And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the 10 fruits thereof: but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie 11 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 olive-yard. Six days thou shalt 12 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. And in all things that I have said 13 unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 14 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt cat 15 unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty :) and the feast 16 of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in thy field and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the 17 LORD God. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with 18 leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou 19 shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, 20 and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Be- 21 ware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if 22 thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and 23 bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, 24 nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. And ye 25 shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in 26 thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my 27 fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall 28 drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; 29 lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from be- 30 fore thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. And I 31 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. Thou shalt make no covenant with 32 them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, 33 lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and24 Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the 2 LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the 3 words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words 4 of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Is- 5 rael, which offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and 6 put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience 7 of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled 8 it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, 9 and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they saw the God of Is- 10 rael: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. Aid upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his 11 hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

AND the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the 12 mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and 13 Moses went up into the mount of God. And he said unto the 14 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.

AND Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the 15 mount. And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, 16 and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the 17 glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the And Moses went 18 mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 'Speak unto the chil-25 dren of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take my offering. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and 3 silver, and brass, ' and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine 4 linen, and goats' hair,' and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' 5

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skins, and shittim wood, 'oil for the light, spices for anointing 6 oil, and for sweet incense, 'onyx stones, and stones to be set in 7 the ephod, and in the breast-plate.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among 8 them. According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the 9 tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

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And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and 10 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. And 11 thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put 12 them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. And thou 13 shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the 14 ark, that the ark may be borne with them. The staves shall be 15 in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits 17 and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, 18 of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. And make one cherub on the one end, and the other 19 cherub on the other end: even of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. And the cherubims 20 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. And 21 thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And 22 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.

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits 23 shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. And thou shalt overlay it 24 with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round 25 about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and 26 put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. Over-against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves 27 to bear the table. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim 28 wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons 29 thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them. And thou shalt set upon the 30 table show-bread before me alway.

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And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten 31 work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. And 32 six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: three bowls made like unto 33 almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto alm- 34 onds, with their knops and their flowers. And there shall be a knop 35 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. Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all of it 36 shall be one beaten work of pure gold. And thou shalt make 37 the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over-against it. And the tongs thereof, 38 and the snuff-dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. Of a talent of 39 pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. And look that 40 thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount.

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Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains26 of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. The length 2 of one curtain shall be eight-and-twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of 4 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 second. Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one 5 curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another. And thou shalt make fifty taches of 6 gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair, to be a covering 7 upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. The 8 length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

And thou shalt couple five curtains by them- 9 selves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the fore-front of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make 10 fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put 11 the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of 12 the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the

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backside of the tabernacle. And a cubit on the one side, and a 13 cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. And thou shalt 14 make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood 15 standing up. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a 16 cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board. Two tenons 17 shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. And thou 18 shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. And thou shalt make forty sockets of sil- 19 ver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north 20 side there shall be twenty boards: and their forty sockets of silver; 21 two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt 22 make six boards. And two boards shalt thou make for the cor- 23 ners of the tabernacle in the two sides. And they shall be 24 coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. And they shall be eight 25 boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. And 26 thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the 27 other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. And the 28 middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make 29 their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle 30 according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee in the

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And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, 31 and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim 32 wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under 33 the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto yon between the holy place and the most holy. And thou shalt put the mercyseat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. And 35 thon shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over-against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

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