Day 30 of 364

^33:1The LORD 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 offspring.’ ^33:2I 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. ^33:3Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.” ^33:4When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry. ^33:5The LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’” ^33:6The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward. ^33:7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. ^33:8When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. ^33:9When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and the LORD spoke with Moses. ^33:10All 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. ^33:11The LORD 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 from the Tent. ^33:12Moses said to the LORD, “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.’ ^33:13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.” ^33:14He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” ^33:15Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here. ^33:16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it 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?” ^33:17The LORD 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.” ^33:18Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” ^33:19He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the LORD’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.” ^33:20He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.” ^33:21The LORD also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. ^33:22It 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; ^33:23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.” ^34:1The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. ^34:2Be 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. ^34:3No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.” ^34:4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses 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. ^34:5The LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the LORD’s name. ^34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ^34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who 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.” ^34:8Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. ^34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” ^34:10He 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 whom you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. ^34:11Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^34:12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you; ^34:13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles; ^34:14for 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; ^34:16and 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 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 of Egypt. ^34:19“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ^34:20You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. 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 feast of harvest at the year’s end. ^34:23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. ^34:24For 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. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not 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.” ^34:27The LORD said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ^34:28He 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 commandments. ^34:29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. ^34:30When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. ^34:31Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. ^34:32Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ^34:33When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. ^34:34But when Moses 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 Israel that which he was commanded. ^34:35The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him. ^35:1Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, 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 Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. ^35:3You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’” ^35:4Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, 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 as the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, bronze, ^35:6blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, ^35:7rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, ^35:8oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, ^35:9onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. ^35:10“‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD has commanded: ^35:11the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; ^35:12the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen; ^35:13the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; ^35:14the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light; ^35:15and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; ^35:16the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base; ^35:17the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; ^35:18the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords; ^35:19the 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.’” ^35:20All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. ^35:21They 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. ^35:22They 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 the LORD. ^35:23Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them. ^35:24Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought the LORD’s offering; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. ^35:25All 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. ^35:26All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair. ^35:27The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate; ^35:28with the spice and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. ^35:29The children of Israel brought a free will 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 Moses. ^35:30Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. ^35:31He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; ^35:32and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, ^35:33in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. ^35:34He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. ^35:35He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds 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.