Three National Feasts

14 (A)Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15 You shall keep (B)the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the (C)month of Abib, for in [a]that month you came out of Egypt. And [b](D)no one is to appear before Me empty-handed. 16 Also you shall keep (E)the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year (F)when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. 17 (G)Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord [c]God.

18 (H)You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; (I)nor is the fat of My [d]feast to remain overnight until morning.

19 “You shall bring (J)the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

(K)You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

Conquest of the Land

20 “Behold, I am going to send (L)an angel before you to guard you along the way and (M)to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Be attentive to him and obey his voice; (N)do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your rebellion, since (O)My name is in him. 22 But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then (P)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 (Q)For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. 24 (R)You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; (S)but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their (T)memorial stones in pieces. 25 (U)And you shall serve the Lord your God, [e]and He will bless your bread and your water; and (V)I will remove sickness from your midst. 26 There will be no one miscarrying or (W)unable to have children in your land; (X)I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 I will (Y)send My terror ahead of you, and (Z)throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will (AA)make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send (AB)hornets ahead of you so that they will (AC)drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from you. 29 (AD)I will not drive them out from you in a single year, so that the land will not become desolate and the animals of the field become too numerous for you. 30 I will drive them out from you (AE)little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. 31 (AF)I will set your boundary from the [f]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; (AG)for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will (AH)drive them out from you. 32 (AI)You shall [g]make no covenant with them (AJ)or with their gods. 33 (AK)They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, (AL)it is certain to be a snare to you.”

People Affirm Their Covenant with God

24 Then He said to Moses, “(AM)Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, (AN)Nadab and Abihu, and (AO)seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance. Moses alone, however, shall approach the Lord, but they shall not approach, nor shall the people come up with him.”

Then Moses came and reported to the people all the words of the Lord and all the [h]ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, “(AP)All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!” And (AQ)Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an (AR)altar [i]at the foot of the mountain with twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, (AS)and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as peace offerings to the Lord. (AT)Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took (AU)the Book of the Covenant and read it [j]as the people listened; and they said, “(AV)All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!” So (AW)Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold (AX)the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has [k]made with you [l]in accordance with all these words.”

Then Moses went up [m]with Aaron, (AY)Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10 and (AZ)they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet [n](BA)there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, [o]as clear as the sky itself. 11 Yet He did not reach out with His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and (BB)they saw God, and they ate and drank.

12 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and [p]stay there, and (BC)I will give you the stone tablets [q]with the Law and the [r]commandments which I have written for their instruction.” 13 So Moses got up [s]along with (BD)Joshua his [t]servant, and Moses went up to (BE)the mountain of God. 14 But to the elders he said, “(BF)Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, (BG)Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever [u]has a legal matter, have him approach them.” 15 Then Moses went up to the mountain, and (BH)the cloud covered the mountain. 16 (BI)The glory of the Lord [v]settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He (BJ)called to Moses from the midst of the cloud. 17 (BK)And to the eyes of the sons of Israel, the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a (BL)consuming fire on the mountain top. 18 Then Moses entered the midst of the cloud [w]as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain for (BM)forty days and forty nights.

Offerings for the Sanctuary

25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, (BN)Tell the sons of Israel to take a [x]contribution for Me; (BO)from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My [y]contribution. This is the [z]contribution which you are to take from them: gold, silver, and bronze, [aa](BP)violet, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair, rams’ skins dyed red, [ab]fine leather, acacia wood, (BQ)oil for lighting, (BR)balsam oil for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones and setting stones for the (BS)ephod and for the [ac](BT)breastpiece. Have them (BU)construct a sanctuary for Me, (BV)so that I may dwell among them. (BW)According to all that I am going to show you as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, so you shall construct it.

Ark of the Covenant

10 “Now (BX)they shall construct an [ad]ark of acacia wood [ae]two and a half cubits [af]long, one and a half cubits [ag]wide, and one and a half cubits [ah]high. 11 You shall (BY)overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding [ai]around it. 12 You shall also cast four gold rings for it and [aj]fasten them on its four feet; two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13 And you shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them. 15 The (BZ)poles shall [ak]remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it. 16 You shall (CA)put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

17 “And you shall (CB)make [al]an atoning cover of pure gold, [am]two and a half cubits [an]long and one and a half cubits [ao]wide. 18 You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work [ap]at the two ends of the atoning cover. 19 Make one cherub [aq]at one end and one cherub [ar]at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece [as]with the atoning cover at its two ends. 20 And (CC)the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and [at]facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover. 21 Then (CD)you shall put the atoning cover [au]on top of the ark, and (CE)in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you. 22 (CF)There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from (CG)between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about [av]every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.

Bread of the Presence

23 (CH)You shall also make a table of acacia wood, [aw]two cubits [ax]long and one cubit [ay]wide, and one and a half cubits [az]high. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold (CI)border around it. 25 And you shall make for it a rim of a [ba]hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it. 26 You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs. 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried. 29 You shall also make its (CJ)dishes, its pans, its jars, and its libation bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. 30 And you shall set (CK)the bread of the [bb]Presence on the table before Me continually.

The Golden Lampstand

31 (CL)Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its [bc]bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. 32 (CM)Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its [bd]other side. 33 (CN)Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a [be]bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the [bf]other branch, a [bg]bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand; 34 and (CO)on the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its [bh]bulbs and its flowers. 35 (CP)A [bi]bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a [bj]bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a [bk]bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand. 36 (CQ)Their [bl]bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37 Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and (CR)they shall [bm]mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it. 38 Its tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made from a [bn]talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. 40 (CS)See that you make them (CT)by the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:15 Lit it
  2. Exodus 23:15 Lit they shall not
  3. Exodus 23:17 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  4. Exodus 23:18 Or festival
  5. Exodus 23:25 Or that He may bless
  6. Exodus 23:31 Lit Sea of Reeds
  7. Exodus 23:32 Lit cut
  8. Exodus 24:3 Or judgments
  9. Exodus 24:4 Lit beneath
  10. Exodus 24:7 Lit in the ears of the people;
  11. Exodus 24:8 Lit cut
  12. Exodus 24:8 Lit on all
  13. Exodus 24:9 Lit and
  14. Exodus 24:10 Lit like a pavement
  15. Exodus 24:10 Lit and as
  16. Exodus 24:12 Lit be
  17. Exodus 24:12 Lit and
  18. Exodus 24:12 Lit commandment
  19. Exodus 24:13 Lit and
  20. Exodus 24:13 Or minister
  21. Exodus 24:14 Lit is a master of matters
  22. Exodus 24:16 Lit dwelt
  23. Exodus 24:18 Lit and
  24. Exodus 25:2 Or uplifted offering
  25. Exodus 25:2 Or uplifted offering
  26. Exodus 25:3 Or uplifted offering
  27. Exodus 25:4 Or bluish; LXX hyacinth in color
  28. Exodus 25:5 Meaning of the Heb uncertain
  29. Exodus 25:7 Or pouch
  30. Exodus 25:10 I.e., chest
  31. Exodus 25:10 About 3.7 ft. long and 2.2 ft. wide and high or 1.1 m and 68 cm
  32. Exodus 25:10 Lit its length
  33. Exodus 25:10 Lit its width
  34. Exodus 25:10 Lit its height
  35. Exodus 25:11 Lit on it round about
  36. Exodus 25:12 Or put
  37. Exodus 25:15 Lit be
  38. Exodus 25:17 Also called a mercy seat, and so throughout the ch; i.e., where blood was sprinkled on the Day of Atonement
  39. Exodus 25:17 About 3.7 ft. long and 2.2 ft. wide or 1.1 m and 68 cm
  40. Exodus 25:17 Lit its length
  41. Exodus 25:17 Lit its width
  42. Exodus 25:18 Lit from
  43. Exodus 25:19 Lit from
  44. Exodus 25:19 Lit from
  45. Exodus 25:19 Lit from
  46. Exodus 25:20 Lit their faces to
  47. Exodus 25:21 Lit above, upon
  48. Exodus 25:22 Lit all that I will command
  49. Exodus 25:23 About 3 ft. long, 1.5 ft. wide, 2.25 ft. high or 90 cm, 45 cm, and 68 cm
  50. Exodus 25:23 Lit its length
  51. Exodus 25:23 Lit its width
  52. Exodus 25:23 Lit its height
  53. Exodus 25:25 About 3 in. or 7.5 cm
  54. Exodus 25:30 Lit Face
  55. Exodus 25:31 Or calyx
  56. Exodus 25:32 Lit second
  57. Exodus 25:33 Or calyx
  58. Exodus 25:33 Lit one branch
  59. Exodus 25:33 Or calyx
  60. Exodus 25:34 Or calyxes
  61. Exodus 25:35 Or calyx
  62. Exodus 25:35 Or calyx
  63. Exodus 25:35 Or calyx
  64. Exodus 25:36 Or calyxes
  65. Exodus 25:37 Lit raise up
  66. Exodus 25:39 About 75 lb. or 34 kg

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