<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to make the<n id="1" /> altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long,<n id="2" /> and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square,<n id="3" /> and its height is to be<n id="4" /> four feet six inches.

The artistically woven waistband<n id="1" /> of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod,<n id="2" /> of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.p>

You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be<n id="1" /> on the turban; it is to be<n id="2" /> on the front of the turban,

You are to make this<n id="1" /> into<n id="2" /> a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound,<n id="3" /> the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.p>

It must not be applied<n id="1" /> to people&#8217;s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses: &#8220;Take<n id="1" /> spices, gum resin,<n id="2" /> onycha,<n id="3" /> galbanum,<n id="4" /> and pure frankincense<n id="5" /> of equal amounts<n id="6" />

Be careful not to make<n id="1" /> a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare<n id="2" /> among you.

In six days<n id="1" /> work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day<n id="2" /> for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to him, &#8220;When I leave the city<n id="1" /> I will spread my hands to the <sc>Lordsc>, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Pharaoh&#8217;s servants said to him, &#8220;How long<n id="1" /> will this man be a menace<n id="2" /> to us? Release the people so that they may serve the <sc>Lordsc> their God. Do you not know<n id="3" /> that Egypt is destroyed?&#8221;p>

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory<n id="1" /> of Egypt. It was very severe;<n id="2" /> there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.<n id="3" />

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see<n id="1" /> the blood I will pass over you,<n id="2" /> and this plague<n id="3" /> will not fall on you to destroy you<n id="4" /> when I attack<n id="5" /> the land of Egypt.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">On the first day there will be a holy convocation,<n id="1" /> and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind<n id="2" /> on them, only what every person will eat &#8211; that alone may be prepared for you.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely,<n id="1" /> but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman&#8217;s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.<n id="2" />

Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay<n id="1" /> ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.<n id="2" />p>

It is to belong to Aaron and to his sons from the Israelites, by a perpetual ordinance, for it is a contribution. It is to be a contribution from the Israelites from their peace offerings, their contribution to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

&#8220;When you take a census<n id="1" /> of the Israelites according to their number,<n id="2" /> then each man is to pay a ransom<n id="3" /> for his life to the <sc>Lordsc> when you number them,<n id="4" /> so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.