Exodus 23–25

23Thou ^ashalt not ^||raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an ^bunrighteous witness. ^2cThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou ^†speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest ^djudgment: ³Neither shalt thou ^ecountenance a poor man in his cause. ^4fIf thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, ^||and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. ^6gThou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. ^7hKeep thee far from a false matter; ⁱand the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for ^kI will not justify the wicked. ⁸And ^lthou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth ^†the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹Also ^mthou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the ^†heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰And ⁿsix years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: ¹¹But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy ^||oliveyard. ^12oSix days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. ¹³And in all things that I have said unto you be ^pcircumspect: and ^qmake no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

^14rThree ^stimes thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. ^15tThou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: ^uand none shall appear before me empty:) ^16xAnd the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and ^ythe feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. ¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. ^18zThou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my ^||sacrifice remain until the morning. ^19aThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. ^bThou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

^20cBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Beware of him, and obey his voice, ^dprovoke him not; for he will ^enot pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. ²²But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then ^fI will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and ^||an adversary unto thine adversaries. ^23gFor mine Angel shall go before thee, and ^hbring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. ²⁴Thou shalt not ⁱbow down to their gods, nor serve them, ^knor do after their works: ^lbut thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down ^mtheir images. ²⁵And ye shall ⁿserve the Lord your God, and ^ohe shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and ^pI will take sickness away from the midst of thee. ^26qThere shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will ^rfulfil. ²⁷I will send ^smy fear before thee, and will ^tdestroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their ^†backs unto thee. ²⁸And ^uI will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. ^29wI will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. ³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. ³¹And ^xI 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 ^ydeliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. ^32zThou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, ^ait will surely be a snare unto thee.

24And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, ^aNadab, and Abihu, ^band seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. ²And Moses ^calone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. ³And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, ^dAll the words which the Lord hath said will we do. ⁴And Moses ^ewrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve ^fpillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed ^gpeace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. ⁶And Moses ^htook half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷And he ^htook the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, ⁱAll that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. ^8kAnd Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. ⁹Then ^lwent up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: ¹⁰And they ^msaw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a ⁿsapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his ^oclearness. ¹¹And upon ^pthe nobles of the children of Israel he ^qlaid not his hand: also they saw God, and did ^reat and drink.

¹²And the Lord said unto Moses, ^sCome up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee ^ttables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. ¹³And Moses rose up, and ^uhis minister Joshua: and Moses ^wwent up into the mount of God. ¹⁴And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and ^xHur are with you: if any man ^yhave any matters to do, let him come unto them. ¹⁵And Moses went up into the mount, and ^za cloud covered the mount. ¹⁶And ^athe glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like ^bdevouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. ¹⁸And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and ^cMoses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

25And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ^2aSpeak unto the children of Israel, that they ^†bring me an ^||offering: ^bof every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my ^||offering. ³And this is the ^||offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, ⁴And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and ^||fine linen, and goats’ hair, ⁵And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, ^6cOil for the light, ^dspices for anointing oil, and for ^esweet incense, ^7fOnyx stones, and stones to be set in the ^gephod, and in the ^gbreastplate. ⁸And let them make me a ^hsanctuary; that ⁱI may dwell among them. ^9jAccording to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

^10kAnd they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ¹¹And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, ^lwithin and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a ^mcrown of gold round about. ¹²And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four ⁿcorners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. ¹³And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. ^15oThe staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. ¹⁶And thou shalt put into the ark ^pthe testimony which I shall give thee. ¹⁷And thou shalt make ^qa mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. ¹⁸And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of ^rbeaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹And 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. ²⁰And ^sthe 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 mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. ^21tAnd thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and ^uin the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. ²²And ^xthere I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from ^ybetween 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.

^23zThou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ²⁴And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a ^acrown of gold round about. ²⁵And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden ^a…