Fethro's counsel to Mofes.

& Deut. 1. 9.

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b Deut. 29.

2.

c Deut. 5.

2.

19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counfel, and God fhall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayeft bring the caufes unto God:"

20 And thou fhalt teach them ordinances and laws, and fhalt fhew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people, able men, fuch as fear God, men of truth, hating covetoufnefs; and place fuch over them to be rulers of thoufands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

22 And let them judge the people at all feafons and it fhall be, that every great matter they fhall bring unto thee, but every imall matter they fhall judge: So fhall it be easier for thyself, and they thall bear the burden with thee.

23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee fo, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

24 So Mofes hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had faid.

25 And Mofes chofe able men out of all Ifrael, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all feafons: the hard caufes they brought unto Mofes, but every small matter they judged themselves.

27¶ And Mofes let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land. CHA P. XIX.

The people come to Sinai. 3 God's message by Mofes unto the people out of the mount. 8 The peoples anfwer returned again. 10 The people are prepared against the third day. 12 The mountain must not be touched. 16 The fearful prefence of God upon the mount.

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N the third month, when the children of Ifrael were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the fame day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the defert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Ifrael camped before the mount.

3 And Mofes went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, faying, Thus fhalt thou fay to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Ifrael;

4 b Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles wings, and brought you unto myself.

5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye thall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for d Deut. 1o. d all the earth is mine. 14. Pfal. 24. T.

e 1 Pet. 2.

Rev.1.6.

6 And ye fhall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Ifrael.

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God's message to the people.

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7 ¶ And Mofes came and called for the el- Before ders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.

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8 And f all the people answered together, and faid, All that the LORD hath spoken, we will 3, 7. do. And Mofes returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

9 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I fpeak with thee, and believe thee for eve ever. And Mofes told the words of the people unto the LORD.

10 ¶ And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Go unto the people, and fanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wath their clothes,"

11 And be ready against the third day for the third day the LORD will come down in the fight of all the people, upon mount Sinai.

& 26. 17.

12 And thou shalt fet bounds unto the people round about, faying, Take heed to yourfelves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: & whofoever toucheth the mount & Hebr. 12. shall be surely put to death.

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13 There fhall not an hand touch it, but he fhall furely be ftoned, or thot through; whether it be beaft or man, it fhall not live: when the trumpet foundeth long, they shall come up to || Or, cornet. the mount.

14 And Mofes went down from the mount unto the people, and fanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

15 And he faid unto the people, Be ready against the third day : come not at your wives.

16 And it came to pafs on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; fo that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

17 And Mofes brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

18 And h mount Sinai was altogether on a b Deut. 4. smoke, because the LORD defcended upon it in 11. fire and the fmoke thereof afcended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

19 And when the voice of the trumpet founded long, and waxed louder and louder, Mofes fpake, and God anfwered him by a voice.

20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Mofes up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.

21 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Go down, + charge the people, left they break through + Heb. unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them conteft. perish.

22 And let the priests alfo which come near to the LORD, fanctify themselves, left the LORD break forth upon them.

23 And Mofes faid unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedft us, faying, Set bounds about the mount, and fanctify it.

24 And

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25 So Mofes went down unto the people, and fpake unto them.

CHAP. XX.

The ten commandments. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Mofes comforteth them. 22 Idolatry is forbidden. 24 Of what fort the altar fhould be.

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ND God fpake all these words, faying,

2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of, the house of + bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4b Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Pfal. 97. 7. heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

e Lev. 19.

12.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyfelf to them, nor ferve them: for I the LORD thy God am jealous God, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ;

6 And fhewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD

was.

22 ¶ And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Thus thou fhalt fay unto the children of Ifrael, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 Ye fhall not make with me gods of filver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

24 ¶ An altar of earth thou fhalt make unto me, and fhalt facrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings,and thy peace-offerings, thy fheep, and thine oxen: In all places where I record my name, I will come unto thee, and I will blefs thee.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of 'Deut. 27. ftone, thou shalt not + build it of hewn ftone: foth. 8. 3. for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou haft + Heb. polluted it. 26 Neither halt thou go up by steps unto with bewmine altar, that thy nakedness be not difcovered ing. thereon.

CHA P. XXI.

1 Laws for men-fervants. 5 For the fervant whofe ear is bored. 7 For women-fervants. 12 For man-flaughter. 16 For ftealers of men. 17 For curfers of parents. 18 For fmiters. 22 For a burt by chance. 28 For an ox that goreth. 33 For him that is an occafion of harm. TOW thefe are the judgements which thou

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10 But the feventh day is the fabbath of the LORD thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

11 For in fix days the LORD made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the fabbath-day, and hallowed it.

12f Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witnefs against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

18 And all the people faw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noife of the trumpet, and the mountain fmoking: and when the people faw it, they removed, and ftood afar off."

19 And they faid unto Mofes, * Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God fpeak with us, left we die.

20 And Mofes faid unto the people, Fear not : for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye fin not.

built them

a Lev. 25.

39. Deut. 15.

12.

3 If he came in + by himself, he fhall by himself: if he were married, then his wife Jer. 34. 14 fall go out with him.

+ Heb.

4 If his mafter have given him a wife, and fhe with bis have borne him fons or daughters; the wife and body. her children fhall be her master's and he fhall go out by himtelf.

5 And if the fervant + fhall plainly fay, I love † Heb. Say my master, my wife, and my children, I will ing fball fay. not go out free:

6 Then his mafter fhall bring him unto the judges; he shall alfo bring him to the door, or unto the door-poft: and his mafter fhall bore his ear through with an awl; and he fhall ferve him for ever.

7¶ And if a man fell his daughter to be a maid-servant, fhe fhall not go out as the menfervants do.

8 If the + please not her mafter, who hath + Heb. be betrothed her to himself, then fhall he let her be evil in the redeemed: To fell her unto a strange nation he eyes of, &c. fhall have no power, feeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his fon, he fhall deal with her after the manner of daughters. Io If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage fhall he not diminish.

11 And if he do not these three unto her, then fhall the go out free without money.

Divers laws,
Before 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God
Chrift deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint
thee a place whither he thall flee.

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e Deut. 19. 3.

d Lev. 20.

9.

Prov. 20.

20.

Matth. 15.

4. Mark 7.10. || Or, revileth. #Or, his neighbour. | Or, his ceafing. + Heb. avenged.

c Lev. 24.

20.

Deut. 19.

21.

Matth. 38.

5.

14 But if a man come prefumptuously upon his neighbour, to flay him with guile; thou thalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 And he that fmiteth his father, or his mother, fhall be furely put to death.

16 And he that ftealeth a man, and felleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he fhall furely be put to death.

17 And he that | curfeth his father, or his mother, fhall furely be put to death.

18 And if men ftrive together, and one finite | another with a ftone, or with his fift, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

19 If he rife again, and walk abroad upon his ftaff, then fhall he that fmote him be quit: only he fhall pay for the lofs of his time, and fhall caufe him to be throughly healed.

20 ¶ And if a man finite his fervant, or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand; he fhall be furely + punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he thall not be punished: for he is his money.

22 If men ftrive, and hurt a woman with child, fo that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mifchief follow: he thall be furely punished, according as the woman's hutband will lay upon him; and he thall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mifchief follow, then thou fhalt give life for life,

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24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, ftripe for stripe.

26 ¶ And if a man fmite the eye of his fervant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he fhall let him go free for his eye's fake.

27 And if he fmite out his man-fervant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he fhall let him go free for his tooth's fake.

28¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that e Gen. 9. 5. they die: then the ox fhall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox fhall be quit.

29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been teftified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox fhall be stoned, and his owner alfo fhall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a fum of money, then he fhall give for the ransom of his life whatfoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have gored a fon, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgement Thall it be done unto him.

32 If the ox fhall push a man-fervant, or maidfervant; he shall give unto their mafter thirty fhekels of filver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33¶ And if a man fhall open a pit, or if a man fhall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein ;

and ordinances.

34 The owner of the pit fhall make it good, Before and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast thall be his.

35 ¶ And if one man's ox hurt another's that he die, then they shall fell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead ox also they shall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to puth in time paft, and his owner hath not kept him in; he thall furely pay ox for ox, and the dead (hall be his own.

CHAP. XXII.

Of theft. 5 Of damage. 7 Of trefpaffes. 14 Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of beftiality. 20 Of idolatry. 21 Of Strangers, widows, and fatherless. 25 Of ufury. 26 Of pledges. 28 Of reverence to magifirates. 29 Of the first-fruits.

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Fa man thall fteal an ox or a sheep, and kill Or, goat. it, or fell it; he fhall reftore five oxen for an ox, and four theep for a fheep.

a 2 Sam. 12.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be 6. fmitten that he die, there fhall no blood be fhed for him.

3 If the fun be rifen upon him, there shall be blood bed for him: for he thould make full reftitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be fold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or afs, or fheep; he fhall reftore double.

5¶ If a man fhall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and thall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the beft of his own vineyard shall he make reftitution.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, fo that the stacks of corn, or the ftanding-corn, or the field be confumed therewith; he that kindled the fire, fhall furely make reftitution.

7¶ If a man thall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be ftolen out of the man's houfe; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the mafter of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to fee whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

9 For all manner of trefpafs, whether it be for ox, for afs, for fheep, for raiment, or for any manner of loft thing which another challengeth to be his: the caufe of both parties fhall come before the judges; and whom the judges fhall condemn, he fhall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an afs, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beaft to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man feeing it:

11 Then fhall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it fhall accept thereof, and he fhall not make it good.

12 And if it be ftolen from him, he fhall b Gen. 31. make restitution unto the owner thereof.

39.

13 If it be torn in pieces; then let him bring

Of Jundry laws.

An Angel is promifed. evil; neither shalt thou + speak in a caufe, to de- Before cline after many, to wreft judgement: Chrift

28.

Deut. 22.

+ Heb. weigh.

a Deut. 13.

14 ¶ And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be burnt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it; he thall furely make it good. 15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he thall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

16 ¶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her; he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he fhall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 ¶ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 ¶ Whofoever lieth with a beast, shall surely be put to death.

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20 ¶ He that facrificeth unto any god, fave 13, 14, 15. unto the LORD only, he fhall be utterly deftroyed.

1 Mac. 2.

24.

e Lev. 19.

33

Zech. 7.

10.

g Lev. 25.

36, 37. Deut. 23.

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21 ¶ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor opprefs him for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye fhall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wife, and they cry at all unto me, I will furely hear their cry;

24 And my wrath fhall wax hot, and I will kill you with the fword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

258 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an ufurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him ufury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the fun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his fkin: wherein hall he fleep? And it fhall come to pafs, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear: for I am gracious.

28¶Thou shalt not revile the || gods, nor curfe the ruler of thy people.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer + the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy + liquors: i the first-born of thy fons fhalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewife fhalt thou do with thine oxen, i Chap. 13. and with thy fheep: feven days it fhall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou fhalt give it

31 ¶ And ye fhall be holy men unto me: * neither fhall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beafts in the field: ye fhall caft it to the dogs. CHA P. XXIII.

1 Of flander and falfe witness. 3, 6 Of justice. 4 Of charitableness. 10 Of the year of rest. 12 Of the fabbath. 13 of idolatry. 14 Of the three feafts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the facrifice. 20 An Angel is promifed, with a bleffing if they obey him.

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HOU fhalt not || raise a falfe report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do

3

Neither fhalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4¶ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his afs anjwer. going aftray, thou fhalt furely bring it back to him again.

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4.

5 If thou fee the afs of him that hateth thee a Deut. zz. lying under his burden, and wouldeft forbear Or, wilt || to help him; thou fhalt furely help with him. thou cease to 6 Thou shalt not wreft the judgement of thy help him? poor in his cause.

or, and

7 Keep thee far from a falfe matter: and the wouldest innocent and righteous flay thou not: for I will cease to business not justify the wicked. leave thy 8 ¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift for hims blindeth + the wife, and perverteth the words of thou shalt the righteous.

furely leave 9 Alfo thou shalt not opprefs a stranger: it to join with him. for ye know the + heart of a ftranger, fecing yeb Deut. 16. were strangers in the land of Egypt.

124 Six days thou fhalt do thy work, and on olive-trees. the seventh day thou fhalt reft: that thine ox and d Chap. 20. thine afs may reft, and the fon of thy handmaid, 8. and the ftranger may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have faid unto you, Luke 13. be circumfpect: and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

14 Three times thou shalt keep a feaft unto me in the year.

15f Thou shalt keep the feaft of unleavened f Chap. 13.. bread: thou shalt eat unleavened bread feven 3. & 34. 18. days, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the month Abib: for in it thou cameft out from Egypt: & and none shall appear before me & Deut. 16. empty :

16 And the feaft of harveft, the firft-fruits of thy labours, which thou haft fown in the field: and the feast of in-gathering which is in the end of the year, when thou haft gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males fhall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my facrifice with leavened bread, neither fhall the fat of myfacrifice remain until the morning.

Mofes called up into the mountain.

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that afflict thee.

I Chap. 33.

2.

m Jofḥ. 24.

Deut. 7.

25.

• Deut. 7. 34.

+ Heb. neck.

P Joth. 24.

12.

• Chap. 34. 15. Deut. 7. 2.

16.

1 For mine Angel fhall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebufites: and I will cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor ferve them, nor do after their works: " but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And ye shall ferve the LORD your God, and he thall blefs thy bread, and thy water and I will take fickness away from the midst of thee.

26 There fhall nothing caft their young, nor be barren in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

27 I will fend my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their + backs unto thee.

28 And I will fend hornets before thee, which fhall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; left the land become defolate, and the beaft of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will fet thy bounds from the Red fea even unto the fea of the Philistines, and from the defert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

329 Thou fhalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, left they Deut. 7. make thee fin against me: for if thou ferve their Josh. 23.13. gods, it will furely be a fnare unto thee. Judg. 2. 3. CHAP. XXIV.

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1 Mofes is called up into the mountain. 3 The people promife obedience. 4 Mofes buildeth an altar, and twelve pillars: 6 He fprinkleth the blood of the covenant. 9 The glory of God appeareth. 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people. 15 Mofes goeth into the mountain, where he continueth forty days and forty nights.

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ND he faid unto Mofes, Come up unto the LORD, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Ifrael: and worship ye afar off.

2 And Mofes alone fhall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him.

3 ¶ And Mofes came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgements: and all the people answered with one voice, and Chap. 19. faid, All the words which the LORD hath faid, will we do.

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5 And he fent young men of the children of Before Ifrael, which offered burnt-offerings, and facrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Mofes took half of the blood, and put it in bafons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they faid, All that the LORD hath faid, will we do, b Ver. 3. and be obedient.

< 1 Pet. 1.

8 And Mofes took the blood, and fprinkled it on the people, and faid, Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with Hebr. 9you concerning all these words.

9¶ Then went up Mofes and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Ifrael.

10 And they faw the God of Ifrael: and there was under his feet, as it were a paved work of fapphire-ftone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children off Ifrael he laid not his hand: alfo they faw God, and did eat and drink.

12 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Come up to me into the mount, and be there and I will give thee tables of ftone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayeft teach them.

13 And Mofes rofe up, and his minifter Jofhua: and Mofes went up into the mount of God.

14 And he faid unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you; and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. 15 And Mofes went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it fix days: and the feventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the fight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Ifrael.

ND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, that they bring me an || offering: of every man take for me. + Heb. that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye fhall take my offering.

3 And this is the offering which ye fhall take of them; gold, filver, and brass,

4 And blue, and purple, and fcarlet, and || fine linen, and goats hair,

5 And rams fkins dyed red, and badgers skins, and fhittim-wood,