1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Speak with the children of Israel that they may set separated offerings aside for my name, you shall receive separated offerings from everyone whose heart prompts them.
3 And this is the offering of separation which you shall receiveb from them: gold and silver and bronze,
4 blue and purple and precious crimson material and byssus and goats’ hair,
5 reddened“ rams’ skins, and sasgonac skins, and acacia wood;
6 oil for the il lumination, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
7 precious stonesd and stones for setting, for insertinge in the ephod and in the breastpiece.
8 And they shall build a sanctuary to my name that I may make the Glory of my Shekinah dwell among them.
9 (According to) whatever I will show you con cerning the design of the tabernacle and concerning the design of all its utensils, thus you shall do.
10 And they shall make the ark of acacia wood; its length shall be two cubits and a half, and its breadth shall be a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half shall be the measure of its height,
11 and you shall overlay it with pure gold; inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make it a molding round about.
12 And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and you shall place them on the four corners: two rings on one side and two rings on the second side.
13 And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold,
14 and you shall introduce the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.
15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not move from it.
16 And you shall place within the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
17 And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
18 And you shall make two chérubin' of gold; hammered you shall make them, at the two sides of the mercy seat,
19 and you shall make one cherub at this side—one here—and another cherub at the other side—there; you shall make the chérubin of one piece with the mercy seat, at its sides, its two sides. [1]
20 And the chérubin shall spread their wings upward, over shadowing the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces turned one toward an other; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the chérubin be.
21 And you shall place the mercy seat upon the ark
2These are the names of the children of Israel that entered Egypt with Jacob: every man and the men of his house entered: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 And all the persons who came forth from the loins of Jacob were seventy persons, and Joseph who was in Egypt. 6 And Joseph died and all his brothers and all that generation. 7 And the children of Israel grew strong and begot children and multiplied. 8 And a new* king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph and did not walk in his customs. 9 And he said to his people: “Behold, the people/ the children of Israel, have multiplied and have become stronger than us. 10 Come, let us takee evil counsels against them;* let us pass laws (by which) we will reduce them before they multiply, and should it come to pass that battle lines^ are drawn they also join our enemies and wage war against us and set over them selves a king and go up from the land.” 11 And they set taskmasters over them so that they might oppress them with their (forced) labor.s And they built fortified cities for Pharaoh: Tanis and Pelusium.h 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more did they multiply, and the more did they grow strong. And the Egyptians6 (were) afflicted before the people, the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians en slaved the children of Israel with rigor. 14 And they made bitter their lives by harsh work in clay and in bricks and in every work in the open field—every work in which one works with rigor. 15 And the king of Egypt' said to the Hebrew midwives—the name of one of them was Shiphrah and the name of the second was Puah— 16 and he said: “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, you shall see (them) upon the birthstools; if it is a male son you shall kill him, and if it is a female daughter she shall live.” 17 But the midwives feared beforej the Lord, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken with them but let the children live. 18 And the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them: “For what reason have you done this thing, that you have let the children live?” 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh: “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous. Before the midwife comes to them, they pray before their Father in the heavens, and he answers them and they give birth.” 20 And the Lord dealt favorably with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew strong. 21 And it came to pass that because the midwives feared before the Lord, they acquired a good name for themselves in the midst of the house of Israel, and he made houses for them, the house of kingship and the house of the high priesthood. Miriam took the crown of kingship, and Jochabed took the crown of the high priesthood. 22 And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying: “Every male son that is born to the Jews, throw him into the river but keep alive every fe male daughter.”
3“And this is what you shall do to them to sanctify them to minister before him a in the high priesthood: Take one young ox and two rams, perfect without blemish,
2 and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes saturated with oil. With fine wheaten flour you shall make them.
3 And you shall put them
4If a thief is found breaking in and is struck and dies, there shall be no sin of shedding innocent blood for him. 2 If the sun has risen upon him, there is for him the sin o f shedding innocent blood.d He shall surely make restitution. If he has nothing, he shall be sold for his theft. 3 If the stolen (thing) is found alive in his hand,e whether it is an ox or an ass or a lamb, he shall pay double. 4 If a man sets fire to a field or a vineyard and leaves the fire to spread, and (thus) causes fire in the field of another, he shall give in restitution the best of his field and the best of (his) vineyard. 5 When fire breaks out and catches thorns and consumes the stacked grain or the standing grain on the field, whoever caused the fire shall make full restitution. 6 If a man gives to his neighbor money or utensils to keep and they are stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is found he shall pay double. 7 If the thief is not found, the master of the house shall come to the judges (to swear) that he has not put out his hand on the acquisitions of his neighbor. 8 In every sinful affair, whether for an ox, an ass, a lamb, clothes, or any lost thing of which one says: ‘This is it,’ the words of both parties shall come to the judges: he whom the judges declare guilty shall pay double to his neighbor. 9 And when a man gives his neighbor an ass or an ox or a lamb or any beast to take care of, and it dies or is hurt or driven away without anyone seeing it, 10 let there be an oathr of the Lord between them both (to the effect) that he has not put out his hand on the acquisitions of his neighbor, and his master shall accept (the oath), and he shall not make recompense. 11 But if it be truly stolen from him, he shall pay its owner.“ 12 If it is torn to pieces, they shall bring witnesses;w he shall not make recompense for that which was killed. 13 If a man borrows (a beast) from his neighbor and it is hurt or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make recompense. 14 If its owner was with it, he shall not make recompense; if it was hired it is received for hire. 15 And when a man seduces a virgin who is not be trothed and lies with her, he shall surely take her as wife by payment of the bridal pre[s]entaa for her. 16 If her father resolutely refuses to give her to him (for wife), he must (still) weigh out money for her according to the law of the bridal present of a virgin. 17 My people, children o f Israel, you shall not allow a sor cerer or a sorceress to live. 18 Whoever lies with a beastee shall be put to death. 19 Whoever sacrifices before other idols—except before the Lord alone—shall be blotted out. 20 You shall not ill-treat the sojourner, and you shall not oppress them, because you were dwellers in the land of Egypt. 21 My people, children of Israel, do not afflict any widow or orphans. 22 If you afflict them and he cry out before me against you, I shall hear the voice of his prayer, for I am graciousmm and merciful, 23 lest my anger grow strong and I kill you with the sword, lest your wives become widows, and your sons orphans. 24 If you lend money to my people, to a poor man who is among you, you shall not be for him an exacting creditor, and you shall not impose on him interest or usury. 25 If you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge,pp you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 26 for it is his only covering, the mantleqq of the skin of his flesh. In what shall he sleep? And if he cries out before me against you, I will hear the voice o f his prayer, for I am gracious and merciful. 27 My people, children of Israel: do not despise your judges and do not curse the lord who is in your people. 28 Do not delay in collecting your tithes and your priestly share. You shall consecrateuu to my name the first-born of your male sons. 29 You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days ww it shall be reared behind its mother, and on the eighth day they shall separate it to my name. 30 And you shall be a people of consecrated ones to my name. You shall not eat flesh torn from a wild beast, killed in the field; you shall throw it to the dog, or you shall throw it to the gentile stranger, who is comparable to the dog.
5 For Aharon had seen Hur slain before him, and was afraid; and he builded an altar before him, and Aharon cried with a doleful voice, and said, Let there be a feast before the Lord tomorrow, of the sacrifice of the slain of these adversaries who have denied their Lord, and have changed the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord for this calf. And on the day following, they arose, and sacrificed burnt-offerings; and the people sat around to eat and to drink, and rose up to disport themselves with strange service. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, Go, descend, for thy people whom thou broughtest up from the land of Mizraim have corrupted themselves
6And the Lord spoke all these words, saying: 2 The first word, as it came forth from the mouth of the Holy One, whose Name be blessed, was like storms, and lightnings, and flames of fire, with a burning light on His right hand and on His left. It winged its way through the air of the heavens, and was made manifest unto the camp of Israel, and returned, and was engraven on the tables of the covenant that were given by the hand of Mosheh, and were turned in them from side to side: and then called He, and said: Sons of Israel My people, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out free from the land of Mizraim, from the house of the bondage of slaves. 3 The second word which came forth from the mouth of the Holy One, whose name be blessed, was like storms, and lightnings, and flames of fire. A burning light was on His right hand and on His left and was borne through the air of the heavens, returned, and was made manifest unto the camp of Israel; it returned, and was engraven on the tables of the covenant, and was turned in them from side to side. Then called He, and said, House of Israel, My people, Thou shalt have no other God beside Me. 4 You shall not make to yourselves image or figure, or any similitude of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them, or worship before them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God and an avenger, punishing with vengeance, recording the guilt of wicked fathers upon rebellious children unto the third and unto the fourth generation of them who hate Me; 6 but keeping mercy and goodness for thousands of generations of the righteous who love Me, and who keep My commandments and My laws.