech and makes another deaf and dumb? Or who gives sight to one and makes another blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
 ex:4.12     Go, then! It is I who will assist you in speaking and will teach you what you are to say."
 ex:4.13     Yet he insisted, "If you please, Lord, send someone else!"
 ex:4.14     Then the LORD became angry with Moses and said, "Have you not your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know that he is an eloquent speaker. Besides, he is now on his way to meet you.
 ex:4.15     When he sees you, his heart will be glad. You are to speak to him, then, and put the words in his mouth. I will assist both you and him in speaking and will teach the two of you what you are to do.
 ex:4.16     He shall speak to the people for you: he shall be your spokesman, and you shall be as God to him.
 ex:4.17     Take this staff in your hand; with it you are to perform the signs."
 ex:4.18     After this Moses returned to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, "Let me go back, please, to my kinsmen in Egypt, to see whether they are still living." Jethro replied, "Go in peace."
 ex:4.19     In Midian the LORD said to Moses, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought your life are dead."
 ex:4.20     So Moses took his wife and his sons, and started back to the land of Egypt, with them riding the ass. The staff of God he carried with him.
 ex:4.21     The LORD said to him, "On your return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put in your power. I will make him obstinate, however, so that he will not let the people go.
 ex:4.22     So you shall say to Pharaoh: Thus says the LORD: Israel is my son, my first-born.
 ex:4.23     Hence I tell you: Let my son go, that he may serve me. If you refuse to let him go, I warn you, I will kill your son, your first-born."
 ex:4.24     On the journey, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord came upon Moses and would have killed him.
 ex:4.25     But Zipporah took a piece of flint and cut off her son's foreskin and, touching his person, she said, "You are a spouse of blood to me."
 ex:4.26     Then God let Moses go. At that time she said, "A spouse of blood," in regard to the circumcision.
 ex:4.27     The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So he went, and when they met at the mountain of God, Aaron kissed him.
 ex:4.28     Moses informed him of all the LORD had said in sending him, and of the various signs he had enjoined upon him.
 ex:4.29     Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.
 ex:4.30     Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses, and he performed the signs before the people.
 ex:4.31     The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their affliction, they bowed down in worship.
  
 ex:5.1      After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may celebrate a feast to me in the desert."
 ex:5.2      Pharaoh answered, "Who is the LORD, that I should heed his plea to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD; even if I did, I would not let Israel go."
 ex:5.3      They replied, "The God of the Hebrews has sent us word. Let us go a three days' journey in the desert, that we may offer sacrifice to the LORD, our God; otherwise he will punish us with pestilence or the sword."
 ex:5.4      The king of Egypt answered them, "What do you mean, Moses and Aaron, by taking the people away from their work? Off to your labor!
 ex:5.5      Look how numerous the people of the land are already," continued Pharaoh, "and yet you would give them rest from their labor!"
 ex:5.6      That very day Pharaoh gave the taskmasters and foremen of the people this order:
 ex:5.7      "You shall no longer supply the people with straw for their brickmaking as you have previously done. Let them go and gather straw themselves!
 ex:5.8      Yet you shall levy upon them the same quota of bricks as they have previously made. Do not reduce it. They are lazy; that is why they are crying, 'Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.'
 ex:5.9      Increase the work for the men, so that they keep their mind on it and pay no attention to lying words."
 ex:5.10     So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and told them, "Thus says Pharaoh: I will not provide you with straw.
 ex:5.11     Go and gather the straw yourselves, wherever you can find it. Yet there must not be the slightest reduction in your work."
 ex:5.12     The people, then, scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw,
 ex:5.13     while the taskmasters kept driving them on, saying, "Finish your work, the same daily amount as when your straw was supplied."
 ex:5.14     The foremen of the Israelites, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had placed over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why have you not completed your prescribed amount of bricks yesterday and today, as before?"
 ex:5.15     Then the Israelite foremen came and made this appeal to Pharaoh: "Why do you treat your servants in this manner?
 ex:5.16     No straw is supplied to your servants, and still we are told to make bricks. Look how your servants are beaten! It is you who are at fault."
 ex:5.17     Pharaoh answered, "It is just because you are lazy that you keep saying, 'Let us go and offer sacrifice to the LORD.'
 ex:5.18     Off to work, then! Straw shall not be provided for you, but you must still deliver your quota of bricks."
 ex:5.19     The Israelite foremen knew they were in a sorry plight, having been told not to reduce the daily amount of bricks.
 ex:5.20     When, therefore, they left Pharaoh and came upon Moses and Aaron, who were waiting to meet them,
 ex:5.21     they said to them, "The LORD look upon you and judge! You have brought us into bad odor with Pharaoh and his servants and have put a sword in their hands to slay us."
 ex:5.22     Moses again had recourse to the LORD and said, "Lord, why do you treat this people so badly? And why did you send me on such a mission?
 ex:5.23     Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has maltreated this people of yours, and you have done nothing to rescue them."
  
 ex:6.1      Then the LORD answered Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. Forced by my mighty hand, he will send them away; compelled by my outstretched arm, he will drive them from his land."
 ex:6.2      God also said to Moses, "I am the LORD.
 ex:6.3      As God the Almighty I appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but my name, LORD, I did not make known to them.
 ex:6.4      I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were living as aliens.
 ex:6.5      And now that I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are treating as slaves, I am mindful of my covenant.
 ex:6.6      Therefore, say to the Israelites: I am the LORD. I will free you from the forced labor of the Egyptians and will deliver you from their slavery. I will rescue you by my outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
 ex:6.7      I will take you as my own people, and you shall have me as your God. You will know that I, the LORD, am your God when I free you from the labor of the Egyptians
 ex:6.8      and bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I will give it to you as your own possession--I, the LORD!"
 ex:6.9      But when Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to him because of their dejection and hard slavery.
 ex:6.10     Then the LORD said to Moses,
 ex:6.11     "Go and tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the Israelites leave his land."
 ex:6.12     But Moses protested to the LORD, "If the Israelites would not listen to me, how can it be that Pharaoh will listen to me, poor speaker that I am!"
 ex:6.13     Still, the LORD, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them his orders regarding both the Israelites and Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
 ex:6.14     These are the heads of the ancestral houses. The sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.
 ex:6.15     The sons of Simeon were Jenuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Shaul, who was the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon.
 ex:6.16     The names of the sons of Levi, in their genealogical order, are Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived one hundred and thirty-seven years.
 ex:6.17     The sons of Gershon, as heads of clans, were Libni and Shimei.
 ex:6.18     The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived one hundred and thirty-three years.
 ex:6.19     The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of Levi in their genealogical order.
 ex:6.20     Amram married his aunt Jochebed, who bore him Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Amram lived one hundred and thirty-seven years.
 ex:6.21     The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg and Zichri.
 ex:6.22     The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.
 ex:6.23     Aaron married Amminadab's daughter, Elisheba, the sister of Nahshon; she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
 ex:6.24     The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites.
 ex:6.25     Aaron's son, Eleazar, married one of Putiel's daughters, who bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the ancestral clans of the Levites.
 ex:6.26     This is the Aaron and this the Moses to whom the LORD said, "Lead the Israelites from the land of Egypt, company by company."
 ex:6.27     These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt--the same Moses and Aaron.
 ex:6.28     On the day the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt
 ex:6.29     he said, "I am the LORD. Repeat to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all that I tell you."
 ex:6.30     But Moses protested to the LORD, "Since I am a poor speaker, how can it be that Pharaoh will listen to me?"
  
 ex:7.1      The LORD answered him, "See! I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall act as your prophet.
 ex:7.2      You shall tell him all that I command you. In turn, your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave his land.
 ex:7.3      Yet I will make Pharaoh so obstinate that, despite the many signs and wonders that I will work in the land of Egypt,
 ex:7.4      he will not listen to you. Therefore I will lay my hand on Egypt and by great acts of judgment I will bring the hosts of my people, the Israelites, out of the land of Egypt,
 ex:7.5      so that the Egyptians may learn that I am the LORD, as I stretch out my hand against Egypt and lead the Israelites out of their midst."
 ex:7.6      Moses and Aaron did as the LORD had commanded them.
 ex:7.7      Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
 ex:7.8      The LORD told Moses and Aaron,
 ex:7.9      "If Pharaoh demands that you work a sign or wonder, you shall say to Aaron: Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will be changed into a snake."
 ex:7.10     Then Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it was changed into a snake.
 ex:7.11     Pharaoh, in turn, summoned wise men and sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise by their magic arts.
 ex:7.12     Each one threw down his staff, and it was changed into a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.
 ex:7.13     Pharaoh, however, was obstinate and would not listen to them, just as the LORD had foretold.
 ex:7.14     Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh is obdurate in refusing to let the people go.
 ex:7.15     Tomorrow morning, when he sets out for the water, go and present yourself by the river bank, holding in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.
 ex:7.16     Say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you with the message: Let my people go to worship me in the desert. But as yet you have not listened.
 ex:7.17     The LORD now says: This is how you shall know that I am the LORD. I will strike the water of the river with the staff I hold, and it shall be changed into blood.
 ex:7.18     The fish in the river shall die, and the river itself shall become so polluted that the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water."
 ex:7.19     The LORD then said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt--their streams and canals and pools, all their supplies of water--that they may become blood. Throughout the land of Egypt there shall be blood, even in the wooden pails and stone jars."
 ex:7.20     Moses and Aaron did as the LORD had commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the waters of the river in full view of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water of the river was changed into blood.
 ex:7.21     The fish in the river died, and the river itself became so polluted that the Egyptians could not drink its water. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
 ex:7.22     But the Egyptian magicians did the same by their magic arts. So Pharaoh remained obstinate and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had foretold.
 ex:7.23     He turned away and went into his house, with no concern even for this.
 ex:7.24     All the Egyptians had to dig in the neighborhood of the river for drinking water, since they could not drink the river water.
 ex:7.25     Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the river.
 ex:7.26     Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him: Thus says the LORD: Let my people go to worship me.
 ex:7.27     If you refuse to let them go, I warn you, I will send a plague of frogs over all your territory.
 ex:7.28     The river will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and into your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants, too, and your subjects, even into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
 ex:7.29     The frogs will swarm all over you and your subjects and your servants."
  
 ex:8.1      The LORD then told Moses, "Say to Aaron: Stretch out your hand and your staff over the streams and canals and pools, to make frogs overrun the land of Egypt."
 ex:8.2      Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
 ex:8.3      But the magicians did the same by their magic arts. They, too, made frogs overrun the land of Egypt.
 ex:8.4      Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray the LORD to remove the frogs from me and my subjects, and I will let the people go to offer sacrifice to the LORD."
 ex:8.5      Moses answered Pharaoh, "Do me the favor of appointing the time when I am to pray for you and your servants and your subjects, that the frogs may be taken away from you and your houses and be left only in the river."
 ex:8.6      "Tomorrow," said Pharaoh. Then Moses replied, "It shall be as you have said, so that you may learn that there is none like the LORD, our God.
 ex:8.7      The frogs shall leave you and your houses, your servants and your subjects; only in the river shall they be left."
 ex:8.8      After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh's presence, Moses implored the LORD to fulfill the promise he had made to Pharaoh about the frogs;
 ex:8.9      and the LORD did as Moses had asked. The frogs in the houses and courtyards and fields died off.
 ex:8.10     Heaps and heaps of them were gathered up, and there was a stench in the land.
 ex:8.11     But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he became obdurate and would not listen to them, just as the LORD had foretold.
 ex:8.12     Thereupon the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron to stretch out his staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may be turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt."
 ex:8.13     They did so. Aaron stretched out his hand, and with his staff he struck the dust of the earth, and gnats came upon man and beast. The dust of the earth was turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
 ex:8.14     Though the magicians tried to bring forth gnats by their magic arts, they could not do so. As the gnats infested man and beast,
 ex:8.15     the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." Yet Pharaoh remained obstinate and would not listen to them, just as the LORD had foretold.
 ex:8.16     Again the LORD told Moses, "Early tomorrow morning present yourself to Pharaoh when he goes forth to the water, and say to him: Thus says the LORD: Let my people go to worship me.
 ex:8.17     If you will not let my people go, I warn you, I will loose swarms of flies upon you and your servants and your subjects and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and the very ground on which they stand shall be filled with swarms of flies.
 ex:8.18     But on that day I will make an exception of the land of Goshen: there shall be no flies where my people dwell, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
 ex:8.19     I will make this distinction between my people and your people. This sign shall take place tomorrow."
 ex:8.20     This the LORD did. Thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants; throughout Egypt the land was infested with flies.
 ex:8.21     Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "Go and offer sacrifice to your God in this land."
 ex:8.22     But Moses replied, "It is not right to do so, for the sacrifices we offer to the LORD, our God, are an abomination to the Egyptians. If before their very eyes we offer sacrifices which are an abomination to them, will not the Egyptians stone us?
 ex:8.23     We must go a three days' journey in the desert to offer sacrifice to the LORD, our God, as he commands us."
 ex:8.24     "Well, then," said Pharaoh, "I will let you go to offer sacrifice to the LORD, your God, in the desert, provided that you do not go too far away and that you pray for me."
 ex:8.25     Moses answered, "As soon as I leave your presence I will pray to the LORD that the flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh and his servants and his subjects. Pharaoh, however, must not play false again by refusing to let the people go to offer sacrifice to the LORD."
 ex:8.26     When Moses left Pharaoh's presence, he prayed to the LORD;
 ex:8.27     and the LORD did as Moses had asked. He removed the flies from Pharaoh and his servants and subjects. Not one remained.
 ex:8.28     But once more Pharaoh became obdurate and would not let the people go.
  
 ex:9.1      Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him: Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to worship me.
 ex:9.2      If you refuse to let them go and persist in holding them,
 ex:9.3      I warn you, the LORD will afflict all your livestock in the field--your horses, asses, camels, herds and flocks--with a very severe pestilence.
 ex:9.4      But the LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that none belonging to the Israelites will die."
 ex:9.5      And setting a definite time, the LORD added, "Tomorrow the LORD shall do this in the land."
 ex:9.6      And on the next day the LORD did so. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one beast belonging to the Israelites.
 ex:9.7      But though Pharaoh's messengers informed him that not even one beast belonging to the Israelites had died, he still remained obdurate and would not let the people go.
 ex:9.8      Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take a double handful of soot from a furnace, and in the presence of Pharaoh let Moses scatter it toward the sky.
 ex:9.9      It will then turn into fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and cause festering boils on man and beast throughout the land."
 ex:9.10     So they took soot from a furnace and stood in the presence of Pharaoh. Moses scattered it toward the sky, and it caused festering boils on man and beast.
 ex:9.11     The magicians could not stand in Moses' presence, for there were boils on the magicians no less than on the rest of the Egyptians.
 ex:9.12     But the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had foretold to Moses.
 ex:9.13     Then the LORD told Moses, "Early tomorrow morning present yourself to Pharaoh and say to him: Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to worship me,
 ex:9.14     or this time I will hurl all my blows upon you and your servants and your subjects, that you may know that there is none like me anywhere on earth.
 ex:9.15     For by now I would have stretched out my hand and struck you and your subjects with such pestilence as would wipe you from the earth.
 ex:9.16     But this is why I have spared you: to show you my power and to make my name resound throughout the earth!
 ex:9.17     Will you still block the way for my people by refusing to let them go?
 ex:9.18     I warn you, then, tomorrow at this hour I will rain down such fierce hail as there has never been in Egypt from the day the nation was founded up to the present.
 ex:9.19     Therefore, order all your livestock and whatever else you have in the open fields to be brought to a place of safety. Whatever man or beast remains in the fields and is not brought to shelter shall die when the hail comes upon them."
 ex:9.20     Some of Pharaoh's servants feared the warning of the LORD and hurried their servants and livestock off to shelter.
 ex:9.21     Others, however, did not take the warning of the LORD to heart and left their servants and livestock in the fields.
 ex:9.22     The LORD then said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that hail may fall upon the entire land of Egypt, on man and beast and every growing thing in the land of Egypt."
 ex:9.23     But Pharaoh, seeing that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, sinned again: he with his servants became obdurate,
 ex:9.23     When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent forth hail and peals of thunder. Lightning flashed toward the earth, and the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt;
 ex:9.24     and lightning constantly flashed through the hail, such fierce hail as had never been seen in the land since Egypt became a nation.
 ex:9.25     It struck down every man and beast that was in the open throughout the land of Egypt; it beat down every growing thing and splintered every tree in the fields.
 ex:9.26     Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites dwelt, was there no hail.
 ex:9.27     Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned again! The LORD is just; it is I and my subjects who are at fault.
 ex:9.28     Pray to the LORD, for we have had enough of God's thunder and hail. Then I will let you go; you need stay no longer."
 ex:9.29     Moses replied, "As soon as I leave the city I will extend my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail. Thus you shall learn that the earth is the LORD'S.
 ex:9.30     But you and your servants, I know, do not yet fear the LORD God."
 ex:9.31     Now the flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was in ear and the flax in bud.
 ex:9.32     But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they grow later.
 ex:9.33     When Moses had left Pharaoh's presence and had gone out of the city, he extended his hands to the LORD. Then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down upon the earth.
 ex:9.34     When the king saw what had happen, he sinned again. He and his officers remained as stubborn as ever.
 ex:9.35     and in his obstinacy he would not let the Israelites go, as the LORD had foretold through Moses.
  
 ex:10.1     Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have made him and his servants obdurate in order that I may perform these signs of mine among them
 ex:10.2     and that you may recount to your son and grandson how ruthlessly I dealt with the Egyptians and what signs I wrought among them, so that you may know that I am the LORD."
 ex:10.3     So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to worship me.
 ex:10.4     If you refuse to let my people go, I warn you, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
 ex:10.5     They shall cover the ground, so that the ground itself will not be visible. They shall eat up the remnant you saved unhurt from the hail, as well as all the foliage that has since sprouted in your fields.
 ex:10.6     They shall fill your houses and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; such a sight your fathers or grandfathers have not seen from the day they first settled on this soil up to the present day." With that he turned and left Pharaoh.
 ex:10.7     But Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long must he be a menace to us? Let the men go to worship the LORD, their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is being destroyed?"
 ex:10.8     So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, who said to them, "You may go and worship the LORD, your God. But how many of you will go?"
 ex:10.9     "Young and old must go with us," Moses answered, "our sons and daughters as well as our flocks and herds must accompany us. That is what a feast of the LORD means to us."
 ex:10.10    "The LORD help you," Pharaoh replied, "if I ever let your little ones go with you! Clearly, you have some evil in mind.
 ex:10.11    No, no! Just you men can go and worship the LORD. After all, that is what you want." With that they were driven from Pharaoh's presence.
 ex:10.12    The LORD then said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, that locusts may swarm over it and eat up all the vegetation and whatever the hail has left."
 ex:10.13    So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind blowing over the land all that day and all that night. At dawn the east wind brought the locusts.
 ex:10.14    They swarmed over the whole land of Egypt and settled down on every part of it. Never before had there been such a fierce swarm of locusts, nor will there ever be.
 ex:10.15    They covered the surface of the whole land, till it was black with them. They ate up all the vegetation in the land and the fruit of whatever trees the hail had spared. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant throughout the land of Egypt.
 ex:10.16    Hastily Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD, your God, and against you.
 ex:10.17    But now, do forgive me my sin once more, and pray the LORD, your God, to take at least this deadly pest from me."
 ex:10.18    When Moses left the presence of Pharaoh, he prayed to the LORD,
 ex:10.19    and the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts and hurled them into the Red Sea. But though not a single locust remained within the confines of Egypt,
 ex:10.20    the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would not let the Israelites go.
 ex:10.21    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that over the land of Egypt there may be such intense darkness that one can feel it."
 ex:10.22    So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was dense darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.
 ex:10.23    Men could not see one another, nor could they move from where they were, for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they dwelt.
 ex:10.24    Pharaoh then summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go and worship the LORD. Your little ones, too, may go with you. But your flocks and herds must remain."
 ex:10.25    Moses replied, "You must also grant us sacrifices and holocausts to offer up to the LORD, our God.
 ex:10.26    Hence, our livestock also must go with us. Not an animal must be left behind. Some of them we must sacrifice to the LORD, our God, but we ourselves shall not know which ones we must sacrifice to him until we arrive at the place itself."
 ex:10.27    But the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would not let them go.
 ex:10.28    "Leave my presence," Pharaoh said to him, "and see to it that you do not appear before me again! The day you appear before me you shall die!"
 ex:10.29    Moses replied, "Well said! I will never appear before you again."
  
 ex:11.1     Then the LORD told Moses, "One more plague will I bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. After that he will let you depart. In fact, he will not merely let you go; he will drive you away.
 ex:11.2     Instruct your people that every man is to ask his neighbor, and every woman her neighbor, for silver and gold articles and for clothing."
 ex:11.3     The LORD indeed made the Egyptians well-disposed toward the people; Moses himself was very highly regarded by Pharaoh's servants and the people in the land of Egypt.
 ex:11.4     Moses then said, "Thus says the LORD: At midnight I will go forth through Egypt.
 ex:11.5     Every first-born in this land shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh on the throne to the first-born of the slave-girl at the handmill, as well as all the first-born of the animals.
 ex:11.6     Then there shall be loud wailing throughout the land of Egypt, such as has never been, nor will ever be again.
 ex:11.7     But among the Israelites and their animals not even a dog shall growl, so that you may know how the LORD distinguishes between the Egyptians and the Israelites.
 ex:11.8     All these servants of yours shall then come down to me, and prostrate before me, they shall beg me, 'Leave us, you and all your followers!' Only then will I depart." With that he left Pharaoh's presence in hot anger.
 ex:11.9     The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh refuses to listen to you that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
 ex:11.10    Thus, although Moses and Aaron performed these various wonders in Pharaoh's presence, the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would not let the Israelites leave his land.
  
 ex:12.1     The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
 ex:12.2     "This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year.
 ex:12.3     Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.
 ex:12.4     If a family is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join the nearest household in procuring one and shall share in the lamb in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.
 ex:12.5     The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
 ex:12.6     You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
 ex:12.7     They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb.
 ex:12.8     That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
 ex:12.9     It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole, with its head and shanks and inner organs.
 ex:12.10    None of it must be kept beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up.
 ex:12.11    "This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD.
 ex:12.12    For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every first--born of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt-I, the LORD!
 ex:12.13    But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thus, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you.
 ex:12.14    "This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.
 ex:12.15    For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. From the very first day you shall have your houses clear of all leaven. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh shall be cut off from Israel.
 ex:12.16    On the first day you shall hold a sacred assembly, and likewise on the seventh. On these days you shall not do any sort of work, except to prepare the food that everyone needs.
 ex:12.17    "Keep, then, this custom of the unleavened bread. Since it was on this very day that I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt, you must celebrate this day throughout your generations as a perpetual institution.
 ex:12.18    From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of this month you shall eat unleavened bread.
 ex:12.19    For seven days no leaven may be found in your houses. Anyone, be he a resident alien or a native, who eats leavened food shall be cut off from the community of Israel.
 ex:12.20    Nothing leavened may you eat; wherever you dwell you may eat only unleavened bread."
 ex:12.21    Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter them as Passover victims.
 ex:12.22    Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, sprinkle the lintel and the two doorposts with this blood. But none of you shall go outdoors until morning.
 ex:12.23    For the LORD will go by, striking down the Egyptians. Seeing the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over that door and not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you down.
 ex:12.24    "You shall observe this as a perpetual ordinance for yourselves and your descendants.
 ex:12.25    Thus, you must also observe this rite when you have entered the land which the LORD will give you as he promised.
 ex:12.26    When your children ask you, 'What does this rite of yours mean?'
 ex:12.27    you shall reply, 'This is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he spared our houses.'" Then the people bowed down in worship,
 ex:12.28    and the Israelites went and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
 ex:12.29    At midnight the LORD slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh on the throne to the first-born of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the first-born of the animals.
 ex:12.30    Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.
 ex:12.31    During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Leave my people at once, you and the Israelites with you! Go and worship the LORD as you said.
 ex:12.32    Take your flocks, too, and your herds, as you demanded, and be gone; and you will be doing me a favor."
 ex:12.33    The Egyptians likewise urged the people on, to hasten their departure from the land; they thought that otherwise they would all die.
 ex:12.34    The people, therefore, took their dough before it was leavened, in their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks on their shoulders.
 ex:12.35    The Israelites did as Moses had commanded: they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
 ex:12.36    The LORD indeed had made the Egyptians so well-disposed toward the people that they let them have whatever they asked for. Thus did they despoil the Egyptians.
 ex:12.37    The Israelites set out from Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting the children.
 ex:12.38    A crowd of mixed ancestry also went up with them, besides their livestock, very numerous flocks and herds.
 ex:12.39    Since the dough they had brought out of Egypt was not leavened, they baked it into unleavened loaves. They had been rushed out of Egypt and had no opportunity even to prepare food for the journey.
 ex:12.40    The time the Israelites had stayed in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
 ex:12.41    At the end of four hundred and thirty years, all the hosts of the LORD left the land of Egypt on this very date.
 ex:12.42    This was a night of vigil for the LORD, as he led them out of the land of Egypt; so on this same night all the Israelites must keep a vigil for the LORD throughout their generations.
 ex:12.43    The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover. No foreigner may partake of it.
 ex:12.44    However, any slave who has been bought for money may partake of it, provided you have first circumcised him.
 ex:12.45    But no transient alien or hired servant may partake of it.
 ex:12.46    It must be eaten in one and the same house; you may not take any of its flesh outside the house. You shall not break any of its bones.
 ex:12.47    The whole community of Israel must keep this feast.
 ex:12.48    If any aliens living among you wish to celebrate the Passover of the LORD, all the males among them must first be circumcised, and then they may join in its observance just like the natives. But no man who is uncircumcised may partake of it.
 ex:12.49    The law shall be the same for the resident alien as for the native."
 ex:12.50    All the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
 ex:12.51    On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt company by company.
  
 ex:13.1     The LORD spoke to Moses and said,
 ex:13.2     "Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among the Israelites, both of man and beast, for it belongs to me."
 ex:13.3     Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, that place of slavery. It was with a strong hand that the LORD brought you away. Nothing made with leaven must be eaten.
 ex:13.4     This day of your departure is in the month of Abib.
 ex:13.5     Therefore, it is in this month that you must celebrate this rite, after the LORD, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey.
 ex:13.6     For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and the seventh day shall also be a festival to the LORD.
 ex:13.7     Only unleavened bread may be eaten during the seven days; no leaven and nothing leavened may be found in all your territory.
 ex:13.8     On this day you shall explain to your son, 'This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'
 ex:13.9     It shall be as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead; thus the law of the LORD will ever be on your lips, because with a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
 ex:13.10    Therefore, you shall keep this prescribed rite at its appointed time from year to year.
 ex:13.11    "When the LORD, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, which he swore to you and your fathers he would give you,
 ex:13.12    you shall dedicate to the LORD every son that opens the womb; and all the male firstlings of your animals shall belong to the LORD.
 ex:13.13    Every first-born of an ass you shall redeem with a sheep. If you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. Every first-born son you must redeem.
 ex:13.14    If your son should ask you later on, 'What does this mean?' you shall tell him, 'With a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, that place of slavery.
 ex:13.15    When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every first-born in the land of Egypt, every first-born of man and of beast. That is why I sacrifice to the LORD everything of the male sex that opens the womb, and why I redeem every first-born of my sons.'
 ex:13.16    Let this, then, be as a sign on your hand and as a pendant on your forehead: with a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt."
 ex:13.17    Now, when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the Philistines' land, though this was the nearest; for he thought, should the people see that they would have to fight, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.
 ex:13.18    Instead, he rerouted them toward the Red Sea by way of the desert road. In battle array the Israelites marched out of Egypt.
 ex:13.19    Moses also took Joseph's bones along, for Joseph had made the Israelites swear solemnly that, when God should come to them, they would carry his bones away with them.
 ex:13.20    Setting out from Succoth, they camped at Etham near the edge of the desert.
 ex:13.21    The LORD preceded them, in the daytime by means of a column of cloud to show them the way, and at night by means of a column of fire to give them light. Thus they could travel both day and night.
 ex:13.22    Neither the column of cloud by day nor the column of fire by night ever left its place in front of the people.
  
 ex:14.1     Then the LORD said to Moses,
 ex:14.2     "Tell the Israelites to turn about and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, just opposite, by the sea.
 ex:14.3     Pharaoh will then say, 'The Israelites are wandering about aimlessly in the land. The desert has closed in on them.'
 ex:14.4     Thus will I make Pharaoh so obstinate that he will pursue them. Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." This the Israelites did.
 ex:14.5     When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them. "What have we done!" they exclaimed. "Why, we have released Israel from our service!"
 ex:14.6     So Pharaoh made his chariots ready and mustered his soldiers--
 ex:14.7     six hundred first-class chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt, with warriors on them all.
 ex:14.8     So obstinate had the LORD made Pharaoh that he pursued the Israelites even while they were marching away in triumph.
 ex:14.9     The Egyptians, then, pursued them; Pharaoh's whole army, his horses, chariots and charioteers, caught up with them as they lay encamped by the sea, at Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
 ex:14.10    Pharaoh was already near when the Israelites looked up and saw that the Egyptians were on the march in pursuit of them. In great fright they cried out to the LORD.
 ex:14.11    And they complained to Moses, "Were there no burial places in Egypt that you had to bring us out here to die in the desert? Why did you do this to us? Why did you bring us out of Egypt?
 ex:14.12    Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said, 'Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians'? Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians than to die in the desert."
 ex:14.13    But Moses answered the people, "Fear not! Stand your ground, and you will see the victory the LORD will win for you today. These Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.
 ex:14.14    The LORD himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still."
 ex:14.15    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
 ex:14.16    And you, lift up your staff and, with hand outstretched over the sea, split the sea in two, that the Israelites may pass through it on dry land.
 ex:14.17    But I will make the Egyptians so obstinate that they will go in after them. Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and charioteers.
 ex:14.18    The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I receive glory through Pharaoh and his chariots and charioteers."
 ex:14.19    The angel of God, who had been leading Israel's camp, now moved and went around behind them. The column of cloud also, leaving the front, took up its place behind them,
 ex:14.20    so that it came between the camp of the Egyptians and that of Israel. But the cloud now became dark, and thus the night passed without the rival camps coming any closer together all night long.
 ex:14.21    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land. When the water was thus divided,
 ex:14.22    the Israelites marched into the midst of the sea on dry land, with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
 ex:14.23    The Egyptians followed in pursuit; all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and charioteers went after them right into the midst of the sea.
 ex:14.24    In the night watch just before dawn the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic;
 ex:14.25    and he so clogged their chariot wheels that they could hardly drive. With that the Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel, because the LORD was fighting for them against the Egyptians.
 ex:14.26    Then the LORD told Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may flow back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and their charioteers."
 ex:14.27    So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth. The Egyptians were fleeing head on toward the sea, when the LORD hurled them into its midst.
 ex:14.28    As the water flowed back, it covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh's whole army which had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not a single one of them escaped.
 ex:14.29    But the Israelites had marched on dry land through the midst of the sea, with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
 ex:14.30    Thus the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians. When Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore
 ex:14.31    and beheld the great power that the LORD had shown against the Egyptians, they feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.
  
 ex:15.1     Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant; horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.
 ex:15.2     My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior. He is my God, I praise him; the God of my father, I extol him.
 ex:15.3     The LORD is a warrior, LORD is his name!
 ex:15.4     Pharaoh's chariots and army he hurled into the sea; the elite of his officers were submerged in the Red Sea.
 ex:15.5     The flood waters covered them, they sank into the depths like a stone.
 ex:15.6     Your right hand, O LORD, magnificent in power, your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
 ex:15.7     In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.
 ex:15.8     At a breath of your anger the waters piled up, the flowing waters stood like a mound, the flood waters congealed in the midst of the sea.
 ex:15.9     The enemy boasted, "I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand shall despoil them!"
 ex:15.10    When your wind blew, the sea covered them; like lead they sank in the mighty waters.
 ex:15.11    Who is like to you among the gods, O LORD? Who is like to you, magnificent in holiness? O terrible in renown, worker of wonders,
 ex:15.12    when you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!
 ex:15.13    In your mercy you led the people you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to your holy dwelling.
 ex:15.14    The nations heard and quaked; anguish gripped the dwellers in Philistia.
 ex:15.15    Then were the princes of Edom dismayed; trembling seized the chieftains of Moab; All the dwellers in Canaan melted away;
 ex:15.16    terror and dread fell upon them. By the might of your arm they were frozen like stone, while your people, O LORD, passed over, while the people you had made your own passed over.
 ex:15.17    And you brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance-- the place where you made your seat, O LORD, the sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands established.
 ex:15.18    The LORD shall reign forever and ever.
 ex:15.19    They sang thus because Pharaoh's horses and chariots and charioteers had gone into the sea, and the LORD made the waters of the sea flow back upon them, though the Israelites had marched on dry land through the midst of the sea.
 ex:15.20    The prophetess Miriam, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, while all the women went out after her with tambourines, dancing;
 ex:15.21    and she led them in the refrain: Sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant; horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.
 ex:15.22    Then Moses led Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they marched out to the desert of Shur. After traveling for three days through the desert without finding water,
 ex:15.23    they arrived at Marah, where they could not drink the water, because it was too bitter. Hence this place was called Marah.
 ex:15.24    As the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What are we to drink?"
 ex:15.25    he appealed to the LORD, who pointed out to him a certain piece of wood. When he threw this into the water, the water became fresh.It was here that the LORD, in making rules and regulations for them, put them to the test.
 ex:15.26    "If you really listen to the voice of the LORD, your God," he told them, "and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his precepts, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer."
 ex:15.27    Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
  
 ex:16.1     Having set out from Elim, the whole Israelite community came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
 ex:16.2     Here in the desert the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
 ex:16.3     The Israelites said to them, "Would that we had died at the LORD'S hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our fleshpots and ate our fill of bread! But you had to lead us into this desert to make the whole community die of famine!"
 ex:16.4     Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will now rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not.
 ex:16.5     On the sixth day, however, when they prepare what they bring in, let it be twice as much as they gather on the other days."
 ex:16.6     So Moses and Aaron told all the Israelites, "At evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt;
 ex:16.7     and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, as he heeds your grumbling against him. But what are we that you should grumble against us?
 ex:16.8     When the LORD gives you flesh to eat in the evening," continued Moses, "and in the morning your fill of bread, as he heeds the grumbling you utter against him, what then are we? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the LORD."
 ex:16.9     Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell the whole Israelite community: Present yourselves before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling."
 ex:16.10    When Aaron announced this to the whole Israelite community, they turned toward the desert, and lo, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud!
 ex:16.11    The LORD spoke to Moses and said,
 ex:16.12    "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them: In the evening twilight you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread, so that you may know that I, the LORD, am your God."
 ex:16.13    In the evening quail came up and covered the camp. In the morning a dew lay all about the camp,
 ex:16.14    and when the dew evaporated, there on the surface of the desert were fine flakes like hoarfrost on the ground.
 ex:16.15    On seeing it, the Israelites asked one another, "What is this?" for they did not know what it was. But Moses told them, "This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.
 ex:16.16    "Now, this is what the LORD has commanded. So gather it that everyone has enough to eat, an omer for each person, as many of you as there are, each man providing for those of his own tent."
 ex:16.17    The Israelites did so. Some gathered a large and some a small amount.
 ex:16.18    But when they measured it out by the omer, he who had gathered a large amount did not have too much, and he who had gathered a small amount did not have too little. They so gathered that everyone had enough to eat.
 ex:16.19    Moses also told them, "Let no one keep any of it over until tomorrow morning."
 ex:16.20    But they would not listen to him. When some kept a part of it over until the following morning, it became wormy and rotten. Therefore Moses was displeased with them.
 ex:16.21    Morning after morning they gathered it, till each had enough to eat; but when the sun grew hot, the manna melted away.
 ex:16.22    On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for each person. When all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses,
 ex:16.23    he told them, "That is what the LORD prescribed. Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, the sabbath, sacred to the LORD. You may either bake or boil the manna, as you please; but whatever is left put away and keep for the morrow."
 ex:16.24    When they put it away for the morrow, as Moses commanded, it did not become rotten or wormy.
 ex:16.25    Moses then said, "Eat it today, for today is the sabbath of the LORD. On this day you will not find any of it on the ground.
 ex:16.26    On the other six days you can gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, none of it will be there."
 ex:16.27    Still, on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, although they did not find any.
 ex:16.28    Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and laws?
 ex:16.29    Take note! The LORD has given you the sabbath. That is why on the sixth day he gives you food for two days. On the seventh day everyone is to stay home and no one is to go out."
 ex:16.30    After that the people rested on the seventh day.
 ex:16.31    The Israelites called this food manna. It was like coriander seed, but white, and it tasted like wafers made with honey.
 ex:16.32    Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded. Keep an omerful of manna for your descendants, that they may see what food I gave you to eat in the desert when I brought you out of the land of Egypt."
 ex:16.33    Moses then told Aaron, "Take an urn and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD in safekeeping for your descendants."
 ex:16.34    So Aaron placed it in front of the commandments for safekeeping, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:16.35    The Israelites ate this manna for forty years, until they came to settled land; they ate manna until they reached the borders of Canaan.
 ex:16.36    (An omer is one tenth of an ephah.)
  
 ex:17.1     From the desert of Sin the whole Israelite community journeyed by stages, as the LORD directed, and encamped at Rephidim. Here there was no water for the people to drink.
 ex:17.2  T  hey quarreled, therefore, with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to a test?"
 ex:17.3     Here, then, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?"
 ex:17.4     So Moses cried out to the LORD, "What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!"
 ex:17.5     The LORD answered Moses, "Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river.
 ex:17.6     I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink." This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel.
 ex:17.7     The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD in our midst or not?"
 ex:17.8     At Rephidim, Amalek came and waged war against Israel.
 ex:17.9     Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, "Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
 ex:17.10    So Joshua did as Moses told him: he engaged Amalek in battle after Moses had climbed to the top of the hill with Aaron and Hur.
 ex:17.11    As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had the better of the fight.
 ex:17.12    Moses' hands, however, grew tired; so they put a rock in place for him to sit on. Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
 ex:17.13    And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
 ex:17.14    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this down in a document as something to be remembered, and recite it in the ears of Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens."
 ex:17.15    Moses also built an altar there, which he called Yahweh-nissi;
 ex:17.16    for he said, "The LORD takes in hand his banner; the LORD will war against Amalek through the centuries."
  
 ex:18.1     Now Moses' father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel: how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
 ex:18.2     So his father-in-law Jethro took along Zipporah, Moses' wife, whom Moses had sent back to him,
 ex:18.3     and her two sons. One of these was called Gershom; for he said, "I am a stranger in a foreign land."
 ex:18.4     The other was called Eliezer; for he said, "My father's God is my helper; he has rescued me from Pharaoh's sword."
 ex:18.5     Together with Moses' wife and sons, then, his father-in-law Jethro came to him in the desert where he was encamped near the mountain of God,
 ex:18.6     and he sent word to Moses, "I, Jethro, your father-in-law, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons."
 ex:18.7     Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down before him, and kissed him. Having greeted each other, they went into the tent.
 ex:18.8     Moses then told his father-in-law of all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, and of all the hardships they had had to endure on their journey, and how the LORD had come to their rescue.
 ex:18.9     Jethro rejoiced over all the goodness that the LORD had shown Israel in rescuing them from the hands of the Egyptians.
 ex:18.10    "Blessed be the LORD," he said, "who has rescued his people from the hands of Pharaoh and the Egyptians.
 ex:18.11    Now I know that the LORD is a deity great beyond any other; for he took occasion of their being dealt with insolently to deliver the people from the power of the Egyptians."
 ex:18.12    Then Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, brought a holocaust and other sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to participate with Moses' father-in-law in the meal before God.
 ex:18.13    The next day Moses sat in judgment for the people, who waited about him from morning until evening.
 ex:18.14    When his father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he inquired, "What sort of thing is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone while all the people have to stand about you from morning till evening?"
 ex:18.15    Moses answered his father-in-law, "The people come to me to consult God.
 ex:18.16    Whenever they have a disagreement, they come to me to have me settle the matter between them and make known to them God's decisions and regulations."
 ex:18.17    "You are not acting wisely," his father-in-law replied.
 ex:18.18    "You will surely wear yourself out, and not only yourself but also these people with you. The task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.
 ex:18.19    Now, listen to me, and I will give you some advice, that God may be with you. Act as the people's representative before God, bringing to him whatever they have to say.
 ex:18.20    Enlighten them in regard to the decisions and regulations, showing them how they are to live and what they are to do.
 ex:18.21    But you should also look among all the people for able and God-fearing men, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain, and set them as officers over groups of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
 ex:18.22    Let these men render decisions for the people in all ordinary cases. More important cases they should refer to you, but all the lesser cases they can settle themselves. Thus, your burden will be lightened, since they will bear it with you.
 ex:18.23    If you do this, when God gives you orders you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied."
 ex:18.24    Moses followed the advice of his father-in-law and did all that he had suggested.
 ex:18.25    He picked out able men from all Israel and put them in charge of the people as officers over groups of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
 ex:18.26    They rendered decisions for the people in all ordinary cases. The more difficult cases they referred to Moses, but all the lesser cases they settled themselves.
 ex:18.27    Then Moses bade farewell to his father-in-law, who went off to his own country.
  
 ex:19.1     In the third month after their departure from the land of Egypt, on its first day, the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai.
 ex:19.2     After the journey from Rephidim to the desert of Sinai, they pitched camp. While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain,
 ex:19.3     Moses went up the mountain to God. Then the LORD called to him and said, "Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob;
 ex:19.4     tell the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians and how I bore you up on eagle wings and brought you here to myself.
 ex:19.5     Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my special possession, dearer to me than all other people, though all the earth is mine.
 ex:19.6     You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. That is what you must tell the Israelites."
 ex:19.7     So Moses went and summoned the elders of the people. When he set before them all that the LORD had ordered him to tell them,
 ex:19.8     the people all answered together, "Everything the LORD has said, we will do." Then Moses brought back to the LORD the response of the people.
 ex:19.9     The LORD also told him, "I am coming to you in a dense cloud, so that when the people hear me speaking with you, they may always have faith in you also." When Moses, then, had reported to the LORD the response of the people,
 ex:19.10    the LORD added, "Go to the people and have them sanctify themselves today and tomorrow. Make them wash their garments
 ex:19.11    and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.
 ex:19.12    Set limits for the people all around the mountain, and tell them: Take care not to go up the mountain, or even to touch its base. If anyone touches the mountain, he must be put to death.
 ex:19.13    No hand shall touch him; he must be stoned to death or killed with arrows. Such a one, man or beast, must not be allowed to live. Only when the ram's horn resounds may they go up to the mountain."
 ex:19.14    Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and had them sanctify themselves and wash their garments.
 ex:19.15    He warned them, "Be ready for the third day. Have no intercourse with any woman."
 ex:19.16    On the morning of the third day there were peals of thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
 ex:19.17    But Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stationed themselves at the foot of the mountain.
 ex:19.18    Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke, for the LORD came down upon it in fire. The smoke rose from it as though from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
 ex:19.19    The trumpet blast grew louder and louder, while Moses was speaking and God answering him with thunder.
 ex:19.20    When the LORD came down to the top of Mount Sinai, he summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up to him.
 ex:19.21    Then the LORD told Moses, "Go down and warn the people not to break through toward the LORD in order to see him; otherwise many of them will be struck down.
 ex:19.22    The priests, too, who approach the LORD must sanctify themselves; else he will vent his anger upon them."
 ex:19.23    Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot go up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us to set limits around the mountain to make it sacred."
 ex:19.24    The LORD repeated, "Go down now! Then come up again along with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD; else he will vent his anger upon them."
 ex:19.25    So Moses went down to the people and told them this.
  
 ex:20.1     Then God delivered all these commandments:
 ex:20.2     "I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
 ex:20.3     You shall not have other gods besides me.
 ex:20.4     You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;
 ex:20.5     you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers' wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;
 ex:20.6     but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments.
 ex:20.7     "You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in vain.
 ex:20.8     "Remember to keep holy the sabbath day.
 ex:20.9     Six days you may labor and do all your work,
 ex:20.10    but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you.
 ex:20.11    In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
 ex:20.12    "Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
 ex:20.13    "You shall not kill.
 ex:20.14    "You shall not commit adultery.
 ex:20.15    "You shall not steal.
 ex:20.16    "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
 ex:20.17    "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him."
 ex:20.18    When the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the mountain smoking, they all feared and trembled. So they took up a position much farther away
 ex:20.19    and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we shall die."
 ex:20.20    Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid, for God has come to you only to test you and put his fear upon you, lest you should sin."
 ex:20.21    Still the people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the cloud where God was.
 ex:20.22    The LORD told Moses, "Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
 ex:20.23    Do not make anything to rank with me; neither gods of silver nor gods of gold shall you make for yourselves.
 ex:20.24    "An altar of earth you shall make for me, and upon it you shall sacrifice your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In whatever place I choose for the remembrance of my name I will come to you and bless you.
 ex:20.25    If you make an altar of stone for me, do not build it of cut stone, for by putting a tool to it you desecrate it.
 ex:20.26    You shall not go up by steps to my altar, on which you must not be indecently uncovered.
  
 ex:21.1     "These are the rules you shall lay before them.
 ex:21.2     When you purchase a Hebrew slave, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he shall be given his freedom without cost.
 ex:21.3     If he comes into service alone, he shall leave alone; if he comes with a wife, his wife shall leave with him.
 ex:21.4     But if his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall remain the master's property and the man shall leave alone.
 ex:21.5     If, however, the slave declares, 'I am devoted to my master and my wife and children; I will not go free,'
 ex:21.6     his master shall bring him to God and there, at the door or doorpost, he shall pierce his ear with an awl, thus keeping him as his slave forever.
 ex:21.7     "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go free as male slaves do.
 ex:21.8     But if her master, who had destined her for himself, dislikes her, he shall let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreigner, since he has broken faith with her.
 ex:21.9     If he destines her for his son, he shall treat her like a daughter.
 ex:21.10    If he takes another wife, he shall not withhold her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
 ex:21.11    If he does not grant her these three things, she shall be given her freedom absolutely, without cost to her.
 ex:21.12    "Whoever strikes a man a mortal blow must be put to death.
 ex:21.13    He, however, who did not hunt a man down, but caused his death by an act of God, may flee to a place which I will set apart for this purpose.
 ex:21.14    But when a man kills another after maliciously scheming to do so, you must take him even from my altar and put him to death.
 ex:21.15    Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death.
 ex:21.16    "A kidnaper, whether he sells his victim or still has him when caught, shall be put to death.
 ex:21.17    "Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death.
 ex:21.18    "When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, not mortally, but enough to put him in bed,
 ex:21.19    the one who struck the blow shall be acquitted, provided the other can get up and walk around with the help of his staff. Still, he must compensate him for his enforced idleness and provide for his complete cure.
 ex:21.20    "When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.
 ex:21.21    If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.
 ex:21.22    "When men have a fight and hurt a pregnant woman, so that she suffers a miscarriage, but no further injury, the guilty one shall be fined as much as the woman's husband demands of him, and he shall pay in the presence of the judges.
 ex:21.23    But if injury ensues, you shall give life for life,
 ex:21.24    eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
 ex:21.25    burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
 ex:21.26    "When a man strikes his male or female slave in the eye and destroys the use of the eye, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the eye.
 ex:21.27    If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the tooth.
 ex:21.28    "When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned; its flesh may not be eaten. The owner of the ox, however, shall go unpunished.
 ex:21.29    But if an ox was previously in the habit of goring people and its owner, though warned, would not keep it in; should it then kill a man or a woman, not only must the ox be stoned, but its owner also must be put to death.
 ex:21.30    If, however, a fine is imposed on him, he must pay in ransom for his life whatever amount is imposed on him.
 ex:21.31    This law applies if it is a boy or a girl that the ox gores.
 ex:21.32    But if it is a male or a female slave that it gores, he must pay the owner of the slave thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
 ex:21.33    "When a man uncovers or digs a cistern and does not cover it over again, should an ox or an ass fall into it,
 ex:21.34    the owner of the cistern must make good by restoring the value of the animal to its owner; the dead animal, however, he may keep.
 ex:21.35    "When one man's ox hurts another's ox so badly that it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide this money as well as the dead animal equally between them.
 ex:21.36    But if it was known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner would not keep it in, he must make full restitution, an ox for an ox; but the dead animal he may keep.
 ex:21.37    "When a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for the one ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.
  
 ex:22.1     "(If a thief is caught in the act of housebreaking and beaten to death, there is no bloodguilt involved.
 ex:22.2     But if after sunrise he is thus beaten, there is bloodguilt.) He must make full restitution. If he has nothing, he shall be sold to pay for his theft.
 ex:22.3     If what he stole is found alive in his possession, be it an ox, an ass or a sheep, he shall restore two animals for each one stolen.
 ex:22.4     "When a man is burning over a field or a vineyard, if he lets the fire spread so that it burns in another's field, he must make restitution with the best produce of his own field or vineyard.
 ex:22.5     If the fire spreads further, and catches on to thorn bushes, so that shocked grain or standing grain or the field itself is burned up, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
 ex:22.6     "When a man gives money or an article to another for safekeeping and it is stolen from the latter's house, the thief, if caught, must make twofold restitution.
 ex:22.7     If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house shall be brought to God, to swear that he himself did not lay hands on his neighbor's property.
 ex:22.8     In every question of dishonest appropriation, whether it be about an ox, or an ass, or a sheep, or a garment, or anything else that has disappeared, where another claims that the thing is his, both parties shall present their case before God; the one whom God convicts must make twofold restitution to the other.
 ex:22.9     "When a man gives an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any other animal to another for safekeeping, if it dies, or is maimed or snatched away, without anyone witnessing the fact,
 ex:22.10    the custodian shall swear by the LORD that he did not lay hands on his neighbor's property; the owner must accept the oath, and no restitution is to be made.
 ex:22.11    But if the custodian is really guilty of theft, he must make restitution to the owner.
 ex:22.12    If it has been killed by a wild beast, let him bring it as evidence, and he need not make restitution for the mangled animal.
 ex:22.13    "When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, if it is maimed or dies while the owner is not present, the man must make restitution.
 ex:22.14    But if the owner is present, he need not make restitution. If it was hired, this was covered by the price of its hire.
 ex:22.15    "When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall pay her marriage price and marry her.
 ex:22.16    If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still pay him the customary marriage price for virgins.
 ex:22.17    "You shall not let a sorceress live.
 ex:22.18    "Anyone who lies with an animal shall be put to death.
 ex:22.19    "Whoever sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD alone, shall be doomed.
 ex:22.20    "You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
 ex:22.21    You shall not wrong any widow or orphan.
 ex:22.22    If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.
 ex:22.23    My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.
 ex:22.24    "If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him.
 ex:22.25    If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset;
 ex:22.26    for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.
 ex:22.27    "You shall not revile God, nor curse a prince of your people.
 ex:22.28    "You shall not delay the offering of your harvest and your press. You shall give me the first-born of your sons.
 ex:22.29    You must do the same with your oxen and your sheep; for seven days the firstling may stay with its mother, but on the eighth day you must give it to me.
 ex:22.30    "You shall be men sacred to me. Flesh torn to pieces in the field you shall not eat; throw it to the dogs.
  
 ex:23.1     "You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join the wicked in putting your hand, as an unjust witness, upon anyone.
 ex:23.2     Neither shall you allege the example of the many as an excuse for doing wrong, nor shall you, when testifying in a lawsuit, side with the many in perverting justice.
 ex:23.3     You shall not favor a poor man in his lawsuit.
 ex:23.4     "When you come upon your enemy's ox or ass going astray, see to it that it is returned to him.
 ex:23.5     When you notice the ass of one who hates you lying prostrate under its burden, by no means desert him; help him, rather, to raise it up.
 ex:23.6     "You shall not deny one of your needy fellow men his rights in his lawsuit.
 ex:23.7     You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, nor shall you acquit the guilty.
 ex:23.8     Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds even the most clear-sighted and twists the words even of the just.
 ex:23.9     You shall not oppress an alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
 ex:23.10    "For six years you may sow your land and gather in its produce.
 ex:23.11    But the seventh year you shall let the land lie untilled and unharvested, that the poor among you may eat of it and the beasts of the field may eat what the poor leave. So also shall you do in regard to your vineyard and your olive grove.
 ex:23.12    "For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your ass may also have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed.
 ex:23.13    Give heed to all that I have told you. "Never mention the name of any other god; it shall not be heard from your lips.
 ex:23.14    "Three times a year you shall celebrate a pilgrim feast to me.
 ex:23.15    You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. As I have commanded you, you must eat unleavened bread for seven days at the prescribed time in the month of Abib, for it was then that you came out of Egypt. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
 ex:23.16    You shall also keep the feast of the grain harvest with the first of the crop that you have sown in the field; and finally, the feast at the fruit harvest at the end of the year, when you gather in the produce from the fields.
 ex:23.17    Thrice a year shall all your men appear before the Lord GOD.
 ex:23.18    "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of my feast be kept overnight till the next day.
 ex:23.19    The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the LORD, your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
 ex:23.20    "See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.
 ex:23.21    Be attentive to him and heed his voice. Do not rebel against him, for he will not forgive your sin. My authority resides in him.
 ex:23.22    If you heed his voice and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
 ex:23.23    "My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.
 ex:23.24    Therefore, you shall not bow down in worship before their gods, nor shall you make anything like them; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred pillars.
 ex:23.25    The LORD, your God, you shall worship; then I will bless your food and drink, and I will remove all sickness from your midst;
 ex:23.26    no woman in your land will be barren or miscarry; and I will give you a full span of life.
 ex:23.27    "I will have the fear of me precede you, so that I will throw into panic every nation you reach. I will make all your enemies turn from you in flight,
 ex:23.28    and ahead of you I will send hornets to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
 ex:23.29    But not in one year will I drive them all out before you; else the land will become so desolate that the wild beasts will multiply against you.
 ex:23.30    Instead, I will drive them out little by little before you, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land.
 ex:23.31    I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you to be driven out of your way.
 ex:23.32    You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods.
 ex:23.33    They must not abide in your land, lest they make you sin against me by ensnaring you into worshiping their gods."
  
 ex:24.1     Moses himself was told, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You shall all worship at some distance,
 ex:24.2     but Moses alone is to come close to the LORD; the others shall not come too near, and the people shall not come up at all with Moses."
 ex:24.3     When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all answered with one voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has told us."
 ex:24.4     Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and, rising early the next day, he erected at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
 ex:24.5     Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD,
 ex:24.6     Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar.
 ex:24.7     Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, "All that the LORD has said, we will heed and do."
 ex:24.8     Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words of his."
 ex:24.9     Moses then went up with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel,
 ex:24.10    and they beheld the God of Israel. Under his feet there appeared to be sapphire tilework, as clear as the sky itself.
 ex:24.11    Yet he did not smite these chosen Israelites. After gazing on God, they could still eat and drink.
 ex:24.12    The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and, while you are there, I will give you the stone tablets on which I have written the commandments intended for their instruction."
 ex:24.13    So Moses set out with Joshua, his aide, and went up to the mountain of God.
 ex:24.14    The elders, however, had been told by him, "Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are staying with you. If anyone has a complaint, let him refer the matter to them."
 ex:24.15    After Moses had gone up, a cloud covered the mountain.
 ex:24.16    The glory of the LORD settled upon Mount Sinai. The cloud covered it for six days, and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
 ex:24.17    To the Israelites the glory of the LORD was seen as a consuming fire on the mountaintop.
 ex:24.18    But Moses passed into the midst of the cloud as he went up on the mountain; and there he stayed for forty days and forty nights.
  
 ex:25.1     This is what the LORD then said to Moses:
 ex:25.2     "Tell the Israelites to take up a collection for me. From every man you shall accept the contribution that his heart prompts him to give me.
 ex:25.3     These are the contributions you shall accept from them: gold, silver and bronze;
 ex:25.4     violet, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
 ex:25.5     rams' skins dyed red, and tahash skins; acacia wood;
 ex:25.6     oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
 ex:25.7     onyx stones and other gems for mounting on the ephod and the breastpiece.
 ex:25.8     "They shall make a sanctuary for me, that I may dwell in their midst.
 ex:25.9     This Dwelling and all its furnishings you shall make exactly according to the pattern that I will now show you.
 ex:25.10    "You shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
 ex:25.11    Plate it inside and outside with pure gold, and put a molding of gold around the top of it.
 ex:25.12    Cast four gold rings and fasten them on the four supports of the ark, two rings on one side and two on the opposite side.
 ex:25.13    Then make poles of acacia wood and plate them with gold.
 ex:25.14    These poles you are to put through the rings on the sides of the ark, for carrying it;
 ex:25.15    they must remain in the rings of the ark and never be withdrawn.
 ex:25.16    In the ark you are to put the commandments which I will give you.
 ex:25.17    "You shall then make a propitiatory of pure gold, two cubits and a half long, and one and a half cubits wide.
 ex:25.18    Make two cherubim of beaten gold for the two ends of the propitiatory,
 ex:25.19    fastening them so that one cherub springs direct from each end.
 ex:25.20    The cherubim shall have their wings spread out above, covering the propitiatory with them; they shall be turned toward each other, but with their faces looking toward the propitiatory.
 ex:25.21    This propitiatory you shall then place on top of the ark. In the ark itself you are to put the commandments which I will give you.
 ex:25.22    There I will meet you and there, from above the propitiatory, between the two cherubim on the ark of the commandments, I will tell you all the commands that I wish you to give the Israelites.
 ex:25.23    "You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
 ex:25.24    Plate it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it.
 ex:25.25    Surround it with a frame, a handbreadth high, with a molding of gold around the frame.
 ex:25.26    You shall also make four rings of gold for it and fasten them at the four corners, one at each leg,
 ex:25.27    on two opposite sides of the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.
 ex:25.28    These poles for carrying the table you shall make of acacia wood and plate with gold.
 ex:25.29    Of pure gold you shall make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring libations.
 ex:25.30    On the table you shall always keep showbread set before me.
 ex:25.31    "You shall make a lampstand of pure beaten gold-its shaft and branches-with its cups and knobs and petals springing directly from it.
 ex:25.32    Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, three branches on one side, and three on the other.
 ex:25.33    On one branch there are to be three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and petals; on the opposite branch there are to be three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and petals; and so for the six branches that extend from the lampstand.
 ex:25.34    On the shaft there are to be four cups, shaped like almond blossoms, with their knobs and petals,
 ex:25.35    including a knob below each of the three pairs of branches that extend from the lampstand.
 ex:25.36    Their knobs and branches shall so spring from it that the whole will form but a single piece of pure beaten gold.
 ex:25.37    You shall then make seven lamps for it and so set up the lamps that they shed their light on the space in front of the lampstand.
 ex:25.38    These, as well as the trimming shears and trays, must be of pure gold.
 ex:25.39    Use a talent of pure gold for the lampstand and all its appurtenances.
 ex:25.40    See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
  
 ex:26.1     "The Dwelling itself you shall make out of sheets woven of fine linen twined and of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim embroidered on them.
 ex:26.2     The length of each shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits; all the sheets shall be of the same size.
 ex:26.3     Five of the sheets are to be sewed together, edge to edge; and the same for the other five.
 ex:26.4     Make loops of violet yarn along the edge of the end sheet in one set, and the same along the edge of the end sheet in the other set.
 ex:26.5     There are to be fifty loops along the edge of the end sheet in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding sheet in the second set, and so placed that the loops are directly opposite each other.
 ex:26.6     Then make fifty clasps of gold, with which to join the two sets of sheets, so that the Dwelling forms one whole.
 ex:26.7     "Also make sheets woven of goat hair, to be used as a tent covering over the Dwelling.
 ex:26.8     Eleven such sheets are to be made; the length of each shall be thirty cubits, and the width four cubits: all eleven sheets shall be of the same size.
 ex:26.9     Sew five of the sheets, edge to edge, into one set, and the other six sheets into another set. Use the sixth sheet double at the front of the tent.
 ex:26.10    Make fifty loops along the edge of the end sheet in one set, and fifty loops along the edge of the end sheet in the second set.
 ex:26.11    Also make fifty bronze clasps and put them into the loops, to join the tent into one whole.
 ex:26.12    There will be an extra half sheet of tent covering, which shall be allowed to hang down over the rear of the Dwelling.
 ex:26.13    Likewise, the sheets of the tent will have an extra cubit's length to be left hanging down on either side of the Dwelling to protect it.
 ex:26.14    Over the tent itself you shall make a covering of rams' skins dyed red, and above that, a covering of tahash skins.
 ex:26.15    "You shall make boards of acacia wood as walls for the Dwelling.
 ex:26.16    The length of each board is to be ten cubits, and its width one and a half cubits.
 ex:26.17    Each board shall have two arms that shall serve to fasten the boards in line. In this way all the boards of the Dwelling are to be made.
 ex:26.18    Set up the boards of the Dwelling as follows: twenty boards on the south side,
 ex:26.19    with forty silver pedestals under the twenty boards, so that there are two pedestals under each board, at its two arms;
 ex:26.20    twenty boards on the other side of the Dwelling, the north side,
 ex:26.21    with their forty silver pedestals, two under each board;
 ex:26.22    six boards for the rear of the Dwelling, to the west;
 ex:26.23    and two boards for the corners at the rear of the Dwelling.
 ex:26.24    These two shall be double at the bottom, and likewise double at the top, to the first ring. That is how both boards in the corners are to be made.
 ex:26.25    Thus, there shall be in the rear eight boards, with their sixteen silver pedestals, two pedestals under each board.
 ex:26.26    Also make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the Dwelling,
 ex:26.27    five for those on the other side, and five for those at the rear, toward the west.
 ex:26.28    The center bar, at the middle of the boards, shall reach across from end to end.
 ex:26.29    Plate the boards with gold, and make gold rings on them as holders for the bars, which are also to be plated with gold.
 ex:26.30    You shall erect the Dwelling according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
 ex:26.31    "You shall have a veil woven of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined, with cherubim embroidered on it.
 ex:26.32    It is to be hung on four gold-plated columns of acacia wood, which shall have hooks of gold and shall rest on four silver pedestals.
 ex:26.33    Hang the veil from clasps. The ark of the commandments you shall bring inside, behind this veil which divides the holy place from the holy of holies.
 ex:26.34    Set the propitiatory on the ark of the commandments in the holy of holies.
 ex:26.35    "Outside the veil you shall place the table and the lampstand, the latter on the south side of the Dwelling, opposite the table, which is to be put on the north side.
 ex:26.36    For the entrance of the tent make a variegated curtain of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and of fine linen twined.
 ex:26.37    Make five columns of acacia wood for this curtain; have them plated with gold, with their hooks of gold; and cast five bronze pedestals for them.
  
 ex:27.1     "You shall make an altar of acacia wood, on a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide; it shall be three cubits high.
 ex:27.2     At the four corners there are to be horns, so made that they spring directly from the altar. You shall then plate it with bronze.
 ex:27.3     Make pots for removing the ashes, as well as shovels, basins, forks and fire pans, all of which shall be of bronze.
 ex:27.4     Make a grating of bronze network for it; this to have four bronze rings, one at each of its four corners.
 ex:27.5     Put it down around the altar, on the ground. This network is to be half as high as the altar.
 ex:27.6     You shall also make poles of acacia wood for the altar, and plate them with bronze.
 ex:27.7     These poles are to be put through the rings, so that they are on either side of the altar when it is carried.
 ex:27.8     Make the altar itself in the form of a hollow box, just as it was shown you on the mountain.
 ex:27.9     "You shall also make a court for the Dwelling. On the south side the court shall have hangings a hundred cubits long, woven of fine linen twined,
 ex:27.10    with twenty columns and twenty pedestals of bronze; the hooks and bands on the columns shall be of silver.
 ex:27.11    On the north side there shall be similar hangings, a hundred cubits long, with twenty columns and twenty pedestals of bronze; the hooks and bands on the columns shall be of silver.
 ex:27.12    On the west side, across the width of the court, there shall be hangings, fifty cubits long, with ten columns and ten pedestals.
 ex:27.13    The width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits.
 ex:27.14    On one side there shall be hangings to the extent of fifteen cubits, with three columns and three pedestals;
 ex:27.15    on the other side there shall be hangings to the extent of fifteen cubits, with three columns and three pedestals.
 ex:27.16    "At the entrance of the court there shall be a variegated curtain, twenty cubits long, woven of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and of fine linen twined. It shall have four columns and four pedestals.
 ex:27.17    "All the columns around the court shall have bands and hooks of silver, and pedestals of bronze.
 ex:27.18    The enclosure of the court is to be one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and five cubits high. Fine linen twined must be used, and the pedestals must be of bronze.
 ex:27.19    All the fittings of the Dwelling, whatever be their use, as well as all its tent pegs and all the tent pegs of the court, must be of bronze.
 ex:27.20    "You shall order the Israelites to bring you clear oil of crushed olives, to be used for the light, so that you may keep lamps burning regularly.
 ex:27.21    From evening to morning Aaron and his sons shall maintain them before the LORD in the meeting tent, outside the veil which hangs in front of the commandments. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for the Israelites throughout their generations.
  
 ex:28.1     "From among the Israelites have your brother Aaron, together with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, brought to you, that they may be my priests.
 ex:28.2     For the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron you shall have sacred vestments made.
 ex:28.3     Therefore, to the various expert workmen whom I have endowed with skill, you shall give instructions to make such vestments for Aaron as will set him apart for his sacred service as my priest.
 ex:28.4     These are the vestments they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a brocaded tunic, a miter and a sash. In making these sacred vestments which your brother Aaron and his sons are to wear in serving as my priests,
 ex:28.5     they shall use gold, violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
 ex:28.6     "The ephod they shall make of gold thread and of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, embroidered on cloth of fine linen twined.
 ex:28.7     It shall have a pair of shoulder straps joined to its two upper ends.
 ex:28.8     The embroidered belt of the ephod shall extend out from it and, like it, be made of gold thread, of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined.
 ex:28.9     "Get two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:
 ex:28.10    six of their names on one stone, and the other six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
 ex:28.11    As a gem-cutter engraves a seal, so shall you have the two stones engraved with the names of the sons of Israel and then mounted in gold filigree work.
 ex:28.12    Set these two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod as memorial stones of the sons of Israel. Thus Aaron shall bear their names on his shoulders as a reminder before the LORD.
 ex:28.13    Make filigree rosettes of gold,
 ex:28.14    as well as two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, and fasten the cordlike chains to the filigree rosettes.
 ex:28.15    "The breastpiece of decision you shall also have made, embroidered like the ephod with gold thread and violet, purple and scarlet yarn on cloth of fine linen twined.
 ex:28.16    It is to be square when folded double, a span high and a span wide.
 ex:28.17    On it you shall mount four rows of precious stones: in the first row, a carnelian, a topaz and an emerald;
 ex:28.18    in the second row, a garnet, a sapphire and a beryl;
 ex:28.19    in the third row, a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;
 ex:28.20    in the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx and a jasper. These stones are to be mounted in gold filigree work,
 ex:28.21    twelve of them to match the names of the sons of Israel, each stone engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
 ex:28.22    "When the chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, have been made for the breastpiece,
 ex:28.23    you shall then make two rings of gold for it and fasten them to the two upper ends of the breastpiece.
 ex:28.24    The gold cords are then to be fastened to the two rings at the upper ends of the breastpiece,
 ex:28.25    the other two ends of the cords being fastened in front to the two filigree rosettes which are attached to the shoulder straps of the ephod.
 ex:28.26    Make two other rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that faces the ephod.
 ex:28.27    Then make two more rings of gold and fasten them to the bottom of the shoulder straps next to where they join the ephod in front, just above its embroidered belt.
 ex:28.28    Violet ribbons shall bind the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod, so that the breastpiece will stay right above the embroidered belt of the ephod and not swing loose from it.
 ex:28.29    "Whenever Aaron enters the sanctuary, he will thus bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastpiece of decision over his heart as a constant reminder before the LORD.
 ex:28.30    In this breastpiece of decision you shall put the Urim and Thummim, that they may be over Aaron's heart whenever he enters the presence of the LORD. Thus he shall always bear the decisions for the Israelites over his heart in the LORD'S presence.
 ex:28.31    "The robe of the ephod you shall make entirely of violet material.
 ex:28.32    It shall have an opening for the head in the center, and around this opening there shall be a selvage, woven as at the opening of a shirt, to keep it from being torn.
 ex:28.33    All around the hem at the bottom you shall make pomegranates, woven of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen twined, with gold bells between them;
 ex:28.34    first a gold bell, then a pomegranate, and thus alternating all around the hem of the robe.
 ex:28.35    Aaron shall wear it when ministering, that its tinkling may be heard as he enters and leaves the LORD'S presence in the sanctuary; else he will die.
 ex:28.36    "You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, as on a seal engraving, 'Sacred to the LORD.'
 ex:28.37    This plate is to be tied over the miter with a violet ribbon in such a way that it rests on the front of the miter,
 ex:28.38    over Aaron's forehead. Since Aaron bears whatever guilt the Israelites may incur in consecrating any of their sacred gifts, this plate must always be over his forehead, so that they may find favor with the LORD.
 ex:28.39    "The tunic of fine linen shall be brocaded. The miter shall be made of fine linen. The sash shall be of variegated work.
 ex:28.40    "Likewise, for the glorious adornment of Aaron's sons you shall have tunics and sashes and turbans made.
 ex:28.41    With these you shall clothe your brother Aaron and his sons. Anoint and ordain them, consecrating them as my priests.
 ex:28.42    You must also make linen drawers for them, to cover their naked flesh from their loins to their thighs.
 ex:28.43    Aaron and his sons shall wear them whenever they go into the meeting tent or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary, lest they incur guilt and die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants.
  
 ex:29.1     "This is the rite you shall perform in consecrating them as my priests. Procure a young bull and two unblemished rams.
 ex:29.2     With fine wheat flour make unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil,
 ex:29.3     and put them in a basket. Take the basket of them along with the bullock and the two rams.
 ex:29.4     Aaron and his sons you shall also bring to the entrance of the meeting tent, and there wash them with water.
 ex:29.5     Take the vestments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece, fastening the embroidered belt of the ephod around him.
 ex:29.6     Put the miter on his head, the sacred diadem on the miter.
 ex:29.7     Then take the anointing oil and anoint him with it, pouring it on his head.
 ex:29.8     Bring forward his sons also and clothe them with the tunics,
 ex:29.9     gird them with the sashes, and tie the turbans on them. Thus shall the priesthood be theirs by perpetual law, and thus shall you ordain Aaron and his sons.
 ex:29.10    "Now bring forward the bullock in front of the meeting tent. There Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
 ex:29.11    Then slaughter the bullock before the LORD, at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 ex:29.12    Take some of its blood and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar. All the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.
 ex:29.13    All the fat that covers its inner organs, as well as the lobe of its liver and its two kidneys, together with the fat that is on them, you shall take and burn on the altar.
 ex:29.14    But the flesh and hide and offal of the bullock you must burn up outside the camp, since this is a sin offering.
 ex:29.15    "Then take one of the rams, and after Aaron and his sons have laid their hands on its head,
 ex:29.16    slaughter it. The blood you shall take and splash on all the sides of the altar.
 ex:29.17    Cut the ram into pieces; its inner organs and shanks you shall first wash, and then put them with the pieces and with the head.
 ex:29.18    The entire ram shall then be burned on the altar, since it is a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 ex:29.19    "After this take the other ram, and when Aaron and his sons have laid their hands on its head,
 ex:29.20    slaughter it. Some of its blood you shall take and put on the tip of Aaron's right ear and on the tips of his sons' right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet. Splash the rest of the blood on all the sides of the altar.
 ex:29.21    Then take some of the blood that is on the altar, together with some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle this on Aaron and his vestments, as well as on his sons and their vestments, that his sons and their vestments may be sacred.
 ex:29.22    "Now, from this ram you shall take its fat: its fatty tail, the fat that covers its inner organs, the lobe of its liver, its two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and its right thigh, since this is the ordination ram;
 ex:29.23    then, out of the basket of unleavened food that you have set before the LORD, you shall take one of the loaves of bread, one of the cakes made with oil, and one of the wafers.
 ex:29.24    All these things you shall put into the hands of Aaron and his sons, so that they may wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
 ex:29.25    After you have received them back from their hands, you shall burn them on top of the holocaust on the altar as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 ex:29.26    Finally, take the breast of Aaron's ordination ram and wave it as a wave offering before the LORD; this is to be your own portion.
 ex:29.27    "Thus shall you set aside the breast of whatever wave offering is waved, as well as the thigh of whatever raised offering is raised up, whether this be the ordination ram or anything else belonging to Aaron or to his sons.
 ex:29.28    Such things are due to Aaron and his sons from the Israelites by a perpetual ordinance as a contribution. From their peace offerings, too, the Israelites shall make a contribution, their contribution to the LORD.
 ex:29.29    "The sacred vestments of Aaron shall be passed down to his descendants, that in them they may be anointed and ordained.
 ex:29.30    The descendant who succeeds him as priest and who is to enter the meeting tent to minister in the sanctuary shall be clothed with them for seven days.
 ex:29.31    "You shall take the flesh of the ordination ram and boil it in a holy place.
 ex:29.32    At the entrance of the meeting tent Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
 ex:29.33    They themselves are to eat of these things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but no layman may eat of them, since they are sacred.
 ex:29.34    If some of the flesh of the ordination sacrifice or some of the bread remains over on the next day, this remnant must be burned up; it is not to be eaten, since it is sacred.
 ex:29.35    Carry out all these orders in regard to Aaron and his sons just as I have given them to you. "Seven days you shall spend in ordaining them,
 ex:29.36    sacrificing a bullock each day as a sin offering, to make atonement. Thus also shall you purge the altar in making atonement for it; you shall anoint it in order to consecrate it.
 ex:29.37    Seven days you shall spend in making atonement for the altar and in consecrating it. Then the altar will be most sacred, and whatever touches it will become sacred.
 ex:29.38    "Now, this is what you shall offer on the altar: two yearling lambs as the sacrifice established for each day;
 ex:29.39    one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at the evening twilight.
 ex:29.40    With the first lamb there shall be a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil of crushed olives and, as its libation, a fourth of a hin of wine.
 ex:29.41    The other lamb you shall offer at the evening twilight, with the same cereal offering and libation as in the morning. You shall offer this as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 ex:29.42    Throughout your generations this established holocaust shall be offered before the LORD at the entrance of the meeting tent, where I will meet you and speak to you.
 ex:29.43    "There, at the altar, I will meet the Israelites; hence, it will be made sacred by my glory.
 ex:29.44    Thus I will consecrate the meeting tent and the altar, just as I also consecrate Aaron and his sons to be my priests.
 ex:29.45    I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will be their God.
 ex:29.46    They shall know that I, the LORD, am their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I, the LORD, their God, might dwell among them.
  
 ex:30.1     "For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood,
 ex:30.2     with a square surface, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, with horns that spring directly from it.
 ex:30.3     Its grate on top, its walls on all four sides, and its horns you shall plate with pure gold. Put a gold molding around it.
 ex:30.4     Underneath the molding you shall put gold rings, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles used in carrying it.
 ex:30.5     Make the poles, too, of acacia wood and plate them with gold.
 ex:30.6     This altar you are to place in front of the veil that hangs before the ark of the commandments where I will meet you.
 ex:30.7     "On it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares the lamps,
 ex:30.8     and again in the evening twilight, when he lights the lamps, he shall burn incense. Throughout your generations this shall be the established incense offering before the LORD.
 ex:30.9     On this altar you shall not offer up any profane incense, or any holocaust or cereal offering; nor shall you pour out a libation upon it.
 ex:30.10    Once a year Aaron shall perform the atonement rite on its horns. Throughout your generations this atonement is to be made once a year with the blood of the atoning sin offering. This altar is most sacred to the LORD."
 ex:30.11    The LORD also said to Moses,
 ex:30.12    "When you take a census of the Israelites who are to be registered, each one, as he is enrolled, shall give the LORD a forfeit for his life, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.
 ex:30.13    Everyone who enters the registered group must pay a half-shekel, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel. This payment of a half-shekel is a contribution to the LORD.
 ex:30.14    Everyone of twenty years or more who enters the registered group must give this contribution to the LORD.
 ex:30.15    The rich need not give more, nor shall the poor give less, than a half-shekel in this contribution to the LORD to pay the forfeit for their lives.
 ex:30.16    When you receive this forfeit money from the Israelites, you shall donate it to the service of the meeting tent, that there it may be the Israelites' reminder before the LORD, of the forfeit paid for their lives."
 ex:30.17    The LORD said to Moses,
 ex:30.18    "For ablutions you shall make a bronze laver with a bronze base. Place it between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it.
 ex:30.19    Aaron and his sons shall use it in washing their hands and feet.
 ex:30.20    When they are about to enter the meeting tent, they must wash with water, lest they die. Likewise when they approach the altar in their ministry, to offer an oblation to the LORD,
 ex:30.21    they must wash their hands and feet, lest they die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and his descendants throughout their generations."
 ex:30.22    The LORD said to Moses,
 ex:30.23    "Take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of free-flowing myrrh; half that amount, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, of fragrant cinnamon; two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cane;
 ex:30.24    five hundred shekels of cassia-all according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel; together with a hin of olive oil;
 ex:30.25    and blend them into sacred anointing oil, perfumed ointment expertly prepared.
 ex:30.26    With this sacred anointing oil you shall anoint the meeting tent and the ark of the commandments,
 ex:30.27    the table and all its appurtenances, the lampstand and its appurtenances, the altar of incense
 ex:30.28    and the altar of holocausts with all its appurtenances, and the laver with its base.
 ex:30.29    When you have consecrated them, they shall be most sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred.
 ex:30.30    Aaron and his sons you shall also anoint and consecrate as my priests.
 ex:30.31    To the Israelites you shall say: As sacred anointing oil this shall belong to me throughout your generations.
 ex:30.32    It may not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, nor may you make any other oil of a like mixture. It is sacred, and shall be treated as sacred by you.
 ex:30.33    Whoever prepares a perfume like this, or whoever puts any of this on a layman, shall be cut off from his kinsmen."
 ex:30.34    The LORD told Moses, "Take these aromatic substances: storax and onycha and galbanum, these and pure frankincense in equal parts;
 ex:30.35    and blend them into incense. This fragrant powder, expertly prepared, is to be salted and so kept pure and sacred.
 ex:30.36    Grind some of it into fine dust and put this before the commandments in the meeting tent where I will meet you. This incense shall be treated as most sacred by you.
 ex:30.37    You may not make incense of a like mixture for yourselves; you must treat it as sacred to the LORD.
 ex:30.38    Whoever makes an incense like this for his own enjoyment of its fragrance, shall be cut off from his kinsmen."
  
 ex:31.1     The LORD said to Moses,
 ex:31.2     "See, I have chosen Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
 ex:31.3     and I have filled him with a divine spirit of skill and understanding and knowledge in every craft:
 ex:31.4     in the production of embroidery, in making things of gold, silver or bronze,
 ex:31.5     in cutting and mounting precious stones, in carving wood, and in every craft.
 ex:31.6     As his assistant I have appointed Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. I have also endowed all the experts with the necessary skill to make all the things I have ordered you to make:
 ex:31.7     the meeting tent, the ark of the commandments with the propitiatory on top of it, all the furnishings of the tent,
 ex:31.8     the table with its appurtenances, the pure gold lampstand with all its appurtenances, the altar of incense,
 ex:31.9     the altar of holocausts with all its appurtenances, the laver with its base,
 ex:31.10    the service cloths, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, the vestments for his sons in their ministry,
 ex:31.11    the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. All these things they shall make just as I have commanded you."
 ex:31.12    The LORD said to Moses,
 ex:31.13    "You must also tell the Israelites: Take care to keep my sabbaths, for that is to be the token between you and me throughout the generations, to show that it is I, the LORD, who make you holy.
 ex:31.14    Therefore, you must keep the sabbath as something sacred. Whoever desecrates it shall be put to death. If anyone does work on that day, he must be rooted out of his people.
 ex:31.15    Six days there are for doing work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of complete rest, sacred to the LORD. Anyone who does work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.
 ex:31.16    So shall the Israelites observe the sabbath, keeping it throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
 ex:31.17    Between me and the Israelites it is to be an everlasting token; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested at his ease."
 ex:31.18    When the LORD had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the commandments, the stone tablets inscribed by God's own finger.
  
 ex:32.1     When the people became aware of Moses' delay in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Come, make us a god who will be our leader; as for the man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him."
 ex:32.2     Aaron replied, "Have your wives and sons and daughters take off the golden earrings they are wearing, and bring them to me."
 ex:32.3     So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron,
 ex:32.4     who accepted their offering, and fashioning this gold with a graving tool, made a molten calf. Then they cried out, "This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt."
 ex:32.5     On seeing this, Aaron built an altar before the calf and proclaimed, "Tomorrow is a feast of the LORD."
 ex:32.6     Early the next day the people offered holocausts and brought peace offerings. Then they sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
 ex:32.7     With that, the LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once to your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved.
 ex:32.8     They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, 'This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!'
 ex:32.9     I see how stiff-necked this people is," continued the LORD to Moses.
 ex:32.10    "Let me alone, then, that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation."
 ex:32.11    But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, "Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand?
 ex:32.12    Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth'? Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people.
 ex:32.13    Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.'"
 ex:32.14    So the LORD relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.
 ex:32.15    Moses then turned and came down the mountain with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, tablets that were written on both sides, front and back;
 ex:32.16    tablets that were made by God, having inscriptions on them that were engraved by God himself.
 ex:32.17    Now, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "That sounds like a battle in the camp."
 ex:32.18    But Moses answered, "It does not sound like cries of victory, nor does it sound like cries of defeat; the sounds that I hear are cries of revelry."
 ex:32.19    As he drew near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. With that, Moses' wrath flared up, so that he threw the tablets down and broke them on the base of the mountain.
 ex:32.20    Taking the calf they had made, he fused it in the fire and then ground it down to powder, which he scattered on the water and made the Israelites drink.
 ex:32.21    Moses asked Aaron, "What did this people ever do to you that you should lead them into so grave a sin?" Aaron replied, "Let not my lord be angry.
 ex:32.22    You know well enough how prone the people are to evil.
 ex:32.23    They said to me, 'Make us a god to be our leader; as for the man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'
 ex:32.24    So I told them, 'Let anyone who has gold jewelry take it off.' They gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."
 ex:32.25    When Moses realized that, to the scornful joy of their foes, Aaron had let the people run wild,
 ex:32.26    he stood at the gate of the camp and cried, "Whoever is for the LORD, let him come to me!" All the Levites then rallied to him,
 ex:32.27    and he told them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Put your sword on your hip, every one of you! Now go up and down the camp, from gate to gate, and slay your own kinsmen, your friends and neighbors!"
 ex:32.28    The Levites carried out the command of Moses, and that day there fell about three thousand of the people.
 ex:32.29    Then Moses said, "Today you have been dedicated to the LORD, for you were against your own sons and kinsmen, to bring a blessing upon yourselves this day."
 ex:32.30    On the next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a grave sin. I will go up to the LORD, then; perhaps I may be able to make atonement for your sin."
 ex:32.31    So Moses went back to the LORD and said, "Ah, this people has indeed committed a grave sin in making a god of gold for themselves!
 ex:32.32    If you would only forgive their sin! If you will not, then strike me out of the book that you have written."
 ex:32.33    The LORD answered, "Him only who has sinned against me will I strike out of my book.
 ex:32.34    Now, go and lead the people whither I have told you. My angel will go before you. When it is time for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin."
 ex:32.35    Thus the LORD smote the people for having had Aaron make the calf for them.
  
 ex:33.1     The LORD told Moses, "You and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, are to go up from here to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob I would give to their descendants.
 ex:33.2     Driving out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, I will send an angel before you
 ex:33.3     to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might exterminate you on the way."
 ex:33.4     When the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one wore his ornaments.
 ex:33.5     The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to go up in your company even for a moment, I would exterminate you. Take off your ornaments, therefore; I will then see what I am to do with you."
 ex:33.6     So, from Mount Horeb onward, the Israelites laid aside their ornaments.
 ex:33.7     The tent, which was called the meeting tent, Moses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp. Anyone who wished to consult the LORD would go to this meeting tent outside the camp.
 ex:33.8     Whenever Moses went out to the tent, the people would all rise and stand at the entrance of their own tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent.
 ex:33.9     As Moses entered the tent, the column of cloud would come down and stand at its entrance while the LORD spoke with Moses.
 ex:33.10    On seeing the column of cloud stand at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise and worship at the entrance of their own tents.
 ex:33.11    The LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to another. Moses would then return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua, son of Nun, would not move out of the tent.
 ex:33.12    Moses said to the LORD, "You, indeed, are telling me to lead this people on; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'You are my intimate friend,' and also, 'You have found favor with me.'
 ex:33.13    Now, if I have found favor with you, do let me know your ways so that, in knowing you, I may continue to find favor with you. Then, too, this nation is, after all, your own people."
 ex:33.14    "I myself," the LORD answered, "will go along, to give you rest."
 ex:33.15    Moses replied, "If you are not going yourself, do not make us go up from here.
 ex:33.16    For how can it be known that we, your people and I, have found favor with you, except by your going with us? Then we, your people and I, will be singled out from every other people on the earth."
 ex:33.17    The LORD said to Moses, "This request, too, which you have just made, I will carry out, because you have found favor with me and you are my intimate friend."
 ex:33.18    Then Moses said, "Do let me see your glory!"
 ex:33.19    He answered, "I will make all my beauty pass before you, and in your presence I will pronounce my name, 'LORD'; I who show favors to whom I will, I who grant mercy to whom I will.
 ex:33.20    But my face you cannot see, for no man sees me and still lives.
 ex:33.21    Here," continued the LORD, "is a place near me where you shall station yourself on the rock.
 ex:33.22    When my glory passes I will set you in the hollow of the rock and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
 ex:33.23    Then I will remove my hand, so that you may see my back; but my face is not to be seen."
  
 ex:34.1     The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two stone tablets like the former, that I may write on them the commandments which were on the former tablets that you broke.
 ex:34.2     Get ready for tomorrow morning, when you are to go up Mount Sinai and there present yourself to me on the top of the mountain.
 ex:34.3     No one shall come up with you, and no one is even to be seen on any part of the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to go grazing toward this mountain."
 ex:34.4     Moses then cut two stone tablets like the former, and early the next morning he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets.
 ex:34.5     Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with him there and proclaimed his name, "LORD."
 ex:34.6     Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity,
 ex:34.7     continuing his kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for their fathers' wickedness!"
 ex:34.8     Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship.
 ex:34.9     Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own."
 ex:34.10    "Here, then," said the LORD, "is the covenant I will make. Before the eyes of all your people I will work such marvels as have never been wrought in any nation anywhere on earth, so that this people among whom you live may see how awe-inspiring are the deeds which I, the LORD, will do at your side.
 ex:34.11    But you, on your part, must keep the commandments I am giving you today. "I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
 ex:34.12    Take care, therefore, not to make a covenant with these inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; else they will become a snare among you.
 ex:34.13    Tear down their altars; smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their sacred poles.
 ex:34.14    You shall not worship any other god, for the LORD is 'the Jealous One'; a jealous God is he.
 ex:34.15    Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of that land; else, when they render their wanton worship to their gods and sacrifice to them, one of them may invite you and you may partake of his sacrifice.
 ex:34.16    Neither shall you take their daughters as wives for your sons; otherwise, when their daughters render their wanton worship to their gods, they will make your sons do the same.
 ex:34.17    "You shall not make for yourselves molten gods.
 ex:34.18    "You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the prescribed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
 ex:34.19    "To me belongs every first-born male that opens the womb among all your livestock, whether in the herd or in the flock.
 ex:34.20    The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with one of the flock; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. The first-born among your sons you shall redeem. "No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
 ex:34.21    "For six days you may work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; on that day you must rest even during the seasons of plowing and harvesting.
 ex:34.22    "You shall keep the feast of Weeks with the first of the wheat harvest; likewise, the feast at the fruit harvest at the close of the year.
 ex:34.23    Three times a year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel.
 ex:34.24    Since I will drive out the nations before you to give you a large territory, there will be no one to covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD, your God.
 ex:34.25    "You shall not offer me the blood of sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover feast be kept overnight for the next day.
 ex:34.26    "The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the LORD, your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."
 ex:34.27    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with them I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
 ex:34.28    So Moses stayed there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
 ex:34.29    As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he conversed with the LORD.
 ex:34.30    When Aaron, then, and the other Israelites saw Moses and noticed how radiant the skin of his face had become, they were afraid to come near him.
 ex:34.31    Only after Moses called to them did Aaron and all the rulers of the community come back to him. Moses then spoke to them.
 ex:34.32    Later on, all the Israelites came up to him, and he enjoined on them all that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
 ex:34.33    When he finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
 ex:34.34    Whenever Moses entered the presence of the LORD to converse with him, he removed the veil until he came out again. On coming out, he would tell the Israelites all that had been commanded.
 ex:34.35    Then the Israelites would see that the skin of Moses' face was radiant; so he would again put the veil over his face until he went in to converse with the LORD.
  
 ex:35.1     Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, "This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.
 ex:35.2     On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be sacred to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day shall be put to death.
 ex:35.3     You shall not even light a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day."
 ex:35.4     Moses told the whole Israelite community, "This is what the LORD has commanded:
 ex:35.5     Take up among you a collection for the LORD. Everyone, as his heart prompts him, shall bring, as a contribution to the LORD, gold, silver and bronze;
 ex:35.6     violet, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
 ex:35.7     rams' skins dyed red, and tahash skins; acacia wood;
 ex:35.8     oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
 ex:35.9     onyx stones and other gems for mounting on the ephod and on the breastpiece.
 ex:35.10    "Let every expert among you come and make all that the LORD has commanded: the Dwelling,
 ex:35.11    with its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its columns and its pedestals;
 ex:35.12    the ark, with its poles, the propitiatory, and the curtain veil;
 ex:35.13    the table, with its poles and all its appurtenances, and the showbread;
 ex:35.14    the lampstand, with its appurtenances, the lamps, and the oil for the light;
 ex:35.15    the altar of incense, with its poles; the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the entrance curtain for the entrance of the Dwelling;
 ex:35.16    the altar of holocausts, with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its appurtenances; the laver, with its base;
 ex:35.17    the hangings of the court, with their columns and pedestals; the curtain for the entrance of the court;
 ex:35.18    the tent pegs for the Dwelling and for the court, with their ropes;
 ex:35.19    the service cloths for use in the sanctuary; the sacred vestments for Aaron, the priest, and the vestments worn by his sons in their ministry."
 ex:35.20    When the whole Israelite community left Moses' presence,
 ex:35.21    everyone, as his heart suggested and his spirit prompted, brought a contribution to the LORD for the construction of the meeting tent, for all its services, and for the sacred vestments.
 ex:35.22    Both the men and the women, all as their heart prompted them, brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces and various other gold articles. Everyone who could presented an offering of gold to the LORD.
 ex:35.23    Everyone who happened to have violet, purple or scarlet yarn, fine linen or goat hair, rams' skins dyed red or tahash skins, brought them.
 ex:35.24    Whoever could make a contribution of silver or bronze offered it to the LORD; and everyone who happened to have acacia wood for any part of the work, brought it.
 ex:35.25    All the women who were expert spinners brought hand-spun violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen thread.
 ex:35.26    All the women who possessed the skill, spun goat hair.
 ex:35.27    The princes brought onyx stones and other gems for mounting on the ephod and on the breastpiece;
 ex:35.28    as well as spices, and oil for the light, anointing oil, and fragrant incense.
 ex:35.29    Every Israelite man and woman brought to the LORD such voluntary offerings as they thought best, for the various kinds of work which the LORD had commanded Moses to have done.
 ex:35.30    Moses said to the Israelites, "See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
 ex:35.31    and has filled him with a divine spirit of skill and understanding and knowledge in every craft:
 ex:35.32    in the production of embroidery, in making things of gold, silver or bronze,
 ex:35.33    in cutting and mounting precious stones, in carving wood, and in every other craft.
 ex:35.34    He has also given both him and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.
 ex:35.35    He has endowed them with skill to execute all types of work: engraving, embroidering, the making of variegated cloth of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen thread, weaving, and all other arts and crafts.
  
 ex:36.1     "Bezalel, therefore, will set to work with Oholiab and with all the experts whom the LORD has endowed with skill and understanding in knowing how to execute all the work for the service of the sanctuary, just as the LORD has commanded."
 ex:36.2     Moses then called Bezalel and Oholiab and all the other experts whom the LORD had endowed with skill, men whose hearts moved them to come and take part in the work.
 ex:36.3     They received from Moses all the contributions which the Israelites had brought for establishing the service of the sanctuary. Still, morning after morning the people continued to bring their voluntary offerings to Moses.
 ex:36.4     Thereupon the experts who were executing the various kinds of work for the sanctuary, all left the work they were doing,
 ex:36.5     and told Moses, "The people are bringing much more than is needed to carry out the work which the LORD has commanded us to do."
 ex:36.6     Moses, therefore, ordered a proclamation to be made throughout the camp: "Let neither man nor woman make any more contributions for the sanctuary." So the people stopped bringing their offerings;
 ex:36.7     there was already enough at hand, in fact, more than enough, to complete the work to be done.
 ex:36.8     The various experts who were executing the work, made the Dwelling with its ten sheets woven of fine linen twined, having cherubim embroidered on them with violet, purple and scarlet yarn.
 ex:36.9     The length of each sheet was twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits; all the sheets were of the same size.
 ex:36.10    Five of the sheets were sewed together, edge to edge; and the same for the other five.
 ex:36.11    Loops of violet yarn were made along the edge of the end sheet in the first set, and the same along the edge of the end sheet in the second set.
 ex:36.12    Fifty loops were thus put on one inner sheet, and fifty loops on the inner sheet in the other set, with the loops directly opposite each other.
 ex:36.13    Then fifty clasps of gold were made, with which the sheets were joined so that the Dwelling formed one whole.
 ex:36.14    Sheets of goat hair were also woven as a tent over the Dwelling. Eleven such sheets were made.
 ex:36.15    The length of each sheet was thirty cubits and the width four cubits; all eleven sheets were the same size.
 ex:36.16    Five of these sheets were sewed edge to edge into one set; and the other six sheets into another set.
 ex:36.17    Fifty loops were made along the edge of the end sheet in one set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding sheet in the other set.
 ex:36.18    Fifty bronze clasps were made with which the tent was joined so that it formed one whole.
 ex:36.19    A covering for the tent was made of rams' skins dyed red, and above that, a covering of tahash skins.
 ex:36.20    Boards of acacia wood were made as walls for the Dwelling.
 ex:36.21    The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width one and a half cubits.
 ex:36.22    Each board had two arms, fastening them in line. In this way all the boards of the Dwelling were made.
 ex:36.23    They were set up as follows: twenty boards on the south side,
 ex:36.24    with forty silver pedestals under the twenty boards, so that there were two pedestals under each board, at its two arms;
 ex:36.25    twenty boards on the other side of the Dwelling, the north side,
 ex:36.26    with their forty silver pedestals, two under each board;
 ex:36.27    six boards at the rear of the Dwelling, to the west;
 ex:36.28    and two boards at the corners in the rear of the Dwelling.
 ex:36.29    These were double at the bottom, and likewise double at the top, to the first ring. That is how both boards in the corners were made.
 ex:36.30    Thus, there were in the rear eight boards, with their sixteen silver pedestals, two pedestals under each board.
 ex:36.31    Bars of acacia wood were also made, five for the boards on one side of the Dwelling,
 ex:36.32    five for those on the other side, and five for those at the rear, to the west.
 ex:36.33    The center bar, at the middle of the boards, was made to reach across from end to end.
 ex:36.34    The boards were plated with gold, and gold rings were made on them as holders for the bars, which were also plated with gold.
 ex:36.35    The veil was woven of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined, with cherubim embroidered on it.
 ex:36.36    Four gold-plated columns of acacia wood, with gold hooks, were made for it, and four silver pedestals were cast for them.
 ex:36.37    The curtain for the entrance of the tent was made of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined, woven in a variegated manner.
 ex:36.38    Its five columns, with their hooks as well as their capitals and bands, were plated with gold; their five pedestals were of bronze.
  
 ex:37.1     Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
 ex:37.2     The inside and outside were plated with gold, and a molding of gold was put around it.
 ex:37.3     Four gold rings were cast and put on its four supports, two rings for one side and two for the opposite side.
 ex:37.4     Poles of acacia wood were made and plated with gold;
 ex:37.5     these were put through the rings on the sides of the ark, for carrying it.
 ex:37.6     The propitiatory was made of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
 ex:37.7     Two cherubim of beaten gold were made for the two ends of the propitiatory,
 ex:37.8     one cherub fastened at one end, the other at the other end, springing directly from the propitiatory at its two ends.
 ex:37.9     The cherubim had their wings spread out above, covering the propitiatory with them. They were turned toward each other, but with their faces looking toward the propitiatory.
 ex:37.10    The table was made of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
 ex:37.11    It was plated with pure gold, and a molding of gold was put around it.
 ex:37.12    A frame a handbreadth high was also put around it, with a molding of gold around the frame.
 ex:37.13    Four rings of gold were cast for it and fastened, one at each of the four corners.
 ex:37.14    The rings were alongside the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.
 ex:37.15    These poles were made of acacia wood and plated with gold.
 ex:37.16    The vessels that were set on the table, its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring libations, were of pure gold.
 ex:37.17    The lampstand was made of pure beaten gold--its shaft and branches as well as its cups and knobs and petals springing directly from it.
 ex:37.18    Six branches extended from its sides, three branches on one side and three on the other.
 ex:37.19    On one branch there were three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and petals; on the opposite branch there were three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and petals; and so for the six branches that extended from the lampstand.
 ex:37.20    On the shaft there were four cups, shaped like almond blossoms, with their knobs and petals,
 ex:37.21    including a knob below each of the three pairs of branches that extended from the lampstand.
 ex:37.22    The knobs and branches sprang so directly from it that the whole formed but a single piece of pure beaten gold.
 ex:37.23    Its seven lamps, as well as its trimming shears and trays, were made of pure gold.
 ex:37.24    A talent of pure gold was used for the lampstand and its various appurtenances.
 ex:37.25    The altar of incense was made of acacia wood, on a square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, having horns that sprang directly from it.
 ex:37.26    Its grate on top, its walls on all four sides, and its horns were plated with pure gold; and a molding of gold was put around it.
 ex:37.27    Underneath the molding gold rings were placed, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles to carry it.
 ex:37.28    The poles, too, were made of acacia wood and plated with gold.
 ex:37.29    The sacred anointing oil and the fragrant incense were prepared in their pure form by a perfumer.
  
 ex:38.1     The altar of holocausts was made of acacia wood, on a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide; its height was three cubits.
 ex:38.2     At the four corners horns were made that sprang directly from the altar. The whole was plated with bronze.
 ex:38.3     All the utensils of the altar, the pots, shovels, basins, forks and fire pans, were likewise made of bronze.
 ex:38.4     A grating of bronze network was made for the altar and placed round it, on the ground, half as high as the altar itself.
 ex:38.5     Four rings were cast for the four corners of the bronze grating, as holders for the poles,
 ex:38.6     which were made of acacia wood and plated with bronze.
 ex:38.7     The poles were put through the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. The altar was made in the form of a hollow box.
 ex:38.8     The bronze laver, with its bronze base, was made from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 ex:38.9     The court was made as follows. On the south side of the court there were hangings, woven of fine linen twined, a hundred cubits long,
 ex:38.10    with twenty columns and twenty pedestals of bronze, the hooks and bands of the columns being of silver.
 ex:38.11    On the north side there were similar hangings, one hundred cubits long, with twenty columns and twenty pedestals of bronze, the hooks and bands of the columns being of silver.
 ex:38.12    On the west side there were hangings, fifty cubits long, with ten columns and ten pedestals, the hooks and bands of the columns being of silver.
 ex:38.13    On the east side the court was fifty cubits long.
 ex:38.14    Toward one side there were hangings to the extent of fifteen cubits, with three columns and three pedestals; toward the other side,
 ex:38.15    beyond the entrance of the court, there were likewise hangings to the extent of fifteen cubits, with three columns and three pedestals.
 ex:38.16    The hangings on all sides of the court were woven of fine linen twined.
 ex:38.17    The pedestals of the columns were of bronze, while the hooks and bands of the columns were of silver; the capitals were silver-plated, and all the columns of the court were banded with silver.
 ex:38.18    At the entrance of the court there was a variegated curtain, woven of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and of fine linen twined, twenty cubits long and five cubits wide, in keeping with the hangings of the court.
 ex:38.19    There were four columns and four pedestals of bronze for it, while their hooks were of silver.
 ex:38.20    All the tent pegs for the Dwelling and for the court around it were of bronze.
 ex:38.21    The following is an account of the various amounts used on the Dwelling, the Dwelling of the commandments, drawn up at the command of Moses by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
 ex:38.22    However, it was Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, who made all that the Lord commanded Moses,
 ex:38.23    and he was assisted by Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, who was an engraver, an embroiderer, and a weaver of variegated cloth of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and of fine linen.
 ex:38.24    All the gold used in the entire construction of the sanctuary, having previously been given as an offering, amounted to twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
 ex:38.25    The amount of the silver received from the community was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel;
 ex:38.26    one bekah apiece, that is, a half-shekel apiece, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, was received from every man of twenty years or more who entered the registered group; the number of these was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
 ex:38.27    One hundred talents of silver were used for casting the pedestals of the sanctuary and the pedestals of the veil, one talent for each pedestal, or one hundred talents for the one hundred pedestals.
 ex:38.28    The remaining one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels were used for making the hooks on the columns, for plating the capitals, and for banding them with silver.
 ex:38.29    The bronze, given as an offering, amounted to seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.
 ex:38.30    With this were made the pedestals at the entrance of the meeting tent, the bronze altar with its bronze gratings and all the appurtenances of the altar,
 ex:38.31    the pedestals around the court, the pedestals at the entrance of the court, and all the tent pegs for the Dwelling and for the court around it.
  
 ex:39.1     With violet, purple and scarlet yarn were woven the service cloths for use in the sanctuary, as well as the sacred vestments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.2     The ephod was woven of gold thread and of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and of fine linen twined.
 ex:39.3     Gold was first hammered into gold leaf and then cut up into threads, which were woven with the violet, purple and scarlet yarn into an embroidered pattern on the fine linen.
 ex:39.4     Shoulder straps were made for it and joined to its two upper ends.
 ex:39.5     The embroidered belt on the ephod extended out from it, and like it, was made of gold thread, of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.6     The onyx stones were prepared and mounted in gold filigree work; they were engraved like seal engravings with the names of the sons of Israel.
 ex:39.7     These stones were set on the shoulder straps of the ephod as memorial stones of the sons of Israel, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.8     The breastpiece was embroidered like the ephod, with gold thread and violet, purple and scarlet yarn on cloth of fine linen twined.
 ex:39.9     It was square and folded double, a span high and a span wide in its folded form.
 ex:39.10    Four rows of precious stones were mounted on it: in the first row a carnelian, a topaz and an emerald;
 ex:39.11    in the second row, a garnet, a sapphire and a beryl;
 ex:39.12    in the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;
 ex:39.13    in the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx and a jasper. They were mounted in gold filigree work.
 ex:39.14    These stones were twelve, to match the names of the sons of Israel, and each stone was engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
 ex:39.15    Chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, were made for the breastpiece,
 ex:39.16    together with two gold filigree rosettes and two gold rings. The two rings were fastened to the two upper ends of the breastpiece.
 ex:39.17    The two gold chains were then fastened to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.
 ex:39.18    The other two ends of the two chains were fastened in front to the two filigree rosettes, which were attached to the shoulder straps of the ephod.
 ex:39.19    Two other gold rings were made and put on the two lower ends of the breastpiece, on the edge facing the ephod.
 ex:39.20    Two more gold rings were made and fastened to the bottom of the two shoulder straps next to where they joined the ephod in front, just above its embroidered belt.
 ex:39.21    Violet ribbons bound the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod, so that the breastpiece stayed right above the embroidered belt of the ephod and did not swing loose from it. All this was just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.22    The robe of the ephod was woven entirely of violet yarn,
 ex:39.23    with an opening in its center like the opening of a shirt, with selvage around the opening to keep it from being torn.
 ex:39.24    At the hem of the robe pomegranates were made of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and of fine linen twined;
 ex:39.25    bells of pure gold were also made and put between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe:
 ex:39.26    first a bell, then a pomegranate, and thus alternating all around the hem of the robe which was to be worn in performing the ministry--all this, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.27    For Aaron and his sons there were also woven tunics of fine linen;
 ex:39.28    the miter of fine linen; the ornate turbans of fine linen; drawers of linen (of fine linen twined);
 ex:39.29    and sashes of variegated work made of fine linen twined and of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.30    The plate of the sacred diadem was made of pure gold and inscribed, as on a seal engraving: "Sacred to the LORD."
 ex:39.31    It was tied over the miter with a violet ribbon, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.32    Thus the entire work of the Dwelling of the meeting tent was completed. The Israelites did the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.33    They then brought to Moses the Dwelling, the tent with all its appurtenances, the clasps, the boards, the bars, the columns, the pedestals,
 ex:39.34    the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of tahash skins, the curtain veil;
 ex:39.35    the ark of the commandments with its poles, the propitiatory,
 ex:39.36    the table with all its appurtenances and the showbread,
 ex:39.37    the pure gold lampstand with its lamps set up on it and with all its appurtenances, the oil for the light,
 ex:39.38    the golden altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense; the curtain for the entrance of the tent,
 ex:39.39    the altar of bronze with its bronze grating, its poles and all its appurtenances, the laver with its base,
 ex:39.40    the hangings of the court with their columns and pedestals, the curtain for the entrance of the court with its ropes and tent pegs, all the equipment for the service of the Dwelling of the meeting tent;
 ex:39.41    the service cloths for use in the sanctuary, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, and the vestments to be worn by his sons in their ministry.
 ex:39.42    The Israelites had carried out all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:39.43    So when Moses saw that all the work was done just as the LORD had commanded, he blessed them.

 ex:40.1     Then the LORD said to Moses,
 ex:40.2     "On the first day of the first month you shall erect the Dwelling of the meeting tent.
 ex:40.3     Put the ark of the commandments in it, and screen off the ark with the veil.
 ex:40.4     Bring in the table and set it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up the lamps on it.
 ex:40.5     Put the golden altar of incense in front of the ark of the commandments, and hang the curtain at the entrance of the Dwelling.
 ex:40.6     Put the altar of holocausts in front of the entrance of the Dwelling of the meeting tent.
 ex:40.7     Place the laver between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it.
 ex:40.8     Set up the court round about, and put the curtain at the entrance of the court.
 ex:40.9     "Take the anointing oil and anoint the Dwelling and everything in it, consecrating it and all its furnishings, so that it will be sacred.
 ex:40.10    Anoint the altar of holocausts and all its appurtenances, consecrating it, so that it will be most sacred.
 ex:40.11    Likewise, anoint the laver with its base, and thus consecrate it.
 ex:40.12    "Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the meeting tent, and there wash them with water.
 ex:40.13    Clothe Aaron with the sacred vestments and anoint him, thus consecrating him as my priest.
 ex:40.14    Bring forward his sons also, and clothe them with the tunics.
 ex:40.15    As you have anointed their father, anoint them also as my priests. Thus, by being anointed, shall they receive a perpetual priesthood throughout all future generations."
 ex:40.16    Moses did exactly as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.17    On the first day of the first month of the second year the Dwelling was erected.
 ex:40.18    It was Moses who erected the Dwelling. He placed its pedestals, set up its boards, put in its bars, and set up its columns.
 ex:40.19    He spread the tent over the Dwelling and put the covering on top of the tent, as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.20    He took the commandments and put them in the ark; he placed poles alongside the ark and set the propitiatory upon it.
 ex:40.21    He brought the ark into the Dwelling and hung the curtain veil, thus screening off the ark of the commandments, as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.22    He put the table in the meeting tent, on the north side of the Dwelling, outside the veil,
 ex:40.23    and arranged the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.24    He placed the lampstand in the meeting tent, opposite the table, on the south side of the Dwelling,
 ex:40.25    and he set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.26    He placed the golden altar in the meeting tent, in front of the veil,
 ex:40.27    and on it he burned fragrant incense, as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.28    He hung the curtain at the entrance of the Dwelling.
 ex:40.29    He put the altar of holocausts in front of the entrance of the Dwelling of the meeting tent, and offered holocausts and cereal offerings on it, as the LORD had commanded him.
 ex:40.30    He placed the laver between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it for washing.
 ex:40.31    Moses and Aaron and his sons used to wash their hands and feet there,
 ex:40.32    for they washed themselves whenever they went into the meeting tent or approached the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 ex:40.33    Finally, he set up the court around the Dwelling and the altar and hung the curtain at the entrance of the court. Thus Moses finished all the work.
 ex:40.34    Then the cloud covered the meeting tent, and the glory of the LORD filled the Dwelling.
 ex:40.35    Moses could not enter the meeting tent, because the cloud settled down upon it and the glory of the LORD filled the Dwelling.
 ex:40.36    Whenever the cloud rose from the Dwelling, the Israelites would set out on their journey.
 ex:40.37    But if the cloud did not lift, they would not go forward; only when it lifted did they go forward.
 ex:40.38    In the daytime the cloud of the LORD was seen over the Dwelling; whereas at night, fire was seen in the cloud by the whole house of Israel in all the stages of their journey.  [end of Exodus]

