Daily
Feast
(26th
Day)
Exodus 23:06 - 25:40
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
Exodus
23
6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I
will not justify the wicked.
8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts
the words of the righteous.
9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you
were aliens in the land of Egypt.
10
“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, 11
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of
your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In
the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
12
“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that
your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the
alien may be refreshed.
13
“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name
of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
14
“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. 15 You shall observe the
feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I
commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out
of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. 16 And the feast of
harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the
feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors
out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before
the Lord Yahweh.
18
“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of
my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
19
You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of
Yahweh your God.
“You
shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20
“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you
into the place which I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to
his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my
name is in him. 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I
speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your
adversaries. 23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the
Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite; and I will cut them off. 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor
serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them
and demolish their pillars. 25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will
bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of
your days. 27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people
to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from
before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field
multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before
you, until you have increased and inherit the land. 31 I will set your border
from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to
the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and
you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with them,
nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you
sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Exodus
24
1 He
said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. 2 Moses alone
shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not
go up with him.”
3
Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and
all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh
has spoken will we do.”
4
Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an
altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of
Israel. 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh. 6 Moses took half
of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the
altar. 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the
people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient.”
8
Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is
the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these
words.”
9
Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of
sapphire† stone, like the skies for clearness. 11 He didn’t lay his hand on the
nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
12
Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will
give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written,
that you may teach them.”
13
Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you.
Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to
them.”
15
Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 Yahweh’s
glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh
day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud. 17 The appearance of
Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes
of the children of Israel. 18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and
went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty
nights.
†24:10
or, lapis lazul
Exodus
25
1
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they
take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall
take my offering. 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold,
silver, bronze, 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, 5 rams’ skins
dyed red, sea cow hides,† acacia wood, 6 oil for the light, spices for the
anointing oil and for the sweet incense, 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set
for the ephod and for the breastplate. 8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I
may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
10
“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half
cubits,‡ its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. 11
You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside,
and you shall make a gold molding around it. 12 You shall cast four rings of
gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of
it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13 You shall make poles of acacia
wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on
the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 15 The poles shall be in the rings of
the ark. They shall not be taken from it. 16 You shall put the covenant which I
shall give you into the ark. 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two
and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width. 18 You
shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends
of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the
other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the
mercy seat. 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the
mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of
the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 21 You shall put the mercy seat on
top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat,
from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I
command you for the children of Israel.
23
“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its
width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits. 24 You shall overlay it
with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. 25 You shall make a rim of a
hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. 26
You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners
that are on its four feet. 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, for places
for the poles to carry the table. 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood,
and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. 29 You
shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour
out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold. 30 You shall set bread of the
presence on the table before me always.
31
“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of
hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall
be of one piece with it. 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides:
three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the
lamp stand out of its other side; 33 three cups made like almond blossoms in
one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the
other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp
stand; 34 and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds
and its flowers; 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a
bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of
one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand. 36 Their
buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten
work of pure gold. 37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its
lamps to give light to the space in front of it. 38 Its snuffers and its snuff
dishes shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made of a talent§ of pure gold,
with all these accessories. 40 See that you make them after their pattern,
which has been shown to you on the mountain.
†25:5
or, fine leather
‡25:10
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s
arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
§25:39
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces
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