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I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.

And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.

And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.

And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.

And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.

Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it.

And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold.

A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.

And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.