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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Laban Pursues Jacob
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
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Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
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So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
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But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
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And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this.
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The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.
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The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.
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The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
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The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’
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blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
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Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
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“Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
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And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
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The Lampstand
“Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.
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The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
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Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.
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A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
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The Tabernacle
“Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker.
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“Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker.
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“For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer.
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“For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.
