Exodus
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1Moses assembled all the assembly of the sons of Israel and said to them, “These are the things God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded, for you to do them.
2Six days work shall be done, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. of complete rest for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Anyone who does work on it shall be put to death.
3You shall not light a fire in any of your settlements on the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. day.”
4Moses said to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, “This is the thing God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded.
5Take from among yourselves a contribution for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Everyone whose heart is willing shall bring it, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze,
6violet-blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, and goats’ hair,
7reddened ram skins, tachash skins, and acacia wood,
8oil for the light, spices for the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil and for the spiced incense,
9shoham stones, and stones for setting, for the A special vest the priest wore. and for the breast-piece.
10Every person wise of heart among you shall come and make everything God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded:
11the dwelling, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its frames, its bar, its pillars, and its bases,
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The word is singular, “its bar.” No alternate reading is recorded on this verse. Later lists in this book use the plural. The singular is printed.
12the chest and its poles, the cover, and the screen curtain,
13the table and its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the presence,
14the lampstand for the light, its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light,
15the incense altar and its poles, the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil and the spiced incense, and the screen of the entrance, for the entrance of the dwelling,
16the altar of the whole offering and its bronze grate, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand,
17the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen of the courtyard gate,
18the pegs of the dwelling and the pegs of the courtyard, and their cords,
19the serad garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for serving as priests.”
20All the assembly of the sons of Israel went out from before Moses.
21Everyone whose heart lifted him, and everyone whose spirit made him willing, came and brought God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s contribution for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.
22The men came, along with the women. Everyone of a willing heart brought a hook, a nose ring, a ring, and a kumaz, every gold object, and every man who raised a raised offering of gold to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Kumaz is a gold ornament. The object is not identified, so the name is kept. Tenufah is a raised offering, as at 29:24.
23Everyone who had violet-blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, reddened ram skins, or tachash skins brought them.
24Everyone who would raise a contribution of silver or bronze brought God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s contribution, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.
25Every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they brought what they had spun: the violet-blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
26All the women whose heart lifted them in skill spun the goats’ hair.
27The leaders brought the shoham stones and the stones for setting, for the A special vest the priest wore. and for the breast-piece,
28and the spice and the oil for the light, for the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil, and for the spiced incense.
29Every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring anything for all the work God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had commanded to be done by the hand of Moses, the sons of Israel brought a free gift for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
30Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has called by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
31He has filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, and with all work,
32to design designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,
33in cutting stone for setting, and in cutting wood, to do every designed work.
34He has put it in his heart to teach, both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work of an engraver, a designer, and an embroiderer in the violet-blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, and of a weaver, makers of every work and designers of designs.