Shemoth (Exodus)
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Exod 21:1 “These are the right-rulings which you are to set before them:
Exod 21:2 “When you buy a Heḇrew servant, he serves six years, and in the
seventh he goes out free, for naught.
Exod 21:3 “If he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he comes in
married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exod 21:4 “If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons
or daughters, the wife and her children are her master’s, and he goes out by
himself.
Exod 21:5 “And if the servant truly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my
children, let me not go out free,’
Exod 21:6 then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring
him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an
awl. And he shall serve him forever.
Exod 21:7 “And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she
does not go out as the male servants do.
Exod 21:8 “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged
her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority
to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.
Exod 21:9 “And if he has engaged her to his son, he is to do to her as is the
right of daughters.
Exod 21:10 “If he takes another wife, her food, her covering, and her
marriage rights are not to be diminished.
Exod 21:11 “And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out
for naught, without silver.
Exod 21:12 “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to
death.
Exod 21:13 “But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his
hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee.
Exod 21:14 “But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbour, to
kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from My altar to die.
Exod 21:15 “And he who smites his father or his mother shall certainly be
put to death.
Exod 21:16 “And he who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in
his hand, shall certainly be put to death.
Exod 21:17 “And he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be
put to death.
Exod 21:18 “And when men strive together, and one smites the other with a
stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,
Exod 21:19 if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he
who smote him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it
that he is completely healed.
Exod 21:20 “And when a man smites his male or female servant with a rod,
so that he dies under his hand, he shall certainly be punished.
Exod 21:21 “But if he remains alive a day or two, he is not punished; for he
is his property.
Exod 21:22 “And when men strive and they shall smite a pregnant woman,
and her children come out, yet there is no injury, he shall certainly be
punished accordingly as the woman’s husband lays upon him. And he shall
give through the judges.
Exod 21:23 “But if there is injury, then you shall give life for life,
Exod 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exod 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, lash for lash.
Exod 21:26 “And when a man smites the eye of his male or female servant,
and destroys it, he is to let him go free for the sake of his eye.
Exod 21:27 “And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he
is to let him go free for the sake of his tooth.
Exod 21:28 “And when an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox
shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox is
innocent.
Exod 21:29 “However, if the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and
its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has
killed a man or a woman, the ox is stoned and its owner also is put to death.
Exod 21:30 “If a sin-covering is laid upon him, then he shall give the ransom
of his life, whatever is laid on him.
Exod 21:31 “Whether it has gored a son or gored a daughter, according to
this right-ruling it is done to him.
Exod 21:32 “If the ox gores a male or female servant, he is to give to their
master thirty sheqels of silver, and the ox is stoned.
Exod 21:33 “And when a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not
cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,
Exod 21:34 the owner of the pit is to repay, he is to give silver to their
owner, and the dead beast is his.
Exod 21:35 “And when the ox of a man smites the ox of his neighbour and it
dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the silver from it, and also
divide the dead ox.
Exod 21:36 “Or if it was known that the ox was previously in the habit of
goring, and its owner has not kept it confined, he shall certainly repay ox for
ox, while the dead beast is his.
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Exod 22:1 “When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and shall slaughter it or sell
it, he repays five cattle for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
Exod 22:2 “If the thief is found breaking in, and he is smitten so that he dies,
there is no guilt for his bloodshed.
Exod 22:3 “If the sun has risen on him, there is guilt for his bloodshed, he
shall certainly repay. If he has not the means, then he shall be sold for his
theft.
Exod 22:4 “If the theft is indeed found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox
or donkey or sheep, he repays double.
Exod 22:5 “When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare, and lets
loose his livestock, and it feeds in another man’s field, he repays from the
best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
Exod 22:6 “When fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that
stacked grain, or standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the
fire shall certainly repay.
Exod 22:7 “When a man gives silver or goods to his neighbour to guard, and
it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he repays double.
Exod 22:8 “If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be
brought before Elohim to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbour’s
goods.
Exod 22:9 “For every matter of transgression, for ox, for donkey, for sheep,
for garment, or for whatever is lost which another claims to be his, let the
matter of them both come before Elohim. And whomever Elohim declares
wrong repays double to his neighbour.
Exod 22:10 “When a man gives to his neighbour a donkey, or ox, or sheep,
or any beast to watch over, and it dies, or is injured, or is driven away while
no one is looking,
Exod 22:11 let an oath of יהוה be between them both, that he has not put his
hand into his neighbour’s goods. And the owner of it shall accept that, and he
does not repay.
Exod 22:12 “But if it is indeed stolen from him, he repays to its owner.
Exod 22:13 “If it is torn to pieces, then let him bring it for evidence, he does
not repay what was torn.
Exod 22:14 “And when a man borrows from his neighbour, and it is injured
or dies while the owner of it is not present, he shall certainly repay.
Exod 22:15 “But if its owner was with it, he does not repay. If it was hired,
he is entitled to the hire.
Exod 22:16 “And when a man entices a maiden who is not engaged, and lies
with her, he shall certainly pay the bride-price for her to be his wife.
Exod 22:17 “If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he pays
according to the bride-price of maidens.
Exod 22:18 “Do not allow a practiser of witchcraft to live.
Exod 22:19 “Anyone lying with a beast shall certainly be put to death.
Exod 22:20 “He who slaughters to a mighty one, except to יהוה only, is put
under the ban.
Exod 22:21 “Do not tread down a sojourner or oppress him, for you were
sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.
Exod 22:22 “Do not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Exod 22:23 “If you do afflict them at all – if they cry out to Me at all, I shall
certainly hear their cry,
Exod 22:24 and My wrath shall burn and I shall slay you with the sword,
your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.
Exod 22:25 “If you do lend silver to any of My people, the poor among you,
you are not to be like one that lends on interest to him. Do not lay interest on
him.
Exod 22:26 “If you take your neighbour’s garment as a pledge at all, you are
to return it to him before the sun goes down.
Exod 22:27 “For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin.
What does he sleep in? And it shall be that when he cries to Me, I shall hear,
for I show favour.
Exod 22:28 “Do not revile Elohim, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Exod 22:29 “Do not delay giving your harvest and your vintage. Give Me
the first-born of your sons.
Exod 22:30 “Likewise you are to do with your oxen, with your sheep. It is to
be with its mother seven days. On the eighth day you give it to Me.
Exod 22:31 “And you are set-apart men to Me, and you do not eat any meat
which is torn to pieces in the field, you throw it to the dogs.
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Exod 23:1 “Do not bring a false report. Do not put your hand with the wrong
to be a malicious witness.
Exod 23:2 “Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor bear witness in a strife so
as to turn aside after many, to turn aside what is right.
Exod 23:3 “And do not favour a poor man in his strife.
Exod 23:4 “When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you
shall certainly return it to him.
Exod 23:5 “When you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its
burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall certainly help him.
Exod 23:6 “Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife.
Exod 23:7 “Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the
innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right.
Exod 23:8 “And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and
twists the words of the righteous.
Exod 23:9 “And do not oppress a sojourner, as you yourselves know the
heart of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.
Exod 23:10 “And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its
increase,
Exod 23:11 but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and
the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field
eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard.
Exod 23:12 “Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you
rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your
female servant and the sojourner be refreshed.
Exod 23:13 “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no
mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth.
Exod 23:14 “ Three times in the year you are to observe a festival to Me:
Exod 23:15 “Guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of
Aḇiḇ – for in it you came out of Mitsrayim – and do not appear before Me
empty-handed;
Exod 23:16 and the Festival of the Harvest, the first-fruits of your labours
which you have sown in the field; and the Festival of the Ingathering at the
outgoing of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labours from
the field.
Exod 23:17 “Three times in the year all your males are to appear before the
.יהוה Master
Exod 23:18 “Do not offer the blood of My slaughtering with leavened bread,
and the fat of My offering shall not remain until morning.
Exod 23:19 “Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of
יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Exod 23:20 “See, I am sending a Messenger before you to guard you in the
way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exod 23:21 “Be on guard before Him and obey His voice. Do not rebel
against Him, for He is not going to pardon your transgression, for My Name
is in Him.
Exod 23:22 “But if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I
speak, then I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who
distress you.
Exod 23:23 “For My Messenger shall go before you and shall bring you in
to the Amorites and the Ḥittites and the Perizzites and the Kena‛anites and the
Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites, and I shall cut them off.
Exod 23:24 “Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do
according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail
break down their pillars.
Exod 23:25 “And you shall serve יהוה your Elohim, and He shall bless your
bread and your water. And I shall remove sickness from your midst.
Exod 23:26 “None shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I shall fill the
number of your days.
Exod 23:27 “I shall send My fear before you, and cause confusion among all
the people to whom you come, and make all your enemies turn their backs to
you.
Exod 23:28 “And I shall send hornets before you, which shall drive out the
Ḥiwwite, the Kena‛anite, and the Ḥittite from before you.
Exod 23:29 “I shall not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the
land become a waste and the beast of the field become too numerous for you.
Exod 23:30 “Little by little I shall drive them out from before you, until you
have increased, and you inherit the land.
Exod 23:31 “And I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of
the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I shall give the
inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before
you.
Exod 23:32 “Do not make a covenant with them nor with their mighty ones.
Exod 23:33 “Let them not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against
Me when you serve their mighty ones, when it becomes a snare to you.”
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Exod 24:1 And to Mosheh He said, “Come up to יהוה, you and Aharon,
Naḏaḇ and Aḇihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall bow
yourselves from a distance.
Exod 24:2 “But Mosheh shall draw near to יהוה by himself, and let them not
draw near, nor let the people go up with him.”
Exod 24:3 And Mosheh came and related to the people all the Words of יהוה
and all the right-rulings. And all the people answered with one voice and
said, “All the Words which יהוה has spoken we shall do.”
Exod 24:4 And Mosheh wrote down all the Words of יהוה, and rose up early
in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve
standing columns for the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕl.
Exod 24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and they
offered burnt offerings and slaughtered peace slaughterings of bulls to יהוה.
Exod 24:6 And Mosheh took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the
blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Exod 24:7 And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of
the people. And they said, “All that יהוה has spoken we shall do, and obey.”
Exod 24:8 And Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and
said, “See, the blood of the covenant which יהוה has made with you
concerning all these Words.”
Exod 24:9 And Mosheh went up, also Aharon, Naḏaḇ, and Aḇihu, and
seventy of the elders of Yisra’ĕl,
Exod 24:10 and they saw the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, and under His feet like a
paved work of sapphire stone, and like the heavens for brightness.
Exod 24:11 Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the chiefs of the
children of Yisra’ĕl! And they saw Elohim, and they ate and drank.
Exod 24:12 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Come up to Me on the mountain and
be there, while I give you tablets of stone, and the Torah and the command
which I have written, to teach them.”
Exod 24:13 And Mosheh arose with his assistant Yehoshua, and Mosheh
went up to the mountain of Elohim.
Exod 24:14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back
to you. And see, Aharon and Ḥur are with you. Whoever has matters, let him
go to them.”
Exod 24:15 And Mosheh went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the
mountain.
Exod 24:16 And the esteem of יהוה dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud
covered it for six days. And on the seventh day He called to Mosheh out of
the midst of the cloud.
Exod 24:17 And the appearance of the esteem of יהוה was like a consuming
fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exod 24:18 And Mosheh went into the midst of the cloud and went up into
the mountain. And it came to be that Mosheh was on the mountain forty days
and forty nights.
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Exod 25:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Exod 25:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they take up a contribution
for Me. From everyone whose heart moves him you shall take up My
contribution.
Exod 25:3 “And this is the contribution which you take up from them: gold,
and silver, and bronze,
Exod 25:4 and blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine linen, and
goats’ hair,
Exod 25:5 and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine leather, and acacia wood,
Exod 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet
incense,
Exod 25:7 shoham stones, and stones to be set in the shoulder garment and in
the breastplate.
Exod 25:8 “And they shall make Me a Set-apart Place, and I shall dwell in
their midst.
Exod 25:9 “According to all that I show you – the pattern of the Dwelling
Place and the pattern of all its furnishings – make it exactly so.
Exod 25:10 “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half
cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exod 25:11 “And you shall overlay it with clean gold, inside and outside
you shall overlay it. And you shall make on it a moulding of gold all around.
Exod 25:12 “And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its
four corners, two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side.
Exod 25:13 “And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them
with gold,
Exod 25:14 and shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to
lift up the ark by them.
Exod 25:15 “The poles are in the rings of the ark, they are not taken from it.
Exod 25:16 “And into the ark you shall put the Witness which I give you.
Exod 25:17 “And you shall make a lid of atonement of clean gold, two and a
half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Exod 25:18 “And you shall make two keruḇim of gold, make them of beaten
work, at the two ends of the lid of atonement.
Exod 25:19 “And make one keruḇ at one end, and the other keruḇ at the other
end. Make the keruḇim from the lid of atonement, at its two ends.
Exod 25:20 “And the keruḇim shall be spreading out their wings above,
covering the lid of atonement with their wings, with their faces toward each
other, the faces of the keruḇim turned toward the lid of atonement.
Exod 25:21 “And you shall put the lid of atonement on top of the ark, and put
into the ark the Witness which I give you.
Exod 25:22 “And I shall meet with you there, and from above the lid of
atonement, from between the two keruḇim which are on the ark of the
Witness, I shall speak to you all that which I command you concerning the
children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exod 25:23 “And you shall make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a
cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exod 25:24 “And you shall overlay it with clean gold, and shall make a
moulding of gold all around,
Exod 25:25 and shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and
shall make a gold moulding for the rim all around.
Exod 25:26 “And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings
on the four corners that are at its four legs.
Exod 25:27 “The rings are close to the rim, as holders for the poles to lift
the table.
Exod 25:28 “And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay
them with gold, and the table shall be lifted with them.
Exod 25:29 “And you shall make its dishes, and its ladles, and its jars, and
its bowls for pouring. Make them of clean gold.
Exod 25:30 “And you shall put the showbread on the table before Me,
continually.
Exod 25:31 “And you shall make a lampstand of clean gold – the lampstand
is made of beaten work. Its base and its shaft, its cups, its ornamental knobs
and blossoms are from it,
Exod 25:32 and six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of
the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the
other side;
Exod 25:33 three cups made like almond flowers on one branch, with
ornamental knob and blossom, and three cups made like almond flowers on
the other branch, with ornamental knob and blossom – so for the six branches
coming out of the lampstand.
Exod 25:34 “And on the lampstand itself are four cups made like almond
flowers, with ornamental knob and blossom,
Exod 25:35 and a knob under the first two branches of the same, and a knob
under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two
branches of the same, according to the six branches coming out of the
lampstand.
Exod 25:36 “Their knobs and their branches are of the same – all of it one
beaten work of clean gold.
Exod 25:37 “And you shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall mount its
lamps so that they give light in front of it.
Exod 25:38 “And its snuffers and their trays are of clean gold.
Exod 25:39 “It is made of a talent of clean gold, with all these utensils.
Exod 25:40 “So see, and do according to the pattern which was shown to
you on the mountain.