I have sent him (who is my very heart) back to you.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

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

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

The sons of Heth answered Abraham,

Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.” “I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

He asked the men who were there, “Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?” But they replied, “There has been no cult prostitute here.”

So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

I wait for your deliverance, O Lord.

As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing.

You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.

“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

Finally, he set the turban on his head and attached the gold plate, the holy diadem, to the front of the turban just as the Lord had commanded Moses.