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Sundry laws and ordinances.

EXODUS.-CHAP. XXIII.

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Exe. 19.8,
17.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another chal-9.57. lengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it :

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

r De. 24.6,
&c.

Job 22.6.

s ver.23.

t 2 Ch.30.9.
u Ac.23.3,5.
Jude 8.

v or, judges
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Mi.7.1.

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z c. 132

Sundry laws and ordinances. ple that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not " revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

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29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy y liquors: the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto

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30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. CHAPTER XXIII.

1 Of slander and false witness: 3 of justice: 4 of charitableness: 10 of the year of rest: 12 of the sabbath: 13 of idolatry: 14 of the three feasta. 20 An angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him.

THOU

HOU shalt not a raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy i poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for } will not justify the wicked.

8 And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift 1 blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal him, thou with thy vineyard, and with thy olive-yard. 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have said unto you, be P circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

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God's promises to the people.

EXODUS.-CHAP. XXIV., XXV. Offering for the tabernacle. but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

16 And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread: neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

B. C. 1491.

ror, feast.

s c.34.26.

t Is.63.9.

18.3.

De.30.7.
Zec.2.8.

vor, I will
affict
them that

afflict
thee.

w c.33.2.
Jos.5.13.

x c.20.5.

19 The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's Le13 milk.

20 ¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an " my unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

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26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be 4 barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

De. 12.30.
PB. 101.3.

z c. 32.20.
Nu.33.52.

a

b

2 Ch.34.7.

Jos. 22.5.
De.7.13.

Is. 33. 16.
Mal. 3. 10,

3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said d will we do.

4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

6 ¶ And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we c Ps. 103.3. do, and be obedient.

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1 Sa. 14.15

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Ps. 18.40. g De.7.20.

Jos 24.12 h No.34.3,

&c.

De. 11.24.

Nu.34.3.

Jos. 1.4.
Ps. 72.8.

j Jos.21.44.

k c.34.12,15

F106.35

2 Co.6.15.

Ju.23.

a ver. 15.
c. 34.2.

b c.28.1.
o Nu.11.16.

d De.5.27.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel :

10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and m commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Jos 21.22 Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

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16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon 30 By little and little I will drive them out Mat 17.2 mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

j Ge. 18.8.

1 De.5.22.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red k ver.2,18. sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

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ND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the bor, heave- take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and 'Abihu,

and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD:

offering.

c 2 Co.8.12.
9.7.

or, silk.

4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and

d fine linen, and goats' hair,

5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim-wood,

The form of the mercy-seat.

6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

A. M. 2513.

EXODUS.-CHAP. XXVI. The curtains of the tabernacle. 29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

7 Onyx-stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breast-plate.

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8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that
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9 According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

10 And they shall make an ark of shittim-wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittimwood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

e 2 Co.6.16.
Re.21.3.

f He.8.5.

g He.9.4.

c.16.31.

31.18. 34.29.

Nu. 17.4.

De 10.25

1 Ki.8.9.
2K 11.12.

2Ch.31.14

Ro.3.2.
He.9.4.

i c.37.6.
40.20.

Le. 16. 13.
Ro.3.25.

He.9.5

matter of the mercy-seal.

k2Ch.3.10.

1 c.26.34.

m ver. 16.

n c.30.6.
Le. 16.2.
Nu. 7.89.
17.4.

1 Sa.4.4.
2 Sa.6.2.

30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two 2.19.15. branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick. 36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

Ps. 80.1.
99.1.
18.37.16.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark the tes- 37.10. timony which I shall give thee.

17 And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat.

19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

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21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

1 K1.7.48.
He. 9.2.

p 1 Ki.6.20.

9 0.37.16.
Nu.4.7.

r or, to
pour out
withal.

Le.21.5.6.

1 Sa. 21.6.
Mal. 1.7,

12.

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1 The ten curtains of the tabernacle: 31 the vail for the ark: 36 the hanging for the door.

MOREOVER, thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with b cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make 1 K.7.49. them.

Mat. 12.4.

t c.37.17.

2 Ch. 13.
11.

Zec. 4.2.
He.9.2.
Re. 1. 12.

u Zec. 4.2.
Re. 1.4,12

21.
30.7,8.
Le 24.3,4.
Nu.8 2.
2 Ch.13.
11.

22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from "between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of 27.20, all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim-wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

27 Over against the border shall the rings De for places of the staves to bear the table. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittimwood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvage in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make to ascend in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

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The vail for the ark.

EXODUS.-CHAP. XXVII.

A. M. 2513.

9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by B. C. 1491. themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

d or, cover-
ing.

inner
mainder

or sur

plusage.

f bands.

g Nn.3.36.
4.31,82

c. 27.10,

12..18.

The altar of burnt-offering.

32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim-wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold upon the four sockets of silver. 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the "holy place and the most holy.

34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35 And thou shalt set the table without the

12 And the remnant that remaineth of the 5 vail, and the candlestick over against the table curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back-side of the tabernacle.

13 And 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.

14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.

15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim-wood standing up.

16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

36.24..26.
38.27,30,
31; 40.18.
Nu.3.36.
4.31,32
Ca. 5.15.

twined.

JP. 133.1.

1C.3.16.

1 Pe.2.5.

Ep.4.16.

1.25.9,40.

27.8.
Ac.7.44.
He.8.5.
9.23.

m c.36.35.
40.3.21.
Le. 16.2.

2 Ch.3. 14.

Mat. 27.51

Ma. 15.38.

Lu. 23.45.

Ep.2.14.
He. 9.3,8
10.20,21.

19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.18.8. 20 And for the second side of the tabernacle 2 Ch.5.7.. on the north side there shall be twenty boards, 21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets p c.36.37. under another board.

22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

26 And thou shalt make bars of shittimwood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee in the mount.

31 And thou shalt make a m vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

10.

o c.40.22.

40.28.
Jn. 10.9.
14.6.
Nu.3.25.
9.15.

2 Sa. 7.6.
P. 78.60.

a c.20.24..
26; 24.4.
38.1..7.
40.10,29.
2 Sa.24.
18.

on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36¶ And thou shalt make a P hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them. CHAPTER XXVII.

1 The altar of burnt-offering, with the vessels thereof: 9 the court of the tabernacle: 20 the oil for the lamp.

a

AND thou shalt make an altar of shittim

wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his flesh-hooks, and his fire-pans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim-wood, and overlay them with brass.

7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, 'so shall they Eze 43.13. make it.

2 Ch.4.1.

He.13.10.

20.

:6.18.

2.28.

9 ¶ And thou shalt make the court of the c.20.12. tabernacle: for the south side southward there Le 47,18. shall be hangings for the court of fine twined Ki.1.50. linen of a hundred cubits long for one side: P118.27. 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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Holy garments are appointed.

EXODUS.-CHAP. XXVIII.

hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

A. M. 2513.

h c.36.37.

i c. 28.39.
39.29.

Ps. 45. 14.

fifty by

17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver: their hooks shall be offy. silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

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19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass. 20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil-olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

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21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall " order it from evening to morning before the LORD: It shall be a • statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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k ver.3.

1 Le. 24.2.

The Urim and Thummim. of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

15 And thou shalt make the breast-plate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen shalt thou make it.

16 Four-square it shall be, being doubled; a m to ascend span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

up.

n e.30.8.
1 Sa.3.3.

2 Ch.13.11
Lu. 12.35.

o c. 28.43,
20.9,28.
Le.3.17.
16.34.

24.9.
Nu. 18.23.
19.21.

1 Sa.30.
25.

a L.e.8.2
Nu. 18.7.
2 Ch.26.
18,21.

He. 5.1..4.

b c.29.5,29,
30; 31.10.

39.1,2.
40.13.
Le. 8.7,30.
Nu. 20.26,

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18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their 'enclosings.

21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be accordP132.16 ing to the twelve tribes.

28.

18.61.3,10.

64.6.
Ze.3.3,4.

Ro. 3.22
13.11.

Ga. 3.27.
He. 7.26.
Re. 19.8.

c ver.40.

c. 19.5,6.
Nu. 27.20,

21.

Job 40.10.
Ps.90.16,
17; 96.6.
149.4.
Is. 4.2.
Je.9.23,24.

1 Co. 1.30,
31.

22 And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

23 And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-plate.

24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breast-plate.

25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the 35 30 35. ephod before it.

Re. 19.8.

d c.31.3.

Pr. 26.
1 Co. 12.
11.

e ver. 15.
c.30.8,21.
Is. 59. 17.
Ep.6.14.

4 And these are the garments which they
shall make; a breast-plate, and £ an ephod,
and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre,
anda girdle: and they shall make holy gar-
ments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that
he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and 22
purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

f ver.6.

c. 39.22.

h Le.8.7.

Zec.3.5.

6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, i c... of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

} 18.11.5.

broider

ed.

7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces there-kor, emof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

1 ver.36.
m ver.29.
c.39.6,7.

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Zec.6.14.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx-stones, and grave on them the names of the children of o c.30.8 Israel:

10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a " memorial.

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26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breast-plate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.

27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the fore-part thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod..

28 And they shall bind the breast-plate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breast-plate be not loosed from the ephod.

29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breast-plate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.

30 ¶ And thou shalt put in the breast-plate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and fillings of they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel heart before the LORD continually. upon his 31 And thou shalt make the robe of th ephod all of blue.

qor, ruby.
r Re. 4.3,21.
19.20.

s fillings.

t Re. 21.12
a ver. 12.
v Le.8.8.

W

32 And there shall be a hole in the top of i in the midst thereof: it shall have a bindir Nu.27.21. of woven work round about the hole of it, a it were the hole of a habergeon, that it not rent.

De. 33.8.

1 Sa. 28.6.
Ezr. 2.63.
Ne. 7.65.

w He.9.24.

x Ne.4.16.

33 And beneath, upon the hem of it th shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of pur Job 41.26.ple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereo* y or, akirts. and bells of gold between them round abou

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