Study Desk

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

"You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."

So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

According to all that I am showing you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings—you must make it exactly so.

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

"You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another.

You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.

You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit.

So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,

At the two corners they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both.

So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come halfway up the altar.

The poles are to be put into the rings so that the poles will be on two sides of the altar when carrying it.