Exodus 34-35

English Standard Version

Moses Makes New Tablets

34 The Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, ^(B)and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, ^(C)which you broke. ²Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me ^(D)on the top of the mountain. ³No ^(E)one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” ⁴So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. ⁵The Lord ^(F)descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and ^(G)proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^(H)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^(I)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^(J)love and faithfulness, ⁷^(K)keeping steadfast love for thousands,^[a] ^(L)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ^(M)who will by no means clear the guilty, ^(N)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” ⁸And Moses quickly ^(O)bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. ⁹And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please ^(P)let the Lord go in the midst of us, for ^(Q)it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for ^(R)your inheritance.”

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰And he said, “Behold, ^(S)I am making a covenant. Before all your people ^(T)I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an ^(U)awesome thing that I will do with you.

¹¹“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ^(V)I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ¹²^(W)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^(X)snare in your midst. ¹³You shall ^(Y)tear down their altars and ^(Z)break their pillars and cut down their ^(AA)Asherim ¹⁴(for ^(AB)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), ¹⁵^(AC)lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ^(AD)whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and ^(AE)you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶and you take of ^(AF)their daughters for your sons, and their daughters ^(AG)whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

¹⁷^(AH)“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

¹⁸^(AI)“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ^(AJ)the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. ¹⁹^(AK)All that open the womb are mine, all your male^[b] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ²⁰The ^(AL)firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And ^(AM)none shall appear before me empty-handed.

²¹^(AN)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ²²^(AO)You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. ²³^(AP)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. ²⁴For I will ^(AQ)cast out nations before you and ^(AR)enlarge your borders; ^(AS)no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵^(AT)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ^(AU)or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. ²⁶^(AV)The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. ^(AW)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.”

²⁷And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words ^(AX)I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸^(AY)So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he ^(AZ)wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.^[c]

The Shining Face of Moses

²⁹When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with ^(BA)the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face ^(BB)shone because he had been talking with God.^[d] ³⁰Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face ^(BC)shone, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. ³²Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he ^(BD)commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ³³And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a ^(BE)veil over his face.

³⁴Whenever Moses ^(BF)went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, ³⁵the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was ^(BG)shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Sabbath Regulations

35 Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, ^(BH)“These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. ²^(BI)Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. ³^(BJ)You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”

Contributions for the Tabernacle

⁴Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. ⁵^(BK)Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. ^(BL)Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; ⁶blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats' hair, ⁷tanned rams' skins, and goatskins;^[e] acacia wood, ⁸oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, ⁹and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

¹⁰“Let ^(BM)every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: ¹¹^(BN)the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; ¹²^(BO)the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the ^(BP)veil of the screen; ¹³^(BQ)the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the ^(BR)bread of the Presence; ¹⁴^(BS)the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the ^(BT)oil for the light; ¹⁵^(BU)and the altar of incense, with its poles, ^(BV)and the anointing oil and the ^(BW)fragrant incense, and ^(BX)the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; ¹⁶^(BY)the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the ^(BZ)basin and its stand; ¹⁷^(CA)the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court; ¹⁸^(CB)the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their ^(CC)cords; ¹⁹the ^(CD)finely worked garments for ministering^[f] in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”

²⁰Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. ²¹And they came, ^(CE)everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, ^(CF)and brought the Lord's contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²²So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord. ²³And ^(CG)every one who possessed ^(CH)blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats' hair or tanned rams' skins or goatskins brought them. ²⁴^(CI)Everyone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord's contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it. ²⁵And every ^(CJ)skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. ²⁶All the women ^(CK)whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats' hair. ²⁷And the ^(CL)leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, ²⁸and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. ²⁹^(CM)All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord.

Construction of the Tabernacle

³⁰^(CN)Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; ³¹and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ^(CO)skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, ³²to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, ³³in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. ³⁴And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has ^(CP)filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

Footnotes

Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation
Exodus 34:19 Septuagint, Theodotion, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Exodus 34:28 Hebrew the ten words
Exodus 34:29 Hebrew him
Exodus 35:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 23; compare 25:5
Exodus 35:19 Or garments for worship; see 31:10

Mark 3

English Standard Version

A Man with a Withered Hand

3 ^(A)Again ^(B)he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. ²And ^(C)they watched Jesus,^[a] to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. ³And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” ⁴And he said to them, ^(D)“Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. ⁵And he ^(E)looked around at them with anger, grieved at ^(F)their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” ^(G)He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶^(H)The Pharisees went out and immediately ^(I)held counsel with ^(J)the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

⁷^(K)Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ^(L)a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea ⁸and Jerusalem and ^(M)Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ^(N)Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. ⁹And he told his disciples to ^(O)have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ^(P)crush him, ¹⁰for ^(Q)he had healed many, so that all who had ^(R)diseases pressed around him ^(S)to touch him. ¹¹^(T)And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ^(U)fell down before him and cried out, “You are ^(V)the Son of God.” ¹²And ^(W)he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

The Twelve Apostles

¹³^(X)And he went up on the mountain and called to him those ^(Y)whom he desired, and they came to him. ¹⁴^(Z)And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach ¹⁵^(AA)and have authority to cast out demons. ¹⁶He appointed the twelve: ^(AB)Simon (to whom ^(AC)he gave the name Peter); ¹⁷^(AD)James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and ^(AE)Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,^[b] ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

²⁰Then he went ^(AF)home, and the crowd gathered again, ^(AG)so that they could not even eat. ²¹^(AH)And when ^(AI)his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He ^(AJ)is out of his mind.”

Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

²²And ^(AK)the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, ^(AL)“He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” ²³^(AM)And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. ²⁶And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. ²⁷But ^(AN)no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. ^(AO)Then indeed he may plunder his house.

²⁸^(AP)“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, ²⁹but whoever ^(AQ)blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— ³⁰for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

³¹^(AR)And his mother and his ^(AS)brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. ³²And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers^[c] are outside, seeking you.” ³³And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴And ^(AT)looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ³⁵^(AU)For whoever ^(AV)does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

Footnotes

Mark 3:2 Greek him
Mark 3:18 Greek kananaios, meaning zealot
Mark 3:32 Other manuscripts add and your sisters

Psalm 55-56

English Standard Version

Cast Your Burden on the Lord

To the choirmaster: with ^(A)stringed instruments. A Maskil^[a] of David.

55 ^(B)Give ear to my prayer, O God,
    and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
²Attend to me, and answer me;
    I am restless ^(C)in my complaint and I ^(D)moan,
³because of the noise of the enemy,
    because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they ^(E)drop trouble upon me,
    and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

⁴My heart is in anguish within me;
    ^(F)the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
⁵Fear and trembling come upon me,
    and ^(G)horror ^(H)overwhelms me.
⁶And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest;
⁷^(I)yes, I would wander far away;
    I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
⁸I would hurry to find a shelter
    from ^(J)the raging wind and tempest.”

⁹Destroy, O Lord, ^(K)divide their tongues;
    for I see ^(L)violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰Day and night they go around it
    on its walls,
and ^(M)iniquity and trouble are within it;
¹¹    ruin is in its midst;
^(N)oppression and fraud
    do not depart from its marketplace.

¹²For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
    then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who ^(O)deals insolently with me—
    then I could hide from him.
¹³^(P)But it is you, a man, my equal,
    my companion, my familiar friend.
¹⁴We used to take sweet counsel together;
    within God's house we walked in ^(Q)the throng.
¹⁵Let death steal over them;
    let them go down to Sheol ^(R)alive;
    for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

¹⁶But I call to God,
    and the Lord will save me.
¹⁷^(S)Evening and ^(T)morning and at ^(U)noon
    I ^(V)utter my complaint and moan,
    and he hears my voice.
¹⁸He redeems my soul in safety
    from the battle that I wage,
    for ^(W)many are arrayed against me.
¹⁹God will give ear and humble them,
    he who is ^(X)enthroned from of old, Selah
because they do not ^(Y)change
    and do not fear God.

²⁰My companion^[b] ^(Z)stretched out his hand against his friends;
    he violated his covenant.
²¹His ^(AA)speech was ^(AB)smooth as butter,
    yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
    yet they were ^(AC)drawn swords.

²²^(AD)Cast your burden on the Lord,
and he will sustain you;
^(AE)he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.

²³But you, O God, ^(AF)will cast them down
into ^(AG)the pit of destruction;
men of ^(AH)blood and treachery
shall not ^(AI)live out half their days.
But I will ^(AJ)trust in you.

In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A ^(AK)Miktam^[c] of David, when the ^(AL)Philistines seized him in Gath.

56 ^(AM)Be gracious to me, O God, for man ^(AN)tramples on me;
    all day long an attacker oppresses me;
²my enemies trample on me all day long,
    for many attack me proudly.
³When I am afraid,
    I ^(AO)put my trust in you.
⁴In God, whose word I praise,
    in God I trust; ^(AP)I shall not be afraid.
    What can flesh do to me?

⁵All day long they injure my cause;^[d]
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶They ^(AQ)stir up strife, they ^(AR)lurk;
    they ^(AS)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
⁷For their crime will they escape?
    ^(AT)In wrath ^(AU)cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸You have kept count of my tossings;^[e]
    ^(AV)put my tears in your bottle.
    ^(AW)Are they not in your book?
⁹Then my enemies will turn back
    ^(AX)in the day when I call.
    This I know, that^[f] ^(AY)God is for me.
¹⁰In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
¹¹in God I trust; ^(AZ)I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?

¹²I must perform my ^(BA)vows to you, O God;
    I will ^(BB)render thank offerings to you.
¹³^(BC)For you have delivered my soul from death,
    yes, my feet from falling,
^(BD)that I may walk before God
    ^(BE)in the light of life.