LXX Concordance for ἐκ

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.

The LORD God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called “woman,”

for she was taken from man.

So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!

If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,

then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

“Make yourself an ark of gopher[fn] wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.

“You are to make a roof,[fn] finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inches[fn] of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures ​— ​everything that moves on the earth ​— ​came out of the ark by their families.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

“And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood;[fn] I will require it from any animal and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person's life.

“and with every living creature that is with you ​— ​birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you ​— ​all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.

Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.

From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

The LORD said to Abram:

Go from your land,

your relatives,

and your father's house

to the land that I will show you.

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Now the word of the LORD came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body[fn] will be your heir.”

He also said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering![fn] I put my slave in your arms,[fn] and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the LORD judge between me and you.”

“I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.

“Throughout your generations, every male among you is to be circumcised at eight days old ​— ​every male born in your household or purchased from any foreigner and not your offspring.

“If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

Then the angels said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here: a son-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of this place,

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city! ” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Then out of the sky the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah burning sulfur from the LORD.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

“Come, let's get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father's line.”

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father's line.”

So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

“Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes

God heard the boy crying, and the[fn] angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What's wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham! ”

He replied, “Here I am.”

Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring'[fn] ​— ​he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

“He said to me, ‘The LORD before whom I have walked will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's family.

“I am standing here at a spring. Let the young woman[fn] who comes out to draw water, and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jug,'

Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

And the LORD said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;

two peoples will come from you and be separated.

One people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from? ”

“We're from Haran,” they answered.

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”[fn]

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Now Jacob heard what Laban's sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father's and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

“I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.' ”

So Laban went into Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two concubines,[fn] but he found nothing. When he left Leah's tent, he went into Rachel's tent.

“Please rescue me from my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.

Jacob's sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob's daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away.

So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.[fn]

Then God withdrew[fn] from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.

Then Israel said to him, “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.

When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them.[fn] He said, “Let's not take his life.”

They sat down to eat a meal, and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.

“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” he replied.

But she said, “Only if you leave something with me until you send it.”

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim? ”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out,” Judah said, “and let her be burned to death! ”

Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guards, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

“But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.

when seven healthy-looking, well-fed cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.[fn] He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.

“when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and grazed among the reeds.

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.

“Where do you come from? ” he asked.

“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.

“I will be responsible for him. You can hold me personally accountable![fn] If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will be guilty before you forever.

“We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found at the top of our bags. How could we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

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

“You are also commanded to tell them, ‘Do this: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your dependents and your wives and bring your father here.

The total number of persons belonging to Jacob ​— ​his direct descendants,[fn] not including the wives of Jacob's sons ​— ​who came to Egypt: sixty-six.

“you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our ancestors, have raised livestock[fn] from our youth until now.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to Egyptians.”

So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen.”

When the silver from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die here in front of you? The silver is gone! ”

“When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

Then Joseph took them both ​— ​with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel's left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel's right ​— ​and brought them to Israel.

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,

the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

“Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope[fn] that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

“Judah is a young lion —

my son, you return from the kill.

He crouches; he lies down like a lion

or a lioness ​— ​who dares to rouse him?

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

“Come, let's deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.

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? ”

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Then the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses! ”

“Here I am,” he answered.

“and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey ​— ​the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

“therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

“And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites ​— ​a land flowing with milk and honey.

In addition the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

But the LORD replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.”

“Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment.

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.”

Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them commands concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

The sons of Simeon:

Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin,

Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

These are the clans of Simeon.

It was this Aaron and Moses whom the LORD told, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.”

“You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land.

“Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put my hand into Egypt and bring the military divisions of my people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor of choosing. When should I appeal on behalf of you, your officials, and your people, that the frogs be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile? ”

“the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”

The LORD did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died.

One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

“You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.

“You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your military divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

“Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a resident alien or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.

He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the LORD as you have said.

Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We're all going to die! ”

The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand able-bodied men on foot, besides their families.

At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the LORD's military divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

“It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.

Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, for the LORD brought you out of here by the strength of his hand. Nothing leavened may be eaten.

“you are to present to the LORD every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the LORD's.

“In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean? ' say to him, ‘By the strength of his hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

So he led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.

They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

Then the angel of God, who was going in front of the Israelite forces, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them.

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

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

They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter ​— ​that is why it was named Marah.[fn]

The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.

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.

So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.

“Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he will give you two days' worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”

Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Two quarts[fn] of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.' ”

The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the LORD's command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

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]

Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the LORD rescued them.

In the third month from the very day the Israelites left the land of Egypt, they came to the Sinai Wilderness.

Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

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

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Then the LORD told Moses, “This is what you are to say to the Israelites: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

“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.

“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.

“When a man gives his neighbor valuables[fn] or goods to keep, but they are stolen from that person's house, the thief, if caught, must repay double.

“Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.[fn]

“Also observe the Festival of Harvest[fn] with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering[fn] at the end of the year, when you gather your produce[fn] from the field.

The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from the cloud.

“They are to make an ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[fn]

“Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat.

“Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them.

“You are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its buds[fn] and petals.

“For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a bud must be 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.

“Make its seven lamps, and set them up so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains. You must make them of finely spun linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them.

“Five of the curtains should be joined together, and the other five curtains joined together.

“Make fifty bronze clasps; put the clasps through the loops and join the tent together so that it is a single unit.

“What remains along the length of the tent curtains ​— ​a half yard[fn] on one side and a half yard on the other side ​— ​should hang over the sides of the tabernacle on either side to cover it.

“You are to make upright supports[fn] of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

“Make the supports for the tabernacle as follows: twenty supports for the south side,

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

“You are to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the supports on one side of the tabernacle,

“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]

“Then make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

“You are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. Make hangings for the south side of the courtyard out of finely spun linen, 150 feet[fn] long on that side

“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.

“Have your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest ​— ​Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

“They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered[fn] with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.

“The artistically woven waistband that is on the ephod[fn] must be of one piece,[fn] according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.

“Fashion gold filigree settings

“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.

“You are to weave the tunic from fine linen, make a turban of fine linen, and make an embroidered sash.

“This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,

“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.

“And they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.

“You are to make an altar for the burning of incense; make it of acacia wood.

“Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

“Anyone who blends something like it or puts some of it on an unauthorized person must be cut off from his people.”

“Grind some of it into a fine powder and put some in front of the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It must be especially holy to you.

“Anyone who makes something like it to smell its fragrance must be cut off from his people.”

“I have also selected Oholiab[fn] son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to be with him. I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilled artisan[fn] in order to make all that I have commanded you:

“Observe the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Whoever profanes it must be put to death. If anyone does work on it, that person must be cut off from his people.

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods[fn] for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt ​— ​we don't know what has happened to him! ”

He took the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf.

Then they said, “Israel, these are your gods,[fn] who brought you up from the land of Egypt! ”

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

But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God: “LORD, why does your anger burn against your people you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?

The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about three thousand men fell dead that day among the people.

“Now if you would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book you have written.”

The LORD spoke to Moses: “Go up from here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your offspring.

The LORD would speak with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend, then Moses would return to the camp. His assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.

As Moses descended from Mount Sinai ​— ​with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain ​— ​he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the LORD.[fn]

Moses then said to the Israelites, “Look, the LORD has appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

“He has also given[fn] both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

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

He constructed the table of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[fn]

There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on the next branch. It was this way for the six branches that extended from the lampstand.

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 constructed for the altar a grate of bronze mesh under its ledge,[fn] halfway up from the bottom.

He made the bronze basin and its stand from the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

All the hangings around the courtyard were of finely spun linen.

Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD commanded Moses.

Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.

The artistically woven waistband that was on the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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.

The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

Then they attached the two gold cords to the two gold rings on the corners of the breastpiece.

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.

They made the turban and the ornate headbands[fn] of fine linen, the linen undergarments of finely spun linen,

Then the LORD summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:

“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring an unblemished male. He will bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting so that he[fn] may be accepted by the LORD.

“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.

“He will tear it open by its wings without dividing the bird. Then the priest is to burn it on the altar on top of the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“When you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to be made of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

“When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he will take it to the altar.

“If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present one without blemish before the LORD.

“If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the LORD a young, unblemished bull as a sin[fn] offering for the sin he has committed.

“then the assembly must present a young bull as a sin offering. They are to bring it before the tent of meeting when the sin they have committed in regard to the command becomes known.

“Now if any of the common people[fn] sins unintentionally by violating one of the LORD's commands, does what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,

“He is to remove all its fat just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest will burn it on the altar along with the food offerings to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

“If someone offends by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the LORD's holy things,[fn] he must bring his penalty for guilt to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel) as a guilt offering.

“He must bring an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven.

“It is to be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded. You are to present it as a grain offering of baked pieces,[fn] a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“Any male among the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy.

“If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice, he is to present unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

“But the one who eats meat from the LORD's fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.

He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a sin[fn] offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”

“For I am the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.

“the priest is to go outside the house to its doorway and quarantine the house for seven days.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean.

“When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.

“Aaron is to enter the most holy place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

“instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before his tabernacle ​— ​that person will be considered guilty.[fn] He has shed blood and is to be cut off from his people.

“but does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that person is to be cut off from his people.

“You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.

“Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people.

“Anyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person is to be cut off from his people.

“You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

“You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

“You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure,[fn] and an honest liquid measure;[fn] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

“I will turn[fn] against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

“then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow[fn] him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

“If a man marries his sister, whether his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and they have sexual relations,[fn] it is a disgrace. They are to be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his iniquity.

“He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the LORD.

“Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.

“No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.

“No man of Aaron's descendants who has a skin disease[fn] or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

“But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

“must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.

“When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.

“Neither you nor[fn] a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”

“the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD.”

“Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the LORD.

“If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he is to be cut off from his people.

“On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees ​— ​palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook ​— ​and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

“so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was[fn] among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman's son and an Israelite man.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

“They are not to be sold as slaves,[fn] because they are my servants[fn] that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

“If an alien or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the alien living among you, or to a member of the resident alien's clan,

“His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself.

“For the Israelites are my servants. They are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

“I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

“You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.[fn]

“For their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the LORD.”

“then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the LORD.

The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel's departure from the land of Egypt:

those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

“The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah's encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.

“See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to me,

The clans of the Kohathites camped on the south side of the tabernacle,

The leader of the families of the Merarite clans was Zuriel son of Abihail; they camped on the north side of the tabernacle.

The total number of the firstborn males one month old or more listed by name was 22,273.

“Among the Levites, take a census of the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral families,[fn]

“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.

“Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.

“The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman, present the offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

“he is to abstain from wine and beer. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

“Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.”

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and ceremonially cleanse them.

“They are to take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

“In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to me.

“For they have been exclusively assigned to me from the Israelites. I have taken them for myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.

“From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”

In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the LORD told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,

“But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD's offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

They set out from the mountain of the LORD on a three-day journey with the ark of the LORD's covenant traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

“but for a whole month ​— ​until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you ​— ​because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and wept before him, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt? ' ”

“Please don't let her be like a dead baby[fn] whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb.”

Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the LORD's command. All the men were leaders in Israel.

But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the LORD's covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.

“This is to be done for each ox, ram, lamb, or goat.

“and if it was done unintentionally without the community's awareness, the entire community is to prepare one young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.

“But the person who acts defiantly,[fn] whether native or resident alien, blasphemes the LORD. That person is to be cut off from his people.

“I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God.”

“Isn't it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelite community to bring you near to himself, to perform the work at the LORD's tabernacle, and to stand before the community to minister to them?

“Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?

“Separate yourselves from this community so I may consume them instantly.”

They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the firepans from the burning debris, because they are holy, and scatter the fire far away.

just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorized person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD and become like Korah and his followers.

“Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly.” But they fell facedown.

“Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the LORD to work at the tent of meeting.

“But a person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”

Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you? ”

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says, ‘You know all the hardships that have overtaken us.

“When we cried out to the LORD, he heard our plea,[fn] and sent an angel,[fn] and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the border of your territory.

After they set out from Kadesh, the entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.

After Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.

“Let us travel through your land. We won't go into the fields or vineyards. We won't drink any well water. We will travel the King's Highway until we have traveled through your territory.”

For fire came out of Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon.

It consumed Ar of Moab,

the citizens of Arnon's heights.

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”

Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab's king at that time,

“Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing on the path with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path.

When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city[fn] on the Arnon border at the edge of his territory.

Balaam proclaimed his poem:

Balak brought me from Aram;

the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:

“Come, put a curse on Jacob for me;

come, denounce Israel! ”

Water will flow from his buckets,

and his seed will be by abundant water.

His king will be greater than Agag,

and his kingdom will be exalted.

One who comes from Jacob will rule;

he will destroy the city's survivors.

Ships will come from the coast of Kittim;

they will carry out raids against Asshur and Eber,

but they too will come to destruction.

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

“Each inheritance will be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”

“Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father's brothers.”

“If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the LORD commanded Moses.”

“At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old ​— ​all unblemished ​— ​

“Their drink offerings are to be two quarts[fn] of wine with each bull, one and a third quarts[fn] with the ram, and one quart[fn] with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year.

“Present a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. Your animals are to be unblemished.

“Present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old,

“Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old ​— ​all unblemished ​— ​

“Present a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. All your animals are to be unblemished.

“Present a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They are to be unblemished.

“When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

“But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears about it, nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or her obligation, is binding. Her husband has canceled them, and the LORD will release her.

“Execute vengeance for the Israelites against the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

“Send one thousand men to war from each Israelite tribe.”

But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.

Then the priest Eleazar said to the soldiers who had gone to battle, “This is the legal statute the LORD commanded Moses:

The half portion for those who went out to war numbered:

337,500 sheep and goats,

“That's what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

“Build cities for your dependents and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its surrounding villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

These were the stages of the Israelites' journey when they went out of the land of Egypt by their military divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly[fn] in the sight of all the Egyptians.

The Israelites traveled from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

They traveled from Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve springs and seventy date palms at Elim, so they camped there.

They traveled from the Wilderness of Sin and camped in Dophkah.

They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.

They traveled from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.

They traveled from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

They traveled from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

They traveled from Iyim[fn] and camped at Dibon-gad.

“Take one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

“If anyone has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

The family heads from the clan of the descendants of Gilead ​— ​the son of Machir, son of Manasseh ​— ​who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were heads of the Israelite families.

“If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers' inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

“This is what the LORD has commanded concerning Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

“Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

They married men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father's clan.

“We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

“You grumbled in your tents and said, ‘The LORD brought us out of the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites in order to destroy us, because he hates us.

“The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor,[fn] destroyed the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and settled in their place.

“So I sent messengers with an offer of peace to King Sihon of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,

“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,

“Then the LORD spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn't see a form; there was only a voice.

“Diligently watch yourselves ​— ​because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb ​— ​

“But the LORD selected you and brought you out of Egypt's iron furnace to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.

“Has a people heard God's voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

“He let you hear his voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you his great fire on earth, and you heard his words from the fire.

These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

“The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

“The LORD spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and total darkness on the mountain; he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

“For who out of all humanity has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?

“Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.[fn]

“be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

“But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

“He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.