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Exodus 25-26; Matthew 20:17-34 (Contemporary English Version)

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Exodus 25-26 Listen to this passage View commentary related to this passage Exodus 25 The Sacred Tent (Exodus 35.4-9) ¹The LORD said to Moses: ²Tell everyone in Israel who wants to give gifts that they must bring them to you. ³Here is a list of what you are to collect: Gold, silver, and bronze; ⁴blue, purple, and red wool; fine linen; goat hair; ⁵tanned ram skins; fine leather; acacia wood; ⁶olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests; ⁷and onyx ^[a] stones for the sacred vest and the breastpiece. ⁸I also want them to build a special place where I can live among my people. ⁹Make it and its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. The LORD said to Moses: The Sacred Chest (Exodus 37.1-9) ¹⁰Tell the people to build a chest of acacia wood forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. ¹¹Cover it inside and out with pure gold and put a gold edging around the lid. ¹²Make four gold rings and fasten one of them to each of the four legs of the chest. ¹³Make two poles of acacia wood. Cover them with gold ¹⁴and put them through the rings, so the chest can be carried by the poles. ¹⁵Don't ever remove the poles from the rings. ¹⁶When I give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat stones, put them inside the chest. ¹⁷Cover the lid of the chest with pure gold. ^18-19Then hammer out two winged creatures of pure gold and fasten them to the lid at the ends of the chest. ²⁰The creatures must face each other with their wings spread over the chest. ²¹Inside it place the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments and put the gold lid on top of the chest. ²²I will meet you there ^[b] between the two creatures and tell you what my people must do and what they must not do. The LORD said: The Table for the Sacred Bread (Exodus 37.10-16) ²³Make a table of acacia wood thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. ^24-25Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it with a border three inches wide. ^[c] ²⁶Make four gold rings and attach one to each of the legs ^27-28near the edging. The poles for carrying the table are to be placed through these rings and are to be made of acacia wood covered with gold. ^29-30The table is to be kept in the holy place, and the sacred loaves of bread must always be put on it. All bowls, plates, jars, and cups for wine offerings are to be made of pure gold and set on this table. The LORD said: The Lampstand (Exodus 37.17-24) ³¹Make a lampstand of pure gold. The whole lampstand, including its decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered gold ³²with three branches on each of its two sides. ³³There are to be three decorative almond blossoms on each branch ³⁴and four on the stem. ³⁵There must also be a blossom where each pair of branches comes out from the stem. ³⁶The lampstand, including its branches and decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered pure gold. ³⁷The lamp on the top and those at the end of each of its six branches must be made so as to shine toward the front of the lampstand. ³⁸The tongs and trays for taking care of the lamps are to be made of pure gold. ³⁹The lampstand and its equipment will require seventy-five pounds of pure gold, ⁴⁰and they must be made according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain. The LORD said to Moses: Exodus 26 Curtains and Coverings for the Sacred Tent (Exodus 36.8-19) ¹Furnish the sacred tent with curtains made from ten pieces of the finest linen. They must be woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. ²Make each piece fourteen yards long and two yards wide ³and sew them together into two curtains with five sections each. ^4-6Put fifty loops of blue cloth along one of the wider sides of each curtain, then fasten the two curtains at the loops with fifty gold hooks. ^7-8As the material for the tent, use goat hair to weave eleven sections fifteen yards by two yards each. ⁹Sew five of the sections together to make one panel. Then sew the other six together to make a second panel, and fold the sixth section double over the front of the tent. ¹⁰Put fifty loops along one of the wider sides of each panel ¹¹and fasten the two panels at the loops with fifty bronze hooks. ^12-13The panel of goat hair will be a yard longer than the tent itself, so fold half a yard of the material behind the tent and on each side as a protective covering. ¹⁴Make two more coverings--one with ram skins dyed red and the other with fine leather. The LORD said: The Framework for the Sacred Tent (Exodus 36.20-34) ¹⁵Build a framework of acacia wood for the walls of the sacred tent. ¹⁶Each frame is to be fifteen feet high and twenty-seven inches wide ¹⁷with two wooden pegs near the bottom. ^18-21Place two silver stands under each frame with sockets for the pegs, so the frames can be joined together. Twenty of these frames are to be used along the south side and twenty more along the north. ²²For the back wall along the west side use six frames ^23-24with two more at the southwest and northwest corners. Make certain that these corner frames are joined from top to bottom. ²⁵Altogether, this back wall will have eight frames with two silver stands under each one. ^26-27Make five crossbars for each of the wooden frames, ²⁸with the center crossbar running the full length of the wall. ²⁹Cover the frames and the crossbars with gold and attach gold rings to the frames to run the crossbars through. ³⁰Then set up the tent in the way I showed you on the mountain. The LORD said: The Curtain inside the Sacred Tent (Exodus 36.35-38) ^31-33Make a curtain to separate the holy place from the most holy place. Use fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Cover four acacia wood posts with gold and set them each on a silver stand. Then fasten gold hooks to the posts and hang the curtain there. ³⁴Inside the most holy place, you must put the sacred chest that has the place of mercy on its lid. ^[d] ³⁵Outside the curtain put the table for the sacred bread on the right side and the gold lampstand on the left. ³⁶For the entrance to the tent, use a piece of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with fancy needlework. ³⁷Cover five acacia wood posts with gold and set them each on a bronze stand. Then put gold hooks on the posts and hang the curtain there. The LORD said to Moses: Footnotes: Exodus 25:7 onyx: A precious stone with bands of different colors. Exodus 25:22 I will meet you there: It was believed that God had his earthly throne on the lid of the sacred chest. Exodus 25:24 a gold edging. . . wide: Or " a gold edging around it three inches wide." Exodus 26:34 place of mercy on its lid: It was believed that God had his earthly throne on the lid of the sacred chest, and from this place he showed mercy to his people. Contemporary English Version (CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
Matthew 20:17-34 Listen to this passage View commentary related to this passage Jesus Again Tells about His Death (Mark 10.32-34; Luke 18.31-34) ¹⁷As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he took his twelve disciples aside and told them in private: ¹⁸We are now on our way to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses. They will sentence him to death, ¹⁹and then they will hand him over to foreigners ^[a] who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death. A Mother's Request (Mark 10.35-45) ²⁰The mother of James and John ^[b] came to Jesus with her two sons. She knelt down and started begging him to do something for her. ²¹Jesus asked her what she wanted, and she said, "When you come into your kingdom, please let one of my sons sit at your right side and the other at your left." ^[c] ²²Jesus answered, "Not one of you knows what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the cup ^[d] that I must soon drink from?" James and John said, "Yes, we are!" ²³Jesus replied, "You certainly will drink from my cup! But it isn't for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. That is for my Father to say." ²⁴When the ten other disciples heard this, they were angry with the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus called the disciples together and said: You know that foreign rulers like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over everyone they rule. ²⁶But don't act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others. ²⁷And if you want to be first, you must be the slave of the rest. ²⁸The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue ^[e] many people. Jesus Heals Two Blind Men (Mark 10.46-52; Luke 18.35-43) ²⁹Jesus was followed by a large crowd as he and his disciples were leaving Jericho. ³⁰Two blind men were sitting beside the road. And when they heard that Jesus was coming their way, they shouted, "Lord and Son of David, ^[f] have pity on us!" ³¹The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted even louder, "Lord and Son of David, have pity on us!" ³²When Jesus heard them, he stopped and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³³They answered, "Lord, we want to see!" ³⁴Jesus felt sorry for them and touched their eyes. Right away they could see, and they became his followers. Footnotes: Matthew 20:19 foreigners: The Romans, who ruled Judea at this time. Matthew 20:20 mother of James and John: The Greek text has "mother of the sons of Zebedee" (see 26.37). Matthew 20:21 right side. . . left: The most powerful people in a kingdom sat at the right and left side of the king. Matthew 20:22 drink from the cup: In the Scriptures a cup is sometimes used as a symbol of suffering. To "drink from the cup" is to suffer. Matthew 20:28 rescue: The Greek word often, though not always, means the payment of a price to free a slave or a prisoner. Matthew 20:30 Son of David: See the note at 9.27. Contemporary English Version (CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society

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Exodus 25-26

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Exodus 25

The Sacred Tent

(Exodus 35.4-9)

¹The LORD said to Moses:

²Tell everyone in Israel who wants to give gifts that they must bring them to you. ³Here is a list of what you are to collect: Gold, silver, and bronze; ⁴blue, purple, and red wool; fine linen; goat hair; ⁵tanned ram skins; fine leather; acacia wood; ⁶olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests; ⁷and onyx ^[a] stones for the sacred vest and the breastpiece. ⁸I also want them to build a special place where I can live among my people. ⁹Make it and its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. The LORD said to Moses:

The Sacred Chest

(Exodus 37.1-9)

¹⁰Tell the people to build a chest of acacia wood forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. ¹¹Cover it inside and out with pure gold and put a gold edging around the lid. ¹²Make four gold rings and fasten one of them to each of the four legs of the chest. ¹³Make two poles of acacia wood. Cover them with gold ¹⁴and put them through the rings, so the chest can be carried by the poles. ¹⁵Don't ever remove the poles from the rings. ¹⁶When I give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat stones, put them inside the chest.

¹⁷Cover the lid of the chest with pure gold. ^18-19Then hammer out two winged creatures of pure gold and fasten them to the lid at the ends of the chest. ²⁰The creatures must face each other with their wings spread over the chest. ²¹Inside it place the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments and put the gold lid on top of the chest. ²²I will meet you there ^[b] between the two creatures and tell you what my people must do and what they must not do. The LORD said:

The Table for the Sacred Bread

(Exodus 37.10-16)

²³Make a table of acacia wood thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. ^24-25Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it with a border three inches wide. ^[c] ²⁶Make four gold rings and attach one to each of the legs ^27-28near the edging. The poles for carrying the table are to be placed through these rings and are to be made of acacia wood covered with gold. ^29-30The table is to be kept in the holy place, and the sacred loaves of bread must always be put on it. All bowls, plates, jars, and cups for wine offerings are to be made of pure gold and set on this table. The LORD said:

The Lampstand

(Exodus 37.17-24)

³¹Make a lampstand of pure gold. The whole lampstand, including its decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered gold ³²with three branches on each of its two sides. ³³There are to be three decorative almond blossoms on each branch ³⁴and four on the stem. ³⁵There must also be a blossom where each pair of branches comes out from the stem. ³⁶The lampstand, including its branches and decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered pure gold. ³⁷The lamp on the top and those at the end of each of its six branches must be made so as to shine toward the front of the lampstand. ³⁸The tongs and trays for taking care of the lamps are to be made of pure gold. ³⁹The lampstand and its equipment will require seventy-five pounds of pure gold, ⁴⁰and they must be made according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain.

The LORD said to Moses:

Exodus 26

Curtains and Coverings for the Sacred Tent

(Exodus 36.8-19)

¹Furnish the sacred tent with curtains made from ten pieces of the finest linen. They must be woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. ²Make each piece fourteen yards long and two yards wide ³and sew them together into two curtains with five sections each. ^4-6Put fifty loops of blue cloth along one of the wider sides of each curtain, then fasten the two curtains at the loops with fifty gold hooks.

^7-8As the material for the tent, use goat hair to weave eleven sections fifteen yards by two yards each. ⁹Sew five of the sections together to make one panel. Then sew the other six together to make a second panel, and fold the sixth section double over the front of the tent. ¹⁰Put fifty loops along one of the wider sides of each panel ¹¹and fasten the two panels at the loops with fifty bronze hooks. ^12-13The panel of goat hair will be a yard longer than the tent itself, so fold half a yard of the material behind the tent and on each side as a protective covering. ¹⁴Make two more coverings--one with ram skins dyed red and the other with fine leather.

The LORD said:

The Framework for the Sacred Tent

(Exodus 36.20-34)

¹⁵Build a framework of acacia wood for the walls of the sacred tent. ¹⁶Each frame is to be fifteen feet high and twenty-seven inches wide ¹⁷with two wooden pegs near the bottom. ^18-21Place two silver stands under each frame with sockets for the pegs, so the frames can be joined together. Twenty of these frames are to be used along the south side and twenty more along the north. ²²For the back wall along the west side use six frames ^23-24with two more at the southwest and northwest corners. Make certain that these corner frames are joined from top to bottom. ²⁵Altogether, this back wall will have eight frames with two silver stands under each one.

^26-27Make five crossbars for each of the wooden frames, ²⁸with the center crossbar running the full length of the wall. ²⁹Cover the frames and the crossbars with gold and attach gold rings to the frames to run the crossbars through. ³⁰Then set up the tent in the way I showed you on the mountain.

The LORD said:

The Curtain inside the Sacred Tent

(Exodus 36.35-38)

^31-33Make a curtain to separate the holy place from the most holy place. Use fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Cover four acacia wood posts with gold and set them each on a silver stand. Then fasten gold hooks to the posts and hang the curtain there.

³⁴Inside the most holy place, you must put the sacred chest that has the place of mercy on its lid. ^[d] ³⁵Outside the curtain put the table for the sacred bread on the right side and the gold lampstand on the left. ³⁶For the entrance to the tent, use a piece of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with fancy needlework. ³⁷Cover five acacia wood posts with gold and set them each on a bronze stand. Then put gold hooks on the posts and hang the curtain there.

The LORD said to Moses:

Footnotes:

Exodus 25:7 onyx: A precious stone with bands of different colors.
Exodus 25:22 I will meet you there: It was believed that God had his earthly throne on the lid of the sacred chest.
Exodus 25:24 a gold edging. . . wide: Or " a gold edging around it three inches wide."
Exodus 26:34 place of mercy on its lid: It was believed that God had his earthly throne on the lid of the sacred chest, and from this place he showed mercy to his people.

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Matthew 20:17-34

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Jesus Again Tells about His Death

(Mark 10.32-34; Luke 18.31-34)

¹⁷As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he took his twelve disciples aside and told them in private:

¹⁸We are now on our way to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses. They will sentence him to death, ¹⁹and then they will hand him over to foreigners ^[a] who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death.

A Mother's Request

(Mark 10.35-45)

²⁰The mother of James and John ^[b] came to Jesus with her two sons. She knelt down and started begging him to do something for her. ²¹Jesus asked her what she wanted, and she said, "When you come into your kingdom, please let one of my sons sit at your right side and the other at your left." ^[c] ²²Jesus answered, "Not one of you knows what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the cup ^[d] that I must soon drink from?" James and John said, "Yes, we are!"

²³Jesus replied, "You certainly will drink from my cup! But it isn't for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. That is for my Father to say."

²⁴When the ten other disciples heard this, they were angry with the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus called the disciples together and said:

You know that foreign rulers like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over everyone they rule. ²⁶But don't act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others. ²⁷And if you want to be first, you must be the slave of the rest. ²⁸The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue ^[e] many people.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

(Mark 10.46-52; Luke 18.35-43)

²⁹Jesus was followed by a large crowd as he and his disciples were leaving Jericho. ³⁰Two blind men were sitting beside the road. And when they heard that Jesus was coming their way, they shouted, "Lord and Son of David, ^[f] have pity on us!" ³¹The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted even louder, "Lord and Son of David, have pity on us!"

³²When Jesus heard them, he stopped and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"

³³They answered, "Lord, we want to see!"

³⁴Jesus felt sorry for them and touched their eyes. Right away they could see, and they became his followers.

Footnotes:

Matthew 20:19 foreigners: The Romans, who ruled Judea at this time.
Matthew 20:20 mother of James and John: The Greek text has "mother of the sons of Zebedee" (see 26.37).
Matthew 20:21 right side. . . left: The most powerful people in a kingdom sat at the right and left side of the king.
Matthew 20:22 drink from the cup: In the Scriptures a cup is sometimes used as a symbol of suffering. To "drink from the cup" is to suffer.
Matthew 20:28 rescue: The Greek word often, though not always, means the payment of a price to free a slave or a prisoner.
Matthew 20:30 Son of David: See the note at 9.27.

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Passage results

Exodus 25-26; Matthew 20:17-34 (Contemporary English Version)

Exodus 25

The Sacred Tent

(Exodus 35.4-9)

The Sacred Chest

(Exodus 37.1-9)

The Table for the Sacred Bread

(Exodus 37.10-16)

The Lampstand

(Exodus 37.17-24)

Exodus 26

Curtains and Coverings for the Sacred Tent

(Exodus 36.8-19)

The Framework for the Sacred Tent

(Exodus 36.20-34)

The Curtain inside the Sacred Tent

(Exodus 36.35-38)

Jesus Again Tells about His Death

(Mark 10.32-34; Luke 18.31-34)

A Mother's Request

(Mark 10.35-45)

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

(Mark 10.46-52; Luke 18.35-43)