Chapter 31

Beseleel and Ooliab are deputed by our Lord to make the Tabernacle, and the things belonging thereto. ℣.12 The observation of the sabbath day is again commanded. ℣.18 And our Lord delivereth to Moyses two tables written with the finger of God.

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   And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

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   the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe Behold, I have called by name Beseleel of Juda,

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   and I have replenished him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, & understanding, and knowledge in all work,

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   to devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, and brass,

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   of marble, and precious stones, and diversity of wood.

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   And I have given him for his fellow, Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan. And in the heart of every skilful man have I put wisdom: that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,

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   the tabernacle of covenant, and the ark of testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessel of the tabernacle,

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   and the table and the vessel thereof, the candlestick most pure with the vessel thereof, and the Altars of incense,

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   and of holocaust, and all their vessel, the laver with his foot,

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    the holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the Priest, and for his sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things:

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    the oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the Sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.

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    And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

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    Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath: because it is a sign between me and you in your generations: that you may know that I am the Lord, which sanctify you.

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    Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall pollute it, dying shall die: he that shall do work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

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    Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the holy rest to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work in this day, shall die.

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    Let the children of Israel keep the Sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

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    between me and the children of Israel, and a sign perpetual. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

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    And our Lord, when he had ended such speeches in mount Sinai, gave unto Moyses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.