Exodus
Exodus 1
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.Joseph died, as did all...
Exodus 2
Last Updated: April 21, 2026A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar...
Exodus 3
Last Updated: April 21, 2026Now 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 God’s mountain, to Horeb.The LORD’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush...
Exodus 4
Last Updated: April 21, 2026Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a...
Exodus 5
Last Updated: April 21, 2026Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD,...
Exodus 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am the LORD.I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and...
Exodus 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply...
Exodus 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your...
Exodus 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,behold, the LORD’s hand is on your livestock which are in the...
Exodus 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs...
Exodus 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her...
Exodus 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a...
Exodus 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the...
Exodus 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’I will...
Exodus 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will...
Exodus 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and...
Exodus 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the LORD’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with...
Exodus 18
Last Updated: October 11, 2026Now Jethro, 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.Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses...
Exodus 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.Moses went up...
Exodus 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026God spoke all these words, saying,“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.“You shall have no other gods before me.“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on...
Exodus 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with...
Exodus 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.If the sun has risen...
Exodus 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.“If you meet your enemy’s ox...
Exodus 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026He said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”Moses came and told the people all the...
Exodus 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia...
Exodus 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.Five...
Exodus 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.You shall make its pots to take...
Exodus 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.You shall speak to all who...
Exodus 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.You shall put them into...
Exodus 30
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its...
Exodus 31
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and...
Exodus 32
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become...
Exodus 33
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’I will send an angel before you; and I...
Exodus 34
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.No one...
Exodus 35
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them.‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever...
Exodus 36
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put...
Exodus 37
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.He cast four rings of gold for...
Exodus 38
Last Updated: October 10, 2026He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.He made all the vessels of...
Exodus 39
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses.He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it...
Exodus 40
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are...