Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ –

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.

and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than is needed for the completion of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!”

The Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

When the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, then you will keep this ceremony in this month.

Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.