Study Desk

So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

"You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.

So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

So Aaron said to them, "Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation."

Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?"

So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."

So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the Lord , come to me." All the Levites gathered around him,

Moses said, "You have been consecrated today for the Lord , for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today."

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin."

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?"

So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.

So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.

So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the Lord has put skill and ability to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary are to do the work according to all that the Lord has commanded."