Bible Reading for March 19 -21
World English Bible
Mar.
19
Exodus
32, 33
Exo
32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the
mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said
to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as
for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we don't know what has become of him."
Exo
32:2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are
in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and
bring them to me."
Exo
32:3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their
ears, and brought them to Aaron.
Exo
32:4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an
engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These
are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of
Egypt."
Exo
32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to
Yahweh."
Exo
32:6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to
eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exo
32:7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who
you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
Exo
32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded
them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it,
and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel,
which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.' "
Exo
32:9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and
behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
Exo
32:10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot
against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a
great nation."
Exo
32:11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does
your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth
out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exo
32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth
for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the
surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of
this evil against your people.
Exo
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom
you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your
seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of
I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.' "
Exo
32:14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his
people.
Exo
32:15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two
tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on
both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
Exo
32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the
writing of God, engraved on the tables.
Exo
32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he
said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
Exo
32:18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for
victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome;
but the noise of those who sing that I hear."
Exo
32:19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw
the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the
tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
Exo
32:20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire,
ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the
children of Israel drink of it.
Exo
32:21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you,
that you have brought a great sin on them?"
Exo
32:22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You
know the people, that they are set on evil.
Exo
32:23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us;
for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
Exo
32:24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:'
so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came
this calf."
Exo
32:25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron
had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),
Exo
32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever
is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered
themselves together to him.
Exo
32:27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from
gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.' "
Exo
32:28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there
fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Exo
32:29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes,
every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may
bestow on you a blessing this day."
Exo
32:30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people,
"You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh.
Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
Exo
32:31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have
sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
Exo
32:32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please
blot me out of your book which you have written."
Exo
32:33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him
will I blot out of my book.
Exo
32:34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to
you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day
when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
Exo
32:35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which
Aaron made.
Exo
33:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and
the people that 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, 'I
will give it to your seed.'
Exo
33:2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exo
33:3 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in
the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume
you in the way."
Exo
33:4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one
put on his jewelry.
Exo
33:5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You
are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one
moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from
you, that I may know what to do to you.' "
Exo
33:6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry
from Mount Horeb onward.
Exo
33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the
camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of
Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out
to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
Exo
33:8 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the
people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched
Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
Exo
33:9 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar
of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with
Moses.
Exo
33:10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of
the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their
tent door.
Exo
33:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his
friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the
son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
Exo
33:12 Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up
this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me.
Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor
in my sight.'
Exo
33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please
show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor
in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
Exo
33:14 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give
you rest."
Exo
33:15 He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me,
don't carry us up from here.
Exo
33:16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your
sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we
are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the
surface of the earth?"
Exo
33:17 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you
have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by
name."
Exo
33:18 He said, "Please show me your glory."
Exo
33:19 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you,
and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious
to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show
mercy."
Exo
33:20 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me
and live."
Exo
33:21 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and
you shall stand on the rock.
Exo
33:22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you
in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have
passed by;
Exo
33:23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but
my face shall not be seen."
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.
Mar.
21
Exodus
36, 37
Exo
36:1 "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted
man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to
work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all
that Yahweh has commanded."
Exo
36:2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man,
in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart
stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
Exo
36:3 and they received from Moses all the offering which the
children of Israel 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.
Exo
36:4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary,
each came from his work which they did.
Exo
36:5 They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more
than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to
make."
Exo
36:6 Moses gave commandment, 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.
Exo
36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make
it, and too much.
Exo
36:8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the
tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and
scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made
them.
Exo
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.
Exo
36:10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five
curtains he coupled one to another.
Exo
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.
Exo
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.
Exo
36:13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to
another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
Exo
36:14 He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the
tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
Exo
36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits
the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
Exo
36:16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves.
Exo
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.
Exo
36:18 He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together,
that it might be a unit.
Exo
36:19 He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering of sea cow hides above.
Exo
36:20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing
up.
Exo
36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half
the breadth of each board.
Exo
36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all
the boards of the tabernacle this way.
Exo
36:23 He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the
south side southward.
Exo
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.
Exo
36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he
made twenty boards,
Exo
36:26 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
Exo
36:27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six
boards.
Exo
36:28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the
far part.
Exo
36:29 They were double beneath, and in like manner they were all the
way to its top to one ring. He did thus to both of them in the two
corners.
Exo
36:30 There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen
sockets; under every board two sockets.
Exo
36:31 He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one
side of the tabernacle,
Exo
36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the
hinder part westward.
Exo
36:33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the
boards from the one end to the other.
Exo
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.
Exo
36:35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
Exo
36:36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with
gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for
them.
Exo
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;
Exo
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.
Exo
37:1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a
half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a
half its height.
Exo
37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a
molding of gold for it around it.
Exo
37:3 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two
rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
Exo
37:4 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
Exo
37:5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to
bear the ark.
Exo
37:6 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a
half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
Exo
37:7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at
the two ends of the mercy seat;
Exo
37:8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He
made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
Exo
37:9 The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy
seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces
of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
Exo
37:10 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits,
and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
Exo
37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around
it.
Exo
37:12 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden
molding on its border around it.
Exo
37:13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the
four corners that were on its four feet.
Exo
37:14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles
to carry the table.
Exo
37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold,
to carry the table.
Exo
37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its
spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure
gold.
Exo
37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of
beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers
were of one piece with it.
Exo
37:18 There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches
of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the
lampstand out of its other side:
Exo
37:19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and
a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other
branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the
lampstand.
Exo
37:20 In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its
buds and its flowers;
Exo
37:21 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud
under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches
of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
Exo
37:22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The
whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exo
37:23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff
dishes, of pure gold.
Exo
37:24 He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.
Exo
37:25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square:
its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two
cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
Exo
37:26 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it,
and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
Exo
37:27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on
its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to
carry it.
Exo
37:28 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
Exo
37:29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet
spices, after the art of the perfumer.
Mar.
19, 20
Mark 12
Mar
12:1 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a
vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a
tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
Mar
12:2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from
the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mar
12:3 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
Mar
12:4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones
at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully
treated.
Mar
12:5 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others,
beating some, and killing some.
Mar
12:6 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last
to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
Mar
12:7 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir.
Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
Mar
12:8 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar
12:9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come
and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
Mar
12:10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the
builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
Mar
12:11 This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
Mar
12:12 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for
they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him,
and went away.
Mar
12:13 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him,
that they might trap him with words.
Mar
12:14 When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know
that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't
partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to
pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
Mar
12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing
their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a
denarius, that I may see it."
Mar
12:16 They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image
and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."
Mar
12:17 Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that
are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They
marveled greatly at him.
Mar
12:18 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no
resurrection. They asked him, saying,
Mar
12:19 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies,
and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his
brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his
brother.'
Mar
12:20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying
left no offspring.
Mar
12:21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him.
The third likewise;
Mar
12:22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the
woman also died.
Mar
12:23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of
them? For the seven had her as a wife."
Mar
12:24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are
mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
Mar
12:25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor
are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mar
12:26 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in
the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I
am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
Mar
12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are
therefore badly mistaken."
Mar
12:28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together.
Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which
commandment is the greatest of all?"
Mar
12:29 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord
our God, the Lord is one:
Mar
12:30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
This is the first commandment.
Mar
12:31 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
Mar
12:32 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said
well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
Mar
12:33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the
understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to
love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices."
Mar
12:34 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You
are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any
question after that.
Mar
12:35 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it
that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Mar
12:36 For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to
my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the
footstool of your feet." '
Mar
12:37 Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his
son?" The common people heard him gladly.
Mar
12:38 In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes,
who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the
marketplaces,
Mar
12:39 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at
feasts:
Mar
12:40 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long
prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
Mar
12:41 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the
multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in
much.
Mar
12:42 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,
which equal a quadrans coin.
Mar
12:43 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most
certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who
are giving into the treasury,
Mar
12:44 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her
poverty, gave all that she had to live on."
Mar.
21
Mark 13
Mar
13:1 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him,
"Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
Mar
13:2 Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings?
There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be
thrown down."
Mar
13:3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter,
James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
Mar
13:4 "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that
these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
Mar
13:5 Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no
one leads you astray.
Mar
13:6 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and will lead
many astray.
Mar
13:7 "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be
troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.
Mar
13:8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be
famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.
Mar
13:9 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils.
You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and
kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
Mar
13:10 The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.
Mar
13:11 When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious
beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will
be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy
Spirit.
Mar
13:12 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father
his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to
be put to death.
Mar
13:13 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who
endures to the end, the same will be saved.
Mar
13:14 But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader
understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
Mar
13:15 and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in,
to take anything out of his house.
Mar
13:16 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
Mar
13:17 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse
babies in those days!
Mar
13:18 Pray that your flight won't be in the winter.
Mar
13:19 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has
not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God
created until now, and never will be.
Mar
13:20 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have
been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out,
he shortened the days.
Mar
13:21 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or,
'Look, there!' don't believe it.
Mar
13:22 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and
will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible,
even the chosen ones.
Mar
13:23 But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things
beforehand.
Mar
13:24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be
darkened, the moon will not give its light,
Mar
13:25 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that
are in the heavens will be shaken.
Mar
13:26 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great
power and glory.
Mar
13:27 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his
chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the
ends of the sky.
Mar
13:28 "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the
branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know
that the summer is near;
Mar
13:29 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass,
know that it is near, at the doors.
Mar
13:30 Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass
away until all these things happen.
Mar
13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass
away.
Mar
13:32 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels
in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Mar
13:33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time
is.
Mar
13:34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having
left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one
his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
Mar
13:35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house
is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster
crows, or in the morning;
Mar
13:36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
Mar
13:37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
