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Exodus 31

    ²See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

    ³And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and ability, in understanding and intelligence, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,

    ⁴To devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

    ⁵And in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

    ⁶And behold, I have appointed with him Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and to all who are wisehearted I have given wisdom and ability to make all that I have commanded you:

    ⁷The Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent--

    ⁸The table [of the showbread] and its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

    ⁹The altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, the laver and its base--

    ¹⁰The finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the [high] priest and for his sons to minister as priests,

    ¹¹And the anointing oil and incense of sweet spices for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you shall they do.

    ¹²And the Lord said to Moses,

    ¹³Say to the Israelites, Truly you shall keep My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you [set you apart for Myself ].

    ¹⁴You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you; everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does work on the Sabbath shall be cut off from among his people.

    ¹⁵Six days may work be done, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, sacred to the Lord; whoever does work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

    ¹⁶Wherefore the Israelites shall keep the Sabbath to observe it throughout their generations, a perpetual covenant.

    ¹⁷It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased and was refreshed.

    ¹⁸And He gave to Moses, when He had ceased communing with him on Mount Sinai, the two tables of the Testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 32

    ²So Aaron replied, Take the gold rings from the ears of your wives, your sons, and daughters, and bring them to me.

    ³So all the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.

    ⁴And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

    ⁵And when Aaron saw the molten calf, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.

    ⁶And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

    ⁷The Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;

    ⁸They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

    ⁹And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;

    ¹⁰Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and that I may destroy them; but I will make of you a great nation.

    ¹¹But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why does Your wrath blaze hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

    ¹²Why should the Egyptians say, For evil He brought them forth, to slay them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and change Your mind concerning this evil against Your people.

    ¹³[Earnestly] remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

    ¹⁴Then the Lord turned from the evil which He had thought to do to His people.

    ¹⁵And Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, tables or tablets that were written on both sides.

    ¹⁶The tables were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

    ¹⁷And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

    ¹⁸But Moses said, It is not the sound of shouting for victory, neither is it the sound of the cry of the defeated, but the sound of singing that I hear.

    ¹⁹And as soon as he came near to the camp he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger blazed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

    ²⁰And he took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

    ²¹And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?

    ²²And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord blaze hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil.

    ²³For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

    ²⁴I said to them, Those who have any gold, let them take it off. So they gave it to me; then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

    ²⁵And when Moses saw that the people were unruly and unrestrained (for Aaron had let them get out of control, so that they were a derision and object of shame among their enemies),

    ²⁶Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the Levites [the priestly tribe] gathered together to him.

    ²⁷And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Every man put his sword on his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

    ²⁸And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about 3000 men.

    ²⁹And Moses said [to the Levites, By your obedience to God's command] you have consecrated yourselves today [as priests] to the Lord, each man [at the cost of being] against his own son and his own brother, that the Lord may restore and bestow His blessing upon you this day.

    ³⁰The next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.

    ³¹So Moses returned to the Lord, and said, Oh, these people have sinned a great sin and have made themselves gods of gold!

    ³²Yet now, if You will forgive their sin--and if not, blot me, I pray You, out of Your book which You have written!

    ³³But the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him [not you] out of My book.^(A)

    ³⁴But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have told you. Behold, My ^[a]Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish I will visit their sin upon them!^(B)

    ³⁵And the Lord sent a plague upon the people because they made the calf which Aaron fashioned for them.

Exodus 33

    ²I will send an ^[b]Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.^(C)

    ³Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way.

    ⁴When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned and no man put on his ornaments.

    ⁵For the Lord had said to Moses, Say to the Israelites, You are a stiff-necked people! If I should come among you for one moment, I would consume and destroy you. Now therefore [penitently] leave off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.

    ⁶And the Israelites left off all their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

    ⁷Now Moses used to take [his own] tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting [of God with His own people]. And everyone who sought the Lord went out to [that temporary] tent of meeting which was outside the camp.

    ⁸When Moses went out to the tent of meeting, all the people rose and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses until he had gone into the tent.

    ⁹When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the Lord would talk with Moses.

    ¹⁰And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the tent door, and all the people rose up and worshiped, every man at his tent door.

    ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Moses returned to the camp, but his minister Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the [temporary prayer] tent.

    ¹²Moses said to the Lord, See, You say to me, Bring up this people, but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You said, I know you by name and you have also found favor in My sight.

    ¹³Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You [progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with You, perceiving and recognizing and understanding more strongly and clearly] and that I may find favor in Your sight. And [Lord, do] consider that this nation is Your people.

    ¹⁴And the Lord said, My Presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.

    ¹⁵And Moses said to the Lord, If Your Presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here!

    ¹⁶For by what shall it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight? Is it not in Your going with us so that we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the other people upon the face of the earth?

    ¹⁷And the Lord said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have asked, for you have found favor, loving-kindness, and mercy in My sight and I know you personally and by name.^(D)

    ¹⁸And Moses said, I beseech You, show me Your glory.

    ¹⁹And God said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim My name, THE LORD, before you; for I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy and loving-kindness on whom I will show mercy and loving-kindness.^(E)

    ²⁰But, He said, You can not see My face, for no man shall see Me and live.

    ²¹And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place beside Me, and you shall stand upon the rock,

    ²²And while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.

    ²³Then I will take away My hand and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.

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Matthew 22

    ²The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son

    ³And sent his servants to summon those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they refused to come.

    ⁴Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my banquet; my bullocks and my fat calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast.

    ⁵But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away--one to his farm, another to his business,

    ⁶While the others seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death.

    ⁷[Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soldiers and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

    ⁸Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy.

    ⁹So go to the thoroughfares where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.

    ¹⁰And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.

    ¹¹But when the king came in to view the guests, he looked intently at a man there who had on no wedding garment.

    ¹²And he said, Friend, how did you come in here without putting on the [appropriate] wedding garment? And he was speechless (^[a]muzzled, gagged).

    ¹³Then the king said to the attendants, Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness outside; there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

    ¹⁴For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen.

    ¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and consulted and plotted together how they might entangle Jesus in His talk.

    ¹⁶And they sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You are ^[b]sincere and what You profess to be and that You teach the way of God truthfully, regardless of consequences and being afraid of no man; for You are impartial and do not regard either the person or the position of anyone.

    ¹⁷Tell us then what You think about this: Is it lawful to pay tribute [levied on individuals and to be paid yearly] to Caesar or not?

    ¹⁸But Jesus, aware of their malicious plot, asked, Why do you put Me to the test and try to entrap Me, you pretenders (hypocrites)?

    ¹⁹Show me the money used for the tribute. And they brought Him a denarius.

    ²⁰And Jesus said to them, Whose likeness and title are these?

    ²¹They said, Caesar's. Then He said to them, Pay therefore to Caesar the things that are due to Caesar, and pay to God the things that are due to God.

    ²²When they heard it they were amazed and marveled; and they left Him and departed.