The Holy Bible

[23:14] “Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me.

[23:15] In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.

[23:16] “Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. “Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards.

[23:17] Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.

[23:18] “Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. The fat of animals sacrificed to me during these festivals is not to be left until the following morning.

[23:19] “Each year bring to the house of the Lord your God the first grain that you harvest. “Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

[23:20] “I will send an angel ahead of you to protect you as you travel and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.

[23:21] Pay attention to him and obey him. Do not rebel against him, for I have sent him, and he will not pardon such rebellion.

[23:22] But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies.

[23:23] My angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them.

[23:24] Do not bow down to their gods or worship them, and do not adopt their religious practices. Destroy their gods and break down their sacred stone pillars.

[23:25] If you worship me, the Lord your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your sicknesses.

[23:26] In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives.

[23:27] “I will make the people who oppose you afraid of me; I will bring confusion among the people against whom you fight, and I will make all your enemies turn and run from you.

[23:28] I will throw your enemies into panic; I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.

[23:29] I will not drive them out within a year's time; if I did, the land would become deserted, and the wild animals would be too many for you.

[23:30] Instead, I will drive them out little by little, until there are enough of you to take possession of the land.

[23:31] I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out as you advance.

[23:32] Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

[23:33] Do not let those people live in your country; if you do, they will make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will be a fatal trap for you.”

[24:1] The Lord said to Moses, “Come up the mountain to me, you and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the leaders of Israel; and while you are still some distance away, bow down in worship.

[24:2] You alone, and none of the others, are to come near me. The people are not even to come up the mountain.”

[24:3] Moses went and told the people all the Lord's commands and all the ordinances, and all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the Lord has said.”

[24:4] Moses wrote down all the Lord's commands. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

[24:5] Then he sent young men, and they burned sacrifices to the Lord and sacrificed some cattle as fellowship offerings.

[24:6] Moses took half of the blood of the animals and put it in bowls; and the other half he threw against the altar.

[24:7] Then he took the book of the Covenant, in which the Lord's commands were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said, “We will obey the Lord and do everything that he has commanded.”

[24:8] Then Moses took the blood in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, “This is the blood that seals the covenant which the Lord made with you when he gave all these commands.”

[24:9] Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the leaders of Israel went up the mountain

[24:10] and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was what looked like a pavement of sapphire, as blue as the sky.

[24:11] God did not harm these leading men of Israel; they saw God, and then they ate and drank together.

[24:12] The Lord said to Moses, “Come up the mountain to me, and while you are here, I will give you two stone tablets which contain all the laws that I have written for the instruction of the people.”

[24:13] Moses and his helper Joshua got ready, and Moses began to go up the holy mountain.

[24:14] Moses said to the leaders, “Wait here in the camp for us until we come back. Aaron and Hur are here with you; and so whoever has a dispute to settle can go to them.”

[24:15] Moses went up Mount Sinai, and a cloud covered it.

[24:18] Moses went on up the mountain into the cloud. There he stayed for forty days and nights.

[25:1] The Lord said to Moses,

[25:2] “Tell the Israelites to make an offering to me. Receive whatever offerings anyone wishes to give.

[25:3] These offerings are to be: gold, silver, and bronze;

[25:4] fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; cloth made of goats' hair;

[25:5] rams' skin dyed red; fine leather; acacia wood;

[25:6] oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense;

[25:7] carnelians and other jewels to be set in the ephod of the High Priest and in his breastpiece.

[25:8] The people must make a sacred Tent for me, so that I may live among them.

[25:9] Make it and all its furnishings according to the plan that I will show you.

[25:10] “Make a Box out of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

[25:11] Cover it with pure gold inside and out and put a gold border all around it.

[25:12] Make four carrying rings of gold for it and attach them to its four legs, with two rings on each side.

[25:13] Make carrying poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold

[25:14] and put them through the rings on each side of the Box.

[25:15] The poles are to be left in the rings and must not be taken out.

[25:16] Then put in the Box the two stone tablets that I will give you, on which the commandments are written.

[25:17] “Make a lid of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

[25:18] Make two winged creatures of hammered gold,

[25:19] one for each end of the lid. Make them so that they form one piece with the lid.

[25:20] The winged creatures are to face each other across the lid, and their outspread wings are to cover it.

[25:21] Put the two stone tablets inside the Box and put the lid on top of it.

[25:22] I will meet you there, and from above the lid between the two winged creatures I will give you all my laws for the people of Israel.

[25:23] “Make a table out of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

[25:24] Cover it with pure gold and put a gold border around it.

[25:25] Make a rim 3 inches wide around it and a gold border around the rim.

[25:26] Make four carrying rings of gold for it and put them at the four corners, where the legs are.

[25:27] The rings to hold the poles for carrying the table are to be placed near the rim.

[25:28] Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.

[25:29] Make plates, cups, jars, and bowls to be used for the wine offerings. All of these are to be made of pure gold.

[25:30] The table is to be placed in front of the Covenant Box, and on the table there is always to be the sacred bread offered to me.

[25:31] “Make a lampstand of pure gold. Make its base and its shaft of hammered gold; its decorative flowers, including buds and petals, are to form one piece with it.

[25:32] Six branches shall extend from its sides, three from each side.

[25:33] Each of the six branches is to have three decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

[25:34] The shaft of the lampstand is to have four decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

[25:35] There is to be one bud below each of the three pairs of branches.

[25:36] The buds, the branches, and the lampstand are to be a single piece of pure hammered gold.

[25:37] Make seven lamps for the lampstand and set them up so that they shine toward the front.

[25:38] Make its tongs and trays of pure gold.

[25:39] Use seventy-five pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and all this equipment.

[25:40] Take care to make them according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

[26:1] “Make the interior of the sacred Tent, the Tent of my presence, out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Embroider them with figures of winged creatures.

[26:2] Make each piece the same size, 14 yards long and 2 yards wide.

[26:3] Sew five of them together in one set, and do the same with the other five.

[26:4] Make loops of blue cloth on the edge of the outside piece in each set.

[26:5] Put fifty loops on the first piece of the first set and fifty loops matching them on the last piece of the second set.

[26:6] Make fifty gold hooks with which to join the two sets into one piece.

[26:7] “Make a cover for the Tent out of eleven pieces of cloth made of goats' hair.

[26:8] Make them all the same size, 15 yards long and 2 yards wide.

[26:9] Sew five of them together in one set, and the other six in another set. Fold the sixth piece double over the front of the Tent.

[26:10] Put fifty loops on the edge of the last piece of one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other set.

[26:11] Make fifty bronze hooks and put them in the loops to join the two sets so as to form one cover.

[26:12] Hang the extra half piece over the back of the Tent.

[26:13] The extra half yard on each side of the length is to hang over the sides of the Tent to cover it.

[26:14] “Make two more coverings, one of rams' skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, to serve as the outer cover.

[26:15] “Make upright frames for the Tent out of acacia wood.

[26:16] Each frame is to be 15 feet long and 27 inches wide,

[26:17] with two matching projections, so that the frames can be joined together. All the frames are to have these projections.

[26:18] Make twenty frames for the south side

[26:19] and forty silver bases to go under them, two bases under each frame to hold its two projections.

[26:20] Make twenty frames for the north side of the Tent

[26:21] and forty silver bases, two under each frame.

[26:22] For the back of the Tent on the west, make six frames,

[26:23] and two frames for the corners.

[26:24] These corner frames are to be joined at the bottom and connected all the way to the top. The two frames that form the two corners are to be made in this way.

[26:25] So there will be eight frames with their sixteen silver bases, two under each frame.

[26:26] “Make fifteen crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the Tent,

[26:27] five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames on the west end, at the back.

[26:28] The middle crossbar, set halfway up the frames, is to extend from one end of the Tent to the other.

[26:29] Cover the frames with gold and fit them with gold rings to hold the crossbars, which are also to be covered with gold.

[26:30] Set up the Tent according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

[26:31] “Make a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Embroider it with figures of winged creatures.

[26:32] Hang it on four posts of acacia wood covered with gold, fitted with hooks, and set in four silver bases.

[26:33] Place the curtain under the row of hooks in the roof of the Tent, and put behind the curtain the Covenant Box containing the two stone tablets. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

[26:34] Put the lid on the Covenant Box.

[26:35] Outside the Most Holy Place put the table against the north side of the Tent and the lampstand against the south side.

[26:36] “For the entrance of the Tent make a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery.

[26:37] For this curtain make five posts of acacia wood covered with gold and fitted with gold hooks; make five bronze bases for these posts.

[27:1] “Make an altar out of acacia wood. It is to be square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and it is to be 4½ feet high.

[27:2] Make projections at the top of the four corners. They are to form one piece with the altar, and the whole is to be covered with bronze.

[27:3] Make pans for the greasy ashes, and make shovels, bowls, hooks, and fire pans. All this equipment is to be made of bronze.

[27:4] Make a bronze grating and put four bronze carrying rings on its corners.

[27:5] Put the grating under the rim of the altar, so that it reaches halfway up the altar.

[27:6] Make carrying poles of acacia wood, cover them with bronze,

[27:7] and put them in the rings on each side of the altar when it is carried.

[27:8] Make the altar out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.