Exodus 40
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “aOn the first day of the first month you shall set up the 1tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
3 “aYou shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
4 “You shall abring in the table and 1barrange what belongs on it; and you shall cbring in the lampstand and 2mount its lamps.
5 “Moreover, you shall aset the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
6 “You shall set the altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
7 “You shall aset the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water 1in it.
8 “You shall set up the court all around and 1hang up the veil for the gateway of the court.
9 “Then you shall take the anointing oil and aanoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it and all its 1furnishings; and it shall be holy.
10 “You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, and athe altar shall be most holy.
11 “You shall anoint the laver and its stand, and consecrate it.
12 “Then you shall abring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
13 “aYou shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister as a priest to Me.
14 “You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them;
15 and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father, that they may minister as priests to Me; and their anointing will 1qualify them for a aperpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”
16 Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.
17 Now ain the first month 1of the second year, on the first day of the month, the 2tabernacle was erected.
18 Moses erected the tabernacle and 1laid its 2sockets, and set up its boards, and 1inserted its bars and erected its pillars.
19 He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent 1on top of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
20 Then he took athe testimony and put it into the ark, and 1attached the poles to the ark, and put the 2mercy seat 3on top of the ark.
21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and aset up a veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22 Then he aput the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
23 He set the arrangement of abread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
24 Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
25 He alighted the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
26 Then he aplaced the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the veil;
27 and he aburned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
28 Then he set up the 1veil for the doorway of the tabernacle.
29 He aset the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and boffered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
30 He placed the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
31 aFrom it Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.
32 When they entered the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
33 He aerected the court all around the 1tabernacle and the altar, and 2hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.
34 aThen the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the bglory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
35 Moses awas not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
36 Throughout all their journeys awhenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
37 but aif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.
38 For throughout all their journeys, athe cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
Exodus 1–3
1 Now these are the anames of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one 1with his household:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5 All the 1persons who came from the loins of Jacob were aseventy 2in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 aJoseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
7 But the sons of Israel awere fruitful and 1increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly 2mighty, so that the land was filled with them.
8 Now a new aking arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9 aHe said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are 1more and mightier than we.
10 “Come, let us adeal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and 1in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and 2depart from the land.”
11 So they appointed ataskmasters over them to afflict them with 1bhard labor. And they built for Pharaoh cstorage cities, Pithom and dRaamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, athe more they multiplied and the more they 1spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.
13 The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel ato labor rigorously;
14 and they made atheir lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously 1imposed on them.
15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom 1was named Shiphrah and the other 1was named Puah;
16 and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, aif it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
17 But the midwives 1afeared God, and bdid not do as the king of Egypt had 2commanded them, but let the boys live.
18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live?”
19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife 1can get to them.”
20 So aGod was good to the midwives, and bthe people multiplied, and became very 1mighty.
21 Because the midwives 1afeared God, He 2bestablished 3households for them.
22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “aEvery son who is born 1you are to cast into bthe Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”
1 Now a man from athe house of Levi went and 1married a daughter of Levi.
2 The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw 1that he was 2abeautiful, she hid him for three months.
3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a 1awicker 2basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the breeds by the bank of the Nile.
4 aHis sister stood at a distance to 1find out what would 2happen to him.
5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down ato bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the 1basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.
6 When she opened it, she 1saw the child, and behold, the 2boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call 1a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and ahe became her son. And she named him 1Moses, and said, “Because I 2drew him out of the water.”
11 Now it came about in those days, awhen Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their 1bhard labors; and che saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 So he 1looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he astruck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13 He went out athe next day, and behold, two Hebrews were 1fighting with each other; and he said to the 2offender, “Why are you striking your companion?”
14 But he said, “aWho made you a 1prince or a judge over us? Are you 2intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the matter has become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But aMoses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and 1settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down bby a well.
16 Now athe priest of Midian had seven daughters; and bthey came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but aMoses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.
18 When they came to aReuel their father, he said, “…