LXX Concordance for τὸ

God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with[fn] living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.

The LORD God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Gold from that land is pure;[fn] bdellium[fn] and onyx[fn] are also there.

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[fn] and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

The man named his wife Eve[fn] because she was the mother of all the living.

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out to the field.”[fn] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

“So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood you have shed.[fn]

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given[fn] me another offspring[fn] in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind.[fn]

Seth lived 807 years after he fathered Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived 815 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Kenan lived 840 years after he fathered Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Mahalalel lived 830 years after he fathered Jared, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Jared lived 800 years after he fathered Enoch, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

And after he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

And he named him Noah,[fn] saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

And the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain[fn] with[fn] mankind forever, because they are corrupt.[fn] Their days will be 120 years.”

“This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[fn]

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth's surface had gone down.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

“I have placed my bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

I will make you into a great nation,

I will bless you,

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the LORD there, and he called on the name of the LORD.

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

“I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley).

“However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions.

The angel of the LORD said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

So she named the LORD who spoke to her: “You are El-roi,”[fn] for she said, “In this place, have I actually seen the one who sees me? ”[fn]

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.[fn] I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.

“Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

Then Abraham took curds[fn] and milk, as well as the calf that he had prepared, and set them before the men. He served[fn] them as they ate under the tree.

“You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won't the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ”

Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him.

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them[fn] said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ”

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can't run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

And he said to him, “All right,[fn] I'll grant your request[fn] about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.[fn] He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally[fn] told them all these things, and the men were terrified.

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

“Get up, help the boy up, and grasp his hand, for I will make him a great nation.”

“Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a resident alien.”

Abimelech replied, “I don't know who did this thing. You didn't report anything to me, so I hadn't heard about it until today.”

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from me so that this act[fn] will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together.

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

And Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide,[fn] so today it is said, “It will be provided[fn] on the LORD's mountain.”

and said, “By myself I have sworn,” this is the LORD's declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

“Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God[fn] among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place.[fn] None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

“to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as burial property.”

“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the sight[fn] of my people. Bury your dead.”

and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the hearing of the Hethites: four hundred standard shekels[fn] of silver.

At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town.

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and hurried to the well again to draw water. She drew water for all his camels

“Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master in her[fn] old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

So they said, “Let's call the girl and ask her opinion.”[fn]

Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,[fn] for he was living in the Negev region.

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us? ”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hethite.

This is the length[fn] of Ishmael's life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

The first one came out red-looking,[fn] covered with hair[fn] like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

“I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed[fn] by your offspring,

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, “The water is ours! ” So he named the well Esek[fn] because they argued with him.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.[fn] Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

“So now take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it

The shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep when all the flocks[fn] were gathered there. Then they would return the stone to its place over the well's opening.

When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, he has heard me and given me a son,” so she named him Dan.[fn]

Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God,[fn] I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.[fn]

Then Leah said, “What good fortune! ”[fn] and she named him Gad.[fn]

Leah said, “I am happy that the women call me happy,” so she named him Asher.[fn]

Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.[fn]

“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.[fn]

She conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

Laban asked, “What should I give you? ”

And Jacob said, “You don't need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

“Good,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.

And Jacob saw from Laban's face that his attitude toward him was not the same as before.

Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.

“Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our purchase price.

He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for[fn] the hill country of Gilead.

Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his grandchildren and daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home.

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God's camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.[fn]

He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”

“You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.' ”

He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.

When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob's hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.

Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

But he answered, “Why do you ask my name? ” And he blessed him there.

But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God's face, since you have accepted me.

but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.[fn]

“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us.

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father's family.

Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel[fn] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

With her last breath ​— ​for she was dying ​— ​she named him Ben-oni,[fn] but his father called him Benjamin.[fn]

He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

“There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow's clothes back on.

But then he pulled his hand back, out came his brother, and she said, “What a breakout you have made for yourself! ” So he was named Perez.[fn]

From the time that he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph. The LORD's blessing was on all that he owned, in his house and in his fields.

“No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ”

and had him thrown into prison, where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph's authority,[fn] and he was responsible for everything that was done there.

and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guards in the prison where Joseph was confined.

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they looked distraught.

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: “In my dream there was a vine in front of me.

“Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.”

“In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand the way you used to when you were his cupbearer.

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.

After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside those cows along the bank of the Nile.

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, came up on one stalk.

When morning came, he was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

“He and I had dreams on the same night; each dream had its own meaning.

“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”[fn]

“It is just as I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“Since the dream was given twice to Pharaoh, it means that the matter has been determined by God, and he will carry it out soon.

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, and servants called out before him, “Make way! ”[fn] So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah and gave him a wife, Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On.[fn] And Joseph went throughout[fn] the land of Egypt.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh[fn] and said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.”

But Reuben replied, “Didn't I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn't listen. Now we must account for his blood! ”[fn]

Joseph then gave orders to fill their containers with grain, return each man's silver to his sack, and give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out.

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.'

“But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.' ”

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die ​— ​neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

“Take twice as much silver with you. Return the silver that was returned to you in the top of your bags. Perhaps it was a mistake.

The men took this gift, double the amount of silver, and Benjamin. They immediately went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

But the men were afraid because they were taken to Joseph's house. They said, “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time. They intend to overpower us, seize us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys.”

“When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one's silver was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

Joseph hurried out because he was overcome with emotion for his brother, and he was about to weep. He went into an inner room and wept there.

Joseph commanded his steward, “Fill the men's bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's silver at the top of his bag.

“Isn't this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wrong! ' ”

They said to him, “Why does my lord say these things? Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

Then Joseph said, “I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father.”

“Then you said to your servants, ‘If your younger brother does not come down with you, you will not see me again.'

“We told him, ‘We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. If our younger brother isn't with us, we cannot see the man.'

“If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.'

Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

His sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters, indeed all his offspring, he brought with him to Egypt.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “I'm ready to die now because I have seen your face and you are still alive! ”

Joseph collected all the silver to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were purchasing, and he brought the silver to Pharaoh's palace.

“At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.”

“When I rest with my ancestors, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”

Joseph answered, “I will do what you have asked.”

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, but now God has even let me see your offspring.”

“Issachar is a strong donkey

lying down between the saddlebags.[fn]

“Benjamin is a wolf; he tears his prey.

In the morning he devours the prey,

and in the evening he divides the plunder.”

“The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hethite as burial property.

Then Joseph, leaning over his father's face, wept and kissed him.

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as burial property from Ephron the Hethite.

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live? ”

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you? ”

Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.

She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom,[fn] for he said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land.”

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,[fn] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,[fn] the mountain of God.

So Moses thought, “I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up? ”

“Do not come closer,” he said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

“And if they don't believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

“Now go! I will help you speak[fn] and I will teach you what to say.”

“You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak[fn] and will teach you both what to do.

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

“I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the LORD.'[fn]

“Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

“This is what the LORD says: Here is how you will know that I am the LORD. Watch. I am about to strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.

Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, he raised the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile was turned to blood.

Seven days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats[fn] throughout the land of Egypt.”

The LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship[fn] me.

And the LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

“However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you my power and to make my name known on the whole earth.

Those among Pharaoh's officials who feared the word of the LORD made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the land, and the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned this time,” he said to them. “The LORD is the righteous one, and I and my people are the guilty ones.

The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe[fn] and the flax was budding,

“They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields.

Pharaoh said to him, “Leave me! Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

“If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.

“You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

“The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

“When the LORD passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, he will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.

The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they were driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared provisions for themselves.

“If an alien resides among you and wants to observe the LORD's Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate;[fn] he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

“As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the LORD threw them into the sea.

That day the LORD saved Israel from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

But you blew with your breath,

and the sea covered them.

They sank like lead

in the mighty waters.

When Pharaoh's horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the water of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable.

The LORD made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah, and he tested them there.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.

Moses continued, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and all the bread you want in the morning, for he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD.”

“I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.

He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.' ”

The house of Israel named the substance manna.[fn] It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

He named the place Massah[fn] and Meribah[fn] because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not? ”

The LORD then said to Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.”

and the other Eliezer (because he had said, “The God of my father was my helper and rescued me from Pharaoh's sword”).[fn]

“What you're doing is not good,” Moses's father-in-law said to him.

“They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every major case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load,[fn] and they will bear it with you.

Moses went up the mountain to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: “This is what you must say to the house of Jacob and explain to the Israelites:

“and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

The LORD came down on Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain. Then the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.

Moses responded to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since you warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consecrate it.”

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

All the people witnessed[fn] the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram's horn, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it[fn] they trembled and stood at a distance.

“Make an earthen altar for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your flocks and herds. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause my name to be remembered.

“his master is to bring him to the judges[fn] and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.

“Or if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her according to the customary treatment of daughters.

“If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.

“When a man's ox injures his neighbor's ox and it dies, they must sell the live ox and divide its proceeds; they must also divide the dead animal.

“When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed in, and then allows his animals to go and graze in someone else's field, he must repay[fn] with the best of his own field or vineyard.

“If you ever take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.

“Do the same with your cattle and your flock. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to me.

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.[fn]

“Serve the LORD your God, and he[fn] will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he splattered on the altar.

The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.

Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

“You must make it according to all that I show you ​— ​the pattern of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.

“Cast four gold rings for it and place them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

“Make a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.[fn]

“The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat.

“You are to construct a table of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[fn]

“Join five of the curtains by themselves, and the other six curtains by themselves. Then fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.

“As for the flap that remains from the tent curtains, the leftover half curtain is to hang over the back of the tabernacle.

“Each support is to be fifteen feet[fn] long and twenty-seven[fn] inches wide.

“twenty supports for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side,

“and make six supports for the west side of the tabernacle.

“They are to be paired at the bottom, and joined together[fn] at the top in a single ring. So it should be for both of them; they will serve as the two corners.

“The central crossbar is to run through the middle of the supports from one end to the other.

“You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you have been shown on the mountain.

“Hang the curtain under the clasps[fn] and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the curtain, so the curtain will make a separation for you between the holy place and the most holy place.

“Place the table outside the curtain and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table; put the table on the north side.

“You are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, 7½ feet long, and 7½ feet wide;[fn] it must be 4½ feet high.[fn]

“Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.

“Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain.

“For the width of the courtyard, make hangings 75 feet[fn] long for the west side, including their ten posts and their ten bases.

“The courtyard is to be 150 feet long, 75 feet wide at each end, and 7½ feet high,[fn] all of it made of finely spun linen. The bases of the posts are to be bronze.

“You are to instruct all the skilled artisans,[fn] whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make Aaron's garments for consecrating him to serve me as priest.

“It must be square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.[fn]

“The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

“Whenever he enters the sanctuary, Aaron is to carry the names of Israel's sons over his heart on the breastpiece for decisions, as a continual reminder before the LORD.

“Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on its lower hem and all around it. Put gold bells between them all the way around,

“The robe will be worn by Aaron whenever he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he enters the sanctuary before the LORD and when he exits, so that he does not die.

“These must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary area, so that they do not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his future descendants.

“put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams.

“Then take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe for the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece; fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.

“Take some of the bull's blood and apply it to the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

“You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splatter it on all sides of the altar.

“Then burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

“Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron's right earlobe, on his sons' right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.

“Take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is a food offering to the LORD.

“Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify[fn] the altar when you make atonement for it, and anoint it in order to consecrate it.

“I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

“It must be square, eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide;[fn] it must be thirty-six inches high.[fn] Its horns must be of one piece with it.

“Aaron must burn fragrant incense on it; he must burn it every morning when he tends the lamps.

“Everyone who is registered must pay half a shekel[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel (twenty gerahs to the shekel). This half shekel is a contribution to the LORD.

“Take the atonement price[fn] from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will serve as a reminder for the Israelites before the LORD to atone for your lives.”

“Whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister by burning a food offering to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

“Take for yourself the finest spices: 12½ pounds[fn] of liquid myrrh, half as much (6¼ pounds[fn]) of fragrant cinnamon, 6¼ pounds of fragrant cane,

“the table with all its utensils, the lampstand with its utensils, the altar of incense,

“to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

“the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on top of it, and all the other furnishings of the tent ​— ​

“the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. They must make them according to all that I have commanded you.”

The LORD spoke to Moses: “Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.

“Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel ​— ​you swore to them by yourself and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.' ”

As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hands, smashing them at the base of the mountain.

“Don't be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

“So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off,' and they gave it to me. When I threw it into the fire, out came this calf! ”

“Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.”

“Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.”

The LORD said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him.

“Do not present[fn] the blood for my sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.

When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

“the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the curtain for the screen;

“the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

“and the specially woven[fn] garments for ministering in the sanctuary ​— ​the holy garments for the priest Aaron and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.”

Every skilled[fn] woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.

The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

“to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

They took from Moses's presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.

Each curtain was forty-two feet[fn] long and six feet[fn] wide; all the curtains had the same measurements.

He overlaid them with gold and made their rings out of gold as holders for the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

He made a screen embroidered[fn] with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen for the entrance to the tent,

He cast four gold rings for it, for its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.[fn]

one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At each end, he made a cherub of one piece with the mercy seat.

For the six branches that extended from it, a bud was under the first pair of branches from it, a bud under the second pair of branches from it, and a bud under the third pair of branches from it.

He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant, and expertly blended incense.

Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide,[fn] and was 4½ feet[fn] high.

He made all the altar's utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

The hangings on the north side were also 150 feet long, including their twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.

The screen for the gate of the courtyard was made of finely spun linen, expertly embroidered[fn] with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. It was 30 feet[fn] long, and like the hangings of the courtyard, 7½ feet[fn] high.[fn]

the bases for the surrounding courtyard, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs for the surrounding courtyard.

He also made the embroidered[fn] breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.

They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece.

They made two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod.

Then they tied the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece was above the ephod's waistband and did not come loose from the ephod. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

There was an opening in the center of the robe like that of body armor[fn] with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.

They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates,

They made a medallion, the holy diadem, out of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal: Holy to the LORD.

So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

the pure gold lampstand, with its lamps arranged and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;

“Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.

“Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings so that it will be holy.

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

He brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the curtain for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle

Moses installed the gold altar in the tent of meeting, in front of the curtain,

He placed the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered the burnt offering and the grain offering on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

“He is to slaughter the bull before the LORD; Aaron's sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“He will slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron's sons the priests will splatter its blood against the altar on all sides.