Study Desk

Then God said, "Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will do wondrous works (miracles) such as have not been created or produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live shall see the working of the LORD, for it is a fearful and awesome thing that I am going to do with you.

—for you shall not worship any other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His]—

and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters would play the prostitute with their gods and cause your sons also to play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with their gods [that is, abandon the true God for man-made idols].

"You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.

"You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover). For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

"You shall work for six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; [even] in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].

"For I will drive out and dispossess nations before you and enlarge your borders; nor shall any man covet (actively seek for himself) your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times a year.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

"For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any kind of work on that day shall be put to death.

and [olive] oil for the lighting, and balsam for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

and onyx stones and other stones to be set for the ephod and the breastpiece.

the lampstand also for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

and the altar of incense and its carrying poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the screen (curtain) for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;

the court's curtains, its support poles and their sockets, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;

the finely-woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons, to minister as priests.'"

Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit moved him came and brought the LORD'S offering to be used for the Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.

Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the LORD'S offering; every man who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

The leaders brought onyx stones and other stones to be put in settings for the ephod and for the breastpiece,

and spice and [olive] oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

The Israelites, all the men and women whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work which the LORD had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill (voluntary) offering to the LORD.