Bible Reading
March 20
The World English Bible
Mar.
20
Exodus
34, 35
Exo
34:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "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.
Exo
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.
Exo
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."
Exo
34:4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose
up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had
commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
Exo
34:5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
Exo
34:6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh!
Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in
loving kindness and truth,
Exo
34:7 keeping loving kindness 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."
Exo
34:8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and
worshiped.
Exo
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."
Exo
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
earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are
shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do
with you.
Exo
34:11 Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out
before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exo
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:
Exo
34:13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
Exo
34:14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God.
Exo
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;
Exo
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.
Exo
34:17 You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
Exo
34:18 "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days
you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time
appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from
Egypt.
Exo
34:19 All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that
is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
Exo
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.
Exo
34:21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you
shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Exo
34:22 You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of
wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
Exo
34:23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Exo
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 Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
Exo
34:25 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
Passover be left to the morning.
Exo
34:26 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground
to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in
its mother's milk."
Exo
34:27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in
accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel."
Exo
34:28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he
neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words
of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exo
34:29 It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the
two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from
the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone
by reason of his speaking with him.
Exo
34:30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,
the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
Exo
34:31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the
congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
Exo
34:32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave
them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount
Sinai.
Exo
34:33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his
face.
Exo
34:34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he
took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to
the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
Exo
34:35 The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of
Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he
went in to speak with him.
Exo
35:1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has
commanded, that you should do them.
Exo
35:2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there
shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh:
whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
Exo
35:3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the
Sabbath day.' "
Exo
35:4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
Exo
35:5 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a
willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver,
brass,
Exo
35:6 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
Exo
35:7 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
Exo
35:8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the
sweet incense,
Exo
35:9 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the
breastplate.
Exo
35:10 " 'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make
all that Yahweh has commanded:
Exo
35:11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its
boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
Exo
35:12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the
screen;
Exo
35:13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show
bread;
Exo
35:14 the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps,
and the oil for the light;
Exo
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
tabernacle;
Exo
35:16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it
poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
Exo
35:17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the
screen for the gate of the court;
Exo
35:18 the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their
cords;
Exo
35:19 the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place,
the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons,
to minister in the priest's office.' "
Exo
35:20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from
the presence of Moses.
Exo
35:21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone
whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the
work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the
holy garments.
Exo
35:22 They came, both men and women, as many as were
willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and
armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering
of gold to Yahweh.
Exo
35:23 Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine
linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought
them.
Exo
35:24 Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought
Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia wood for
any work of the service, brought it.
Exo
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.
Exo
35:26 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the
goats' hair.
Exo
35:27 The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set,
for the ephod and for the breastplate;
Exo
35:28 and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing
oil, and for the sweet incense.
Exo
35:29 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh;
every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all
the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
Exo
35:30 Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has
called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah.
Exo
35:31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
Exo
35:32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in
brass,
Exo
35:33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to
work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
Exo
35:34 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and
Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Exo
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.
