&#8216;Take<n id="1" /> an offering for the <sc>Lordsc>. Let everyone who has a willing heart<n id="2" /> bring<n id="3" /> an offering to the <sc>Lordsc>:<n id="4" /> gold, silver, bronze,

He overlaid it with pure gold &#8211; its top,<n id="1" /> its four walls,<n id="2" /> and its horns &#8211; and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.<n id="3" />

&#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.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Who gave<n id="1" /> a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the <sc>Lordsc>?<n id="2" />

I have come down<n id="1" /> to deliver them<n id="2" /> from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious,<n id="3" /> to a land flowing with milk and honey,<n id="4" /> to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.<n id="5" />

When<n id="1" /> the layer of dew had evaporated,<n id="2" /> there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance,<n id="3" /> thin like frost on the earth.

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly,<n id="1" /> you will take him even from my altar that he may die.p>

Keep your distance<n id="1" /> from a false charge<n id="2" /> &#8211; do not kill the innocent and the righteous,<n id="3" /> for I will not justify the wicked.<n id="4" />p>

Now the appearance of the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view<n id="1" /> of the people.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Write down<n id="1" /> these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.&#8221;

one beka per person, that is, a half shekel,<n id="1" /> according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older,<n id="2" /> 603,550 in all.<n id="3" />

We must go<n id="1" /> on a three-day journey<n id="2" /> into the desert and sacrifice<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> our God, just as he is telling us.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?&#8221;

and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.p>

He said to them, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> has said: &#8216;Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work,<n id="1" /> a holy Sabbath<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>. Whatever you want to<n id="3" /> bake, bake today;<n id="4" /> whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Now the firstling<n id="1" /> of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck.<n id="2" /> You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;No one will appear before me empty-handed.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses and Aaron, &#8220;Take handfuls of soot<n id="2" /> from a furnace, and have Moses throw it<n id="3" /> into the air while Pharaoh is watching.<n id="4" />

When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover<n id="1" /> you with my hand<n id="2" /> while I pass by.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal<n id="1" /> with the names of the sons of Israel.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it,<n id="1" /> he will let the servant<n id="2" /> go free<n id="3" /> as compensation for the eye.