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And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said, These are the words which the Lord has spoken for you to do them. ²Six days shalt thou perform works, but on the seventh day shall be rest — a holy sabbath — a rest for the Lord: every one that does work on it, let him die. ³Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day; I am the Lord. ⁴And Moses spoke to all the Congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord has appointed you, saying, ⁵Take of yourselves an offering for the Lord: every one that engages in his heart ¹ shall bring the first-fruits to the Lord, gold, silver, brass, ⁶blue, purple, double scarlet spun, and fine linen spun, and goats' hair, ⁷and rams' skins dyed red, and skins dyed blue, and incorruptible wood, ⁸and sardine stones, and stones for engraving for the ² shoulder-piece and full length robe. ⁹And every man that is wise in heart among you, let him come and work all things whatsoever the Lord has commanded. ¹⁰The tabernacle, and the cords, and the coverings, and the rings and the bars, and the posts, ¹¹and the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and its propitiatory, and the veil, ¹²and the curtains of the court, and its posts, ¹³and the emerald stones, ¹⁴and the incense and the anointing oil, ¹⁵and the table and all its furniture: ¹⁶and the candlestick for the light and all is furniture, ¹⁷and the altar and all its furniture; ¹⁸and the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the garments in which they shall do service; ¹⁹and the garments of priesthood for the sons of Aaron and the anointing oil, and the compound incense.

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¹⁰And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I establish a covenant for thee in the presence of all thy people; I will do glorious things, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation; and all the people among whom thou art shall see the works of the Lord, that they are wonderful, which I will do for thee. ¹¹ Do thou take heed to all things whatsoever I command thee: behold, I cast out before your face the Amorite and the Chananite and the Pheresite, and the Chettite, and Evite, and Gergesite and Jebusite: ¹²take heed to thyself, lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, into which thou art entering, lest it be to thee a stumbling-block among you. ¹³Ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods ye shall burn with fire. ¹⁴For ye shall not worship strange gods, for the Lord God, a jealous name, is a jealous God; ¹⁵lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call thee, and thou shouldest eat of their feasts, ¹⁶and thou shouldest take of their daughters to thy sons, and thou shouldest give of thy daughters to their sons; and thy daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and thy sons should go a whoring after their gods. ¹⁷And thou shalt not make to thyself molten gods. ¹⁸And thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have charged thee, at the season in the month of new corn; for in the month of new corn thou camest out from Egypt. ¹⁹The males are mine, everything that opens the womb; every first-born of ³ oxen, and every first-born of sheep. ²⁰And the first-born of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep, and if, thou wilt not redeem it thou shalt pay a price: every first-born of thy sons shalt thou redeem: thou shalt not appear before me empty.

²¹Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seed-time and harvest. ²²And thou shalt ⁴ keep to me the feast of weeks, the beginning of wheat-harvest; and the feast of ingathering in the middle of the year. ²³Three times in the year shall every male of thine appear before the Lord the God of Israel. ²⁴For when I shall have cast out the nations before thy face, and shall have enlarged thy coasts, no one shall desire thy land, whenever thou mayest go up to appear before the Lord thy God, three times in the year. ²⁵Thou shalt not ⁵ offer the blood of my ⁶ sacrifices ⁷ with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the passover ⁸ remain till the morning. ²⁶The first-fruits of thy land shalt thou put into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk. ²⁷And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for thyself, for on these words I have established a covenant with thee and with Israel. ²⁸And Moses was there before the Lord forty days,

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the sanctuary each according to his own work, which they wrought. ⁵And ⁹ one said to Moses, The people bring an abundance too great in proportion to all the works which Lord has appointed them to do. ⁶And Moses commanded, and proclaimed in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman any longer labour for the offerings of the sanctuary; and the people were restrained from bringing any more. ⁷And they had ¹⁰ materials sufficient for making the furniture, and they left some besides. ⁸And every wise one among those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses. ⁹And ¹¹ he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined. ¹⁰And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work; ¹¹shoulder-pieces joined from both sides, a work woven by mutual twisting of the parts into ¹² one another. ¹²They made it of the same material according to the making of it, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, as the Lord commanded Moses; ¹³and they made the two emerald atones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel; ¹⁴and he put them on the shoulder- pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.

¹⁵And they made the oracle, a work woven with embroidery, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined. ¹⁶They made the oracle square and double the length of a span and the breadth of a span,—double. ¹⁷And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald; ¹⁸and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper; ¹⁹and the third row, a ligure and agate and amethyst; ²⁰and the fourth row a chrysolite end beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and fastened with gold. ²¹And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names ¹³ like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes. ²²And they made on the oracle turned wreaths, wreathen work, of pure gold, ²³and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings. ²⁴And they put the two golden rings on both the upper corners of the oracle; ²⁵and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the two wreaths into the two couplings. ²⁶And they put them on the two circlets and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod opposite each other in front. ²⁷And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two projections on the top of the oracle and on the top of the hinder part of the ephod within. ²⁸And they made two golden rings, and put them on both the shoulders of the ephod under

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²⁰And all the congregation of the children of Israel went out from Moses. And they brought, they whose heart prompted them, and they to whomsoever it seemed good in their mind, each an offering: ²¹and they brought an offering to the Lord for all the works of the tabernacle of witness, and all its services, and for all the robes of the sanctuary. ²²And the men, even every one to whom it seemed good in his heart, brought from the women, even brought seals and ear-rings, and finger-rings, and ¹⁴ necklaces and bracelets, every article of gold. ²³And all as many as brought ornaments of gold to the Lord and with whomsoever fine linen was found; and they brought skins dyed blue, and rams' skins dyed red. ²⁴And every one that offered an offering ¹⁵ brought silver and brass, the offerings to the Lord; and they with whom was found incorruptible wood; and they brought offerings for all the works of the preparation. ²⁵And every woman skilled in her heart to spin with her hands, ¹⁶ brought spun articles, the blue, and purple, and scarlet and fine linen. ²⁶And all the women to whom it seemed good in their heart in their wisdom, spun the goats' hair. ²⁷And the rulers brought the emerald stones, and the stones for setting in the ephod and the oracle, ²⁸and the compounds both for the anointing, oil, and the composition of the incense. ²⁹And every man and woman whose mind inclined them to come in and do all the works as many as the Lord appointed them to do by Moses—they the children of Israel brought an offering to the Lord. ³⁰And Moses said to the children of Israel, Behold, God has called by name Beseleel the son of Urias the son of Or, of the tribe of Juda, ³¹ and has filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding and knowledge of all things, ³²to labour ¹⁷ skilfully in all works of cunning workmanship, to form the gold and the silver and the brass, ³³and to work in stone, and to fashion the wood, and to work in every work of wisdom. ³⁴And God gave improvement in understanding both to him, and to Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan. ³⁵And God filled them with wisdom, understanding and perception, to understand to work all the works of the sanctuary, and to weave the woven and embroidered work with scarlet and fine linen, to do all work of curious workmanship and embroidery.