Study Desk

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not sin.”

Do not go up to my altar on steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident alien may be refreshed.

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.

“They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them.

“Make its seven lamps, and set them up so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

Make fifty loops on the one curtain and make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops line up together.

Also make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single unit.

Make fifty bronze clasps; put the clasps through the loops and join the tent together so that it is a single unit.

They are to be paired at the bottom, and joined together at the top in a single ring. So it should be for both of them; they will serve as the two corners.

Hang the curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the curtain, so the curtain will make a separation for you between the holy place and the most holy place.

Set it below, under the altar’s ledge, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain.

And so make hangings 150 feet long for the north side, including twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and silver bands for the posts.