Exodus 32:18 — Exodus 33:1

18 But Moses said, It is not the sound of the cry of triumph, Neither is it the sound of the cry of defeat; But it is the sound of singing that I hear.

19 And as soon as he drew near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.

20 And he took the calf which they had made, and he burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you brought so great a sin upon them?

22 And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord burn. You know the people, that they are set on evil;

23 For they said to me, Make gods for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

24 So I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.

25 And when Moses saw that the people were without restraint (for Aaron had let them be without restraint to be a derision among those who rise up against them),

26 Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Whoever is for Jehovah, come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him.

27 And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let each man put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each man kill his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his neighbor.

28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and that day about three thousand men among the people fell.

29 And Moses said, Fill your hands today to Jehovah, for every man has been against his son and against his brother, that He may bestow upon you a blessing today.

30 And on the next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to Jehovah; perhaps I can make expiation for your sin.

31 And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Oh, this people have committed a great sin and have made gods of gold for themselves.

32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin – and if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.

33 And Jehovah said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

34 And now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you. Now My Angel will go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.

35 And Jehovah struck the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

CHAPTER 33

1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.

Exodus 32:1 — Exodus 32:17

1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron and said to him, Come, make gods for us who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

2 And Aaron said to them, Tear off the gold rings, which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.

3 And all the people tore off the golden rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

4 And he took the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; then Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.

6 And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

7 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

8 They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have worshipped it and have sacrificed to it and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

9 And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and there they are, a stiffnecked people.

10 Now therefore let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great nation.

11 And Moses entreated Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent He brought them out, to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your burning anger, and repent of this evil against Your people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

14 Thus Jehovah repented of the evil which He said He would do to His people.

15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both of their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

16 And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.

17 And when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp.

Exodus 31:1 — Exodus 31:18

1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with understanding and with knowledge and with all kinds of workmanship,

4 To fashion skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze,

5 And in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.

6 And now, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise in heart I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

7 The Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Testimony and the expiation cover that is on it, and all the utensils of the tent,

8 And the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

9 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base,

10 And the finely worked garments, both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests,

11 And the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant spices for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.

12 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep My Sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.

14 Therefore you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

18 And when He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 30:11 — Exodus 30:38

11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those of them who are numbered, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to Jehovah, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.

13 This they shall give, everyone enrolled with those who are numbered, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a heave offering to Jehovah.

14 Everyone enrolled with those who are numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the heave offering of Jehovah.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel, when you give the heave offering of Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.

16 And you shall take the expiation silver from the children of Israel and shall give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.

17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

18 You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it;

20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah,

21 Then they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die. And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations.

22 Moreover Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

23 You also take the finest spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels,

24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

25 And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded according to the perfumer’s art; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 And with it you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,

27 And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

28 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.

29 Thus you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them that they may serve Me as priests.

31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.

32 Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor shall you make any like it, according to its composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

34 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant spices – stacte and onycha and galbanum – fragrant spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each;

35 And you shall make of it incense, a perfume according to the perfumer’s art, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

36 And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy.

37 And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make for yourselves according to its composition; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.

38 Whoever shall make any like it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his people.

Exodus 29:37 — Exodus 30:10

37 Seven days you shall make expiation for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall become most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

38 Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old each day continually.

39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.

40 And with the one lamb a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; you shall offer it with the meal offering and its drink offering as in the morning, for a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and it shall be sanctified by My glory.

44 And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify to serve Me as priests.

45 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will be their God.

46 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell in the midst of them; I am Jehovah their God.

CHAPTER 30

1 And you shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

2 Its length shall be a cubit and its width a cubit; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and you shall make a rim of gold around it.

4 And you shall make for it two golden rings under its rim; on its two sides, on its opposite sides you shall make them; and they shall be as holders for poles with which to carry it.

5 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

6 And you shall put it before the veil that is over the Ark of the Testimony, before the expiation cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

7 And Aaron shall burn on it fragrant incense; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.

8 And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.

9 You shall not offer any strange incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.

10 And Aaron shall make expiation on its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of expiation once a year he shall make expiation for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.