Moses builds an altar.

CHAP. XXIV, XXV. Offering for the tabernacle.

come desolate, and the beast of the field have written; that thou mayest teach them multiply against thee. 13 And Moses rose up, and his minis 30 By little and little I will drive ter Joshua: and Moses went up into the them out from before thee, until thou be mount of God. increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

14 ¶ And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

15 T And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, it six days: and the seventh day he called lest they make thee sin against me: for if unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

CHAP. XXIV.

17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of

AND he said unto Moses, Come up un- Israel.

to the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Na- 18 And Moses went into the midst of dab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: of Israel; and worship ye afar off. and Moses was in the mount forty days

2 And Moses alone shall come near the and forty nights. LORD: but they shall not come nigh;

CHAP. XXV.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

neither shall the people go up with him.AND th

3 And Moses came and told the peo

ple all the words of the LORD, and all the 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, judgments: and all the people answered that they bring me an offering of every with one voice, and said, All the words man that giveth it willingly with his heart which the LORD hath said will we do. ye shall take my offering.

4¶ And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve and fine linen, and goats' hair, tribes of Israel.

3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet,

5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badg.

5 And he sent young men of the chil-ers' skins, and shittim-wood, dren of Israel, which offered burnt-offer

6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing

ings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen oil, and for sweet incense, unto the LORD.

7 Onyx-stones, and stones to be set in

6 ¶ And Moses took half of the blood, the ephod, and in the breast-plate. and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

7 And he took the book of the cove9 According to all that shew thee, nant, and read in the audience of the peo- after the pattern of the tabernacle, and ple: and they said, All that the LORD the pattern of all the instruments thereof, hath said will we do, and be obedient. even so shall ye make it.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprink- 10 T And they shall make an ark of led it on the people, and said, Behold the shittim-wood: two cubits and a half shall blood of the covenant, which the LORD be the length thereof, and a cubit and a hath made with you concerning all these half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and words. a half the height thereof.

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

11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of 10 And they saw the God of Israel: gold round about. and there was under his feet as it were a 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it for it, and put them in the four corners were the body of heaven in his clearness. thereof; and two rings shall be in the one 11 And upon the nobles of the chil- side of it, and two rings in the other side dren of Israel he laid not his hand: also of it. they saw God, and did eat and drink.

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim. 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, wood, and overlay them with gold. Come up to me into the mount, and be 14 And thou shalt put the staves into there and I will give thee tables of stone, the rings by the sides of the ark, that and a law, and commandments which the ark may be borne with them..

The form of the mercy-seat.

EXODUS. The candlestick-the curtains.

15 The staves shall be in the rings of dlestick out of the one side, and three the ark they shall not be taken from it. branches of the candlestick out of the 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the other side: testimony which I shall give thee.

33 Three bowls made like unto al 17 T And thou shalt make a mercy-seat monds, with a knop and a flower in one of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall branch; and three bowls made like albe the length thereof, and a cubit and a monds in the other branch, with a knop half the breadth thereof.. and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercyseat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

22 And there, I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

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37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in CHAP. XXVI.

23 ¶ Thou shalt also make a table of the mount. shittim-wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth

thou make ta

thereof, and a cubit and a half the height M bernacle with ten curtains the fine

thereof.

twined linen, and blue, and purple, and 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work gold, and make thereto a crown of gold shalt thou make them. round about. 2 The length of one curtain shall be 25 And thou shalt make unto it a bor-eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth der of a hand-breadth round about, and of one curtain four cubits: and every one thou shalt make a golden crown to the of the curtains shall have one measure. border thereof round about. 3 The five curtains shall be coupled

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings together one to another; and other five of gold, and put the rings in the four cor-curtains shall be coupled one to another. ners that are on the four feet thereof.

27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the se

28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, cond. that the table may be borne with them. 5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the 29 And thou shalt make the dishes one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers make in the edge of the curtain that is in thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover with- the coupling of the second; that the loops al: of pure gold shalt thou make them. may take hold one of another.

30 And thou shalt set upon the table 6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of shew-bread before me always. gold, and couple the curtains together 31 And thou shalt make a candle-with the taches: and it shall be one tastick of pure gold: of beaten work shall bernacle.

the candlestick be made his shaft, and 7 T And thou shalt make curtains of his branches, his bowls, his knops, and goats' hair to be a covering upon the tahis flowers, shall be of the same.

32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the can

bernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. 8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain