Bible in one year 4/18/2022 Exodus Chapter 31-35
By Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce
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Exodus Chapter 31 The
Builder, the sign of the Sabbath and two tablets of stone inscribed by the
finger of God.
God empowered these craftsmen
with the Holy Spirit. The Sabbath was made a sign of God’s unique relationship
with Israel as His own people. The importance of this sign is seen in the
insistence of later prophets that Sabbath keeping was an indication of the
spiritual condition of the people (Jer.17:19-27;Ezek.20:12-24). And fulfillment
of the promise of 24:12.
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 See, I have called
by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
3 And I have filled
him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge,
and in all manner of workmanship,
4 To devise cunning
works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
5 And in cutting of
stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of
workmanship.
6 And I, behold, I
have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in
the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make
all that I have commanded thee;
7 The tabernacle of
the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is
thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
8 And the table and
his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar
of incense,
9 And the altar of
burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,
10 And the cloths of
service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his
sons, to minister in the priest's office,
11 And the anointing
oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have
commanded thee shall they do.
12 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
13 Speak thou also
unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it
is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that
I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
14 Ye shall keep the
sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall
surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall
be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work
be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever
doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the
children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout
their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign
between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
18 And he gave unto
Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two
tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Chapter 32 The breaking of the Law : the sin of the people: the golden calf; the intercession and wrath of Moses
Moses was so long in coming
down. He had been on the mountain 40 days(24:18) Moses’ appeal for mercy was
based on three things: God Himself had chosen Israel (v.11); God’s name must be
vindicated (v.12);God had made promises in the Abrahamic covenant that could
not be fulfilled if Israel were destroyed(v.13). Book (v.32) A register of the
physically living. To be blotted out meant to experience an untimely death. By
contrast, the New Testament book of life (Rev.13:8) is the register of those
who have eternal life.
1 And when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together
unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for
as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot
not what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break
off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and
of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the
golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
4 And he received them at their
hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf:
and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an
altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to
the LORD.
6 And they rose up early on the
morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the
people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go,
get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt,
have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out
of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O
Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I
have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that
my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make
of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the LORD his
God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou
hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty
hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians
speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the
mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce
wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto
them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that
I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for
ever.
14 And the LORD repented of the evil
which he thought to do unto his people.
15 And Moses turned, and went down
from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the
tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were
they written.
16 And the tables were the work of
God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise
of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in
the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice
of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for
being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as
he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger
waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the
mount.
20 And he took the calf which they
had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it
upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What
did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger
of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us
gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever
hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into
the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the
people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their
enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of
the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all
the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
28 And the children of Levi did
according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about
three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate
yourselves today to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his
brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
30 And it came to pass on the
morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I
will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD,
and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of
gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive
their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast
written.
33 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
34 Therefore now go, lead the people
unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go
before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon
them.
35 And the LORD plagued the people,
because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
Moses successfully
appealed this decision in verses 12-17 that an angel not God Himself, would
lead them to the promised land. Moses’ request for a vision of God was granted,
though not fully and with great precautions. (John1:18)
1 And the LORD said
unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast
brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an
angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing
with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a
stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
4 And when the people
heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his
ornaments.
5 For the LORD had
said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people:
I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore
now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of
Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
7 And Moses took the
tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called
it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one
which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which
was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass,
when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood
every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass,
as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at
the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
10 And all the people
saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up
and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
11 And the LORD spake
unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again
into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed
not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto
the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let
me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name,
and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I
pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may
know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is
thy people.
14 And he said, My
presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto
him, If thy presence go not with me,
carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I
and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with
us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are
upon the face of the earth.
17 And the LORD said
unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken:
for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I
beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and
I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom
I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou
canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said,
Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to
pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock,
and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away
mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
The people were warned
against making any agreements with the Canaanites, against participating in
their idolatrous practices, and against intermarriage. Asherah poles
(v.13).Wooden symbols of Asherah, the foremost deity of the Canaanites and
mother of Baal. This regulation was designed to help maintain the unity of the
covenant people.
1 And the LORD said
unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write
upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the
morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there
to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall
come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount;
neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning,
and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his
hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD
descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of
the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed
by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no
means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made
haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now
I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us;
for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take
us for thine inheritance.
10 And he said,
Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as
have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people
among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing
that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that
which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite.
12 Take heed to
thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither
thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall
destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt
worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their
gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his
sacrifice;
16 And thou take of
their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their
gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make
thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of
unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread,
as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou
camest out from Egypt.
19 All that openeth
the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep,
that is male.
20 But the firstling
of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt
thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none
shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt
work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest
thou shalt rest.
22 And thou shalt
observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast
of ingathering at the year's end.
23 Thrice in the year
shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out
the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire
thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
year.
25 Thou shalt not
offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the
feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the
firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
27 And the LORD said
unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have
made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
28 And he was there
with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink
water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 And it came to
pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in
Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the
skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
30 And when Aaron and all
the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they
were afraid to come nigh him.
31 And Moses called
unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him:
and Moses talked with them.
32 And afterward all
the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the
LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
33 And till Moses had
done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
34 But when Moses went
in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out.
And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was
commanded.
35 And the children of
Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put
the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Chapter 35 The
construction of the Tabernacle; The instructions to the people
All were invited to
contribute materials for the tabernacle, but only from a willing heart.
2 Six days shall work
be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of
rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
3 Ye shall kindle no
fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
4 And Moses spake unto
all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which
the LORD commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among
you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring
it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
6 And blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
7 And rams' skins dyed
red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
8 And oil for the
light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
9 And onyx stones, and
stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
10 And every wise
hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;
11 The tabernacle, his
tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and
his sockets,
12 The ark, and the
staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
13 The table, and his staves,
and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
14 The candlestick
also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the
light,
15 And the incense
altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the
hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
16 The altar of burnt
offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and
his foot,
17 The hangings of the
court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the
court,
18 The pins of the
tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
19 The cloths of
service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
20 And all the
congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
21 And they came,
every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made
willing, and they brought the LORD's offering to the work of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
22 And they came, both
men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and
earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that
offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
23 And every man, with
whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
24 Every one that did
offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD's offering: and every
man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
25 And all the women
that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they
had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
26 And all the women
whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
27 And the rulers
brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the
breastplate;
28 And spice, and oil
for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
29 The children of
Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose
heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had
commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
30 And Moses said unto
the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 And he hath filled
him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and
in all manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise
curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
33 And in the cutting
of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning
work.
34 And he hath put in
his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan.
35 Them hath he filled
with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the
cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet,
and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of
those that devise cunning work.
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