Study Desk

"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,

"Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction."

He said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them."

and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

"Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give.

olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

"Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.

Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.

And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.

Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.

A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.

"Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle-eleven altogether.

As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.

Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.

"Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.