Exodus, starting at chapter 31 {31:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {31:2} "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: {31:3} and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, {31:4} to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, {31:5} and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. {31:6} I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: {31:7} the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, {31:8} the table and its vessels, the pure menorah with all its vessels, the altar of incense, {31:9} the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, {31:10} the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, {31:11} the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."
{31:12} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {31:13} "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. {31:14} You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. {31:15} Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. {31:16} Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. {31:17} It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'" {31:18} He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger. {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." {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." {32:3} All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. {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." {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 the LORD." {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. {32:7} The LORD spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! {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.'" {32:9} The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. {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." {32:11} Moses begged the LORD his God, and said, "The LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? {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. {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.'" {32:14} The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people. {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. {32:16} The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables. {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." {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." {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. {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. {32:21} Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?" {32:22} Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. {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.' {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." {32:25} When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), {32:26} then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the LORD's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. {32:27} He said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 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.'" {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. {32:29} Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day." {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 the LORD. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin." {32:31} Moses returned to the LORD, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. {32:32} Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written." {32:33} The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. {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." {32:35} The LORD struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. {33:1} The 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 seed.' {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: {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." {33:4} When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry. {33:5} The LORD 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.'" {33:6} The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward. {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 the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. {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. {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. {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. {33:11} The 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 out of the Tent. {33:12} Moses 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.' {33:13} 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." {33:14} He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." {33:15} He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. {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?" {33:17} The 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." {33:18} He said, "Please show me your glory." {33:19} He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." {33:20} He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." {33:21} The LORD also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. {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; {33:23} then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen." ________________________________________________________________________ The World English Bible: Messianic Edition is in the Public Domain. This translation is also known as the Hebrew Names Version. "World English Bible," "World English Bible: Messianic Edition," and "World English Bible" are trademarks of Rainbow Missions, Inc., and may only be used as names for the Bible translations so named and distributed by Rainbow Missions, Inc., and faithful copies thereof. 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