Shemot, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The LORD said to Moshe, "Chisel two stone tablets like the
first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the
first tablets, which you broke. {34:2} Be ready by the morning, and
come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to
me on the top of the mountain. {34:3} No one shall come up with you;
neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let
the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."
{34:4} He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moshe
rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD
had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. {34:5} The
LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of the LORD. {34:6} The LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed, "The LORD! the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to
anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth, {34:7} keeping
lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and
sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the
third and on the fourth generation."
{34:8} Moshe hurried and bowed his head toward the [1>]eretz[<1],
and worshiped. {34:9} He said, "If now I have found favor in your
sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this
is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us
for your inheritance."
{34:10} He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people
I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the
[2>]eretz[<2], nor in any nation; and all the people among which you
are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I
do with you. {34:11} Observe that which I command you this day.
Behold, I drive out before you the Amori, the Kana`ani, the Hittite,
the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi. {34:12} Be careful, lest you
make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going,
lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: {34:13} but you shall
break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you
shall cut down their Asherim; {34:14} for you shall worship no other
god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. {34:15}
Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play
the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one
call you and you eat of his sacrifice; {34:16} and you take of their
daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after
their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
{34:17} You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
{34:18} "You shall keep the feast of [3>]matzah[<3]. Seven days you
shall eat [4>]matzah[<4], as I commanded you, at the time appointed in
the month Aviv; for in the month Aviv you came out from Mitzrayim.
{34:19} All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is
male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. {34:20} The firstborn of a
donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it,
then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you
shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.
{34:21} Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall
rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. {34:22} You shall
observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and
the [5>]Hag-HaKatzir[<5] at the year's end. {34:23} Three times in the
year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of
Yisra'el. {34:24} For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge
your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to
appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.
{34:25} "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Pesach be left
to the morning. {34:26} You shall bring the first of the first fruits
of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a
young goat in its mother's milk."
{34:27} The LORD said to Moshe, "Write you these words: for in
accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Yisra'el."
{34:28} He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words
of the covenant, the ten [6>]mitzvot[<6].
{34:29} It happened, when Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the
two tablets of the testimony in Moshe' hand, when he came down from
the mountain, that Moshe didn't know that the skin of his face shone
by reason of his speaking with him. {34:30} When Aharon and all the
children of Yisra'el saw Moshe, behold, the skin of his face shone;
and they were afraid to come near him. {34:31} Moshe called to them,
and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and
Moshe spoke to them. {34:32} Afterward all the children of Yisra'el
came near, and he gave them all of the [7>]mitzvot[<7] that the LORD
had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. {34:33} When Moshe was done
speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. {34:34} But when Moshe
went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until
he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Yisra'el
that which he was commanded. {34:35} The children of Yisra'el saw
Moshe' face, that the skin of Moshe' face shone: and Moshe put the
veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
{35:1} Moshe assembled all the congregation of the children of
Yisra'el, and said to them, "These are the words which the LORD has
commanded, that you should do them. {35:2} 'Six days shall work be
done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a
Shabbat of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall
be put to death. {35:3} You shall kindle no fire throughout your
habitations on the day of Shabbat.'"
{35:4} Moshe spoke to all the congregation of the children of
Yisra'el, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
{35:5} 'Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever is of a
willing heart, let him bring it, the LORD's offering: gold, silver,
brass, {35:6} blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, {35:7}
rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, shittim wood, {35:8} oil for the
light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, {35:9}
[1>]shoham[<1] stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the
breastplate.
{35:10} "Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all
that the LORD has commanded: {35:11} the tent, its outer covering, its
roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
{35:12} the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the
screen; {35:13} the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the
show bread; {35:14} the menorah also for the light, with its vessels,
its lamps, and the oil for the light; {35:15} and the altar of incense
with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for
the door, at the door of the tent; {35:16} the altar of burnt
offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its vessels,
the basin and its base; {35:17} the hangings of the court, its
pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
{35:18} the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords;
{35:19} the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place,
the holy garments for Aharon the [2>]Kohen[<2], and the garments of
his sons, to minister in the [3>]Kohen[<3]'s office.'"
{35:20} All the congregation of the children of Yisra'el departed
from the presence of Moshe. {35:21} They came, everyone whose heart
stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought
the LORD's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all
of its service, and for the holy garments. {35:22} They came, both men
and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches,
ear-rings, signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every
man who offered an offering of gold to the LORD. {35:23} Everyone,
with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them. {35:24}
Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the
LORD's offering; and everyone, with whom was found shittim wood for
any work of the service, brought it. {35:25} All the women who were
wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had
spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. {35:26}
All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats'
hair. {35:27} The rulers brought the [4>]shoham[<4] stones, and the
stones to be set, for the efod and for the breastplate; {35:28} and
the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for
the sweet incense. {35:29} The children of Yisra'el brought a freewill
offering to the LORD; every man and woman, whose heart made them
willing to bring for all the work, which the LORD had commanded to be
made by Moshe.
{35:30} Moshe said to the children of Yisra'el, "Behold, the LORD
has called by name Betzal'el the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Yehudah. {35:31} He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in
wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship; {35:32} and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in
silver, in brass, {35:33} in cutting of stones for setting, and in
carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. {35:34}
He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholi'av, the
son of Achisamakh, of the tribe of Dan. {35:35} He has filled them
with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the
engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in
purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of
those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
{36:1} "Betzal'el and Oholi'av shall work with every wise-hearted
man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to
work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all
that the LORD has commanded."
{36:2} Moshe called Betzal'el and Oholi'av, and every wise-hearted
man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart
stirred him up to come to the work to do it: {36:3} and they received
from Moshe all the offering which the children of Yisra'el had brought
for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it.
They brought yet to him freewill-offerings every morning. {36:4} All
the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came
from his work which they did. {36:5} They spoke to Moshe, saying, "The
people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which
the LORD commanded to make."
{36:6} Moshe gave [1>]mitzvah[<1], and they caused it to be
proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman
make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people
were restrained from bringing. {36:7} For the stuff they had was
sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
{36:8} All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made
the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and
scarlet, with Keruvim, the work of the skillful workman, they made
them. {36:9} The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and
the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one
measure. {36:10} He coupled five curtains to one another, and the
other five curtains he coupled one to another. {36:11} He made loops
of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling.
Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the
second coupling. {36:12} He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and
he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second
coupling. The loops were opposite one to another. {36:13} He made
fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the
clasps: so the tent was a unit.
{36:14} He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the
tent. He made them eleven curtains. {36:15} The length of each curtain
was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The
eleven curtains had one measure. {36:16} He coupled five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by themselves. {36:17} He made fifty
loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and
he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outmost in
the second coupling. {36:18} He made fifty clasps of brass to couple
the tent together, that it might be a unit. {36:19} He made a covering
for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides
above.
{36:20} He made the boards for the tent of shittim wood, standing
up. {36:21} Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a
half the breadth of each board. {36:22} Each board had two tenons,
joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tent this way.
{36:23} He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south
side southward. {36:24} He made forty sockets of silver under the
twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for its two tenons. {36:25} For the second
side of the tent, on the north side, he made twenty boards, {36:26}
and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and
two sockets under another board. {36:27} For the far part of the tent
westward he made six boards. {36:28} He made two boards for the
corners of the tent in the far part. {36:29} They were double beneath,
and in like manner they were all the way to the top of it to one ring.
He did thus to both of them in the two corners. {36:30} There were
eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under
every board two sockets.
{36:31} He made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one
side of the tent, {36:32} and five bars for the boards of the other
side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the tent for the
hinder part westward. {36:33} He made the middle bar to pass through
in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other. {36:34} He
overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places
for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
{36:35} He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen: with Keruvim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
{36:36} He made four pillars of shittim for it, and overlaid them with
gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for
them. {36:37} He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue,
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
{36:38} and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their
capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of
brass.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:8} earth
[2] {34:10} earth
[3] {34:18} unleavened bread
[4] {34:18} unleavened bread
[5] {34:22} feast of harvest
[6] {34:28} commandments
[7] {34:32} commandments
[1] {35:9} onyx
[2] {35:19} priest
[3] {35:19} priest
[4] {35:27} onyx
[1] {36:6} commandment
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