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"You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. And no one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

"Be attentive to him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your rebellion, since My name is in him.

"For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.

"I will not drive them out from you in a single year, so that the land will not become desolate and the animals of the field become too numerous for you.

"I will set your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will drive them out from you.

"They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it is certain to be a snare to you."

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Now the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the Law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction."

But to the elders he said, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, have him approach them."

The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

Then Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

"Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for Me; from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My contribution.

oil for lighting, balsam oil for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

"Have them construct a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

"You shall also cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet; two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

"There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.

"And you shall make for it a rim of a hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

"You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs.

"The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table.