Exodus 33-36

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

33 The Lord said to Moses, Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your descendants I will give it.

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

³ Go 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.

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

⁵ For 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.

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

⁷ Now 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.

⁸ When 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.

⁹ When 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.

¹⁰ And 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.

¹¹ And 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.

¹² Moses 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.

¹³ Now 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.

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

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

¹⁶ For 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?

¹⁷ And 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.^(B)

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

¹⁹ And 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.^(C)

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

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

²² And 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.

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

34 The Lord said to Moses, Cut two tables of stone like the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.

² Be ready and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

³ And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let flocks or herds feed before that mountain.

⁴ So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first, and he rose up early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took ^[b]in his hand two tables of stone.

⁵ And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord! the Lord! a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth,

⁷ Keeping mercy and loving-kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but Who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.

⁸ And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth and worshiped.

⁹ And he said, If now I have found favor and loving-kindness in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray You, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.

¹⁰ And the Lord said, Behold, I lay down [afresh the terms of the mutual agreement between Israel and Me] a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels (wonders, miracles) such as have not been wrought or 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 a terrible thing [fearful and full of awe] that I will do with you.

¹¹ Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, Canaanite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.

¹² Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant or mutual agreement with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

¹³ But you shall destroy their altars, dash in pieces their pillars (obelisks, images), and cut down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah];

¹⁴ For you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, Whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (impassioned) God,

¹⁵ Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his food sacrificed to idols,

¹⁶ And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.

¹⁷ You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.

¹⁸ The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ All the males that first open the womb among your livestock are Mine, whether ox or sheep.

²⁰ But the firstling of a donkey [an unclean beast] you shall redeem with a lamb or kid, and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none of you shall appear before Me empty-handed.

²¹ Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].

²² You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

²³ Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

²⁴ For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire [and molest] your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵ You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

²⁶ The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.

²⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words, for after the purpose and character of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

²⁹ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone and sent forth beams by reason of his speaking with the Lord.

³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they feared to come near him.

³¹ But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and [he] talked with them.

³² Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all the Lord had said to him in Mount Sinai.

³³ And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

³⁴ But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, ^[c]he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and told the Israelites what he was commanded.

³⁵ The Israelites saw the face of Moses, how the skin of it shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with God.

35 Moses gathered all the congregation of the Israelites together and said to them, These are the things which the Lord has commanded that you do:

² Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever works [on that day] shall be put to death.

³ You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

⁴ And Moses said to all the congregation of the Israelites, This is what the Lord commanded:

⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing and generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

⁶ Blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], fine linen; goats’ hair;

⁷ And rams’ skins tanned red, and skins of dolphins or porpoises; and acacia wood;

⁸ And oil for the light; and spices for anointing oil and for fragrant incense;

⁹ And onyx stones and other stones to be set for the ephod and the breastplate.

¹⁰ And let every able and wisehearted man among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

¹¹ The tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets or bases;

¹² The ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;

¹³ The table and its poles and all its utensils, and the showbread (the bread of the Presence);

¹⁴ The lampstand also for the light, and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

¹⁵ And the incense altar and its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the hanging or screen for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;

¹⁶ The altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its base;

¹⁷ The court’s hangings, its pillars and their sockets or bases, and the hanging or screen for the gate of the court;

¹⁸ The pegs of the tabernacle and of the court, and their cords,

¹⁹ The finely wrought garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the [high] priest and for his sons to minister as priests.

²⁰ Then all the congregation of the Israelites left Moses’ presence.

²¹ And they came, each one whose heart stirred him up and whose spirit made him willing, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the [new] Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and the holy garments.

²² They came, both men and women, all who were willinghearted, and brought brooches, earrings or nose rings, signet rings, and armlets or necklaces, all jewels of gold, everyone bringing an offering of gold to the Lord.

²³ And everyone with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet [stuff], or fine linen, or goats’ hair, or rams’ skins made red [in tanning], or dolphin or porpoise skins brought them.

²⁴ Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s offering, and every man with whom was found any acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

²⁵ All the women who had ability and were wisehearted spun with their hands and brought what they had spun of blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] and fine linen;

²⁶ And all the women who had ability and whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

²⁷ The leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate,

²⁸ And spice, and oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

²⁹ The Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all men and women whose hearts made them willing and moved them to bring anything for any of the work which the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done.

³⁰ And Moses said to the Israelites, See, the Lord called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

³¹ And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and wisdom, with intelligence and understanding, and with knowledge and all craftsmanship,

³² To devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

³³ In cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, for work in every skilled craft.

³⁴ And God has put in Bezalel’s heart that he may teach, both he and Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

³⁵ He has filled them with wisdom of heart and ability to do all manner of craftsmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, of the embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do or design any skilled work.

36 Bezalel and Aholiab and every wisehearted man in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary shall work according to all that the Lord has commanded.

² And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab and every able and wisehearted man in whose mind the Lord had put wisdom and ability, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work;

³ And they received from Moses all the freewill offerings which the Israelites had brought for doing the work of the sanctuary, to prepare it for service. And they continued to bring him freewill offerings every morning.

⁴ And all the wise and able men who were doing the work on the sanctuary came, every man from the work he was doing,

⁵ And they said to Moses, The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the Lord commanded to do.

⁶ So Moses commanded and it was proclaimed in all the camp, Let no man or woman do anything more for the sanctuary offering. So the people were restrained from bringing,

⁷ For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work and more.

⁸ And all the able and wisehearted men among them who did the work on the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], with cherubim skillfully worked on them.

⁹ The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and its breadth four cubits; all the curtains were one size.

¹⁰ [Bezalel] coupled five curtains one to another and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.

¹¹ And he made loops of blue on the outer edge of the last curtain in the first set; this he did also on the inner edge of the first curtain in the second set.

¹² Fifty loops he made in the one curtain and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which was the second set; the loops were opposite one another.

¹³ And he made fifty clasps of gold and coupled the curtains together with the clasps so that the tabernacle became one unit.

¹⁴ And he made eleven curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle.

¹⁵ The length of one curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits was the breadth; the eleven curtains were of equal size.

¹⁶ And he coupled five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves.

¹⁷ And he made fifty loops on the outmost edge of the curtain to be coupled and fifty loops he made on the inner edge of the second curtain to be coupled.

¹⁸ He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together into one whole.

¹⁹ He made a covering for the tent of ^[d]rams’ skins tanned red, and above it a covering of dolphin or porpoise skins.

²⁰ He made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.

²¹ The length of a board was ten cubits and the breadth one cubit and a half.

²² Each board had two tenons (projections) to fit into a mortise to form a clutch; he did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³ And he made thus the boards [for frames] for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side,

²⁴ And he made under the twenty boards forty sockets or bases of silver, two sockets under one board for its two tenons or hands, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

²⁵ For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards

²⁶ And their forty sockets or bases of silver, two sockets under [the end of] each board.

²⁷ And for the rear or west side of the tabernacle he made six [frame] boards.

²⁸ And two boards he made for each corner of the tabernacle in the rear.

²⁹ They were separate below but linked together at the top with one ring; thus he made both of them in both corners.

³⁰ There were eight boards with sixteen sockets or bases of silver, and under [the end of] each board two sockets.

³¹ He made bars of acacia wood, five for the [frame] boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

³² And five bars for the boards of its other side, and five bars for the boards at the rear or west side.

³³ And he made the middle bar pass through halfway up the boards from one end to the other.

³⁴ He overlaid the boards and the bars with gold and made their rings of gold as places for the bars.

³⁵ And he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, with cherubim skillfully worked.^(D)

³⁶ For [the veil] he made four pillars of acacia [wood] and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four sockets or bases of silver.

³⁷ And he made a screen for the tent door of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, embroidered,

³⁸ And he made the five pillars of it with their hooks, and overlaid their ornamental tops and joinings with gold, but their five sockets were of bronze.