Exodus

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Exodus

“Departure”

The Pattern of Salvation and Redemption

Archaeologists Discover Remains of Egyptian Army From the Biblical Exodus in Red Sea

Exodus follows Genesis just like
the New Testament follows the Old Testament

 

Genesis tells of man’s failure under every test and in every condition; Exodus is the thrilling Epic of God hastening to the rescue of man.  It tells of the redeeming work of a sovereign God.  He rescued them to make Himself known, not only by the exercise of His power but also through an ongoing covenant relationship based on His capacity for patience, grace, and forgiveness.
4 Messages conveyed:
➡   “I AM THAT I AM”
➡   Redemption
➡   Law – civil and ceremonial
➡   Tabernacle – God dwelling among His people
Exodus is the book of redemption in the OT.  Beginning with darkness and gloom yet ends in glory; It commences by telling how God came down in grace to deliver an enslaved people, and ends by declaring how God came down in glory to dwell in the midst of a redeemed people.
Exodus in Greek means “way out”.  Without Genesis Exodus has no meaning.  Each book of the Torah is about something and each are vitally related to each other.
Moses spent:
40 years thinking he was somebody
40 years learning he was nobody
40 years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

 

Bondage and Oppression 
(under 18th dynasty Pharaoh’s Thutmose and Amenhotep II)

 

The book opens 350 years after the closing scene of Genesis.  Genesis is about family history and Exodus is a national history.  There were only 70 person that went down to Egypt, but before the left had grown to 3 million.
When Joseph died and a new dynasty came to the throne in Egypt, the wealth and great numbers of the children of Israel made them objects of suspension and the Pharaoh became suspicious and reduced them to slavery of the worst sort.  This was hard for them who had lived as free men with every favor upon them.  They remembered the promises God had given to Abraham and his descendants, and it made this bondage doubly hard to understand.  Through the long years of bondage, they clung to the promise that one day Canaan would be their home.
We see God coming down to deliver the people from Egypt and take them back to the land which He promised them.

 

Deliverance 
The Exodus (1441 BC)

 

In the construction of any great edifice a blueprint has to be drawn and a pattern made.  Our Salvation was designed by God before the foundation of the world.  We find he pattern in the book of Exodus.  Exodus is the historical picture of divine grace in the redemption of man by God to Himself by Jesus Christ, who is at once our great Apostle (moses) and High Priest (aaron).
The story of Exodus is repeated in every soul that seeks deliverance from the enmeshing and enervating influence of the world.
We study Exodus in order to see God’s way of delivering sinful man, and His gracious purposes in thus rescuing him.

 

Passover 

Chapter 12-19

 

9 plagues – then murder of the 1st born.  Hebrews saved by blood of the lamb…When I see blood I will Passover you.
The clearest OT picture of our individual salvation through faith in the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ is our Passover Lamb.
Passover is the Heart
Take a Lamb
 ➡   Christ’s sinless life didn’t save us, his blood that shed death and resurrection did
Sprinkle the blood
 ➡   Blood is not sufficient, blood applied is. 
 ➡   Not blood in the basin but blood applied saves a soul. 
 ➡   Not all the blood shed on the cross can save a soul from death unless it is applied. 
 ➡   Not feelings, person worthiness, only the blood.
Eat the lamb
 ➡   Direction for nourishment, Salvation first the feeding – fellowship, worship, walk, and service.
Remove the Leaven
 ➡   Search me and see if there is any wicked way in me. 
 ➡   Unrighteousness must be removed before we are to eat with God (Marriage Supper of the Lamb)
Bitter Herbs
➡   Christ tasted the bitter cup for us and bitterness too we must suffer. 
➡   The lamb was not to be feasted upon raw but one that suffered, passed through the fire
Be Ready to Leave
➡   They ate standing and dressed, ready to go. 
➡   Peaceful feasting in the houses of Israel; awful mourning in the house of Egypt!
The Passover sealed them
The passage of the Red Sea steeled them
The left Egypt under the blood, marked men.
They passed through the Red Sea directed.
God led them out and shut the door behind them.

 

The Law

Chapters 20-24

 

We see the law given, broken, and restored.  Up to this time in Israel’s history all has been about grace and mercy.  God had heard the cry of their bondage and answered them.  God selected a leader and trained him.  god defeated their enemies.  God fed them and yet they rebelled.  Now a new order of things is brought about at Sinai.
The law demands nothing short of perfection.  Only one has been able to keep it perfectly.  Christ not only kept the law but He paid the complete penalty for the broken law.  He suffered so we might be spared.
If a man could not keep the law, why was it given?  That we might know our exceeding sinfulness.
God’s Law reveals our sin condition but doesn’t cleanse us from it.  (Just like a doctor reveals the condition of a sick patient).  It did not make man sin, it showed him hat he was a sinner.
The law is God’s mirror to show us our exceeding sinfulness.
There are 2 mountain peaks which stand over against each other in God’s Word.
   ➡   Mt Sinai, with all of its horror thundered forth the law
   ➡   Opposite this God places Calvary which took away all the fire and thunder and made possible a meeting place between God and the sinner.  We each have a choice how we shall approach God, by the law, or by blood.
There was not provision made in the law for failure.  It is all or nothing – the whole law or a broken thing.  One hole in a bowl, one crack in a pitcher, unfits it for its purpose.  One flaw in a character mars the perfection God requires under the law.
It is divided into 2 parts:
  ➡   mans attitude toward God
  ➡   mans attiude toward his fellow men.
Human pride always makes us think that we can please God by ourselves.  Before Israel even received the law or started to keep it, they were dancing around the golden calf, and worhsipping a god they had made.
Teaches us the redeemed must do the will of their Redeemer, consecrating themselves to His service, and submitting to His control.  Therefore, the moral law is given, followed by the ceremonial law which was provision for the violator of the moral law.

 

The Tabernacle

Chapter 25-40

 

God told Moses He wished a sanctuary or holy dwelling place which should point to Christ and tell of His person and work.
Outer Court
The brazen altar on which the burnt offerings were sacrificed (Christ is our sin offering)
The Holy Place
The golden lampstand (typifying Christ, the light of the world, and the bread of presence) Christ is the Bread of life, and the golden altar of incense symbolizing His intercession for us
Holy of Holies
Draw back the veil (Christ’s body) we see the ark of the covenant, symbolizing God’s presence   Into this holy of Holies, the high priest came only once a year to sprinkle the blood of atomnment.  Christ is not only our High Priest but that He was our atonement, so we can go into the HH (the presence of God) ant any time with boldness.
The Tabernacle
With the cloud of glory over it, taught the people that God was dwelling in their midst.  It was the common center and rallying point which hcould be moved from time to time.
God gave the tabernacle as a detailed picture of the Redeemer to come, in His many offices, and as a dwelling place for His visible glory on earth.

ribbonChapter 1 : The Israelites Multiply in Egypt

1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Oppression by a New Pharaoh

8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.  9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:  10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them;  lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falls out any war, they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom (“lower Egypt, City of Justice”) and Raamses. (“child of the sun”) 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.

Pharoah Orders Male Children Killed

15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah (“fair,brightness, beauty”), and the name of the other Puah: (“glitter, splendid, brilliancy”) 16 And he said, When you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the stools; if it be a son, then you shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Notes:

Pharaoh = “great house”

  1. the common title of the king of Egypt

  2. פַּרְעֹה Parʻôh, par-o’; of Egyptian derivation; Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings:—Pharaoh.
  3. 268 times in 230 v

Pithom = “the city of justice”

  1. one of the store-cities which the Pharaoh made the Israelites build

Shiphrah = “fair”

  1. one of the two Hebrew midwives who were ordered by Pharaoh to kill all the male children born to the Hebrews but who disobeyed

  2. “brightness”, “beauty”

Puah = “splendid”

  1. one of the 2 midwives of the Hebrews ordered by Pharaoh to kill all the male children born to Israel; time of Moses

  2. “mouth”

Raamses or Rameses = “child of the sun” (tamuz/horus)

  1. a city in lower Egypt built by Hebrew slaves; probably in Goshen

  2. metropolis of the land of Goshen

see them on the stools

  • wheel, disc

  1. potter’s wheel

  2. bearing-stool, midwife’s stool

  3. אֹבֶן ʼôben, o’ ben; from the same as H68; a pair of stones (only dual); a potter’s wheel or a midwife’s stool (consisting alike of two horizontal disks with a support between):—wheel, stool.

see them upon stools’ is literally :

  • look upon the pair of stones
  • This may refer to a birthing stool or to the genitals of the newborn

midwife = “to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail”

  1. יָלַד yâlad, yaw-lad’; a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:—bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
    1. beget (201x),bare (110x), born (79x), bring forth (25x), bear (23x), travail (16x), midwife (10x),child (8x), delivered (5x), borne (3x), birth (2x), labour (2x), brought up (2x),miscellaneous (12x)
    2. 499 times in 403 v

 

17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 

18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in to them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.

Notes:

river, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canal

  1. stream, river (Nile)

  2. Nile-arms, Nile-canals

  3. watercourses

  4. shafts (mining)

  5. river (in general)

  6. יְאֹר yᵉʼôr, yeh-ore’; of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:—brook, flood, river, stream.
    1. river (53x),brooks (5x), flood (5x), streams (1x)
    2. 64x in 48v

ribbonExodus 2 : The Birth of Moses (to be drawn out of the water)

1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him 3 months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 

Notes:

3 months

  • 12 weeks
  • 84 days
  • 2016 hours
  • 120,960 minutes

 

ark

  1. vessel which Noah built

  2. basket vessel in which Moses was placed

  3. תֵּבָה têbâh, tay-baw’; perhaps of foreign derivation; a box:—ark.
  4. 28x in 25v

bulrushes = “rush, reed, papyrus”

  • גֹּמֶא gômeʼ, go’-meh; from H1572; properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus:—(bul-) rush.
  • 1573; 4x in 4v

daubed

  1. to boil, foam, foam up, ferment

    1. (Qal) to boil, foam up

    2. (Poalal) to be troubled, be in turmoil

  2. (Poalal) to be reddened

  3. (Qal) to daub, seal up, cover or smear with asphalt
חָמַר châmar, khaw-mar’; a primitive root; also as denominative (from H2564) properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch:—daub, befoul, be red, trouble.

slime = “pitch, asphalt, bitumen”

  • חֵמָר chêmâr, khay-mawr’; from H2560; bitumen (as rising to the surface):—slime(-pit).
  • bitumen which boils up from subterranean fountains like oil or hot pitch, in the vicinity of Babylon, and also near the Dead Sea, and from its bottom; it afterwards hardens through the heat of the sun, and is collected on the surface of the Dead Sea

pitch = “tar, asphalt”

  • זֶפֶת zepheth, zeh’-feth; from an unused root (meaning to liquify); asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun):—pitch.
  • as having the idea of liquefaction or dropping.
  • ***this is how Sodom and Gomorrah slide in the Dead Sea

flags

  • reed, rush, water plant

  1. rushes

  2. sea of rushes

    1. of Red Sea

    2. of arms of Red Sea

    3. of Gulf of Suez

    4. of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba

  3. סוּף çûwph, soof; probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus:—flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489.
  4. 28x in 28v

brink

  • lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding

  1. lip (as body part)

  2. language

  3. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

  4. שָׂפָה sâphâh, saw-faw’; or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת sepheth; probably fromH5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.):—band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
  5. 176 times in 164 v

 

In an Egyptian name like Thutmose, mose is related to an Egyptian verb meaning “bear, produce, bring forth” and a noun meaning “child,” while Thut/Thoth was a god, so “Thutmose” and similar names celebrated a connection between the “birth of a child and an Egyptian god”.

 Pharaoh’s daughter named Moses in a way that suited Egyptian naming patters and commemorated her action in saving his life, celebrating his connection with her.

Pharaoh’s Daughter Rescues Moses

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6 And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child’s mother.

 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Moses Kills an Egyptian

11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.  13 And he went out the 2nd day, and, behold, 2 men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

Moses Flees to Midian

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:  and he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had 7 daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel (“friend of God”) their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah (“bird”) his daughter. 22 And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom;(“foreigner”) for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
Notes:

Midianites were descendants of Abraham through his wife Keturah.

Midian or Midianite = “strife”

  1. son of Abraham by Keturah and progenitor of the tribe of Midianites or Arabians

  2. the tribe descended from Midian

  3. the territory of the tribe descended from Midian; located principally in the desert north of the Arabian peninsula; land to which Moses went when he fled from Pharaoh

  4. מִדְיָן Midyân, mid-yawn’; the same as H4079; Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants:—Midian, Midianite.
  5. 59 times in 55 v

 trough

  • רַהַט rahaṭ, rah’-hat;
  • from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out;
  • a channel or watering-box;
  • by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines):—gallery, gutter, trough.

Reuel or Raguel = “friend of God”

  1. a son of Esau by his wife Bashemath, the sister of Ishmael

  2. the father-in-law of Moses

    1. also ‘Jethro’

  3. father of Eliasaph, the leader of the tribe of Gad at the time of the census at Sinai

  4. a Benjamite, ancestor of Elah

Zipporah = “bird”

  1. daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer

  2. צִפֹּרָה Tsippôrâh, tsip-po-raw’; feminine of H6833; bird; Tsipporah, Moses’ wife:—Zipporah.

Gershom = “foreigner”

  1. firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah

  2. firstborn son of Levi

  3. a son of the priestly family of Phinehas who returned from exile with Ezra

  4. גֵּרְשֹׁם Gêrᵉshôm, gay-resh-ome’; for H1648; Gereshom, the name of four Israelites:—Gershom.
    1. 14 times in 14 v

  5. Gershon or Gershom = “exile”

    1. firstborn son of Levi born before Jacob’s family went to Egypt

    2. 17 times in 17 v

God Hears the Israelites’ Cry

23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge of them .

ribbonChapter 3 : Moses at the Burning Bush

1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. 2 And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 7 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Notes:

Jethro = “his abundance”

  1. father-in-law of Moses; also ‘Jether’

  2. יִתְרוֹ Yithrôw, yith-ro’; from H3499 with pron. suffix;
  3. his excellence; Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law:—Jethro. Compare H3500.
  4. Lexicon : 
    1. a cord, a rope, something hangin over, redundant
      1. used of the cords which in pitching a tent fasten the curtains to the stakes.
      2. “their cords are torn away,” their tents are removed, ie they die
      3. of a cord used as a bridle
    2. abundance
    3. remainder, rest, residue, the rest of the people
    4. that which exceeds measure or limit

backside = “after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time), hinder part”

  • אַחַר ʼachar, akh-ar’; from H309; properly,
  • the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses):—after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
  • after (454x),follow (78x), afterward(s) (46x), behind (44x), miscellaneous (87x)
  • 709 in 664v

Horeb = “desert”

  1. another name for Mount Sinai from which God gave the law to Moses and the Israelites

  2. חֹרֵב Chôrêb, kho-rabe’; from H2717; desolate; Choreb, a (generic) name for the Sinaitic mountains:—Horeb.
  3. 17x in 17v

midst, middle

  1. midst, middle

  2. into, through (after verbs of motion)

  3. among (of a number of persons)

  4. between (of things arranged by twos)

  5. from among (as to take or separate etc)

  6. תָּוֶךְ tâvek, taw’-vek; from an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre:—among(-st), × between, half, × (there-, where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), × out (of), × through, × with(-in).
    1. midst (209x),among (140x), within (20x), middle (7x), in (6x), between (3x), therein (3x),through (2x), into (2x), miscellaneous (23x)
    2. 415 times in 390 v

shoes

  • נַעַל naʻal, nah’-al; or (feminine) נַעֲלָה naʻălâh; from H5274; properly, a sandal tongue; by extension a sandal or slipper (sometimes as a symbol of occupancy, a refusal to marry, or of something valueless):—dryshod, (pair of) shoe((-latchet),
  • In transferring a domain it was customary symbolically to deliver a show (as in the middle ages a glove);
  • hence the casting down a show upon any country was a symbol of taking possession (from Edom I will cast down my shoe).
  •  I will take possession of it, I will claim it as my own.

milk

  • חָלָב châlâb, khaw-lawb’; from the same as H2459; milk (as the richness of kine):— cheese, milk, sucking.
  • To suck the milk of nations, poetic for: to make their welth one’s own, claim for oneself.

Moses Call

10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said,

Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and’seen that which is done to you in Egypt: 17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go, we pray thee, 3 days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
Notes:

3 days journey into wilderness

  • 72 hours
    • 1/10 of month
    • 3/7 of a week (.428571)
  • 1728 minutes

token

  1. sign, signal

    1. a distinguishing mark

    2. banner

    3. remembrance

    4. miraculous sign

    5. omen

    6. warning

  2. token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof

  3. אוֹת ʼôwth, oth; probably from H225 (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:—mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token.
    1. sign(s) (60x),token(s) (14x), ensign(s) (2x), miracles (2x), mark (1x)
    2. 79 times in 77 v

God Will Do Wonders

19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20 And I will put forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty. 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall despoil the Egyptians.

Notes:

Horeb – “waste,” a mountain in Sinai; from chareb (desolate/destroyer)

ribbonChapter 4 : Moses’ Staff

1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me,  nor listen to my voice:  for they will say, The LORD has not appeared to you. 2 And the LORD said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: 5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.

Notes:

rod

  • staff, branch, tribe

  1. staff, rod, shaft

  2. branch (of vine)

  3. tribe

    1. company led by chief with staff (originally)

  • מַטֶּה maṭṭeh, mat-teh’; or (feminine) מַטָּה maṭṭâh; from H5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread):—rod, staff, tribe.

serpent, snake

  • serpent

  • image (of serpent)

  • fleeing serpent (mythological)

  • נָחָשׁ nâchâsh, naw-khawsh’; from H5172; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.

 

Moses’ Leprous Hand

6 And the LORD said furthermore to him, Put now your hand into your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. 7 And he said, Put your hand into your bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe you, neither listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land: and the water which you take out of the river shall become blood on the dry land. 

Notes:

bosom

  • חֵיק chêyq, khake; or חֵק chêq; and חוֹק chôwq; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively):—bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.

snow

  • שֶׁלֶג sheleg, sheh’-leg; from H7949; snow (probably from its whiteness):—snow(-y).
  • snow (19x),snowy (1x)

flesh

  1. of the body

  2. בָּשָׂר bâsâr, baw-sawr’; from H1319; flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man:—body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-) kind, nakedness, self, skin.
    1. flesh (256x),body (2x), fatfleshed (with H1277) (2x), leanfleshed (with H1851) (2x), kin (2x),leanfleshed (with H7534) (1x), mankind (with H376) (1x), myself (1x),nakedness (1x), skin (1x)
    2. 269x in 241v

Moses Feels Inadequate : The Appointment of Aaron

10 And Moses said to the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you have spoken to your servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 11 And the LORD said to him, Who has made man’s mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall say. 13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray you, by the hand of him whom you will send. 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he comes forth to meet you: and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15 And you shall speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. 16 And he shall be your spokesman to the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to you instead of a mouth, and you shall be to him instead of God. 

17 And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do signs.
Notes:

 

Moses Returns to Egypt

18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray you, and return to my brothers which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought your life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in your hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

 22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus said the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: 23 And I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me:  and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your son, even your firstborn. 24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me. 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.
Notes:

 to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant

כָּרַת kârath, kaw-rath’; a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces):—be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), × lose, perish, × utterly, × want.

ass

  • חֲמוֹר chămôwr, kham-ore’; or (shortened) חֲמֹר chămôr; from H2560; a male ass (from its dun red):—(he) ass.
  • lexicon: 
    • so called from the reddish color, which in southern countries belongs not only to the wild ass, but also to the common or domestic ass.
    • a heap; “with the jawbone of an ass (I have killed) a heap, (even) 2 heaps.
    • חָמַר châmar, khaw-mar’; a primitive root; also as denominative (from H2564) properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch:—daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
    • to boil, foam, foam up, ferment

foreskin

  1. foreskin of the heart
  2. foreskin of a tree, ie the fruit of the first 3 years, which according to the law was accounted unclean
  3. עׇרְלָה ʻorlâh, or-law’; feminine of H6189; the prepuce:—foreskin, uncircumcised.
    1. foreskin (13x),uncircumcised (3x)
    2. 16 times in 16 v

foot

  1. foot, leg

  2. of God (anthropomorphic)

  3. of seraphim, cherubim, idols, animals, table

  4. according to the pace of (with prep)

  5. three times (feet, paces)

  6. רֶגֶל regel, reh’-gel; from H7270; a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda:—× be able to endure, × according as, ×after, × coming, × follow, (broken-)foot(-ed, -stool), × great toe, × haunt, ×journey, leg, piss, possession, time.
    1. feet (216x),footstool (with H1916) (6x), after (4x), times (4x), follow (4x),piss (with H4325) (2x), toes (2x), journey (1x), legs (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

firstborn, firstling

  • בְּכוֹר bᵉkôwr, bek-ore’; from H1069; first-born; hence, chief:—eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).
  • בָּכַר bâkar, baw-kar’; a primitive root; properly, to burst the womb, i.e. (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also (as denominative from H1061) to give the birthright:—make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
    • 4x in 4v
Jacob and his sons first lived in Canaan and was renamed to Israel which means “He who strives with God”.  This includes the 12 tribes as well as Ephraim and Manassah born of Joseph.

blood

  • of wine (fig.)
  • דָּם dâm, dawm; from H1826 (compare H119); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood):—blood(-y, -guiltiness), (-thirsty), + innocent.
  • blood (342x),bloody (15x), person (5,315x), bloodguiltiness (1x), bloodthirsty (with H582) (1x),vr blood (1x)
  • h1818 361 times in 295 v

husband

  • son-in-law, daughter’s husband, bridegroom, husband
  • חָתָן châthân, khaw-thawn’; from H2859; a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal):—bridegroom, husband, son in law.
    • law (10x),bridegroom (8x), husband (2x)
    • H2860 matches the Hebrew חָתָן (chathan), which occurs 20 times in 19 v
  • Ezra says, “It is customary for women to call a son when he is circumcised, bridegroom.”

in the inn

מָלוֹן mâlôwn, maw-lone’; from H3885; a lodgment, i.e. caravanserai or encampment:—inn, place where…lodge, lodging (place).

The People Believe Moses and Aaron

27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

ribbonExodus 5 : Pharaoh’s First Refusal

1And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. 2And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. 3And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, 3 days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice to the LORD our God; lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you to your burdens. 5And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you make them rest from their burdens.

Notes:

sacrifice

  • to slaughter, kill, sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice
  1. זָבַח zâbach, zaw-bakh’; a primitive root; to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice):—kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.
    1. 134 times in 127 v

wilderness

  1. pasture

  2. uninhabited land, wilderness

  3. large tracts of wilderness (around cities)

  4. wilderness (fig.)

  1. mouth

    1. mouth (as organ of speech)

  2. Lex: fit for feeding flocks, not desert, a pasture
  3. מִדְבָּר midbâr, mid-bawr’; from H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs):—desert, south, speech, wilderness.
  4. wilderness (255x), desert (13x), south (1x), speech (1x),wilderness (with H776) (1x)
    1. 271 times in 257 v

pestilence, plague

  1. murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague

  2. דֶּבֶר deber, deh’-ber; from H1696 (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence:—murrain, pestilence, plague.
    1. pestilence (47x),plagues (1x), murrain (1x)
    2. 49x in 48v

sword, knife

  1. sword

  2. knife

  3. tools for cutting stone

  4. חֶרֶב chereb, kheh’-reb; from H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement:—axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
    1. sword (401x),knife (5x), dagger (3x), axes (1x), mattocks (1x), TOOL (1x),sword (with H3027) (1x)
    2. 413 times in 372v

burden

  • burden, forced labour, compulsory service, burden bearing
  • סְבָלָה çᵉbâlâh, seb-aw-law’; from H5447; porterage:—burden.

Bricks and Straw

6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, you shall lay on them; you shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9Let there more work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard vain words.

10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus said Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11Go you, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. 12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 13And the taskmasters hurried them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. 14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Notes:

stubble, chaff

  • קַשׁ qash, kash; from H7197; straw (as dry):—stubble.
  • H7179 matches the Hebrew קַשׁ (qash), which occurs 16 times in 16 v

idle

  • to sink, relax, sink down, let drop, be disheartened
  • רָפָה râphâh, raw-faw’; a primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative):—abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en)

The Israelites’ Cry

15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why deal you thus with your servants? 16There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.

17But he said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall you deliver the tale of bricks. 19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, You shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task. 20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: 21And they said to them, The LORD look on you, and judge; because you have made our smell to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

22And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, LORD, why have you so evil entreated this people? why is it that you have sent me? 23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have you delivered your people at all.

Notes:

minish

  • to diminish, restrain, withdraw, abate, keep back, do away, take from, clip
  • גָּרַע gâraʻ, gaw-rah’; a primitive root; to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold:—abate, clip, (di-) minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.

ribbonExodus 6 : God Promises Deliverance

1Then the LORD said to Moses, Now shall you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

2And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am the LORD: 3And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. 4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. 5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6Why say to the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8And I will bring you in to the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD. 9And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they listened not to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Notes:

 

Moses and Aaron Sent to Pharaoh

10And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 11Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 12And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

Genealogies of Moses and Aaron

13And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

14These be the heads of their fathers’ houses:

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.

Sons of Reuben

Reuben = “behold a son”

  1. the eldest son of Jacob by Leah

  2. the tribe descended from Reuben

  3. the territory inhabited by the tribe of Reuben

  4. רְאוּבֵן Rᵉʼûwbên, reh-oo-bane’; from the imperative of H7200 and H1121;
    1. see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob:—Reuben.
    2. H7205 matches the Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Rĕ’uwben), which occurs 72 times in 68 verses

GENESIS 49 : JACOB PROPHECY AND BLESSING

3Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. 4Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

firstborn, firstling

  1. of men and women

  2. of animals

  3. noun of relation (fig.)

  • בָּכַר bâkar, baw-kar’; a primitive root; properly,
    • to burst the womb,
    • i.e. (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree);
    • also (as denominative from H1061) to give the birthright:—make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
    •  H1060 matches the Hebrew בְּכוֹר (bĕkowr), which occurs 117 times in 96 verses
    • firstborn (101x),firstling (10x), eldest (4x), firstborn (with H1121) (1x), eldest son (1x).
  • בָּכַר bâkar, baw-kar’; a primitive root; properly, to burst the womb, i.e. (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also (as denominative from H1061) to give the birthright:—make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
    • H1069 matches the Hebrew בָּכַר (bakar),
      which occurs 4 times in 4 verses

Enoch = “dedicated”

  1. eldest son of Cain

  2. son of Jared and father of Methuselah whom God took home to heaven without dying

  3. the city which Cain built and named after his son Enoch

  1. Hanoch = “dedicated”

    1. a son of Midian, the third child

    2. the eldest son of Reuben

    3. חֲנוֹךְ Chănôwk, khan-oke’; from H2596;
      1. initiated;
      2. Chanok,an antediluvian patriach:—Enoch.
    4. 16 times in 15 verses

Pallu or Phallu = “distinguished”

  1. the 2nd son of Reuben, father of Eliab, and progenitor of a family of Israel

  2. פַּלּוּא Pallûwʼ, pal-loo’; from H6395;
    1. distinguished; Pallu,
    2. an Israelite:—Pallu, Phallu.

Hezron = “surrounded by a wall”

  1. a son of Reuben

  2. a son of Pharez and grandson of Judah

  3. a place in the extreme south of Judah

  4. חֶצְרוֹן Chetsrôwn, khets-rone’; from H2691;
    1. court-yard;
    2. Chetsron, the name of a place in Palestine; also of two Israelites:—Hezron.
  5. H2696 matches the Hebrew חֶצְרוֹן (Chetsrown), which occurs 18 times in 17 verses

Carmi = “my vineyard”

  1. the 4th son of Reuben and progenitor of the Carmites

  2. a Judaite, father of Achan, the ‘troubler of Israel’ in the time of Joshua

  3. כַּרְמִי Karmîy, kar-mee’; from H3754;
    1. gardener; Karmi,
    2. the name of three Israelites:—Carmi.
  4. כֶּרֶם kerem, keh’-rem; from an unused root of uncertain meaning;
    1. a garden or vineyard:—vines,
    2. (increase of the) vineyard(-s), vintage. See also H1021.
  5. H3754 matches the Hebrew כֶּרֶם (kerem),
    which occurs 93 times in 82 verses

15And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

Sons of Simeon

Simeon or Shimeon = “heard”

  1. the 2nd son of Jacob by his wife Leah and progenitor of the tribe of Simeon

  2. an Israelite of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

  3. שִׁמְעוֹן Shimʻôwn, shim-one’; from H8085; hearing; Shimon, one of Jacob’s sons, also the tribe descended from him:—Simeon.
  4. H8095 matches the Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (Shim`own),
    which occurs 44 times in 39 verses
  5. שָׁמַע shâmaʻ, shaw-mah’; a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.):—× attentively, call (gather) together, × carefully, × certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, × diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), ×indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, × surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
  6. hear (785x),hearken (196x), obey (81x), publish (17x), understand (9x), obedient (8x),diligently (8x), shew (6x), sound (3x), declare (3x), discern (2x), noise (2x),perceive (2x), tell (2x), reported (2x), miscellaneous (33x).
  7. H8085 matches the Hebrew שָׁמַע (shama`), which occurs 1,161 times in 1,072 verses

SIMEON AND LEVI

5Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords. 6O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox. 7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.

Simeon and Levi were the ones who had revenge on Hamors son in Shechem for defiling Dinah their sister

 

Jemuel = “day of God”

  1. the eldest son of Simeon

  2. יְמוּאֵל Yᵉmûwʼêl, yem-oo-ale’; from H3117 and H410; day of God; Jemuel, an Israelite:—Jemuel.

Jamin = “right hand”

  1. the 2nd son of Simeon; founder of the family of Jaminites

  2. a Judaite, the 2nd son of Ram the Jerahmeelite

  3. a Levite who helped Ezra interpret the Law

  4. יָמִין Yâmîyn, yaw-meen’; the same as H3225; Jamin, the name of three Israelites:—Jamin. See also H1144.
  5. יָמִין yâmîyn, yaw-meen’; from H3231; the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south:— left-handed, right (hand, side), south.

Ohad = “united”

  1. son of Simeon and grandson of Jacob

  2. אֹהַד ʼÔhad, o’-had; from an unused root meaning to be united; unity; Ohad, an Israelite:—Ohad.

Jachin = “He will establish”

  1. the 4th son of Simeon and founder of the family of Jachinites

  2. a priest and the head of the 21st course in the time of David

  3. a post-exilic priest in the time of Nehemiah

  4. name of the right-hand pillar before the temple

  5. יָכִין Yâkîyn, yaw-keen’; from H3559; he (or it) will establish; Jakin, the name of three Israelites and of a temple pillar:—Jachin.
  6. כּוּן kûwn, koon; a primitive root; properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous):—certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, × very deed.
  7. prepare (85x),establish (58x), ready (17x), stablish (5x), provide (5x), right (5x), fixed (4x),set (4x), direct (3x), order (3x), fashion (3x), variant (2x), certain (2x),confirmed (2x), firm (2x), preparation (2x), miscellaneous (17x).
  8. to be firm, be stable, be established
  9. H3559 matches the Hebrew כּוּן (kuwn), which occurs 221 times in 210 verses

Saul or Shaul = “desired”

  1. a Benjamite, son of Kish, and the 1st king of Israel

  2. an early king of Edom and a successor of Samlah

  3. a son of Simeon

  4. a Levite, son of Uzziah

  5. שָׁאוּל Shâʼûwl, shaw-ool’; passive participle of H7592; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites:—Saul, Shaul.
  6. שָׁאַל shâʼal, shaw-al’; or שָׁאֵל shâʼêl; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand:—ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.
  7. H7592 matches the Hebrew שָׁאַל (sha’al), which occurs 173 times in 157 verses
16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an 137 years. 17The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.18And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an 133 years.19And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.

20And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an 137 years. 21And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. 23And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 24And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites. 25And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

Notes:

Genesis 6:17

17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die, and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof;

Exodus 6:17

17The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

Libni = “white”

  1. the eldest son of Gershon and grandson of Levi

Shimei or Shimhi or Shimi or Shimea = “renowned”

  1. a Benjamite, son of Gera of the house of Saul in the time of David

  2. a Benjamite, son of Elah and commissariat officer in the time of Solomon

  3. the Ramathite in charge of the vineyards of David

  4. son of Gershon and grandson of Levi

  5. a Levite, son of Jeduthun and chief of the 10th division of singers in the time of David

  6. a Levite of the sons of Heman who took part in the purification of the temple in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

  7. a Levite, brother of Cononiah in charge of receiving the tithes and offerings in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

  8. a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

  9. a Judaite, son of Pedaiah and brother of Zerubbabel

  10. a Simeonite, son of Zacchur

  11. a Reubenite, son of Gog and father of Micah

  12. one of the sons of Hashum who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

  13. one of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

  14. a Benjamite, son of Kish, father of Jair, and grandfather of Mordecai in the time of Esther

  15. a Levite, son of Jahath, grandson of Gershon, and great grandson of Levi

  16. Benjamite, father of Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath. Spelled ‘Shimhi’

  17. שִׁמְעִי Shimʻîy, shim-ee’; from H8088; famous; Shimi, the name of twenty Israelites:—Shimeah (from the margin), Shimei, Shimhi, Shimi.
    1. 43 times in 39 v

Amram = “exalted people”

  1. a descendant of Kohath and Levi and father of Moses

  2. one of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

  3. kindred of the most High
    1. עַמְרָם ʻAmrâm, am-rawm’; probably from H5971 and H7311; high people; Amram, the name of two Israelites:—Amram.
    2. 14x in 12v

Jochebed = “Jehovah is glory”

  1. the daughter of Levi, wife and at the same time aunt of Amram, and the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam

Moses and Aaron’s Story Recounted

26These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.27These are they which spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

28And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29That the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak you to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you. 30And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?

Notes:

 

ribbonChapter 7 : I will Stretch Out My Hand

1And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. 2You shall speak all that I command you: and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. 3And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4But Pharaoh shall not listen to you, that I may lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7And Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron 83 years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Notes:

 spokesman, speaker, prophet

  1. prophet

  2. false prophet

  3. heathen prophet

  4. נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee’; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
    1. prophet (312x),prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x)
    2. 316x in 288v

Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Serpent

8 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 9 When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then you shall say to Aaron, Take your rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. 10 And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. 13 And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he listened not to them; as the LORD had said.

Notes:

wise, wise (man)

  1. skilful (in technical work)

  2. wise (in administration)

  3. shrewd, crafty, cunning, wily, subtle

  4. learned, shrewd (class of men)

  5. prudent

  6. wise (ethically and religiously)

  7. capable of judging
  8. חָכָם châkâm, khaw-kawm’; from H2449; wise, (i.e. intelligent, skillful or artful):—cunning (man), subtle, (un-), wise((hearted), man).
    1. wise (109x), wise man (13x), cunning (6x), cunning men (4x), subtil (1x), unwise (2x), wiser (2x)
    2. 137x in 133v

to practice witchcraft or sorcery, use witchcraft

  1. sorcerer, sorceress (participle)

  2. כָּשַׁף kâshaph, kaw-shaf’; a primitive root; properly, to whisper a spell, i.e. to inchant or practise magic:—sorcerer, (use) witch(-craft).

diviner, magician, astrologer

  1. engraver, writer (only in derivative sense of one possessed of occult knowledge)

  2. חַרְטֹם charṭôm, khar-tome’; from the same as H2747; a horoscopist (as drawing magical lines or circles):—magician.

    1. an engraving tool, stylus, chisel, graving tool

      1. graving tool

      2. stylus

      3. a style with which letters were inscribed on wood or stone
    2. חֶרֶט chereṭ, kheh’-ret; from a primitive root meaning to engrave; a chisel or graver; also a style for writing:—graving tool, pen.

enchantments

  • flame (of an angelic sword)
  • magical arts
  • לַהַט lahaṭ, lah’-hat; from H3857; a blaze; also (from the idea of enwrapping) magic (as covert):—flaming, enchantment.

The First Plague: Blood

14 And the LORD said to Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go. 15 Get you to Pharaoh in the morning; see, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shall you take in your hand. 16 And you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, till now you would not hear. 

17 Thus said the LORD, In this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 

18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river. 19 And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand on the waters of Egypt, on their streams, on their rivers, and on their ponds, and on all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. 21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he listen to them; as the LORD had said. 23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.

 24 And all the Egyptians dig round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. 25 And 7 days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
Notes:

7 days

  • 7/360 = 1.9444%
  • 7/364 = 1.92307692307692%
  • 7/365 = 1.917808
  • 168 hours
  • 10,080 minutes

tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows

  1. tree, trees

  2. wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

  3. עֵץ ʻêts, ates; from H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks):— carpenter, gallows, helve, pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
    1. tree (162x),wood (107x), timber (23x), stick (14x), gallows (8x), staff (4x), stock (4x),carpenter (with H2796) (2x), branches (1x), helve (1x), planks (1x), stalks (1x).
    2. 328 times in 288 verses

stone (large or small)

  1. common stone (in natural state)

  2. stone, as material

    1. of tablets

    2. marble, hewn stones

  3. precious stones, stones of fire

  4. stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon

  5. weight

  6. plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal

  7. stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice

  8. sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines

  9. (simile)

    1. sinking in water, motionlessness

    2. strength, firmness, solidity

    3. commonness

  10. (metaph)

    1. petrified with terror

    2. perverse, hard heart

    3. אֶבֶן ʼeben, eh’-ben; from the root of H1129 through the meaning to build; a stone:— carbuncle, mason, plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
      1. stone(s) (247x),weight(s) (7x), divers weights (with H68) (3x), hailstones (3x), stony (2x),carbuncle (with H688) (1x), hailstones (with H1259) (1x),hailstones (with H417) (1x), headstone (1x), masons (with H7023) (1x),plummet (1x), slingstones (1x)
      2. 272x in 239v

ribbonChapter 8 : The Second Plague of Frogs

1And the LORD spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus said the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your borders with frogs: 3And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs: 4And the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants. 5And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt. 6And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 7And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

Notes:

border, territory

  1. border

  2. territory (enclosed within boundary)

  3. region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)

  4. גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool’; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
    1. border (158x),coast (69x), bound (5x), landmark (4x), space (2x), limit (1x), quarters (1x), non translated variant (1x)
    2. 241 times in 196 v

frogs 

  • צְפַרְדֵּעַ tsᵉphardêaʻ, tsef-ar-day’-ah; from H6852 and a word elsewhere unused meaning a swamp; a marsh-leaper, i.e. frog:—frog.

bedchamber

  • room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within
  • a chamber, especially an inner apartment, whether of a tent or of a house; woman’s apartment, a bridal chamber
  • chambers of the south
  • the innermost parts of the breast
  • chambers of hell
  • חֶדֶר cheder, kheh’-der; from H2314; an apartment (usually literal):—((bed) inner) chamber, innermost(-ward) part, parlour, south, × within.

kneading trough or bowl

  • מִשְׁאֶרֶת mishʼereth, mish-eh’-reth; from H7604 in the original sense of swelling; a kneading-trough (in which the dough rises):—kneading trough, store.

Pharoah Asks for Relief

8Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice to the LORD. 9And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only? 10And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to your word: that you may know that there is none like to the LORD our God.11And the frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people; they shall remain in the river only. 12And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried to the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 13And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. 14And they gathered them together on heaps: and the land stank. 15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and listened not to them; as the LORD had said.

Notes:

tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, g

The Third Plague: Gnats

16 And the LORD said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice on man, and on beast. 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he listened not to them; as the LORD had said.

Notes:

dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish

  1. dry or loose earth

  2. debris

  3. mortar

  4. ore

  5. עָפָר ʻâphâr, aw-fawr’; from H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:—ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
    1. dust (93x),earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x)
    2. 110 times in 103 v

lice

  • gnat, gnats, gnat-swarm
  • כֵּן kên, kane; from H3661 in the sense of fastening; (from infixing its sting; used only in plural (and irregular in Exodus 8:17,18; Hebrews 13:14)) a gnat:—lice, ×manner.
    • כָּנַן kânan, kaw-nan’; a primitive root; to set out, i.e. plant:—× vineyard.
    • support of tree

 

beast, cattle, animal

  1. beasts (coll of all animals)

  2. cattle, livestock (of domestic animals)

  3. wild beasts

  4. בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw’; from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):—beast, cattle.
    1. 189 times in 172 v

heart

  • inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding
  • לֵב lêb, labe; a form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything:—care for, comfortably, consent, × considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart(-ed), × heed, × I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), × regard(-ed), × themselves, × unawares, understanding, × well, willingly, wisdom.
  • heart (508x),mind (12x), midst (11x), understanding (10x), hearted (7x), wisdom (6x),comfortably (4x), well (4x), considered (2x), friendly (2x), kindly (2x),stouthearted (with H47) (2x), care (with H7760) (2x), misc 21
  • 593 times in 550 v (5+9+3 = 17)

The Fourth Plague: Flies

20 And the LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; see, he comes forth to the water; and say to him, Thus said the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground where on they are. 22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am the LORD in the middle of the earth. 23 And I will put a division between my people and your people: to morrow shall this sign be. 24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

Notes:

sever

  • to be distinct, marked out, be separated, be distinguished

  1. (Niphal)

    1. to be distinct, be separated, be distinguished

    2. to be wonderful

  2. (Hiphil) to make separate, set apart

  3. פָּלָה pâlâh, paw-law’; a primitive root; to distinguish (literally or figuratively):—put a difference, show marvellous, separate, set apart, sever, make wonderfully.

ground, land

  1. ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)

  2. piece of ground, a specific plot of land

  3. earth substance (for building or constructing)

  4. ground as earth’s visible surface

  5. land, territory, country

  6. whole inhabited earth

  7. city in Naphtali

  8. אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw’; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
    1. land(s) (125x),earth (53x), ground (43x), country (1x), husbandman (2x), husbandry (1x).
    2. H127 matches the Hebrew אֲדָמָה (‘adamah), which occurs 225 times in 211 v

Goshen = “drawing near”

  1. a region in northern Egypt, east of the lower Nile, where the children of Israel lived from the time of Joseph to the time of Moses

  2. a district in southern Palestine between Gaza and Gibeon

  3. a town in the mountains of Judah probably in the district of Goshen

  4. גֹּשֶׁן Gôshen, go’-shen; probably of Egyptian origin; Goshen, the residence of the Israelites in Egypt; also a place in Palestine:—Goshen.
    1. 15x in 14v

division

  • פְּדוּת pᵉdûwth, ped-ooth’; or פְּדֻת pᵉduth; from H6929; distinction; also deliverance:—division, redeem, redemption.
    • division, distinction
    • liberation, redemption
    • 4 times in 4 v

corrupted

  • to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay

  1. (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted

  2. שָׁחַת shâchath, shaw-khath’; a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively):—batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).
    1. destroy (96x),corrupt (22x), mar (7x), destroyer (3x), corrupters (2x), waster (2x), spoilers (2x),battered (1x), corruptly (1x), miscellaneous (11x).
    2. 147 times in 136 v

Pharaoh’s Heart Hardened

25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go you, sacrifice to your God in the land. 26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: see, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us. 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away: entreat for me. 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD. 30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. 32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. 

Notes:

abomination

  • a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable

  1. in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages)

  2. in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)

  • תּוֹעֵבַה tôwʻêbah, to-ay-baw’; or תֹּעֵבַה tôʻêbah; feminine active participle of H8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol:—abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
  • H8441 matches the Hebrew תּוֹעֵבָה (tow`ebah), which occurs 117 times in 112 v (8+4+4+1=17)

Exodus uses 3 different Hebrew words for “harden”.

The word hardened (‘heavy’) represents a Hebrew figure of speech.  In English to have a “heavy heart” means to be troubled or sad.  But the Hebrew term for “heavy” could describe a mouth and tongue that did not speak well, eyes that did not see, and ears that did not hear.  In both Egyptian and Hebrew, the heart “like the mind” as the center of mental, emotional, and volitional activity was supposed to listen and respond appropriately.

Egyptian believe gods would weigh a person’s heart after death to determine his destiny in the afterlife.  If it was heavy by comparison with a feather, a symbol for wisdom, then a fierce god stood by to devour the individual.  Elsewhere in the OT sin is spoken of as heavy and as making the heart heavy, and the Lord is the one who weights hearts, which makes Him the ultimate judge of all.  The Lord’s assessment of Pharaoh was also important because Pharaoh and his heart were thought to be responsible for maintaining order throughout Egypt.  Order was thought to be the essential expression of wisdom.

ribbonChapter 9 : The Fifth Plague: Livestock

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still, 3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is on your cattle which is in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. 4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel. 5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. 6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

Notes:

he ass

  • חֲמוֹר chămôwr, kham-ore’; or (shortened) חֲמֹר chămôr; from H2560; a male ass (from its dun red):—(he) ass.
  • 96 times in 93 v

cattle, herd, oxen, ox

  1. cattle (generic pl. but sing. in form – coll)

  2. herd (particular one)

  3. head of cattle (individually)

  4. בָּקָר bâqâr, baw-kawr’; from H1239; a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd:—beeve, bull (+ -ock), +calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
    1. ox (78x),herd (44x), beeves (7x), young (18x), young (with H1121) (17x), bullock (6x),bullock (with H1121) (2x), calf (with H1121) (2x), heifer (2x), kine (2x), bulls (1x),cattle (1x), cow’s (1x), great (1x)
    2. 182 times in 172 v

The Sixth Plague: Boils

8 And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains on man, and on beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains on man, and on beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians. 12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he listened not to them; as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

Notes:

ashes

  • פִּיחַ pîyach, pee’-akh; from H6315; a powder (as easily puffed away), i.e. ashes or dust:—ashes.

sprinkle

  • to scatter, sprinkle, toss, throw, scatter abundantly, strew
  1. זָרַק zâraq, zaw-rak’; a primitive root; to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles):—be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew.
  2. 35 times in 33 v

blain

  • blisters, boils (from root, to swell up)
  • אֲבַעְבֻּעָה ʼăbaʻbuʻâh, ab-ah-boo-aw’; (by reduplication) from an unused root (meaning to belch forth); an inflammatory pustule (as eruption):—blains.

boil, inflamed spot, inflammation, eruption

  1. of man, leprosy, of man and beast

  2. שְׁחִין shᵉchîyn, shekh-een’; from an unused root probably meaning to burn; inflammation, i.e. an ulcer:—boil, botch.

The Seventh Plague: Hail

13 And the LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues on your heart, and on your servants, and on your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite you and your people with pestilence; and you shall be cut off from the earth. 16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17 As yet exalt you yourself against my people, that you will not let them go? 18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. 19 Send therefore now, and gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field; for on every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die. 20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: 21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on beast, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along on the ground; and the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. 27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 28 Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer. 29 And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know how that the earth is the LORD’s. 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear the LORD God. 31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. 32 But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not grown up. 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

Notes:

hail

  • 29x in 26v

foundation

  • day, time, year

  1. day (as opposed to night)

  2. day (24 hour period)

    1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1

    2. as a division of time

      1. a working day, a day’s journey

  3. days, lifetime (pl.)

  4. time, period (general)

  5. year

  6. temporal references

    1. today

    2. yesterday

    3. tomorrow

  7. יוֹם yôwm, yome; from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):—age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (… live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, ×required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger.
    1. day (2,008x),time (64x), chronicles (with H1697) (37x), daily (44x), ever (18x), year (14x),continually (10x), when (10x), as (10x), while (8x), full 8 always (4x), whole (4x),alway (4x), miscellaneous (44x)
    2. 2,287 times in 1,931 v

wicked, criminal

  1. guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst)

  2. wicked (hostile to God)

  3. wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)

  4. רָשָׁע râshâʻ, raw-shaw’; from H7561; morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person:— condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong
    1. 263 times in 249 v

righteous

  • just, lawful, righteous

  1. just, righteous (in government)

  2. just, right (in one’s cause)

  3. just, righteous (in conduct and character)

  4. righteous (as justified and vindicated by God)

  5. right, correct, lawful

  6. lex : of a private person, just towards other men, obedient to the laws of God
  7. צַדִּיק tsaddîyq, tsad-deek’; from H6663; just:—just, lawful, righteous (man).

intreat

  • to pray, entreat, supplicate
  1. עָתַר ʻâthar, aw-thar’; a primitive root (rather denominative from H6281); to burn incense in worship, i.e. intercede (reciprocally, listen to prayer):—intreat, (make) pray(-er).
  2. 20 times in 19 v

ear

  1. fresh, young barley ears, barley

  2. month of ear-forming, of greening of crop, of growing green Abib, month of exodus and passover (March or April)

  3. אָבִיב ʼâbîyb, aw-beeb’; from an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, i.e. a young ear of grain; hence, the name of the month Abib or Nisan:—Abib, ear, green ears of corn (not maize).

wheat

  1. wheat (plant)

  2. wheat flour

  3. חִטָּה chiṭṭâh, khit-taw’; of uncertain derivation; wheat, whether the grain or the plant:—wheat(-en).
    1. 30 times in 30 v

rie

  • spelt – a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring
  • כֻּסֶּמֶת kuççemeth, koos-seh’-meth; from H3697; spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn):—fitches, rie.

city

  1. excitement, anguish

    1. of terror

  2. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

    1. city, town

  3. עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
    1. city (1,074x),town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).
    2. 1,089 times in 937 v

to spread, spread out, stretch, break in pieces

  1. to spread out, display

    1. to spread over

    2. פָּרַשׂ pâras, paw-ras’; a primitive root; to break apart, disperse, etc.:—break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).

      1. spread (31x),spread forth (12x), spread out (6x), spread abroad (5x), stretch (3x), stretch forth (2x), stretch out (2x), scattered (2x), breaketh (1x), lay open (1x), chop in pieces (1x), spread up (1x)
      2. 67 times in 66 v

sin

  • to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong, incur guilt, forfeit, purify from uncleanness
  • חָטָא châṭâʼ, khaw-taw’; a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn:—bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.

harden

  • to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore
  • חָזַק châzaq, khaw-zak’; a primitive root; to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer:—aid, amend, × calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
  • strong (48x),repair (47x), hold (37x), strengthened (28x), strengthen (14x), harden (13x),prevail (10x), encourage (9x), take (9x), courage (8x), caught (5x), stronger (5x),hold (5x), miscellaneous (52x).
  • 290 times in 266 v

ribbonChapter 10 : The Eighth Plague: Locusts

1 And the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him: 2And that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have worked in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know how that I am the LORD. 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into your coast: 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field: 6 And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither your fathers, nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: know you not yet that Egypt is destroyed? 8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go? 9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD. 10 And he said to them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. 11 Not so: go now you that are men, and serve the LORD; for that you did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence. 12 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left. 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Notes:

to afflict, oppress, humble, be afflicted, be bowed down

  • עָנָה ʻânâh, aw-naw’; a primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows):—abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for H6030), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake forH6030), speak (by mistake for H6030), submit self, weaken, × in any wise.

84 years

  • 1080 months 
  • 4320 weeks
  • 30,240 days (84 x 360)
  • 485,760 hours
  • 29,145,600 minutes

84 months

  • 7 years
  • 336 weeks
  • 2352 days
  • 56448 hours
  • 3,386,880 minutes

84 days 

  • 1/4 (25%) of year
  • 3 months
  • 12 weeks
  • 2016 hours
  • 120,960 minutes

to work, serve

  • עָבַד ʻâbad, aw-bad’; a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.:—× be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,

locust

  1. a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll)

  2. (CLBL)

    1. sudden disappearance (fig.)

    2. insignificance (fig.)

    3. activity (fig.)

    4. אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh, ar-beh’; from H7235; a locust (from its rapid increase):—grasshopper, locust.
      1. locust (20x),grasshopper (4x)
      2. 24 times in 21 v

snare

  • bait, lure, snare
  • Once used of an iron ring put throught the nostrils of a beast
  • מוֹקֵשׁ môwqêsh, mo-kashe’; or מֹקֵשׁ môqêsh; from H3369; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose):—be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.
    • 27 times in 27 v

East Wind – Or qadim {kaw-deem’}; from qadam; the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East;

Qadam – go, flee before, disappoint, meet, prevent; A primitive root; to project (one self), i.e. Precede; hence, to anticipate, hasten, meet (usually for help) –

Locust – shoot;  A primitive root (rather identical with rabab through the idea of projection); to shoot an arrow — shoot.  A primitive root; to increase (in whatever respect) — (bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for rabab),

Rabab– A primitive root (rather identical with rabab through the idea of projection); to shoot an arrow — shoot.

14And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. 17Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only. 18And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 19And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. 20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

Notes:

darkened

  • to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden, concealed
  • חָשַׁךְ châshak, khaw-shak’; a primitive root; to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken:—be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.

herb, herbage, grass, green plants

  • עֶשֶׂב ʻeseb, eh’seb; from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot):—grass, herb.

fruit

  1. fruit, produce (of the ground)

  2. fruit, offspring, children, progeny (of the womb)

  3. fruit (of actions) (fig.)

  4. פְּרִי pᵉrîy, per-ee’; from H6509; fruit (literally or figuratively):—bough, (first-)fruit(-ful), reward.
    1. fruit (113x),fruitful (2x), boughs (1x), firstfruits (with H7225) (1x), reward (1x), fruit thereof (1x)
    2. 119 times in 107 verses

death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead

  1. death

  2. death by violence (as a penalty)

  3. state of death, place of death

  4. מָוֶת mâveth, maw’-veth; from H4191; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin:—(be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
    1. death (128x),die (22x), dead (8x), deadly (1x), slay (1x)
    2. 160 times in 155 v

west

  • sea

  1. Mediterranean Sea

  2. Red Sea

  3. Dead Sea

  4. Sea of Galilee

  5. sea (general)

  6. mighty river (Nile)

  7. the sea (the great basin in the temple court)

  8. seaward, west, westward

  9. יָם yâm, yawm; from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south:—sea (× -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
    1. sea (321x),west (47x), westward (21x), west side (4x), seafaring men (1x), south (1x),western (1x)
    2. 396 times in 339 v

wind, breath, mind, spirit

  1. breath

  2. wind

    1. of heaven

    2. quarter (of wind), side

    3. breath of air

    4. air, gas

    5. vain, empty thing

  3. spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)

    1. spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour

    2. courage

    3. temper, anger

    4. impatience, patience

    5. spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)

    6. disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse

    7. prophetic spirit

  4. spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)

    1. as gift, preserved by God, God’s spirit, departing at death, disembodied being

  5. spirit (as seat of emotion)

    1. desire

    2. sorrow, trouble

  6. spirit

    1. as seat or organ of mental acts

    2. rarely of the will

    3. as seat especially of moral character

  7. Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son

    1. as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy

    2. as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning

    3. imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power

    4. as endowing men with various gifts

    5. as energy of life

    6. as manifest in the Shekinah glory

    7. never referred to as a depersonalised force

    8. רוּחַ rûwach, roo’-akh; from H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions):—air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, ×quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
      1. Spirit or spirit (232x), wind (92x), breath (27x), side (6x), mind (5x), blast (4x), vain (2x),air (1x), anger (1x), cool (1x), courage (1x), miscellaneous (6x).
      2. 378 times in 348 v

to turn, overthrow, overturn

  • to turn, as a cake
  • to overturn, as cities
  • to turn, convert, to change
  • הָפַךְ hâphak, haw-fak’; a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert:—× become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).

 

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

21 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt 3 days: 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24 And Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, Go you, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you. 25 And Moses said, You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God;

and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither. 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. 28 And Pharaoh said to him, Get you from me, take heed to yourself, see my face no more; for in that day you see my face you shall die. 29 And Moses said, You have spoken well, I will see your face again no more.

 

Notes:

hoof

  1. of ruminants

  2. of horses (undivided hooves)

  3. פַּרְסָה parçâh, par-saw’; feminine of H6538; a claw or split hoof:—claw, (cloven-) footed, hoof.

ribbonChapter 11 : The Plague on the Firstborn Foretold

1And Jehovah said unto Moses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. 2Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold. 3And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people. 4And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah,

About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 5and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.

6And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor shall be any more. 7But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. 8And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.9And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 10And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Notes:

to ask, enquire, borrow, beg

  • שָׁאַל shâʼal, shaw-al’; or שָׁאֵל shâʼêl; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand:—ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.
  • ask (94x),enquire (22x), desire (9x), require (7x), borrow (6x), salute (4x), demand (4x),lent (4x), request (3x), earnestly (2x), beg (2x), miscellaneous (16x).
  • 173 times in 157 v

jewels

  • article, vessel, implement, utensil

  1. article, object (general)

  2. utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel

    1. implement (of hunting or war)

    2. implement (of music)

    3. implement, tool (of labour)

    4. equipment, yoke (of oxen)

    5. utensils, furniture

  3. vessel, receptacle (general)

  4. vessels (boats) of paper-reed

  5. כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee’; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.
    1. vessel (166x),instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x),stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x),miscellaneous (13x)
    2. 325 times in 276 v

silver, money

  1. silver

    1. as metal

    2. as ornament

    3. as colour

  2. money, shekels, talents

  3. כֶּסֶף keçeph, keh’-sef; from H3700; silver (from its pale color); by implication, money:—money, price, silver(-ling).
    1. silver (287x),money (112x), price (3x), silverlings (1x).
    2. 403 times in 343 v

gold

  1. as precious metal

  2. as a measure of weight

  3. of brilliance, splendour (fig.)

  4. זָהָב zâhâb, zaw-hawb’; from an unused root meaning to shimmer; gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky:—gold(-en), fair weather.
    1. gold (348x),golden (40x), fair weather (1x)
    2. 389 times in 336 v

firstborn, firstling

  1. of men and women

  2. of animals

  3. noun of relation (fig.)

  4. בְּכוֹר bᵉkôwr, bek-ore’; from H1069; first-born; hence, chief:—eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).
    1. firstborn (101x),firstling (10x), eldest (4x), firstborn (with H1121) (1x), eldest son (1x).
    2. 117 times in 96 v

seat (of honour), throne, seat, stool

  1. seat (of honour), throne

  2. royal dignity, authority, power (fig.)

  3. כִּסֵּא kiççêʼ, kis-say’; or כִּסֵּה kiççêh; from H3680; properly, covered, i.e. a throne (as canopied):—seat, stool, throne.
    1. throne (127x),seat (7x), stool (1x).
    2. 135 times in 124 v

handmills

  1. a pair of millstones for grinding

  2. רֵחֶה rêcheh, ray-kheh’; from an unused root meaning to pulverize; a mill-stone:—mill (stone).

tongue

  1. tongue (of men)

    1. tongue (literal)

    2. tongue (organ of speech)

  2. language

  3. tongue (of animals)

  4. tongue (of fire)

  5. wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)

  6. לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn, law-shone’; or לָשֹׁן lâshôn; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה lᵉshônâh; from H3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water):— babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
    1. tongue (98x),language (10x), bay (3x), wedge (2x), babbler (1x), flame (1x),speaker (with H376) (1x), talkers (1x)
    2. 117 times in 115 v

ribbonChapter 12 : The First Passover

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the 1st month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the 10th day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, andImage result for passover lamb strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD’S passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Notes

unleavened bread

  • מַצָּה matstsâh, mats-tsaw’; from H4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness; properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used):—unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
  • unleavened bread (33x), unleavened (14x), cakes (5x), without leaven (1x)
  • 53 times in 42 v

bitter

  • מְרֹר mᵉrôr, mer-ore’; or מְרוֹר mᵉrôwr; from H4843; a bitter herb:—bitter(-ness).
    • מָרַר mârar, maw-rar’; a primitive root; properly, to trickle (see H4752); but used only as a denominative from H4751; to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively):—(be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, -ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex.
    • to be bitter
    • bitterness (3x),bitter (2x), bitterly (2x), choler (2x), grieved (2x), vexed (2x),bitterness (with H4751) (1x), grieved him (1x), provoke (1x)
    • 17 times in 15 v

purtenance

  • midst, among, inner part, middle

  1. inward part

    1. physical sense

    2. as seat of thought and emotion

    3. as faculty of thought and emotion

  2. in the midst, among, from among (of a number of persons)

  3. entrails (of sacrificial animals)

  4. קֶרֶב qereb, keh’-reb; from H7126; properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition):—× among, ×before, bowels, × unto charge, eat (up), × heart, × him, × in, inward (× -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, out of, purtenance, × therein, × through, × within self.
    1. among (76x),midst (73x), within (24x), inwards (22x), in (6x), miscellaneous (26x).
    2. 227 times in 220 v

passover

  1. sacrifice of passover

  2. animal victim of the passover

  3. festival of the passover

  4. פֶּסַח peçach, peh’-sakh; from H6452; a pretermission, i.e. exemption; used only techically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim):—passover (offering).
    1. passover (46x),passover offerings (3x).
    2. 49x in 46v
  5. sparing immunity from penalty and calamity
Instructions for Passover

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This month shall be unto you the beginning of months:

 

  • it shall be the 1st month of the year to you.
  • in the 10th day of this month
  • (Joseph lived 110 years) 1/10
  • they shall take to them every man a lamb,
  • according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
    • if the household be too little for the lamb,
      • let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls;
      • every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
  • Your lamb shall be without blemish,Image result for passover lamb
  • a male of the first year:
    • ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
    • ye shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month:
      • and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
      • take the blood and strike it on the 2 side posts and on the upper door post of the houses,Image result for passover lamb
        • wherein they shall eat it.
      • eat the flesh in that night,
        • roast with fire,
        • and unleavened bread;
        • and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
        • do not eat it raw
          • nor sodden at all with water,
        • but roast with fire;
        • his head with his legs,
        • and with the purtenance thereof. (the center part)
      • let nothing of it remain until the morning;
      • the leftovers shall be burnt with fire in the morning
      • thus shall ye eat it;
        • with your loins girded,Image result for castor and pollux
        • your shoes on your feet,
        • and your staff in your hand; 
          • מַקֵּל maqqêl, mak-kale; or (feminine) מַקְּלָה maqqᵉlâh; from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining):—rod, (hand-)staff.
          • rod (8x),staff (7x), stave (2x), handstave (with H3027) (1x).
          • 18x in 16v
        • and ye shall eat it in haste:
          • it [is] the LORD’S passover.
      • For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night,
        • and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
        • both man and beast;
        • and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment:
        • I am the LORD.
      • the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are:
        • when I see the blood,
          • I will pass over you,
          • and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you,
          • when I smite the land of Egypt.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

14And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to Image result for unleavened breadthe LORD throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the 7th day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16And in the 1st day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the 7th day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. 17And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 18In the 1st month, on the 14th day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the 21st day of the month at even. 19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. 20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread. 21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you. 24And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever. 25And it shall come to pass, when you be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service. 26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean you by this service? 27That you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 28And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

Notes

leaven

  • שְׂאֹר sᵉʼôr, seh-ore’; from H7604; barm or yeast-cake (as swelling by fermentation):—leaven.

bason

  1. a spreading out, basin, goblet, bowl

    1. basin, goblet

  2. threshold, sill

    1. threshold, sill, door-keeper

  3. סַף çaph, saf; from H5605, in its original sense of containing; a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine):—bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.
    1. door (12x),threshold (8x), bason (4x), posts (3x), bowls (2x), gates (2x), cup (1x)
    2. 32 times in 28 v

lintel

  • upper part of the doorway
  • מַשְׁקוֹף mashqôwph, mash-kofe’; from H8259 in its original sense of overhanging; a lintel:—lintel.

destroyer

  • to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay

  1. (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted

  2. שָׁחַת shâchath, shaw-khath’; a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively):—batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).
    1. destroy (96x),corrupt (22x), mar (7x), destroyer (3x), corrupters (2x), waster (2x), spoilers (2x),battered (1x), corruptly (1x), miscellaneous (11x).
    2. 147 times in 136 v

 

Instructions for Feast of Unleavened Bread

7 days shall you eat unleavened bread;Image result for unleavened bread

  • even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses:
  • for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the 7th day,
  • that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
  • in the 1st day there shall be an holy convocation,
  • and in the 7th day there shall be an holy convocation to you;
  • no manner of work shall be done in them,
  • save that which every man must eat,
  • that only may be done of you.

17And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread;

  • for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
    • therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
  • In the 1st month, on the 14th day of the month at even,
    • you shall eat unleavened bread,
    • until the 21st day of the month at even.
    • 7 days shall there be no leaven found in your houses:
      • for whoever eats that which is leavened,
      • even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel,
      • whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
      • You shall eat nothing leavened;
      • in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them,

  • Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families,
  • and kill the passover.
  • you shall take a bunch of hyssop,
    • a plant used for medicinal and religious purposes
  • and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
  • and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin;
  • and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 
  • 23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians;
  • and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side posts,
  • the LORD will pass over the door,
  • and will not suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.
  • And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.
  • And it shall come to pass, when you be come to the land which the LORD will give you,
  • according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
  • And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you,
  • What mean you by this service?
    • That you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover,
    • who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
    • when he smote the Egyptians,
    • and delivered our houses.
    • And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 
    • And the children of Israel went away,
    • and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

The Tenth Plague: Death of Firstborn

29And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Notes:

dungeon

  1. house

    1. house, dwelling habitation

    2. shelter or abode of animals

    3. human bodies (fig.)

    4. of Sheol

    5. of abode of light and darkness

    6. of land of Ephraim

  2. place

  3. receptacle

  4. home, house as containing a family

  5. household, family

    1. those belonging to the same household

    2. family of descendants, descendants as organized body

  6. household affairs

  7. inwards (metaph.)

  8. (TWOT) temple

    adv

  9. on the inside

    prep

  10. within

  11. בַּיִת bayith, bah’-yith; probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.):—court, daughter, door, +dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
    1. house (1,881x),household (54x), home (25x), within (22x), temple (11x), prison (16x), place (16x),family (3x), families (with H1) (2x), dungeon (2x), miscellaneous (23x).
    2. 2,055 times in 1,718 v

 

The Exodus Begins

31And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. 32Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also. 33And the Egyptians were urgent on the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men. 34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. 35And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent to them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. 37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 on foot that were men, beside children. 38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. 40Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelled in Egypt, was 430 years. 41And it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

 

Succoth = “booths”

  1. the site where Jacob put up booths for his cattle and built a house for himself; apparently east of the Jordan near the ford of the torrent Jabbok and later allotted to the tribe of Gad

  2. the first stopping place of the Israelites when they left Egypt

  3. סֻכּוֹת Çukkôwth, sook-kohth’; or סֻכֹּת Çukkôth; plural of H5521; booths; Succoth, the name of a place in Egypt and of three in Palestine:—Succoth.
    1. 18 times in 16 v

 

Instructions for Departure

Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.

  • take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also. 
  • the Egyptians were urgent on the people,
  • that they might send them out of the land in haste;
  • for they said, We be all dead men.
  • the people took their dough before it was leavened,
  • their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
  • the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses;
  • and they borrowed of the Egyptians
  • jewels of silver,
  • and jewels of gold,
  • and raiment:
    • the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
    • so that they lent to them such things as they required.
    • they spoiled the Egyptians.
    • the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,
    • about 600,000 on foot that were men, beside children.
    • a mixed multitude went up also with them;
    • and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
    • they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt,
    • for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt,
    • and could not tarry,
    • neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. 
    • Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelled in Egypt, was 430 years.
    • it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

Instructions for the Passover

43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 44But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone thereof. 47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49One law shall be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that sojournes among you. 50Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 51And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Notes

bone, essence, substance

  1. bone

    1. body, limbs, members, external body

  2. bone (of animal)

  3. substance, self

  4. עֶצֶם ʻetsem, eh’tsem; from H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pronoun) selfsame:—body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.
    1. bone (104x),selfsame (11x), same (5x), body (2x), very (2x), life (1x), strength (1x)
    2. 126 times in 108 v
Ordinance of Passover

This is the ordinance of the passover:

There shall no stranger eat thereof:

  • every man’s servant that is bought for money,
  • when you have circumcised him,
  • then shall he eat thereof.
  • A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
  • In one house shall it be eaten;
  • you shall not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house;
  • neither shall you break a bone thereof.
  • ln the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
  • when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the passover to the LORD,
    • let all his males be circumcised,
    • and then let him come near and keep it;
    • and he shall be as one that is born in the land:
      • for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
  • One law shall be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that sojournes among you. 

ribbonChapter 13 : Dedication of the Firstborn

1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. 3And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. 4This day came you out in the month Abib. 5And it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. 6Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.7Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen with you in all your quarters.8And you shall show your son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did to me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand has the LORD brought you out of Egypt. 10You shall therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year. 11And it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you, 12That you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the matrix(womb), and every firstling that comes of a beast which you have; the males shall be the LORD’s. 13And every firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among your children shall you redeem. 14And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you shall say to him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: Image result for phylacteriestherefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. 16And it shall be for a token on your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

Notes:

2Sanctify to me all the firstborn,

  • whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. 

Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

  • for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place:
  • there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
  • This day came you out in the month Abib.Image result for green ears of corn
    • fresh, young barley ears, barley
    • month of ear-forming, of greening of crop, of growing green Abib, month of exodus and passover (March or April)
    • אָבִיב ʼâbîyb, aw-beeb’; from an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, i.e. a young ear of grain;
    • hence, the name of the month Abib or Nisan:—Abib, ear, green ears of corn (not maize).
  • it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land
    • of the Canaanites,
    • and the Hittites,
    • and the Amorites,
    • and the Hivites,
    • and the Jebusites,
  • which he swore to your fathers to give you,
  • a land flowing with milk and honey,
  • that you shall keep this service in this month.

7 days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the 7th day shall be a feast to the LORD.

  • Unleavened bread shall be eaten 7 days;gold-chain-dna
  • and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you,
  • neither shall there be leaven seen with you in all your quarters.
    • גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool’; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted),
    • i.e. (by implication) a boundary;
    • by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
  • you shall show your son in that day, saying,
    • This is done because of that which the LORD did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.
    • it shall be for a sign to you on your hand,
    • and for a memorial between your eyes,
    • that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth:
      • for with a strong hand has the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

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  • You shall therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year. 
    • it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites,
    • as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,
    • you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the matrix(womb),
    • and every firstling that comes of a beast which you have;
    • the males shall be the LORD’s.Image result for male donkey
    • every firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb; 
    • if you will not redeem it,
    • then you shall break his neck:
      • and all the firstborn of man among your children shall you redeem.
      • it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this?
      • that you shall say to him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. 16And it shall be for a token on your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

sanctify

  • to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate
  • קָדַשׁ qâdash, kaw-dash’; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.
  • sanctify (108x),hallow (25x), dedicate (10x), holy (7x), prepare (7x), consecrate (5x),appointed (1x), bid (1x), purified (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
  • 173 times in 153 v

bondage

Abib

  1. fresh, young barley ears, barley

  2. month of ear-forming, of greening of crop, of growing green Abib, month of exodus and passover (March or April)

  3. אָבִיב ʼâbîyb, aw-beeb’; from an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, i.e. a young ear of grain; hence, the name of the month Abib or Nisan:—Abib, ear, green ears of corn (not maize).

law, direction, instruction

  1. instruction, direction (human or divine)

    1. body of prophetic teaching

    2. instruction in Messianic age

    3. body of priestly direction or instruction

    4. body of legal directives

  2. law

    1. law of the burnt offering

    2. of special law, codes of law

  3. custom, manner

  4. the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law

  5. תּוֹרָה tôwrâh, to-raw’; or תֹּרָה tôrâh; from H3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch:—law.
  6. 219 times in 213 v

womb, matrix

  • 26x in 25v

redeem

  • to ransom, redeem, rescue, deliver, to loosen
  • פָּדָה pâdâh, paw-daw’; a primitive root; to sever, i.e. ransom; generally to release, preserve:—× at all, deliver, × by any means, ransom, (that are to be, let be) redeem(-ed), rescue, × surely.

The Pillars of Cloud and Fire

17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God leImage result for pillar of cloud exodusd them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straightly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and you shall carry up my bones away hence with you. 20And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

Notes:

repent

  • to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted
  • נָחַם nâcham, naw-kham’; a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself):—comfort (self), ease (one’s self), repent(-er,-ing, self).

battle, war

harnessed

  • in battle array, arrayed for battle by fives, armed
  • חָמֻשׁ châmush, khaw-moosh’; passive participle of the same as H2570; staunch, i.e. able-bodied soldiers:—armed (men), harnessed.

Etham = “with them: their plowshare”

  1. a stopping place for Israel during the Exodus

  2. אֵתָם ʼÊthâm, ay-thawm’; of Egyptian derivation; Etham, a place in the Desert:—Etham.

edge 

  • end, extremity

  1. end, mouth, extremity

  2. border, outskirts

  3. the whole (condensed term for what is included within extremities)

  4. at the end of (a certain time)

  5. the whole, the sum
  6. קָצֶה qâtseh, kaw-tseh’; or (negative only) קֵצֶה qêtseh; from H7096; (used in a great variety of applications and idioms; compare H7093) an extremity:—× after, border, brim, brink, edge, end, (in-) finite, frontier, outmost coast, quarter, shore, (out-) side, × some, ut(-ter-) most (part).
    1. end (56x),…part (7x), edge (6x), border (3x), outside (3x), utmost (3x), uttermost (3x),coast (2x), quarter (2x), miscellaneous (11x).
    2. 96 times in 87 v

pillar, column

  1. pillar

  2. column, upright

  3. column (of smoke)

  4. עַמּוּד ʻammûwd, am-mood’; or עַמֻּד ʻammud; from H5975; a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e. platform:—× apiece, pillar.
    1. pillar (109x),apiece (with H259) (1x).
    2. 110 times in 84 v

day

  • יוֹמָם yôwmâm, yo-mawm’; from H3117; daily:—daily, (by, in the) day(-time).

night

  1. night (as opposed to day)

  2. of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

  3. לַיִל layil, lah’-yil; or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל lêyl; also לַיְלָה laylâh; from the same asH3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:—(mid-)night (season).
    1. night (205x),nights (15x), midnight (with H2677) (4x), season (3x), midnight (with H2676) (2x),night (with H1121) (2x), midnight (1x), midnight (with H8432) (1x).
    2. 233 times in 223 v

 

ribbonChapter 14 : Pharaoh Pursues the Israelites

1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall you encamp by the sea. 3For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in.4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honored on Pharaoh, and on all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

Notes:

Pi-hahiroth = “place where sedge grows”

  1. the 3rd encampment of the Israelites after leaving Goshen in Egypt and the last one before crossing the Red Sea

  2. “lex : “the mouth of caverns”
  3. פִּי הַחִירֹת Pîy ha-Chîyrôth, pee hah-khee-roth’; from H6310 and the feminine plural of a noun (from the same root as H2356), with the article interpolated; mouth of the gorges; Pi-ha-Chiroth, a place in Egypt:—Pi-hahiroth. (In Numbers 14:19 without Pi-.)
  4. H6367 matches the Hebrew פִּי  הַחִרֹת (Pi ha-Chiyroth),which occurs 4 times in 4 v

Migdol = “tower”

  1. a fortified city on the Egyptian border

  2. tower

  3. מִגְדּוֹל Migdôwl, mig-dole’; or מִגְדֹּל Migdôl; probably of Egyptian origin; Migdol, a place in Egypt:—Migdol, tower.

Baal Tsphon or Baal-zephon = “lord of the north”

  1. a place in Egypt near the Red Sea where Pharaoh and his army were destroyed during the Exodus

  2. lex: “place of Typhon”.  The name suits very well the site of this city in the uncultivated places between the Nile and the Red Sea, which were regarded as the abode of the Typhon or the evil demon of the Etyptians.
  3. בַּעַל צְפוֹן Baʻal Tsᵉphôwn, bah’-al tsef-one’; from H1168 and H6828 (in the sense of cold) (according to others an Egyptian form of Typhon, the destroyer); Baal of winter; Baal-Tsephon, a place in Eqypt:—Baal-zephon.
  • Baalzephon – “Baal of winter,” From Ba’al and tsaphown (in the sense of cold) (according to others an Egyptian form of Typhon, the destroyer); Baal of winter; Baal-Tsephon, a place in Eqypt — Baal-zephon.   tsaphon {tsaw-fone’}; from tsaphan; properly, hidden, i.e. Dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown) — north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).

 

5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 6And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7And he took 600 chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 9But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.10And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD. 11And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? 12Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. 13And Moses said to the people, Fear you not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you to day: for the Egyptians whom you have seen to day, you shall see them again no more for ever. 14The LORD shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

Notes:

600th year of Noah’s life : the flood came

600 chariots of Egypt chased the 600,000 Isrealites leaving Egypt

430 years they dwelt in Egypt

70 souls came into Egypt and dwelt there 430 years until Exodus

430 years from Reformation until formation of NWO and 70 years until the Exodus in 2017

Fulfilling the 70 year period for captivity

Parting the Red Sea

15And the LORD said to Moses, Why cry you to me? speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16But lift you up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go onImage result for parting of the red sea dry ground through the middle of the sea. 17And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honor on Pharaoh, and on all his host, on his chariots, and on his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honor on Pharaoh, on his chariots, and on his horsemen. 19And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 20And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. 21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22And the children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground: and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left. 23And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the middle of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked to the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 25And took off their chariot wheels, that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians. 26And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.27And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. 28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. 29But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left. 30Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea shore. 31And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did on the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.

Notes:

honor

  • to be heavy, be weighty, be grievous, be hard, be rich, be honourable, be glorious, be burdensome, be honoured
  • כָּבַד kâbad, kaw-bad’; or כָּבֵד kâbêd; a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses):—abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, × more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.

east, east wind

  1. east (of direction)

  2. east wind

  3. for the fuller, east wind, by far the most biolent in western Asia, and the adjoining seas
  4. קָדִים qâdîym, kaw-deem’; or קָדִם qâdim; from H6923; the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind):—east(-ward, wind).
    1. east (50x), east wind (10x), eastward (7x), eastward (with H1870) (1x), east side (1x)
    2. 69 times in 64 v

divided

  • to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear
  1. בָּקַע bâqaʻ, baw-kah’; a primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open:—make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.
    1. cleave (10x),…up (9x), divide (5x), rent (4x), … out (3x), break through (3x), rend (3x),breach (2x), asunder (2x), hatch (2x), brake (1x), burst (1x), cleft (1x), break forth (1x), pieces (1x), tare (1x), tear (1x), win (1x).
    2. h1234  51 times in 50 v

ribbonChapter 15 : Moses’ Song of Deliverance

1Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. 2The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. 5The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy. 7And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble. 8And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied on them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11Who is like to you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

Notes:

The scientists lead by Professor Abdel Muhammad Gader and associated with Cairo University’s Faculty of Archaeology, have already recovered a total of more than 400 different skeletons, as well as hundreds of weapons and pieces of armor, also the remains of two war chariots, scattered over an area of approximately 200 square meters. They estimate that more than 5000 other bodies could be dispersed over a wider area, suggesting that an army of large size who have perished on the site.

This magnificient blade from an egyptian khopesh, was certainly the weapon of an important character. It was discovered near the remains of a richly decorated war chariot, suggesting it could have belonged to a prince or nobleman.

Archaeologists Discover Remains of Egyptian Army From the Biblical Exodus in Red Sea

 

14The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold on them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 

16Fear and dread shall fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased. 17You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established. 18The LORD shall reign for ever and ever. 19For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the middle of the sea.
 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. 21And Miriam answered them, Sing you to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
Notes:

Miriam = “rebellion”

  1. elder sister of Moses and Aaron

  2. a woman of Judah

  3. מִרְיָם Miryâm, meer-yawm’; from H4805; rebelliously; Mirjam, the name of two Israelitesses:—Miriam.
    1. 15 times in 13 v

timbrel, tambourine

  • תֹּף tôph, tofe; from H8608 contracted; a tambourine:—tabret, timbrel.
  • 17 times in 16 v

The Waters of Marah

22So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went 3 days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Notes:

Marah = “bitter”

  1. the spring with bitter water which was 3 days travel from the crossing place of the Red Sea in the peninsula of Sinai

 

24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 26And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases on you, which I have brought on the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals you. 27And they came to Elim, where were 12 wells of water, and 70 palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

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Notes:

murmer

  • to lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide
  • to grumble, complain
  • לוּן lûwn, loon; or לִין lîyn; a primitive root; to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain):—abide (all night), continue, dwell, endure, grudge, be left, lie all night, (cause to) lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), (make to) murmur, remain, tarry (all night, that night).

statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due

  1. prescribed task

  2. prescribed portion

  3. action prescribed (for oneself), resolve

  4. prescribed due

  5. prescribed limit, boundary

  6. enactment, decree, ordinance

    1. specific decree

    2. law in general

  7. enactments, statutes

    1. conditions

    2. enactments

    3. decrees

    4. civil enactments prescribed by God

    5. lex : that which is established or definite
      1. an appointed port of labour
      2. a defined limit
      3. appointed time
      4. appointed law
    6. חֹק chôq, khoke; from H2710; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):—appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
      1. statute (87x),ordinance (9x), decree (7x), due (4x), law (4x), portion (3x), bounds (2x),custom (2x), appointed (1x), commandments (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
    7. 127 times in 124 v

Elim = “palms”

  1. second encampment of the Israelites after the Exodus

  2. אֵילִם ʼÊylim, ay-leem’; plural of H352; palm-trees; Elim, a place in the Desert:—Elim.
  3. h352 אַיִל ʼayil, ah’-yil; from the same as H193; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree:—mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.

  4. ram

    1. ram (as food)

    2. ram (as sacrifice)

    3. ram (skin dyed red, for tabernacle)

  5. pillar, door post, jambs, pilaster

  6. strong man, leader, chief

  7. mighty tree, terebinth

  8. 185 times in 171 v

palm tree

  • palm tree, date palm
  • תָּמָר tâmâr, taw-mawr’; from an unused root meaning to be erect; a palm tree:—palm (tree).

 

ribbonChapter 16 : Bread from Heaven

1They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the 15th day of the 2nd month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” 4Then the LORD said to Moses,

“Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” 6So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 7and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” 8And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.” 9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.’” 10And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. 11And the LORD said to Moses, 12“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’” 13In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”a For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. 16This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer,b according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” 17And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 18But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 19And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” 20But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,
Notes:

 

2nd month/15th day = 2/15

  • 1/14-21 (unleavened)
    • 23 days between 1/21 – 2/15
      • 24th day since end of Feast of Unleavened Bread
    • 30 days between 1/14 – 2/15
      • 31st day after passover

On the 6th day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

  • 2x (Ephraim = “double ash-heap”)
  • So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel,
    • “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
    • and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD,
    • because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD.
    • For what are we, that you grumble against us?”
  • Moses said,
    • “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full,
    • because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we?
    • Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.” 
  • Then Moses said to Aaron,
    • “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel,
    • ‘Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.’”
    • as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel,
    • they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
    • the LORD said to Moses,
      • “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel.
      • Say to them,
        • ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread.
        • Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’” 
        • In the evening quail came up and covered the camp,
        • and in the morning dew lay around the camp.
        • when the dew had gone up,
        • there was on the face of the wilderness a fine,
        • flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.
      • When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”
      •  For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them,
      • “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
      • This is what the LORD has commanded:
        • ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat.Image result for omer measurement
        • You shall each take an omer,b according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’”
          • omer is a sheaf (or heap) = 1/10 of an ephah
          • about 2 liters
        • 17And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less.
        • But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over,
        • and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat.
    • Moses said to them,
      • “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.”
      • But they did not listen to Moses.
      • Some left part of it till the morning,
      • and it bred worms and stank.
      • And Moses was angry with them.
      • Morning by morning they gathered it,
      • each as much as he could eat;
      • but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 
      • On the 6th day they gathered twice as much bread, (2x)
        • two omers/sheafs/heaps each.
        • 2/10 of an ephah
        • 4 liters
        • Ephraim = “double ash-heap”

Sin = “thorn” or “clay”

  1. a town in eastern Egypt

  2. the tract of wilderness between Elim and Sinai

  3. סִין Çîyn, seen; of uncertain derivation; Sin the name of an Egyptian town and (probably) desert adjoining:—Sin.

Sinai = “thorny”

  1. the mountain where Moses received the Law from Jehovah; located at the southern end of the Sinai peninsula between the horns of the Red Sea; exact site unknown

  2. סִינַי Çîynay, see-nah’-ee; of uncertain derivation; Sinai, mountain of Arabia:—Sinai.
  3. 35 times in 34 v

hoar frost

  1. bowl, basin

  2. hoar frost, frost

  3. כְּפוֹר kᵉphôwr, kef-ore’; from H3722; properly, a cover, i.e. (by implication) a tankard (or covered goblet); also white frost (as covering the ground):—bason, hoar(-y) frost.

  1. scale-like, flake-like, scaled-off

  2. חַסְפַּס chaçpaç, khas-pas’; reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel; a shred or scale:—round thing.

manna

  1. the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings

  2. means ‘What is it?’

  3. מָן mân, mawn; from H4100; literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it):—manna.

 

omer

  1. a dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 litres)

  1. sheaf

  2. עֹמֶר ʻômer, o’-mer; from H6014; properly, a heap, i.e. a sheaf; also an omer, as a dry measure:—omer, sheaf.
  3. sheaf (8x),omer (6x).

23he said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’” 24So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.” 27On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.28And the LORD said to Moses,

“How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the 6th day he gives you bread for 2 days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the 7th day.” 30So the people rested on the seventh day. 31Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32Moses said, “This is what theLORD has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” 33And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations.” 34As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept.35The people of Israel ate the manna 40 years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah (grain).)c
Notes:

“This is what the LORD has commanded:

  • ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest,
  • a holy Sabbath to the LORD;
  • bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil,
  • and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’”
  • they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.

Moses said,

  • “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD;
  • today you will not find it in the field.
  • 6 days you shall gather it, but on the 7th day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.” 
  • On the 7th day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

And the LORD said to Moses,

  • “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
  • See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath;
  • therefore on the 6th day he gives you bread for 2 days.
  • Remain each of you in his place;
  • let no one go out of his place on the 7th day.”
  • So the people rested on the 7th day. 
  • Now the house of Israel called its name manna.
  • It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

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Moses said,

  • “This is what the LORD has commanded:
  • ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations,
  • so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness,
  • when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

And Moses said to Aaron,

  • “Take a jar,
  • and put an omer of manna in it,
  • and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations.”
  • As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept.

The people of Israel ate the manna 40 years, till they came to a habitable land.

40 years

  • 14,400 days
  • 360/7 = 51.42857142857143
  • 2057.142857142857 weeks
  • 514.28575 months

They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah (grain).)c

Sabbath

  1. sabbath

  2. day of atonement

  3. sabbath year

  4. week

  5. produce (in sabbath year)

  6. שַׁבָּת shabbâth, shab-bawth’; intensive from H7673; intermission, i.e (specifically) the Sabbath:—(+ every) sabbath.
    1. sabbath (107x),another (1x).
    2. 108 times in 89 v

ribbonChapter 17 : Water from the Rock

1All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the  LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?” 3But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” 4So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5And the LORD said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7And he called the name of the place Massaha and Meribah,b because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Notes:

All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages,

  • according to the commandment of the LORD, 
  • and camped at Rephidim, 
  • but there was no water for the people to drink. 
  • the people quarreled with Moses and said,
    •  “Give us water to drink.”
  • And Moses said to them, 
    • “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?” 
  • But the people thirsted there for water, 
  • and the people grumbled against Moses and said,
    •  “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, 
    • to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” 
  • So Moses cried to the LORD,
    • “What shall I do with this people? 
    • They are almost ready to stone me.”
  • And the LORD said to Moses, 
    • “Pass on before the people,
    • taking with you some of the elders of Israel, 
    • and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 
    • Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, 
    • and you shall strike the rock,
    • and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” 
  • And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 
    • he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah,
    • because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, 
    • and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

a pulling up (of stakes), breaking camp, setting out, journey

  1. pulling up, breaking camp

  2. setting out

  3. station, stage, journey

  4. מַסַּע maççaʻ, mas-sah’; from H5265; a departure (from striking the tents), i.e. march (not necessarily a single day’s travel); by implication, a station (or point of departure):—journey(-ing)

Rephidim = “rests” or “stays” or “resting places”

  1. a station of Israel in the wilderness between Egypt and Sinai

  2. רְפִידִים Rᵉphîydîym, ref-ee-deem’; plural of the masculine of the same asH7507; ballusters; Rephidim, a place in the Desert:—Rephidim.

Horeb = “desert”

  1. another name for Mount Sinai from which God gave the law to Moses and the Israelites

  2. חֹרֵב Chôrêb, kho-rabe’; from H2717; desolate; Choreb, a (generic) name for the Sinaitic mountains:—Horeb.
  3. 17 times in 17 v

Massah = “temptation”

  1. the place in the wilderness where the Israelites tested Jehovah

    1. also ‘Meribah’

  2. מַסָּה Maççâh, mas-saw’; the same as H4531; Massah, a place in the Desert:—Massah.
  3. lex : the great deeds of God, by which he would both prove and excite thefaith of his people…on the other hand
    1. a temptation, complaining against him
    2. calamity

Meribah = “strife” or “contention”

  1. a fountain at Rephidim, in the desert of Sin; so called because the Israelites murmured against God

  2. the name of the water supply at Kadesh on the southern border of the promised land; the people also murmured here against God

  3. מְרִיבָה Mᵉrîybâh, mer-ee-baw’; the same as H4808; Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert:—Meribah.

tempted

  • to test, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test
  • נָסָה nâçâh, naw-saw’; a primitive root; to test; by implication, to attempt:—adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.
  • 36x in 34v

 Israel Defeats Amalek

8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9So Moses said to Joshua,

“Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. 
14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner, 16saying, “A hand upon the thronec of the LORD! The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Notes:

Amalek = “dweller in a valley”

  1. son of Eliphaz by his concubine Timnah, grandson of Esau, and progenitor of a tribe of people in southern Canaan

    1. “Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.”

  2. descendants of Amalek

  3. עֲמָלֵק ʻĂmâlêq, am-aw-lake’; probably of foreign origin; Amalek, a descendant of Esau; also his posterity and their country:—Amalek.
    1. 39 times in 37 v

 

Joshua or Jehoshua = “Jehovah is salvation”

  1. son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim and successor to Moses as the leader of the children of Israel; led the conquest of Canaan

  2. a resident of Beth-shemesh on whose land the Ark of the Covenant came to a stop after the Philistines returned it

  3. son of Jehozadak and high priest after the restoration

  4. governor of Jerusalem under king Josiah who gave his name to a gate of the city of Jerusalem

  5. יְהוֹשׁוּעַ Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ, yeh-ho-shoo’-ah; or יְהוֹשֻׁעַ Yᵉhôwshuʻa; from H3068 andH3467; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader:—Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare H1954, H3442.
    1. 218 times in 199 v

rod

  • staff, branch, tribe

  1. staff, rod, shaft

  2. branch (of vine)

  3. tribe

    1. company led by chief with staff (originally)

  • מַטֶּה maṭṭeh, mat-teh’; or (feminine) מַטָּה maṭṭâh; from H5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread):—rod, staff, tribe.

heavy, great

  1. heavy

  2. massive, abundant, numerous

  3. heavy, dull

  4. hard, difficult, burdensome

  5. very oppressive, numerous, rich

  6. כָּבֵד kâbêd, kaw-bade’; from H3513; heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid):—(so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick.
    1. great (8x),grievous (8x), heavy (8x), sore (4x), hard (2x), much (2x), slow (2x),hardened (1x), heavier (1x), laden (1x), thick (1x).
  7. 38 times in 37 v

Hur = “hole”

  1. a chief assistant to Moses and Aaron

  2. grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the tabernacle; possibly the same as 1 above

  3. the 4th of the 5 kings of Midian who were slain with Balaam after Peor

  4. father of Rephaiah in the time of Nehemiah

  5. father of Ben-Hur who was commissariat officer for Solomon in Mount Ephraim

  6. חוּר Chûwr, khoor; the same as H2353 or H2352; Chur, the name of four Israelites and one Midianite:—Hur.
    1. 15 times in 15 v
    2. lex : a hole , as that of a viper, used of an abominable subterranean prison

Jehovah-nissi = “Jehovah is my banner”

  1. the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the Amalekites

  2. יְהֹוָה נִסִּי Yᵉhôvâh niççîy, yeh-ho-vaw’ nis-see’; from H3068 and H5251 with the prononimal suffix; Jehovah (is) my banner; Jehovah-Nissi, a symbolical name of an altar in the Desert:—Jehovah-nissi.

altar

  • מִזְבֵּחַ mizbêach, miz-bay’-akh; from H2076; an altar:—altar.
  • 402 times in 338 v

ribbonChapter 18 : Jethro’s Advice

1Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

2Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home, 3along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojournera in a foreign land”), 4and the name of the other, Eliezerb (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). 5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God. 6And when he sent word to Moses, “I,c your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,” 7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

8Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the LORD had delivered them. 9And Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.  10Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”d 12And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.  13The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.

14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” 15And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” 17Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.18You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. 19Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God,20and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.

21Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 22And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.23If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.” 24So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.25Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 26And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves. 27Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own country.

Notes:

Jethro = “his abundance” –>

  1. father-in-law of Moses; also ‘Jether’

  2. יִתְרוֹ Yithrôw, yith-ro’; from H3499 with pron. suffix; his excellence; Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law:—Jethro. Compare H3500.
  3. יֶתֶר yether, yeh’-ther; from H3498; properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free):— abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.
    1. remainder, excess, rest, remnant, excellence
    2. 101 times in 95 verses

Zipporah = “bird”, “fowl”, wife of Moses

Gershom = “foreigner”

  1. firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah

  2. firstborn son of Levi

  3. a son of the priestly family of Phinehas who returned from exile with Ezra

  4. lex : “expulsion” 
  5. 14x in 14v
  6. גֵּרְשֹׁם Gêrᵉshôm, gay-resh-ome’; for H1648; Gereshom, the name of four Israelites:—Gershom.
    1. גֵּרְשׁוֹן Gêrᵉshôwn, gay-resh-one’; or גֵּרְשׁוֹם Gêrᵉshôwm; from H1644; a refugee; Gereshon or Gereshom, an Israelite:—Gershon, Gershom.
    2. 17x in 17v

    3. Gershon or Gershom = “exile”

      1. firstborn son of Levi born before Jacob’s family went to Egypt

alien

  • sojourner

  1. a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights

  2. of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights

  3. גֵּר gêr, gare; or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner:—alien, sojourner, stranger.

 

completeness, soundness, welfare, peace

  1. completeness (in number)

  2. safety, soundness (in body)

  3. welfare, health, prosperity

  4. peace, quiet, tranquillity, contentment

  5. peace, friendship

    1. of human relationships

    2. with God especially in covenant relationship

  6. peace (from war)

  7. peace (as adjective)

  8. שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm, shaw-lome’; or שָׁלֹם shâlôm; from H7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace:—×do, familiar, × fare, favour, friend, × great, (good) health, (× perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, (× all is, be) well, × wholly.

ribbonChapter 19  : Israel at Mount Sinai

1On the 3rd new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3while Moses went up to God. The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying,

“Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” 7So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him. 8All the people answered together and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD. 9And the LORD said to Moses,

“Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” When Moses told the words of the people to the LORD, 10the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments11and be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. 13No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot (with an arrow);a whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.” 14So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments. 15And he said to the people, “Be ready for the 3rd day; do not go near a woman.” 16On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. 19And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. 20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish. 22Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.” 23And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’” 24And the LORD said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.” 25So Moses went down to the people and told them.
Notes:

3rd new moon – 3 straight super moons to close out 2016

19.5 cubits = surface area of the ark

19.5 chapter God comes down in a thick cloud

kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace

  • כִּבְשָׁן kibshân, kib-shawn’; from H3533; a smelting furnace (as reducing metals):—furnace.
  • כָּבַשׁ kâbash, kaw-bash’; a primitive root; to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate:—bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.

ribbonChapter 20 : The Ten Commandments

1And God spoke all these words, saying, 

2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 

3“You shall have no other gods beforea me. 
4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,6but showing steadfast love to thousandsb of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Notes:
 
7“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.  
8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 
12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 
13“You shall not murder.c 
14“You shall not commit adultery. 
15“You shall not steal. 
16“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
 17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

 18Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraidd and trembled, and they stood far off 19and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” 20Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.” 21The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Notes:

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Laws About Altars

22And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.

23You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. 24An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you. 25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. 26And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’

LAW OF ALTARS

You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen.

In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’

Altar

  • Lexicon : In the holy places set up by Moses and Solomon, there were an altar of burnt offering, the brozen altar placed in the outer court, the altar of incense (or golden altar) within the temple
  • מִזְבֵּחַ mizbêach, miz-bay’-akh; from H2076; an altar:—altar.
  • 402 times in 338 verses
  • H2076 זָבַח zâbach, zaw-bakh’; a primitive root; to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice):—kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.

  • to slaughter, kill, sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice

    1. sacrifice (85x),offer (39x), kill (5x), slay (5x)
    2. 134 times in 127 verses

earth 

  • ground, land
  • אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw’; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land
  • land(s) (125x),earth (53x), ground (43x), country (1x), husbandman (2x), husbandry (1x).
  • H127 matches the Hebrew אֲדָמָה (‘adamah),
    which occurs 225 times in 211 verses
  • H119 : אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam’; to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy:—be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).

 

ribbonChapter 21 : Laws About Slaves

1“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.

2When you buy a Hebrew slave,a he shall serve 6 years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.8If she does not please her master, who has designated herb for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

12“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. 16“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. 17“Whoever cursesc his father or his mother shall be put to death.

18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, 19then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.

20“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. 21But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

22“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23But if there is harm,d then you shall pay life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. 27If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

28“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. 29But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him. 31If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. 32If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master 30 shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

LAW OF SLAVES

When you buy a Hebrew slave:

  • he shall serve 6 years
  • in the 7th he shall go out free, for nothing.

If he comes in single

  • he shall go out single;

If he comes in married,

  • then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters,

  • the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.
  • If the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’:
    • then his master shall bring him to God,
    • he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost.
    • his master shall bore his ear through with an awl,
    • and he shall be his slave forever.

When a man sells his daughter as a slave,

  • she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
  • If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself,
    • then he shall let her be redeemed.
    • He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people,
    • since he has broken faith with her.
  • If he designates her for his son,
    • he shall deal with her as with a daughter.

If he takes another wife to himself,

  • he shall not diminish her food,
  • her clothing,
  • or her marital rights.
  • if he does not do these 3 things for her,
    • she shall go out for nothing,
    • without payment of money.

Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

  • but if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand,
    • then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.
  • but if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning,
    • you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,

  • then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff,
  • he who struck him shall be clear;
  • only he shall pay for the loss of his time,
  • and shall have him thoroughly healed.

When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand,

  • he shall be avenged.
  • But if the slave survives a day or two,
    • he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out,

  • but there is no harm,
    • the one who hit her shall surely be fined,
    • as the woman’s husband shall impose on him,
    • and he shall pay as the judges determine.
  • But if there is harm,
    •  then you shall pay life for life,
    • eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
    • burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it,

  • he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.

If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female,

  • he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

When an ox gores a man or a woman to death,

  • the ox shall be stoned,
  • and its flesh shall not be eaten,
  • but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.

But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past,

  • and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in,
  • and it kills a man or a woman,
    • the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

If a ransom is imposed on him,

  • then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.

If it gores a man’s son or daughter,

  • he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.

If the ox gores a slave, male or female,

  • the owner shall give to their master 30 shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Laws About Restitution

33“When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

35“When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share. 36Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.

LAW OF RESTITUTION

When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

  • the owner of the pit shall make restoration.
  • He shall give money to its owner,
  • and the dead beast shall be his.

When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies,

  • then they shall sell the live ox and share its price,
  • and the dead beast also they shall share.

Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in,

  • he shall repay ox for ox,
  • and the dead beast shall be his.

ribbonexodus 22 : Property Rights

1a “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay 5 oxen for an ox, and 4 sheep for a sheep. 2b If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, 3but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.

5“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.

6“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

7“If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. 8If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. 9For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

10“If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it, 11an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution. 12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. 13If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.

14“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution. 15If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee.c

LAW OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it,

  • he shall repay 5 oxen for an ox, and 4 sheep for a sheep.

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies,

  • there shall be no bloodguilt for him,

if the sun has risen on him,

  • there shall be bloodguilt for him.
  • He shall surely pay.

If he has nothing,

  • then he shall be sold for his theft.

If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep,

  • he shall pay double.

If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field,

  • he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.

If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed,

  • he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house,

then,

  • if the thief is found,
    • he shall pay double.
  • If the thief is not found,
    • the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property.

For every breach of trust,

  • whether it is for an ox,
  • for a donkey,
  • for a sheep,
  • for a cloak,
  • or for any kind of lost thing,
  • of which one says, ‘This is it,’
    • the case of both parties shall come before God.
    • The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe,

  • and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it,
    • an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property.
    • The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
  • But if it is stolen from him,
    • he shall make restitution to its owner.
  • If it is torn by beasts,
    • let him bring it as evidence.
    • He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.

If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies,

  • the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.

If the owner was with it,

  • he shall not make restitution;
  • if it was hired,
    • it came for its hiring fee.c

Laws About Social Justice

16“If a man seduces a virgind who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-pricee for her and make her his wife. 17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

18“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

19“Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

20“Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.f

21“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, 24and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

25“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. 26If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

28“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

29“You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. 30You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

31“You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

LAWS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her,

  • he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him,

  • he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.

You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me,

  • I will surely hear their cry,
  • and my wrath will burn,
  • and I will kill you with the sword,
  • and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor,

  • you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge,

  • you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,
  • for that is his only covering,
  • and it is his cloak for his body;
  • in what else shall he sleep?
  • And if he cries to me,
    • I will hear, for I am compassionate.

You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.

The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.

You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep:

  • seven days it shall be with its mother;
  • on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

You shall be consecrated to me.

Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field;

  • you shall throw it to the dogs.

ribbonexodus 23 : various laws

1“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

4“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.5If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

6“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

9“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

VARIOUS LAWS

You shall not spread a false report.

You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil,

  • nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit,
  • siding with the many,
  • so as to pervert justice,
  • nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray,

  • you shall bring it back to him.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden,

  • you shall refrain from leaving him with it;
  • you shall rescue it with him.

You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

And you shall take no bribe,

  • for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

You shall not oppress a sojourner.

You know the heart of a sojourner,

  • for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

10“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

12“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

13“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

14“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed. 16You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. 17Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.

18“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

19“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

SABBATH AND FESTIVAL LAWS

For 6 years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

  • but the 7th year you shall let it rest and lie fallow,
  • that the poor of your people may eat;
  • and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat.

You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

  • 6 days you shall do your work,
  • but on the 7th day you shall rest;
    • that your ox and your donkey may have rest,
    • and the son of your servant woman,
    • and the alien,
    • may be refreshed.

Pay attention to all that I have said to you,

  • and make no mention of the names of other gods,
  • nor let it be heard on your lips.

3 times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.

  • You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
    • As I commanded you,
      • you shall eat unleavened bread for 7 days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,
      • for in it you came out of Egypt.
      • None shall appear before me empty-handed.
  • You shall keep the Feast of Harvest,
    • of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field.
  • You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year,
    • when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

173 times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.

You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.

You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Conquest of Canaan Promised

20“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23“When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 24you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the LORD your God, and hea will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.26None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28And I will send hornetsb before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,c for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.32You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Notes:

hornets

  • צִרְעָה tsirʻâh, tsir-aw’; from H6879; a wasp (as stinging):—hornet.
  • צָרַע tsâraʻ, tsaw-rah’; a primitive root; to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy:—leper, leprous.
  • leper (14x), leprous (6x).
  • 20x in 18v

HE DOES NOT DRIVE THEM OUT IN ONE YEAR, HE DOES IT LITTLE BY LITTLE

bounds

  • גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool’; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
  • border (158x),coast (69x), bound (5x), landmark (4x), space (2x), limit (1x), quarters (1x), non translated variant (1x)
  • 241 times in 196 verses

Philistine = “immigrants”

  1. an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan

  2. פְּלִשְׁתִּי Pᵉlishtîy, pel-ish-tee’; patrial from H6429; a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth:—Philistine.

snare

  • bait, lure, snare
  • Once used of an iron ring put throught the nostrils of a beast
  • מוֹקֵשׁ môwqêsh, mo-kashe’; or מֹקֵשׁ môqêsh; from H3369; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose):—be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.
    • 27 times in 27 v
    • snare (20x),gin (3x), trap (2x), ensnared (1x), snared (1x).
    • יָקֹשׁ yâqôsh, yaw-koshe’; a primitive root; to ensnare (literally or figuratively):—fowler (lay a) snare.
      • to lure, entice, snare, lay a snare or lure, set a trap
      • H3369 matches the Hebrew יָקֹשׁ (yaqosh),
        which occurs 8 times in 8 verses

ribbonChapter 24 : The Covenant Confirmed

1Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2Moses alone shall come near to theLORD, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”

3Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules.a And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.” 4And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and 12 pillars, according to the 12 tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD. 6And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up,10and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. 11And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.

Notes:

worship

  • to bow down
  • שָׁחָה shâchâh, shaw-khaw’; a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God):—bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
  • worship (99x),bow (31x), bow down (18x), obeisance (9x), reverence (5x), fall down (3x),themselves (2x), stoop (1x), crouch (1x), miscellaneous (3x).
  • 172 times in 166 verses

pillar, mastaba, stump

  • מַצֵּבָה matstsêbâh, mats-tsay-baw’; feminine (causatively) participle of H5324; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol:—garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
  • image (19x),pillar (12x), garrisons (1x).
  • 32x in 31v

Sapphire – lapis lazuli

  • סַפִּיר çappîyr, sap-peer’; from H5608; a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire:—sapphire.
  • h5608 סָפַר çâphar, saw-far’; a primitive root; properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate:—commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

 clearness

  • to be clean, be pure
  • טָהֵר ṭâhêr, taw-hare’; a primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy):—be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).
  • 94 times in 79 verses

 

12The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” 13So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.”

15Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16The glory of the LORD dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it 6 days. And on the 7th day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

ribbonChapter 25 : Contributions for the Sanctuary

1The LORD said to Moses, 2“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them:

gold, silver, and bronze,4blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, 5tanned rams’ skins, goatskins,a acacia wood, 6oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 7onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. 8And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. 9Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

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The Ark of the Covenant

10“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubitsb and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its brImage result for ark of the covenanteadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. 12You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. 15The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. 16And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.

17“You shall make a mercy seatc of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 18And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. 19Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. 20The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. 22There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

Ark of the Covenant
ARK   Sacred Cubit (25.2″) FT IN SA
L 1.5 3.15 37.8

 ➡  19.5 cu

 ➡  85.995 ft

 ➡  12,383.28 in
W 2.5 5.25 63
H 1.5 3.15 37.8
ARK   Cubit (18″) FT IN SA
L 1.5 2.25 27   ➡  19.5 cu

 ➡  85.995 ft

 ➡  12,383.28 in
W 2.5 3.75 45
H 1.5 2.25 27
The Ark of the Covenant was a sacred wooden chest which was identified with God and represented Him.  Always heavily veiled, only priests alone could look upon the Ark’s uncovered surface. From the mercy seat of the Ark, where God spoke to Moses, eternity and heaven merged at one point on Earth in time and space.  Contained 4 articles:
Law of God 
derives its name which were 2 tablets of stone
on which were inscribed the 10 commandments
written by the finger of God

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Copy of the 613 Laws
written by Moses which contained
the standards of measurement

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Golden pot of manna

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Rod of Aaron
that miraculously budded
and grew ripe almonds
over the course of one night

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Ark or Chest represented the heart:
A chest (rib cage) with 4 articles :: our heart with 4 chambers
24 elders (rib cage) surrounding the throne  ::  24 ribs protecting the heart

The Table for Bread

23“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Image result for table of shewbreadTwo cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 24You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. 25And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadthd wide, and a molding of gold around the rim. 26And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 27Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. 29And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. 30And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

Table of Bread
   SC (25.2″)  YD FT IN
L  2 2.8    8.4  100.8
W  1  .7  2.1  25.2
H  1.5  1.05  3.15  37.8

The Golden Lampstand

31“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall bImage result for golden lampstande of one piece with it.32And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 33three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 34And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 35and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 36Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it. 38Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talente of pure gold. 40And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.

Notes:

 

 ➡   Candlestick with 6 Branches
 ➡  In the candlestick shall be 4 bowls like almonds
 ➡  The shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be made of beaten gold
 ➡  3 bowls on each side like almonds with their knops and flowers
 ➡  A knop under 2 branches of the same according to each of the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick
➡  18 total knops on the branches and 4 on the Candlestick : 22 total
 ➡  7 lamps that they may give light
 ➡  Tongs and snuffdishes made of Gold
 ➡  1 Talent of Gold used to make all the vessels

ribbonChapter 26 : The Tabernacle

1“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,a and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size. 3Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. 4And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. 5Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another. 6And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.

Tabernacle Curtains
10 Curtains
 ➡   Fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet
 ➡   Cherubims of cunning work
Each Curtain  SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
 L  28 19.6  58.8 705.6
         
Width  SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
1 Curtain 4 2.8 8.4 100.8
10 Curtains 40 112 336 1008

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10 Tabernacle Curtains
 ➡   2 sets of 5 curtains coupled together
 ➡  50 loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; connecting each set
 ➡  50 taches (clasps) of gold to couple the curtains together with taches to make one tabernacle

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Curtains of goat hair

7“You shall also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make. 8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall be the same size. 9You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent. 10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

 11 Goat Hair Curtains
 ➡  A set of 5 curtains coupled by themselves
 ➡  A set of 6 curtains coupled by themselves
 ➡  6th curtain in forefront doubled
 ➡  50 loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling
➡   50 loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second
 ➡  50 taches of brass 
➡  Put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one
 ➡  The remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 
 ➡  A cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Length of Curtains CUBIT  YD  FT IN
 Sacred Cubit (25.2″)  30 21 63 756
Cubit (18″)  30 15 45 540
Width of 1 Curtain  CUBIT  YD  FT IN
 Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 4 2.8 8.4 100.8
Cubit (18″) 4 2 6 72
Width of 11 Curtains CUBIT  YD  FT IN
 Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 44 30.8 92.4 1108.8
Cubit (18″) 44 22 66 792

Boards and Sockets

11“You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be a single whole. 12And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it. 14And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and a covering of goatskins on top.

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15“You shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 16Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. 17There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together. So shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle. 18You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side; 19and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons; 20and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames, 21and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame. 22And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames. 23And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear; 24they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. Thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.25And there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.

Covering for Tent & Boards of Tabernacle
Covering for the tent
 ➡   rams’ skins dyed red
 ➡   a covering above of badgers’ skins
North
 ➡   20 boards of shittim wood
 ➡   20 sockets of silver
South
 ➡   20 boards of shittim wood
 ➡   40 sockets of silver
West
 ➡   6 boards of shittim wood
 ➡   2 boards for corners of 2 sides coupled also above the head of it unto one ring
they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring.
he made two of them this way for the two corners.
 ➡   Total : 8 boards of shittim wood 
 ➡   Total : 16 silver sockets (2 sockets under each board)
 ➡   Total : 16 tenons (2 tenons in each board)
Total
 ➡   48 boards 
 ➡   96 sockets (2 silver sockets underneath to couple each tenon)
 ➡   96 tenons (2 tenons in each board) 
 ➡   2 rings
Length of Boards  Cubit  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 10 7 21 252
Cubit (18″) 10 5 15 180
Width of Boards  Cubit  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 1.5 1.05 3.15 37.8
Cubit (18″) 1.5 .75 2.25 27

THE BARS

26“You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle, 27and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 28The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall run from end to end. 29You shall overlay the frames with gold and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.30Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.

Bars
 ➡   5 bars of chittim wood on each side covered in gold for the boards
 ➡  Middle bar shall reach from end to end

The Veil

31“And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it. 32And you shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, on four bases of silver. 33And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. 34You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. 35And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you shall put the table on the north side.

36“You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. 37And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.

Vail
 ➡   Made of Blue, Purple, Scarlet, Linen
 ➡   Hung on 4 pillars of chittim wood overlaid with gold
 ➡  Hooks of gold upon 4 sockets of silver
 ➡  Table set without the veil
 ➡  Candlestick on South side
 ➡  Table of shewbread on North side

 

Notes:

 

ribbonChapter 27 : The Bronze Altar

1“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubitsa long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. 2And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.3You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze. 4You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar.6And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7And the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8You shall make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.

Bronze Altar for Burnt Offerings
 ➡   Brass horn on the 4 corners
 ➡   Pans (to recieve ashes), shovels, basons, fleshhooks, firepans, and all the Vessels there of made of brass
 ➡   A grate of network of brass;
 ➡  Upon the net 4 brass rings in the four corners
 ➡   2 staves of shittim wood overlaid with brass put in the rings that lie on the 2 sides of the altar (hollow with boards)
   SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
L 5 3.5 10.5 126
W 5 3.5 10.5 126
H 3 2.1 6.3 75.6

The Court of the Tabernacle

9“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side. 10Its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.11And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, its pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

Hangings Width of North and South Sides
Width of N/S Sides CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 100 70 210 2520
Cubit (18″) 100 50 150 1800
20 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   20 Sockets of Brass
Length of Hangings
L  CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 10 7 21 252
Cubit (18″) 10 5 15 180

12And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.

 Width of Hangings on West Side
Width  SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″)  50 35 105 1260
Cubit (18″)  50 25 75 900
10 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   10 Sockets of Brass

13The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits. 14The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 15On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 16For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It shall have four pillars and with them four bases. 17All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze. 18The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twined linen and bases of bronze. 19All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

 Width of East Side Entrance
Gate of the Court  CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 20 14 42 504
Cubit (18″) 20 10 30 360
4 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   4 Sockets of Brass
 Hanging for the gate of court
➡  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework
Each side of Gate CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 15 10.5 31.5 378
Cubit (18″) 15 7.5 22.5 270
3 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   3 Sockets of Brass
Total Width of Court
North and South CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 100 70 210 2520
Cubit (18″) 100 50 150 1800
East and West CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″)  50 35 105 1260
Cubit (18″) 50 25 75 900
Total
60 Pillars
20 pillars on North side
20 pillars on South side
10 pillars on West side
10 pillars on East side
4 pillars on Gate of the Court
20 cubits of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework:
4 Pillars with silver hooks and fillets, and 4 brass sockets
3 pillars on each side of Gate 
60 Hooks with silver fillets
60 Sockets of brass 
Made of Brass
Vessels of Tabernacle
Pins of the Vessels
Pins of the Court

Oil for the Lamp

20“You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the ligImage result for oil for lampht, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.

Notes:

 

ribbonChapter 28  : The Priests’ Garments

1“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. 4These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. 5They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

6“And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked. 7It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges, so that it may be joined together. 8And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 9You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, 10six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth. 11As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree. 12And you shall set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before theLORD on his two shoulders for remembrance. 13You shall make settings of gold filigree,14and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

15“You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it—of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it. 16It shall be square and doubled, a spana its length and a span its breadth. 17You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius,b topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row; 18and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 19and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 20and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold filigree. 21There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 22You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.23And you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 24And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. 25The two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. 26You shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 27And you shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 28And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it may lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, so that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod. 29So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD. 30And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.

31“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment,c so that it may not tear. 33On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them, 34a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. 35And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.

36“You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’ 37And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. 38It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

39“You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework.

40“For Aaron’s sons you shall make coats and sashes and caps. You shall make them for glory and beauty. 41And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. 42You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs; 43and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him

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PRIESTS GARMENTS

 These are the garments that they shall make:

  • a breastpiece,
  • an ephod,
  • a robe,
  • a coat of checker work,
  • a turban,
  • and a sash.

ephod

  1. priestly garment, shoulder-cape or mantle, outer garment

    1. אֵפוֹד ʼêphôwd, ay-fode’; rarely אֵפֹד ʼêphôd; probably of foreign derivation a girdle; specifically the ephod or highpriest’s shoulder-piece; also generally, an image:—ephod.
    2. H646 matches the Hebrew אֵפוֹד (‘ephowd), which occurs 49 times in 39 verses

They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.

They shall receive:

  • gold,
  • blue and purple and scarlet yarns,
  • and fine twined linen.

THE EPHOD:

  • gold,
  • blue and purple and scarlet yarns,
  • fine twined linen
  • 2 shoulder pieces attached to its 2 edges, so that it may be joined together.
  • The skillfully Woven Band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it,
    • of gold,
    • blue and purple and scarlet yarns,
    • and fine twined linen.
  • 2 onyx stones with the names of the sons of Israel engraved (a jeweler engraves signets) as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel
    • 6 of their names on the 1 stone
1 Reuben
2 Simeon
3 Levi
4 Judah
5 Dan
6 Naphtali

 

  • the 6 remaining on the other stone
7 Gad
8 Asshur
9 Issacher
10 Zebulon
11 Joseph
12 Benjamin
  • in the order of their birth
  • enclose them in settings of gold filigree (plaited or chequered work).
    • settings: 
      • of gold filigree, 
      • and two chains of pure gold,
      • twisted like cords;
      • and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.
  • set the 2 stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod.
  • Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his 2 shoulders for remembrance.

Breastpiece of Judgment (in the style of the ephod):

  • of gold,
  • blue and purple and scarlet yarns,
  • and fine twined linen shall you make it.
  • It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth.

doubled

  • כָּפַל kâphal, kaw-fal’; a primitive root; to fold together; figuratively, to repeat:—double.
    • H3717 matches the Hebrew כָּפַל (kaphal), which occurs 5 times in 4 verses
    • 3 in exodus and once in Ezekial 21:14

span

  1. a unit of measure, approx half-cubit, or the distance from the thumb to the little finger on an outstretched hand

  2. 18″
    1. 9″
    2. 3/4 ft (75%)
  3. 25.2″
    1. 12.6″
    2. 1.5 ft
  4. זֶרֶת zereth, zeh’-reth; from H2219; the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span:—span.
  5. זָרָה zârâh, zaw-raw’; a primitive root (compare H2114); to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow:—cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
  6. to scatter, fan, cast away, winnow, disperse, compass, spread, be scattered, be dispersed
  7. scatter (19x),disperse (8x), fan (4x), spread (2x), winnowed (2x), cast away (1x), scatter away (1x), compass (1x), strawed (1x).
  8. 39 in 38v
  • 17You shall set in it 4 rows of stones:
    • 1st row:
      • sardius
        • ruby, carnelian (redness)
        • אֹדֶם ʼôdem, o’-dem; from H119; redness, i.e. the ruby, garnet, or some other red gem:—sardius.
          • אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam’; to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy:—be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).
      • topaz
        • chrysolite
        • pale yellowish gem found in an island of the red sea
        • פִּטְדָה piṭdâh, pit-daw’; of foreign derivation; a gem, probably the topaz:—topaz.
      • carbuncle
        • emerald (Josephus)
        • בָּרֶקֶת bâreqeth, baw-reh’-keth; or בָּרְקַת bârᵉqathxlit bârᵉkath corrected to bârᵉqath; from H1300; a gem (as flashing), perhaps the emerald:—carbuncle.
        • 3x in 3v 
          • בָּרָק bârâq, baw-rawk’; from H1299; lightning; by analogy, a gleam; concretely, a flashing sword:—bright, glitter(-ing sword), lightning.
    • 2nd row:
      • emerald

        • perhaps an emerald, turquoise, ruby, or carbuncle

        • jewels imported from Tyre

        • נֹפֶךְ nôphek, no’-fek; from an unused root meaning to glisten; shining; a gem, probably the garnet:—emerald.
        • 4x in 4v
      • sapphire
        • lapis lazuli
        • סַפִּיר çappîyr, sap-peer’; from H5608; a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire:—sapphire.
        • 11x in 11v 
          • סָפַר çâphar, saw-far’; a primitive root; properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate:—commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
          • to count, recount, relate
      • diamond
        • יַהֲלֹם yahălôm, yah-hal-ome’; from H1986 (in the sense of hardness); a precious stone, probably onyx:—diamond.
        • 3x in 3v
    • 3rd row:
      • jacinth
        • 2x in 2v
      • agate
        • שְׁבוּ shᵉbûw, sheb-oo’; from an unused root (probably identical with that ofH7617 through the idea of subdivision into flashes or streamers (compare H7632) meaning to flame; a gem (from its sparkle), probably the agate:—agate.
        • 2x in 2v
          • שָׁבָה shâbâh, shaw-baw’; a primitive root; to transport into captivity:—(bring away, carry, carry away, lead, lead away, take) captive(-s), drive (take) away.
      • amethyst
        • amethyst, a gem in the third row on the ephod, breastplate of judgment worn by the high priest. Transliteration of the Septuagint word. Identification is not certain but is a purple stone perhaps a corundum or red or brown jasper.
        • אַחְלָמָה ʼachlâmâh, akh-law’-maw; perhaps from H2492 (and thus dream-stone); a gem, probably the amethyst:—amethyst.
        • 2x in 2v
    • 4th row:
      • beryl
        • תַּרְשִׁישׁ tarshîysh, tar-sheesh’; probably of foreign derivation (compare H8659); a gem, perhaps the topaz:—beryl.
        • perhaps “breaking”, “subjection”
        • תַּרְשִׁישׁ Tarshîysh, tar-sheesh’; probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse); Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite:—Tarshish, Tharshish.

        • Tarshish or Tharshish = “yellow jasper”

          1. son of Javan

          2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan

          3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia

          4. a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee

            1. site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain

          5. a city somewhere near and accessible to the Red Sea to which ships constructed at Ezion-geber on the Elanitic Gulf on the Red Sea were to sail

      • onyx
        • H7718 matches the Hebrew שֹׁהַם (shoham), which occurs 11 times in 11 verses
        • שֹׁהַם shôham, sho’-ham; from an unused root probably mean to blanch; a gem, probably the beryl (from its pale green color):—onyx.
      • jasper
        • יָשְׁפֵה yâshᵉphêh, yaw-shef-ay’; from an unused root meaning to polish; a gem supposed to be jasper (from the resemblance in name):—jasper.
    • They shall be set in gold filigree.
      • מִלֻּאָה milluʼâh, mil-loo-aw’; feminine of H4394; a filling, i.e. setting (of gems):—enclosing, setting.
    • There shall be 12 stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel.
    • They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
1 Reuben Leah Sardius

1st Row

        
2 Simeon Leah Topaz        
3 Levi Leah Carbuncle        
4 Judah Leah Emerald 2nd Row *Sceptor Promise  
5 Dan Bilhah Sapphire        
6 Naphtali Leah Diamond        
7 Gad Zipah Ligure 3rd Row

Lucifer was missing 3rd row

 

    
8 Asher Leah Agate    
9 Issacher Leah Amethyst    
10 Zebulun Leah Beryl 4th Row        
11 Joseph Rachel Onyx *Birthright Promise  
12 Benjamin Rachel Jasper   11a Manasseh Asenath
            11b Ephraim Asenath

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Jupiter

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Onyx

Onyx

  • a precious stone or gem

  1. probably onyx, chrysoprasus, beryl, malachite

  2. שֹׁהַם shôham, sho’-ham; from an unused root probably mean to blanch; a gem, probably the beryl (from its pale green color):—onyx.
  • H7718 matches the Hebrew שֹׁהַם (shoham), which occurs 11 times in 11 verses

 

  • You shall make for the breastpiece:
    • twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.
      • עֲבֹת ʻăbôth, ab-oth’; or עֲבוֹת ʻăbôwth; or (feminine) עֲבֹתָה ʻăbôthâh; the same asH5687; something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage:—band, cord, rope, thick bough (branch), wreathen (chain).
      • cord, rope, cordage, foliage, interwoven foliage
      • wreathen (7x),cords (5x), band (4x), boughs (3x), rope (3x), chains (2x), branches (1x).
    • two rings of gold
      • טַבַּעַת ṭabbaʻath, tab-bah’-ath; from H2883; properly, a seal (as sunk into the wax), i.e. signet (for sealing); hence (generally) a ring of any kind:—ring. 
        • 49 times in 38 verses
      • put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.
      • put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.
    • attach in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod
      • the 2 ends of the 2 cords:
        • attach to the 2 settings of filigree
    • make 2 rings of gold,
      • put them at the 2 ends of the breastpiece,
        • on its inside edge next to the ephod.
    • make 2 other rings of gold,
      • attach them in front to the lower part of the 2 shoulder pieces of the ephod
        • at its seam above the skillfully woven band (curious girdle) of the ephod.
          • חֵשֶׁב chêsheb, khay’-sheb; from H2803; a belt or strap (as being interlaced):—curious girdle.
          • lex: So called from its woven work of various colors 
            • חָשַׁב châshab, khaw-shab’; a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute:—(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
    • bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue,
      • פָּתִיל pâthîyl, paw-theel’; from H6617; twine:—bound, bracelet, lace, line, ribband, thread, wire. 
        • lex : a thread, a line, used of a string by which a seal-ring was suspended
        • 11x in 11v
      • so that it may lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod
      • so that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod.
  • Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart
    • when he goes into the Holy Place
    • to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.
  • Put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastpiece of judgment

    • Urim = “lights”

      1. stones kept in a pouch on the high-priest’s breastplate, used in determining God’s decision in certain questions and issues

      2. אוּרִים ʼÛwrîym, oo-reem’; plural of H217; lights; Urim, the oracular brilliancy of the figures in the high-priest’s breastplate:—Urim.

       

    • Thummim = “perfection”

      1. stones provided for the means of achieving a sacred lot

        1. used with the Urim, the will of God was revealed

        2. תֻּמִּים Tummîym, toom-meem’; plural of H8537; perfections, i.e. (techn.) one of the epithets of the objects in the high-priest’s breastplate as an emblem of complete Truth:—Thummim.
    • they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the LORD.
  • Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.

You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

  • It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it (midst),
    • with a woven binding around the opening,
    • like the opening in a garment, so that it may not tear.
    • תַּחֲרָא tachărâʼ, takh-ar-aw’; from H2734 in the original sense of H2352 orH2353; a linen corslet (as white or hollow):—habergeon.
  • On its hem you shall make:
    • שׁוּל shûwl, shool; from an unused root meaning to hang down; a skirt; by implication, a bottom edge:—hem, skirt, train. 
      • 11 times in 10 verses
      • Lex : the train, flowing skirt of a robe, to expose to the greatest shame, to uncover the skirt
    • pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns,

pomegranates

    • רִמּוֹן rimmôwn, rim-mone’; or רִמֹּן rimmôn; from H7426; a pomegranate, the tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit (also an artificial ornament):—pomegranate. 
    • רָמַם râmam, raw-mam’; a primitive root; to rise (literally or figuratively):—exalt, get (oneself) up, lift up (self), mount up. 

blue 

  • תְּכֵלֶת tᵉkêleth, tek-ay’-leth; probably for H7827; the cerulean mussel, i.e. the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith:—blue. 
    • lex : a shell fish
  • שְׁחֵלֶת shᵉchêleth, shekh-ay’-leth; apparently from the same as H7826 through some obscure idea, perhaps that of peeling off by concussion of sound; a scale or shell, i.e. the aromatic mussel.:—Onycha. 
  • שַׁחַל shachal, shakh’-al; from an unused root probably meaning to roar; a lion (from his characteristic roar):—(fierce) lion. 

purple

  • אַרְגָּמָן ʼargâmân, ar-gaw-mawn’; of foreign origin; purple (the color or the dyed stuff):—purple. 
  • 38x in 38v

scarlet, crimson

  1. properly, the insect ‘coccus ilicis’, the dried body of the female yielding colouring matter from which is made the dye used for cloth to colour it scarlet or crimson

  2. שָׁנִי shânîy, shaw-nee’; of uncertain derivation; crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it:—crimson, scarlet (thread).

 

  • around its hem,
  • with bells of gold between them,
    • a golden bell and a pomegranate,
    • a golden bell and a pomegranate,
  • around the hem of the robe.
    • פַּעֲמֹן paʻămôn, pah-am-one’; from H6471; a bell (as struck):—bell.
      • פַּעַם paʻam, pah’-am; or (feminine) פַּעֲמָה paʻămâh; from H6470; a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow):—anvil, corner, foot(-step), going, (hundred-) fold, × now, (this) once, order, rank, step, thrice, (often-), second, this, two) time(-s), twice, wheel.
      • stroke, beat, foot, step, anvil, occurrence
      • 112 times in 108 verses
  • it shall be on Aaron when he ministers,
    • its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD,
    • and when he comes out,
    • so that he does not die.

You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’

plate

  1. flower, bloom

  2. feather, wing

    1. meaning dubious

  3. צִיץ tsîyts, tseets; or צִץ tsits; from H6692; properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air):—blossom, flower, plate, wing.
  4. H6731 matches the Hebrew צִיץ (tsiyts), which occurs 15 times in 15 verses

signet

  • חוֹתָם chôwthâm, kho-thawm’; or חֹתָם chôthâm; from H2856; a signature-ring:—seal, signet.
  • lex : The Hebrews were accustomed, like the Persians in the present day, sometimes to carry a signet ring hung by a string upon the breast.
  • H2368 matches the Hebrew חוֹתָם (chowtham), which occurs 14 times in 13 verses
    • חָתַם châtham, khaw-tham’; a primitive root; to close up; especially to seal:—make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.
    • 27 times in 24 verses
  • fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue.
    • it shall be on the front of the turban.
    • turban, mitre
      • מִצְנֶפֶת mitsnepheth, mits-neh’-feth; from H6801; a tiara, i.e. official turban (of a king or high priest):—diadem, mitre.
      • 12 times in 9 verses
      • צָנַף tsânaph, tsaw-naf’; a primitive root; to wrap, i.e. roll or dress:—be attired, ×surely, violently turn.
      • to wrap, wind up together, wind around, roll up
    • it shall be on Aaron’s forehead
      • מֵצַח mêtsach, may’-tsakh; from an unused root meaning to be clear, i.e. conspicuous; the forehead (as open and prominent):—brow, forehead, impudent.
  • Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts.
    • it shall regularly be on his forehead
    • that they may be accepted before the LORD.

Weave the coat in checker work of fine linen,

  • and you shall make a turban of fine linen,
    • מִגְבָּעָה migbâʻâh, mig-baw-aw’; from the same as H1389; a cap (as hemispherical):—bonnet.
      • 4x in 4v
    • גִּבְעָה gibʻâh, ghib-aw’; feminine from the same as H1387; a hillock:—hill, little hill.
      • 69x in 69v
    • גֶּבַע Gebaʻ, gheh’-bah; from the same as H1375, a hillock; Geba, a place in Palestine:—Gaba, Geba, Gibeah.

    • Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = “hill”

      1. a levitical city in Benjamin, modern ‘Jeba’, which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, 6 miles or 10 kilometres north east of Jerusalem and 3 miles or 5 kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern ‘Mukhmas’

      2. situated on the northern limits of the kingdom of Judah
      3. H1387 matches the Hebrew גֶּבַע (Geba`),
        which occurs 19 times in 19 verses
      4. גְּבִיעַ gᵉbîyaʻ, gheb-ee’-ah; from an unused root (meaning to be convex); a goblet; by analogy, the calyx of a flower:—house, cup, pot.
  • and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework.

For Aaron’s sons you shall make coats and sashes and caps.

coats

  • כְּתֹנֶת kᵉthôneth, keth-o’-neth; or כֻּתֹּנֶת kuttôneth; from an unused root meaning to cover (compare H3802); a shirt:—coat, garment, robe, tunic
    • tunic, under-garment

  1. a long shirt-like garment usually of linen

    29 times in 26 verses

  • כָּתֵף kâthêph, kaw-thafe’; from an unused root meaning to clothe; the shoulder (proper, i.e. upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang); figuratively, side-piece or lateral projection of anything:—arm, corner, shoulder(-piece), side, undersetter.
  • make them for glory and beauty.
  • put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
  • make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh.
  • they shall reach from the hips to the thighs;

loins, hips

  1. used with 02223 in Pr. 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

  2. מֹתֶן môthen, mo’-then; from an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins:— greyhound, loins, side.

thigh, side, loin, base

  1. thigh

    1. outside of thigh (where sword was worn)

    2. loins (as the seat of procreative power)

  2. side (flank) (of object)

  3. base

  4. יָרֵךְ yârêk, yaw-rake’; from an unused root meaning to be soft; the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side:—× body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.
  5. thigh (21x),side (7x), shaft (3x), loins (2x), body (1x).
  •  they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting
    • or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die.

This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him

ribbonChapter 29 : Consecration of the Priests

(Leviticus 8:1-13)

1And this is the thing that you shall do to them to hallow them, to minister to me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, 2And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shall you make them. 3And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall wash them with water. 5And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: 6And you shall put the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. 7Then shall you take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.8And you shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. 9And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Consecration of the priests

Take 1 young bullock, and 2 rams without blemish,

  • unleavened bread,
  • cakes unleavened tempered with oil,
  • wafers unleavened anointed with oil:
    • of wheaten flour shall you make them.
    • put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket,
    • with the bullock and the two rams.

 Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall wash them with water.

  • take the garments,
  • put on Aaron the coat,
  • the robe of the ephod,
  • the ephod,
  • the breastplate,
  • gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
    • put the turban on his head,
    • put the holy crown on the turban.
    • take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
    • bring his sons, and put coats on them.
    • gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them:
      • and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute:
        • and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Order of the Sacrifices

(Leviticus 8:22-36)

10And you shall cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bullock. 11And you shall kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 12And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. 13And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shall you burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

15You shall also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram. 16And you shall slay the ram, and you shall take his blood, and sprinkle it round about on the altar. 17And you shall cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them to his pieces, and to his head. 18And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD: it is a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

19And you shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram. 20Then shall you kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. 21And you shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

22Also you shall take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covers the inwards, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration: 23And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD: 24And you shall put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 25And you shall receive them of their hands, and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet smell before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

26And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be your part. 27And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 28And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to the LORD.

29And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. 30And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he comes into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.

Order of Sacrifices

1 Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bullock.

  • kill the bull before the LORD by the door of the tabernacle
    • take the blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger
      • pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar
      • take all the fat that covers the inwards
        • the lobe that is above the liver
        • the two kidneys
        • the fat that is on them
      • and burn them on the altar
    • take the flesh of the bull
      • and his skin,
      • and his dung,
      • shall be burnt without the camp;
  • it is a sin offering.

2 Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram

  • slay the ram
    • take the blood and sprinkle it round the altar
    • cut the ram in pieces
    • wash the inwards of him
      • his legs
      • put them in pieces
      • to his head
    • burn the whole ram on the altar
  • it is a burnt offering  

3   Take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram.

  • kill the ram
  • take his blood and put it
    • on the tip of the right ear of Aaron
    • on the tip of the right ear of his sons
    • on the thumb of their right hand
    • on the great toe of their right foot
  • sprinkle the blood on the altar round about
  • take of the blood that is on the altar and of the anointing oil
  • sprinkle it on Aaron
    • on his garments
    • on his sons
    • on the garments of his sons with him
  • he shall be hallowed
    • his garments
    • his sons
    • and his sons garments with him
  • take of the ram
    • the fat and the rump
    • the fat that covers the inwards
    • the lobe above the liver
    • the kidneys
    • the fat that is on them and the right shoulder
  • it is a ram of consecration
    • and one loaf of bread
    • one cake of oiled bread
    • one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread
      • put all in the hands of Aaron and his sons
    • wave them for a wave offering before the LORD
    • you shall receive them of their hands and
    • burn them on the altar for a burnt offering (offering made by fire)
  • take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration
  • wave if for a wave offering
  • it shall be your part
  • sanctify the breast of the wave offering which is waved
  • sanctify the shoulder of the heave offering which is heaved
  • for it is a heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to the LORD

The holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons after him

  • to be anointed therein
  • the be consecrated in them

That son that is priest in his stead shall put them on 7 days when he comes into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place

Food for the Priests

31And you shall take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. 32And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 33And they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. 34And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35And thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded you: seven days shall you consecrate them. 36And you shall offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you have made an atonement for it, and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. 37Seven days you shall make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Food for Priests

Take the ram of the consecration

  • and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
  • Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram,
  • and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made,
  • to consecrate and to sanctify them:
    • but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
  • if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain to the morning,
    • then you shall burn the remainder with fire:
      • it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

7 days you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement:

  • cleanse the altar when you have made atonement for it
  • anoint it
  • sanctify it

7 days you shall make an atonement for the altar

  • and sanctify it
  • it shall be the most holy:
  • whatever touches the altar shall be holy

The Daily Offerings

(Numbers 28:1-8)

38Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at even: 40And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.41And the other lamb you shall offer at even, and shall do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there to you. 43And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. 44And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

Daily Offerings

This is that which you shall offer on the altar;

  • 2 lambs of the first year day by day continually.
    • The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer at even;
      • a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil for meat offering;
      • fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering

This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD:

  • where I will meet you, to speak there to you.
  • there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar:

  • I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

God will Dwell Among the People

(2 Corinthians 6:14-18)

45And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.

Notes:

Wave Offering 

  • swinging, waving, wave offering, offering

  1. a swinging, brandishing

    1. of God’s hand, weapons

  2. waving, wave-offering (technical term of sacrifice)

  3. offering (of gold or brass)

  4. תְּנוּפָה tᵉnûwphâh, ten-oo-faw’; from H5130; a brandishing (in threat); by implication, tumult; specifically, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings:—offering, shaking, wave (offering).
    1. wave offering (14x), wave (8x), offering (6x), shaking (2x).
    2. 30x in 28v
    3. H5130 נוּף nûwph, noof; a primitive root; to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.):—lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
      1. wave (16x),shake (7x), offer (5x), lift up (4x), move (1x), perfumed (1x), send (1x), sift (1x),strike (1x).
      2. 37x in 35v

Heave Offering

  • contribution, offering

  1. a heave offering

  2. any offering

  3. an offering to God

  4. an offering (of grain, money, etc)

  5. contribution

  6. תְּרוּמָה tᵉrûwmâh, ter-oo-maw’; or תְּרֻמָה tᵉrumâh; (Deuteronomy 12:11), from H7311; a present (as offered up), especially in sacrifice or as tribute:—gift, heave offering (shoulder), oblation, offered(-ing).
    1. offering (51x),oblation (19x), heave (4x), gifts (1x), offered (1x).
    2. 76x in 63v
    3. h7311 רוּם rûwm, room; a primitive root; to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively):—bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (× a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
    4. to rise, rise up, be high, be lofty, be exalted
      1. (lift, hold, etc…) up (63x), exalt (47x), high (25x), offer (13x), give (5x), heave (3x), extol (3x),lofty (3x), take (3x), tall (3x), higher (2x), miscellaneous (24x)
      2. 195 times in 185 verses

breast 

  • front part
  • חָזֶה châzeh, khaw-zeh’; from H2372; the breast (as most seen in front):—breast.

shoulder

  • leg, thigh

  1. of man; specifically the lower leg (calf) as opposed to the thigh

  2. of sacrificial animal; specifically the thigh, upper leg, hind leg, as the portion eaten

  3. שׁוֹק shôwq, shoke; from H7783; the (lower) leg (as a runner):—hip, leg, shoulder, thigh.
    1. shoulder (13x),legs (4x), hip (1x), thigh (1x)
    2. 19 times in 19 verses

ribbonChapter 30 : The Altar of Incense

1“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2A cubita shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. 3You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. 5You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. 7And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it, 8and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.9You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it. 10Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”

Altar of Incense
   SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
L 1 .7 2.1 25.2
W 1 .7 2.1 25.2
H 2 1.4 4.2 50.4

The Census Tax

11The LORD said to Moses, 12“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 13Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekelb according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),c half a shekel as an offering to the LORD. 14Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD’s offering. 15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD’s offering to make atonement for your lives. 16You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.”

Census Tax

 When you take the census of the people of Israel:

  • then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them,
  • that there be no plague among them when you number them.

Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this:

  • half a shekel  according to the shekel of the sanctuary
    • the shekel is 20 gerahs
  • half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.

Everyone who is numbered in the census, from 20 years old and upward, shall give the LORD’s offering:

The rich shall not give more,

 the poor shall not give less

than the half shekel

when you give the LORD’s offering

to make atonement for your lives.

You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting,

that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.”

The Bronze Basin

17The LORD said to Moses, 18“You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, 19with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.20When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offeringd to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.21They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”

Bronze Basin or Laver of Brass or Brozen Sea
 ➡   Located in the court between the altar and the tabernacle
 ➡   The priests washed in the basin in preperation for service to the Lord 

The Anointing Oil and Incense

22The LORD said to Moses, 23“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane, 24and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hine of olive oil. 25And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. 26With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, 27and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, 28and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand. 29You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy. 30You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. 31And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. 32It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. 33Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

34The LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), 35and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. 36You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you. 37And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to theLORD. 38Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.

Notes:

Take the finest spices:

  • of liquid myrrh:  500 shekels,
  • of sweet-smelling cinnamon : 250 shekels,
  • of aromatic cane : 250 shekels,
  • of cassia : 500 shekels
  • of olive oil : 1 hin

Make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. 

With it you shall anoint:

  • the tent of meeting
  • and the ark of the testimony,
  • and the table
  • and all its utensils,
  • and the lampstand
  • and its utensils,
  • and the altar of incense,
  • and the altar of burnt offering
  • with all its utensils
  • and the basin and its stand.

You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy.

Whatever touches them will become holy.

You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

And you shall say to the people of Israel,

‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person,

and you shall make no other like it in composition.

It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.

Take sweet spices

  • stacte
  • onycha
  • galbanum
  • sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),
  • and make an incense blended as by the perfumer,
  • seasoned with salt,
  • pure and holy.

You shall beat some of it very small,

and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you.

It shall be most holy for you.

the incense that you shall make according to its composition,

you shall not make for yourselves.

It shall be for you holy to the LORD.

Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.

ribbonChapter 31  : Oholiab and Bezalel

1The LORD said to Moses, 2“See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, 4to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, 5in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. 6And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: 7the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent, 8the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, 9and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, 10and the finely worked garments,a the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests, 11and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.”

Sign of the Sabbath

12And the LORD said to Moses, 13“You are to speak to the people of Israel and say,

‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you. 14You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. 16Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. 17It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”
18And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Notes:

 

ribbonChapter 32  : The Golden Calf

(Deuteronomy 9:7-29)

1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the peoImage result for golden calfple gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 2And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 3And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 5And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Moses Informed of Israel’s Sin

7And the LORD said to Moses, Go, get you down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 9And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff necked people: 10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation.

11And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your wrath wax hot against your people, which you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

Moses Descends with the Tablets

15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables wereImage result for ten commandments written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven on the tables. 17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

18And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

Moses Breaks the Tablets

19And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount. 20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

21And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to you, that you have brought so great a sin on them? 22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you know the people, that they are set on mischief. 23For they said to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 24And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies:) 26Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s side? let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about 3,000 men. 29For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man on his son, and on his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.

Moses Intercedes for Israel

30And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up to the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. 31And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32Yet now, if you will forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written. 33And the LORD said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.34Therefore now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you: behold, my Angel shall go before you: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin on them. 35And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

Notes:

a pouring, libation, molten metal, cast image, drink offering

  1. libation (with covenant sacrifice)

  2. molten metal, molten image, molten gods

  1. web, covering, veil, woven stuff

  • מַסֵּכָה maççêkâh, mas-say-kaw’; from H5258; properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out):—covering, molten (image), vail.
  • image (18x),molten (7x), covering (2x), vail (1x).

calf

  • עֵגֶל ʻêgel, ay-ghel; from the same as H5696; a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer):—bullock, calf.
  • calf (33x),bullock (2x)
  • עָגֹל ʻâgôl, aw-gole’; or עָגוֹל ʻâgôwl; from an unused root meaning to revolve, circular:—round.

star

  1. of Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification, God’s omniscience (fig.)

  • כּוֹכָב kôwkâb, ko-kawb’; probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince:—star(-gazer).
  • star (36x),stargazers (with H2374) (1x).
  • 37x in 37v
    • h3522 כַּבּוֹן Kabbôwn, kab-bone’; from an unused root meaning to heap up; hilly; Cabon, a place in Palestine:—Cabbon.
      • Cabbon = “the builder”

  1. a town in the low country of Judah

  2. lex : “bond” from the root “cake”

board, slab, tablet, plank

  1. tablets (of stone)

  2. boards (of wood)

  3. plate (of metal)

  4. לוּחַ lûwach, loo’-akh; or לֻחַ luach; from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal:—board, plate, table.
  5. tables (38x),boards (4x), plates (1x).
  6. 43x in 33v

testimony

  • עֵדוּת ʻêdûwth, ay-dooth’; feminine of H5707; testimony:—testimony, witness.
  • lex : a precept, law (especially used of the decalogue), the ark of the law, revelation
  • 59x in 57v

shouted

רֵעַ rêaʻ, ray’-ah; from H7321; a crash (of thunder), noise (of war), shout (of joy):—× aloud, noise, shouted.

mastery

  • strength, might

  1. strength

  2. might, valour, bravery

  3. might, mighty deeds (of God)

  4. גְּבוּרָה gᵉbûwrâh, gheb-oo-raw’; feminine passive participle from the same asH1368; force (literally or figuratively); by implication, valor, victory:—force, mastery, might, mighty (act, power), power, strength
  5. might (27x),strength (17x), power (9x), mighty acts (4x), mighty (2x), force (1x), mastery (1x).
  6. 61x in 61v
  7. גִּבּוֹר gibbôwr, ghib-bore’; or גִּבֹּר gibbôr; (shortened) intensive from the same asH1397; powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant:—champion, chief, × excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.

ribbonChapter 33 : The Command to Leave Sinai

1The LORD said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’ 2I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

4When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. 5For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’” 6Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

The Tent of Meeting

7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. 8Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent. 9When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORDa would speak with Moses. 10And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. 11Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Moses’ Intercession

12Moses said to the LORD,

“See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ 13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” 14And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 16For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”

17And the LORD said to Moses,

“This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” 18Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 21And the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”
Notes:

stiffnecked

  • hard, cruel, severe, obstinate

  1. hard, difficult

  2. severe

  3. fierce, intense, vehement

  4. stubborn, stiff of neck, stiff-necked

  5. rigorous (of battle)

  6. h7186 קָשֶׁה qâsheh, kaw-sheh’; from H7185; severe (in various applications):—churlish, cruel, grievous, hard((-hearted), thing), heavy, impudent, obstinate, prevailed, rough(-ly), sore, sorrowful, stiff(necked), stubborn, in trouble.
    1. stiffnecked (with H6203) (6x), hard (5x), roughly (5x), cruel (3x), grievous (3x),sore (2x), churlish (1x), hardhearted (1x), heavy (1x), miscellaneous (9x)
    2. 36x in 36v

congregation

  • appointed place, appointed time, meeting

  1. appointed time

    1. appointed time (general)

    2. sacred season, set feast, appointed season

  2. appointed meeting

  3. appointed place

  4. appointed sign or signal

  5. tent of meeting

  6.  a set time
  7. מוֹעֵד môwʻêd, mo-ade’; or מֹעֵד môʻêd; or (feminine) מוֹעָדָה môwʻâdâh; (2 Chronicles 8:13), from H3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):—appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
    1. congregation (150x), feast (23x), season (13x), appointed (12x), time (12x),assembly (4x), solemnity (4x), solemn (2x), days (1x), sign (1x), synagogues (1x).
    2. 223 times in 213 v

looked 

  • נָבַט nâbaṭ, naw-bat’; a primitive root; to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care:—(cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
  • look (36x),behold (13x), consider (5x), regard (4x), see (4x), respect (3x), look down (2x),look about (1x), look back (1x).
  • 69 times in 67 v

door, opening, entrance

  • פֶּתַח pethach, peh’-thakh; from H6605; an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way:—door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.

ribbonChapter 34  : The Tablets are Replaced

(Deuteronomy 10:1-11)

1And the LORD said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first: and I will write on these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you brake. 2And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me in the top of the mount. 3And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. 4And he hewed two tables of stone like to the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. 5And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, to the third and to the fourth generation. 8And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. 9And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.

The Lord Renews the Covenant

(Joshua 8:30-35)

10And he said,

Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.
11Observe you that which I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the middle of you: 13But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one call you, and you eat of his sacrifice; 16And you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make your sons go a whoring after their gods. 17You shall make you no molten gods.
18The feast of unleavened bread shall you keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
19All that opens the matrix is mine; and every firstling among your cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 20But the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you redeem him not, then shall you break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in ripening time and in harvest you shall rest. 22And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. 23Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. 24For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire your land, when you shall go up to appear before the LORD your God thrice in the year.
25You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left to the morning.
26The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
27And the LORD said to Moses, Write you these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 28And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

The Radiant Face of Moses

(2 Corinthians 3:7-18)

29And it came to pass,

when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

31And Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him: and Moses talked with them. 32And afterward all the children of Israel came near: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him. 

 

Notes:

marvels

  • to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action
  • פָּלָא pâlâʼ, paw-law’; a primitive root; properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful:—accomplish, (arise…too, be too) hard, hidden, things too high, (be, do, do a, shew) marvelous(-ly, -els, things, work), miracles, perform, separate, make singular, (be, great, make) wonderful(-ers, -ly, things, works), wondrous (things, works, -ly).
  • (wondrous,marvellous…) work (18x), wonders (9x), marvellous (8x), wonderful (8x),…things (6x), hard (5x), wondrous (3x), wondrously (2x), marvellously (2x),performing (2x), miscellaneous (8x).
  • 73x in 69v

whoring

  • to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot
  • זָנָה zânâh, zaw-naw’; a primitive root [highly fed and therefore wanton]; to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah):—(cause to) commit fornication, ×continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

to shine

  1. (Qal) to send out rays

  2. (Hiphil) to display or grow horns, be horned

  3. קָרַן qâran, kaw-ran’; a primitive root; to push or gore; used only as denominative from H7161, to shoot out horns; figuratively, rays:—have horns, shine.
  4. shine (3x), has horns (1x).

ribbonChapter 35  : The Sabbath

1And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them, These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them.

2Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does work therein shall be put to death. 3You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day.

Materials for the Tabernacle

4And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying, 5Take you from among you an offering to the LORD: whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, 6And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,7And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, 8And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 9And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

The Skilled Tabernacle Workmen

10And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD has commanded; 11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his clasps, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets, 12The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering, 13The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the show bread, 14The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light, 15And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle, 16The altar of burnt offering, with his brazen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, 17The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court, 18The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords, 19The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

The People Offer Gifts

20And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. 22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold to the LORD. 23And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them. 24Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it. 25And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair. 27And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; 28And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. 29The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

Bezelel and Oholiab

(Exodus 31:1-11)

30And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the LORD has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31And he has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 32And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,33And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. 34And he has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 35Them has he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

Notes:

Bezaleel = “in the shadow (i.e. protection) of God”

  1. son of Uri and grandson of Hur; a skilled Judahite artisan in all works of metal, wood, and stone and one of the architects of the tabernacle

  2. an Israelite, one of the sons of Pahath-moab, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife

Uri = “fiery”

  1. a prince of Judah, a son of Hur who was used by God to prepare the tabernacle

  2. an officer (or the father of an officer) of Solomon in Gilead

  3. a porter or gatekeeper in time of Ezra who took a foreign woman as wife

Aholiab = “Father’s tent”

  1. chief assistant of Bezaleel in construction of the tabernacle

Ahisamach = “my brother is support (has supported)”

  1. a Danite, father of Aholiab, a workman on the tabernacle

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1“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded.”

2And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. 3And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, 4so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, 5and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do.” 6So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing, 7for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

TAbernacle curtains

8And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked. 9The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,a and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.

Tabernacle Curtains
10 Curtains
 ➡   Fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet
 ➡   Cherubims of cunning work
Each Curtain  SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
 L  28 19.6  58.8 705.6
         
Width  SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
1 Curtain 4 2.8 8.4 100.8
10 Curtains 40 112 336 1008

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 10Heb coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. 11He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set. 12He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another. 13And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a single whole.

10 Tabernacle Curtains
 ➡   2 sets of 5 curtains coupled together
 ➡  50 loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; connecting each set
 ➡  50 taches (clasps) of gold to couple the curtains together with taches to make one tabernacle

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The Curtains of Goats’ Hair

14He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. 15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size. 16He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. 18And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole.

 11 Goat Hair Curtains
 ➡  A set of 5 curtains coupled by themselves
 ➡  A set of 6 curtains coupled by themselves
 ➡  6th curtain in forefront doubled
 ➡  50 loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling
➡   50 loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second
 ➡  50 taches of brass 
➡  Put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one
 ➡  The remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 
 ➡  A cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Length of Curtains CUBIT  YD  FT IN
 Sacred Cubit (25.2″)  30 21 63 756
Cubit (18″)  30 15 45 540
Width of 1 Curtain  CUBIT  YD  FT IN
 Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 4 2.8 8.4 100.8
Cubit (18″) 4 2 6 72
Width of 11 Curtains CUBIT  YD  FT IN
 Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 44 30.8 92.4 1108.8
Cubit (18″) 44 22 66 792

The Covering of Skins

19And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.

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The Boards and Sockets

20Then he made the upright boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 21Ten cubits was the length of a boards , and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 22Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23The boards for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty boards for the south side. 24And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty frames, two sockets under one frame for its two tenons, and two sockets under the next boards for its two tenons. 25For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards 26and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board. 27For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28He made two boards for corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 29And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners. 30There were eight boards with their sockets of silver: sixteen sockets , under every boards two bases.

Covering for Tent & Boards of Tabernacle
Covering for the tent
 ➡   rams’ skins dyed red
 ➡   a covering above of badgers’ skins
North
 ➡   20 boards of shittim wood
 ➡   20 sockets of silver
South
 ➡   20 boards of shittim wood
 ➡   40 sockets of silver
West
 ➡   6 boards of shittim wood
 ➡   2 boards for corners of 2 sides coupled also above the head of it unto one ring
they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring.
he made two of them this way for the two corners.
 ➡   Total : 8 boards of shittim wood 
 ➡   Total : 16 silver sockets (2 sockets under each board)
 ➡   Total : 16 tenons (2 tenons in each board)
Total
 ➡   48 boards 
 ➡   96 sockets (2 silver sockets underneath to couple each tenon)
 ➡   96 tenons (2 tenons in each board) 
 ➡   2 rings
Length of Boards  Cubit  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 10 7 21 252
Cubit (18″) 10 5 15 180
Width of Boards  Cubit  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 1.5 1.05 3.15 37.8
Cubit (18″) 1.5 .75 2.25 27

The Bars

31He made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,32and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 33And he made the middle bar to run from end to end halfway up the boards. 34And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Bars
 ➡   5 bars of chittim wood on each side covered in gold for the boards
 ➡  Middle bar shall reach from end to end

The Veil

35He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it. 36And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.37He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework, 38and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.

 
Vail
 ➡   Made of Blue, Purple, Scarlet, Linen
 ➡   Hung on 4 pillars of chittim wood overlaid with gold
 ➡  Hooks of gold upon 4 sockets of silver
 ➡  Table set without the veil
 ➡  Candlestick on South side
 ➡  Table of shewbread on North side
Notes:

 

ribbonChapter 37 : Making the Ark

Image result for ark of the covenant1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubitsa and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 2And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it. 3And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side. 4And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold 5and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 6And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 7And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat, 8one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends. 9The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.

Ark of the Covenant
ARK   Sacred Cubit (25.2″) FT IN SA
L 1.5 3.15 37.8

 ➡  19.5 cu

 ➡  85.995 ft

 ➡  12,383.28 in
W 2.5 5.25 63
H 1.5 3.15 37.8
ARK   Cubit (18″) FT IN SA
L 1.5 2.25 27   ➡  19.5 cu

 ➡  85.995 ft

 ➡  12,383.28 in
W 2.5 3.75 45
H 1.5 2.25 27
The Ark of the Covenant was a sacred wooden chest which was identified with God and represented Him.  Always heavily veiled, only priests alone could look upon the Ark’s uncovered surface. From the mercy seat of the Ark, where God spoke to Moses, eternity and heaven merged at one point on Earth in time and space.  Contained 4 articles:

 

Law of God 
derives its name which were 2 tablets of stone
on which were inscribed the 10 commandments
written by the finger of God

 

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Copy of the 613 Laws
written by Moses which contained
the standards of measurement

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Golden pot of manna

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Rod of Aaron
that miraculously budded
and grew ripe almonds
over the course of one night

 

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Ark or Chest represented the heart:
A chest (rib cage) with 4 articles :: our heart with 4 chambers
24 elders (rib cage) surrounding the throne  ::  24 ribs protecting the heart

Making the Table

Image result for table of shewbread10He also made the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold around it. 12And he made a rim around it a handbreadthb wide, and made a molding of gold around the rim. 13He cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 14Close to the frame were the rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 15He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table, and overlaid them with gold. 16And he made the vessels of pure gold that were to be on the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour drink offerings.

Table of Bread
   SC (25.2″)  YD FT IN
L  2 2.8    8.4  100.8
W  1  .7  2.1  25.2
H  1.5  1.05  3.15  37.8

Making the Lampstand

Image result for golden lampstand17He also made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work. Its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were of one piece with it. 18And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 19three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 20And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 21and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out of it. 22Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 23And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its trays of pure gold. 24He made it and all its utensils out of a talentc of pure gold.

 Golden Lampstand
 ➡   Candlestick with 6 Branches
 ➡  In the candlestick shall be 4 bowls like almonds
 ➡  The shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be made of beaten gold
 ➡  3 bowls on each side like almonds with their knops and flowers
 ➡  A knop under 2 branches of the same according to each of the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick
➡  18 total knops on the branches and 4 on the Candlestick : 22 total
 ➡  7 lamps that they may give light
 ➡  Tongs and snuffdishes made of Gold
 ➡  1 Talent of Gold used to make all the vessels

Making the Altar of Incense


25He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth was a cubit. It was square, and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it.26He overlaid it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And he made a molding of gold around it, 27and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it. 28And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

29He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.

Altar of Incense
   SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
L 1 .7 2.1 25.2
W 1 .7 2.1 25.2
H 2 1.4 4.2 50.4

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1He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubitsa was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height. 2He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. 3And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze. 4And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down. 5He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. 6He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards.

Bronze Altar for Burnt Offerings
 ➡   Brass horn on the 4 corners
 ➡   Pans (to recieve ashes), shovels, basons, fleshhooks, firepans, and all the Vessels there of made of brass
 ➡   A grate of network of brass;
 ➡  Upon the net 4 brass rings in the four corners
 ➡   2 staves of shittim wood overlaid with brass put in the rings that lie on the 2 sides of the altar (hollow with boards)
   SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
L 5 3.5 10.5 126
W 5 3.5 10.5 126
H 3 2.1 6.3 75.6

Making the Bronze Basin

8He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Bronze Basin or Laver of Brass or Brozen Sea
 ➡   Located in the court between the altar and the tabernacle
 ➡   The priests washed in the basin in preperation for service to the Lord 

Making the Court

9And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; 10their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11And for the north side there were hangings of a hundred cubits, their twenty pillars, their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Hangings Width of North and South Sides
Width of N/S Sides CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 100 70 210 2520
Cubit (18″) 100 50 150 1800
20 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   20 Sockets of Brass
Length of Hangings
L  CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 10 7 21 252
Cubit (18″) 10 5 15 180

12And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars, and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

 Width of Hangings on West Side
Width  SC (25.2″)  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″)  50 35 105 1260
Cubit (18″) 50 25 75 900
10 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   10 Sockets of Brass

13And for the front to the east, fifty cubits. 14The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 15And so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases. 16All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. 17And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. The overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 18And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court. 19And their pillars were four in number. Their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver. 20And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.

 Width of East Side Entrance
Gate of the Court  CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 20 14 42 504
Cubit (18″) 20 10 30 360
4 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   4 Sockets of Brass
 Hanging for the gate of court
➡  blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework
Each side of Gate CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 15 10.5 31.5 378
Cubit (18″) 15 7.5 22.5 270
3 Pillars 
 ➡   Hooks and Fillets of Pillars made of Silver
 ➡   3 Sockets of Brass

 

Total Width of Court
North and South CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″) 100 70 210 2520
Cubit (18″) 100 50 150 1800
East and West CUBIT  YD  FT IN
Sacred Cubit (25.2″)  50 35 105 1260
Cubit (18″) 50 25 75 900

 

Total
60 Pillars
20 pillars on North side
20 pillars on South side
10 pillars on West side
10 pillars on East side
4 pillars on Gate of the Court
20 cubits of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework:
4 Pillars with silver hooks and fillets, and 4 brass sockets
3 pillars on each side of Gate 
60 Hooks with silver fillets
60 Sockets of brass 
Made of Brass
Vessels of Tabernacle
Pins of the Vessels
Pins of the Court

Materials for the Tabernacle

21These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 22Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses; 23and with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was 29 talents and 730 shekels,b by the shekel of the sanctuary.25The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 26a bekac a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men. 27The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base. 28And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them. 29The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels; 30with it he made the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar, 31the bases around the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court.

Notes:
  Talent Minas Shekels Pim Bekah Gerah
Talent (75 lbs) 1 60 3,000 1,999.80 6,000 60,000
Mina (1.25 lbs)   1 50 33.33 100 1,000
Shekels     1 0.667 2 20
Gold for work of Holy Place and Offering :
 ➡   29 Talents and 730 shekels
 ➡  87,730 total shekels
 ➡  29.243 total talents
 ➡  1754.58 total minas
Silver of them numbered from Congregation: 
 ➡   100 talents and 1775 shekels 
 ➡   301,775 shekels 
 ➡   100.59166 talents 
 ➡   6035.496 minas
A bekah (1/2 shekel) for each numbered from Congregation 603,550 over age of 20: 
➡  301,775 shekels
➡  603,550 bekahs
1 talent of silver for each of the 100 sockets of the sanctuary and veil
➡  100 sockets of the 100 talents
➡  a talent for a socket
The 1775 shekels were used for the pillars, overlaying of capitals, and the fillets
The brass of the offering was
 ➡   70 talents and 2,400 shekels
which was used for:
 ➡   the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
 ➡   the brazen altar
 ➡   the brazen grate for it
 ➡   all the vessels of the altar
 ➡   the sockets of the court round about
 ➡   the sockets of the court gate
 ➡   and all the pins of the tabernacle
 ➡   all the pins of the court round about.

ribbonChapter 39 : Making the Priestly Garments

1From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments,a for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

2He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.3And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design. 4They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges. 5And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

6They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 7And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as theLORD had commanded Moses.

8He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 9It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a spanb its length and a span its breadth when doubled. 10And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 11and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 12and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 13and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. 14There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 15And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.16And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 17And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. 18They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. 19Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 20And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 21And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

22He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue, 23and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear. 24On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 25They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates— 26a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe for ministering, as theLORD had commanded Moses.

27They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons, 28and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twined linen, 29and the sash of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

30They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the LORD.” 31And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

32Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the people of Israel did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; so they did. 33Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 34the covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen; 35the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat; 36the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 37the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light; 38the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent; 39the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin and its stand; 40the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 41the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their service as priests. 42According to all that theLORD had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work. 43And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses blessed them.

 

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ribbonChapter 40 : The Tabernacle Erected

1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. 4And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. 5And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.6You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, 7and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.8And you shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.

9“Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. 10You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. 11You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.12Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water 13and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. 14You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them, 15and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

16This Moses did; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.

17In the 1st month in the 2nd year, on the 1st day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

18Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars. 19And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 20He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark. 21And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 22He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil, 23and arranged the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 24He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, 25and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 26He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, 27and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 28He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 29And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 30He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, 31with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. 32When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses. 33And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

The Glory of the LORD

34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. 37But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. 38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.

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 Exodus and 2017 (Rev 12)

The Book of Revelation is the revealing of the 2nd Exodus

Mirror Reflections of The Exodus and Revelation

Exodus Revelation
  • Judgement – 10 plagues
  • Judgement – 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 bowls of wrath
  • Released from captivity – Redeemed
  • Release from captivity – Redeemed
  • Protection from the Waters
  • Protection from the Waters
  • Who is like? referring to God
  • Who is like? referring to the beast
  • Moses Song of Deliverance
  • Exodus 15:27 …12 springs of water and 70 date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.
  • Marriage Supper of the Lamb
  • 12 tribes joined back together after being released from 70 years of captivity and drink from the living water.
  •  Exodus 19:4 : bore on eagles wings into wilderness
  • Revelation 12:14 : bore on eagles wings into wilderness
  •  Saved by the blood of the sacrifial lamb over the doorpost
  •  Saved by the blood of the sacrifial lamb shed on the cross
  • 1st born of Israels saved
  • 1st born of Egyptians killed
  • Israel was first born to God
  • 144k, 1st born saved (giving birth to to the wind)
  • Yeshua, first born from the dead who died for the adulteress wife Israel | Ephraim, to bring him back into fold
  •  Exodus 15: The Song of Moses and Israel
  • Revelation 15 : Song of Moses and Song of Lamb
  •  Egyptians book of the dead
  •  Lambs book of Life
   

 

 

symbolized Gods presence in 3 ways

repository for stone tablets which were a witness or testimony

On Day of Atonement the high priest sprinkled blood on the mercy seat, the arks cover, in keeping with Gods provision for dealing with sin

the ark was where God met with Moses and spoke with him in keeping with His promise of His presence with Moses

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