Month: December 2025

Exodus 38

Exodus 38:1 He made the altar of ascending offering of acacia wood. Its length was five cubits, and its breadth five cubits. It was square, and three cubits was its height.

Exodus 38:2 He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were carved of one piece with it, and he plated it with bronze.

Exodus 38:3 And 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.

Exodus 38:4 And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.

Exodus 38:5 He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as houses for the poles.

Exodus 38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood and plated them with bronze.

Exodus 38:7 And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards.

Exodus 38:8 He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, fashioned from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the conference tent.

Exodus 38:9 And he made the courtyard. On the south side the hangings of the courtyard were made of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits long;

Exodus 38:10 their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

Exodus 38:11 And on the north side there were hangings a hundred cubits long, their twenty pillars, their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

Exodus 38:12 And on the west side were hangings fifty cubits long, their ten pillars, and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

Exodus 38:13 And on the front to the east, fifty cubits long.

Exodus 38:14 The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.

Exodus 38:15 And also for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the courtyard were hangings fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and their three bases.

Exodus 38:16 All the hangings around the courtyard were of fine twined linen.

Exodus 38:17 And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. The plating of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were banded with silver.

Exodus 38:18 And the screen for the gate of the courtyard 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, just like the hangings of the court.

Exodus 38:19 And their pillars were four in number. Their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the plating of their capitals and their bands of silver.

Exodus 38:20 And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.

Exodus 38:21 These are the specifications of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the reminder, as they were recorded by Moses’ command, detailing the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Exodus 38:22 Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahveh commanded Moses;

Exodus 38:23 and 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.

Exodus 38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold that was contributed, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

Exodus 38:25 The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

Exodus 38:26 a beka per person (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.

Exodus 38:27 The 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.

Exodus 38:28 And from the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made bowls for them.

Exodus 38:29 The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels;

Exodus 38:30 with it he made the bases for the entrance of the conference tent, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar,

Exodus 38:31 the 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.

Exodus 38 quotes:

“Of minor interest in this passage is the fact that women in those days used mirrors as a means of checking on their appearance. They made them out of polished bronze. These they now willingly gave up to serve as material for the bronze basin which the priests used to wash themselves. Of greater interest is the fact that women served at the entrance of the tabernacle. Their presence is also mentioned in 1 Samuel 2:22. What service these women performed is not explained. Perhaps they dedicated themselves to a life of prayer and fasting, as we hear about later in the case of Anna at the time of Christ, mentioned in Luke 2:36-37. Perhaps they were women who devoted themselves to a life of virginity in order to serve the Lord with praying and fasting, as some suppose happened in the case of Jephthah’s daughter, recorded in Judges 11:39. The Bible does not give us any details on this matter.”

Wendland, Ernst H. Exodus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1984. p. 274.

“he si/ver obtained from those of the community who were counted in the census was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—one beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men. The 100 talents of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and for the curtain—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent for each base. (Exodus 38:25-27)”

Brittingham, Les. Tabernacle of Grace. Tate Publishing, 2016. p. 79.

“We have seen that the church is built on the basis of the redemption of Christ, as typified by the one hundred silver sockets (Exo. 36:24, 26, 30, 36). The whole tabernacle was grounded on the silver sockets. The base and foundation of the silver sockets is one of the most significant aspects of the tabernacle. Exodus 38:27 tells us that the sockets were very large and heavy, each being of one talent, the equivalent of almost one hundred pounds. The heaviest part of the tabernacle was the foundation. The tabernacle was not grounded on the earth. It was based and grounded on the silver sockets. It was something different from the earth and separated from the earth. This shows us that the church is not grounded or built upon something of the earth but on something apart from the earth, the full and weighty redemption of Christ.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 59.

Exodus 38 links:

distance to holiness
Exodus- the outer court
silver and gold

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 37

Exodus 37:1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

Exodus 37:2 And he plated it with pure gold inside and out and made a border of gold around it.

Exodus 37:3 And 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.

Exodus 37:4 And he made poles of acacia wood and plated them with gold

Exodus 37:5 and put the poles into the rings on the ark’s sides for carrying the ark.

Exodus 37:6 And he made an atonement cover of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

Exodus 37:7 And he made two cherubs of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the atonement cover,

Exodus 37:8 one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. He made the cherubs as a unit with the atonement cover on its two ends.

Exodus 37:9 The cherubs spread out their wings above, overshadowing the atonement cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the atonement cover were the faces of the cherubs.

Exodus 37:10 And he made the table of acacia wood. Its length Two was cubits, its breadth was one cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.

Exodus 37:11 And he plated it with pure gold and made a border of gold around it.

Exodus 37:12 And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide and made a border of gold around the rim.

Exodus 37:13 He cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

Exodus 37:14 The rings were close to the frame and served as houses for the poles that carried the table.

Exodus 37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table and plated them with gold.

Exodus 37:16 And he made the articles of pure gold that were to be on the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and jars with which to pour drink offerings.

Exodus 37:17 And he made the lampstand out of pure gold. He made the lampstand by shaping it with a hammer. Its base, its stem, its cups, its bowls, and its flowers were fashioned from one piece.

Exodus 37:18 And six branches were 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;

Exodus 37:19 three cups made like almond blossoms, each with bowl and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with bowl and flower, on the other branch- so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

Exodus 37:20 And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their bowls and flowers,

Exodus 37:21 and a bowl from the same piece as it under each pair of the six branches going out of it.

Exodus 37:22 Their bowls and their branches were from the same piece as it. The whole of it was a single piece of pure gold, shaped with a hammer.

Exodus 37:23 And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its trays of pure gold.

Exodus 37:24 He made it and all its utensils out of a talent of pure gold.

Exodus 37:25 He 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 carved from one piece with it.

Exodus 37:26 He plated it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And he made a border of gold around it,

Exodus 37:27 and made two rings of gold on it under its border, on two opposite sides of it, as houses for the poles with which to carry it.

Exodus 37:28 And he made the poles of acacia wood and plated them with gold.

Exodus 37:29 He made the sacred anointing oil also, and the pure aromatic incense, blended like the perfumer would.

Exodus 37 quotes:

“The height of the table is the same as that of the ark of the testimony in verse 1. This indicates that the Lord comes up to the standard of the testimony of God so that He could be life to us. If He were short of the testimony of God, He would not be able to be life to us.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 68.

“Exodus 37-38 is then a narrative focusing on the craftsmen, particularly the leading one, an Israelite named Bezalel. The account is given in third-person singular (a plural action is implied, and most English Bibles translate with the plural).”

Hays, J. Daniel. The Temple and the Tabernacle : A Study of God’s Dwelling Places from Genesis to Revelation. Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2016. p. 71.

“By corresponding Exodus 25:24-25 with Exodus 37:11-12, we see that the Table had a double crown around the border with a handbreadth between these crowns. The hand-breadth was as a border between the crowns for the various vessels. It also acted as a guard to protect anything from falling off the Table. We notice that it is the hand of Christ that is able to keep us from falling. The hands of Jesus are nailpierced hands (Zechariah 13:6; John 10:28 and Jude 24).”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 34.

Exodus 37 links:

come to the table
Exodus- work matters
hidden masterpiece
spotlighting his face
the ministering women

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 36

Exodus 36:1 “Bezalel and Oholiab should work in accordance with all that Yahveh has commanded along with every craftsman in whom Yahveh has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary.”

Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind Yahveh had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.

Exodus 36:3 And 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,

Exodus 36:4 so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,

Exodus 36:5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that Yahveh has commanded us to do.”

Exodus 36:6 So 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 held back from bringing,

Exodus 36:7 because the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

Exodus 36:8 And all the experts among the workers constructed the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubs woven in by a designer.

Exodus 36:9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:10 He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.

Exodus 36:11 He 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.

Exodus 36:12 He 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.

Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains one to the other with clasps. So, the tabernacle was a single whole.

Exodus 36:14 He also made curtains of she-goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains.

Exodus 36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:16 He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Exodus 36:17 And 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.

Exodus 36:18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together that it might be a single whole.

Exodus 36:19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and male goatskin leather.

Exodus 36:20 Then he made the structure for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

Exodus 36:22 Each board had two hand holds for fitting together. He did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Exodus 36:23 The boards for the tabernacle he made this way: twenty boards for the south side.

Exodus 36:24 Also he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two hand holds, and two bases under the next board for its two hand holds.

Exodus 36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards

Exodus 36:26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board and two bases under the next board.

Exodus 36:27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

Exodus 36:28 He made two boards for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.

Exodus 36:29 And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.

Exodus 36:30 There were eight boards with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.

Exodus 36:31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

Exodus 36:33 And he made the middle bar run through it from end to end halfway up the boards.

Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold for houses for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Exodus 36:35 He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubs skillfully worked into it he made it.

Exodus 36:36 And 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.

Exodus 36:37 He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework,

Exodus 36:38 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.

Exodus 36 quotes:

“The heart of these workers was full of wisdom. Wisdom is simply Christ (1 Cor. 1:30). To have wisdom is to have the ability to know and understand spiritual matters and to know how to carry out matters. Therefore, wisdom, strictly speaking, is Christ as the way. If you have Christ, you have the way to know matters, understand matters, and know how to do things. Christ is our way. We must have Christ and be filled with Christ.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 40.

“Moses literally stopped the offering. He told the people, ‘Stop giving! We have too much already. Even if we could receive more, we could never pos¬ sibly count it all or use it all.'”

Cameron, Barry L. Contagious Generosity : The Key to Continuous Blessing. HeartSpring Pub. Co., 2006. p. 136.

“Worship involves bringing a willing offering of our natural abilities, and when we have worked to polish and discipline them, God will put our talents to work for Him. He will also give us certain detailed instructions about where and how to use them. The details given in Exodus 36 were minute. It was absolutely clear where each talent needed to be used. Can you sew? Sew for Jesus. Can you landscape? Ask Him where, when, and how. What gift did you bring with you from Egypt to Canaan? Will you worship Jesus with it?”

Briscoe, Jill. Here Am I, Lord– Send Somebody Else: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things. W Pub. Group, 2004. p. 179.

Exodus 36 links:

curtains and a covering
strength and beauty
unified diversity

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, March 28, 2019

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 35

Exodus 35:1 Moses collected all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, “These are the words that reflect what Yahveh has commanded you to do.

Exodus 35:2 Work should be done for six days, but on the seventh day you should have a Sabbath of sacred rest, sacred to Yahveh. Whoever does any work on it should be put to death.

Exodus 35:3 You should kindle no fire in all your homes on the Sabbath day.”

Exodus 35:4 Moses told all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This reflects what Yahveh has commanded.

Exodus 35:5 Take from among yourselves a contribution to Yahveh. Whoever has an inclined heart, let him bring Yahveh’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;

Exodus 35:6 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,

Exodus 35:7 tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood,

Exodus 35:8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

Exodus 35:9 and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the sacred pouch.

Exodus 35:10 “Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that Yahveh has commanded:

Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

Exodus 35:12 the ark with its poles, the atonement cover, and the veil of the screen;

Exodus 35:13 the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the face bread;

Exodus 35:14 the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

Exodus 35:15 and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

Exodus 35:16 the altar of ascending offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

Exodus 35:17 the drapes of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;

Exodus 35:18 the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;

Exodus 35:19 the finely worked garments for serving in the Sacred Place, the sacred garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”

Exodus 35:20 Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

Exodus 35:21 And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose breath moved him, bringing Yahveh’s contribution to be used for the conference tent, and for all its service, and for the sacred garments.

Exodus 35:22 So they came, both men and women. All who had an inclined heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all kinds of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to Yahveh.

Exodus 35:23 And everyone who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them.

Exodus 35:24 Everyone who could contribute silver or bronze brought it as Yahveh’s contribution. And everyone who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it.

Exodus 35:25 And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

Exodus 35:26 All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

Exodus 35:27 And the leaders brought onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ephod and for the sacred pouch,

Exodus 35:28 and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

Exodus 35:29 All the men and women, the sons of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that Yahveh had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to Yahveh.

Exodus 35:30 Then Moses told the people of Israel, “Look, Yahveh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

Exodus 35:31 and he has filled him with the Breath of God, with skill, with understanding, with knowledge, and with all kinds of work,

Exodus 35:32 to plan with precision, to work in gold and silver and bronze,

Exodus 35:33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.

Exodus 35:34 And he has put it in his heart to teach, also Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.

Exodus 35:35 He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver – by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

Exodus 35 quotes:

“Exodus 35 speaks of the different materials offered by the people of God for the building of the tabernacle. All these materials offered -by the people of Israel represent the things of Christ which were experienced by the people of God. They experienced these items, so they possessed them. What they offered were the things which they possessed, earned, and had in their hands. The things experienced and possessed by them they now brought to offer to Ged to be the material for the building.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 21.

“A study of Exodus 35 and 36 reveals that the word “‘heart’’ or ‘‘hearted” is used at least 12 times. The people gave these offerings freely as a heart response to the goodness of the Lord (Exodus 36:3).It is the condition of the heart which counts before the Lord (Psalms 51:10,I2, 17 and Mark 7:6).”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 10.

“Exodus 35 stresses to begin with that “this is what the Lord has commanded”, the offering is “for the Lord.” The Lord never asks without reason or foundation. This is the Savior-God who is commanding this, the Lord who has revealed himself in all his grace and mercy, the Lord who has made an everlasting covenant with his people, the Lord who knows that a grateful people will want to show their gratitude to him for his blessings, yes, who need this expression of thanks in order to express their fellowship with him. The Lord doesn’t want our gifts because he needs us. We need him, and we need to express this in our life and in our worship.”

Wendland, Ernst H. Exodus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1984. p. 259.

Exodus 35 links:

everyone who could
Exodus- “to the LORD”
Exodus- more than enough
introducing the breath of God
much more than enough
responding to elaborate grace
sacred rest

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, March 30, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 34

Exodus 34:1 Yahveh told Moses, “Cut yourself two stone tablets like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself there for me on the top of the mountain.

Exodus 34:3 No one should come up with you and let no one be seen anywhere on the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”

Exodus 34:4 So Moses cut two stone tablets like the first. And he got up early in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai, as Yahveh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

Exodus 34:5 Yahveh descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name: Yahveh.

Exodus 34:6 Yahveh passed before him and proclaimed, “Yahveh, Yahveh, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant faithfulness and reliability,

Exodus 34:7 keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the ground and worshiped.

Exodus 34:9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let Yahveh walk among us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Exodus 34:10 And he said, “Notice, I am making a covenant. In front of all your people I will do miracles, such as have not been done in all the land or in any nation. And all the people among whom you reside will see the work of Yahveh, because it is a terrifying thing that I will do with you.

Exodus 34:11 “Observe what I command you this day. Notice, I will remove from you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 34:12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or else it will become a trap among you.

Exodus 34:13 You should tear down their altars and break their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim

Exodus 34:14 (because you should worship no other god, because Yahveh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Exodus 34:15 or else you would make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they lust after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

Exodus 34:16 and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters lust after their gods and make your sons lust after their gods.

Exodus 34:17 “You should not make for yourself any gods out of cast metal.

Exodus 34:18 “You should keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you should eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, because in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

Exodus 34:19 All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

Exodus 34:20 The firstborn of a donkey you should redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it, you should break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you should redeem. And none should appear before me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:21 “Six days you should work, but on the seventh day you should rest. In plowing time and in harvest you should rest.

Exodus 34:22 You should observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

Exodus 34:23 Three times in the year should all your males appear before Yahveh God, the God of Israel.

Exodus 34:24 Because I will remove nations from around you and enlarge your borders; so, no one will crave your land, when you go up to appear before Yahveh your God three times in the year.

Exodus 34:25 “You should not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.

Exodus 34:26 You should bring the first of the first pickings from your soil into the house of Yahveh your God. You should not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Exodus 34:27 And Yahveh told Moses, “Rewrite these words, because these words show that I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Exodus 34:28 So he was there with Yahveh forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

Exodus 34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the reminder in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Exodus 34:30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and noticed the skin of his face shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

Exodus 34:31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.

Exodus 34:32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them everything that Yahveh had told him in Mount Sinai.

Exodus 34:33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

Exodus 34:34 Whenever Moses went in before Yahveh to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

Exodus 34:35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Exodus 34 quotes:

“Nowhere is the good news of God’s saving grace more evident than in the relationship between Exodus 32, with its sordid tale of the golden calf, and Exodus 34, the narrative of Yahweh’s gracious restoration of the covenant with the chosen people.”

Newsome, James D. Exodus. 1st ed, Geneva Press, 1998. p. 111.

“Exodus 34 provides for Israel’s restitution and future with the Lord. The self-revelation of God occurs in a new way in time and history.”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 280.

“In Exodus 34:29 we read that the face of Moses “was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.” The Hebrew word for “radiant” is derived from the same word in Hebrew which means “horn.” When the church father Jerome translated the Bible into the Latin Language, he conveyed the idea that as Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of stone, his head appeared as though horns were projecting from it. Michelangelo’s statue of Moses therefore portrays Moses’ head with horns instead of rays of light.

Wendland, Ernst H. Exodus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1984. p. 253-254.

Exodus 34 links:

Exodus- the LORD whose name is Jealous
GETTING RID OF FOREIGN GODS – jeffersonvann
God’s mercy and the death-state
intently gazing on the glory
JONAH’S ANGRY PRAYER – jeffersonvann
renewal plea
retrying the covenant

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 29, 2023

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