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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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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 33

Exodus 33:1 Yahveh told Moses, “Go on up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land about which I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’

Exodus 33:2 I will send an agent in front of you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 33:3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or else I would consume you on the way, because you are a stiff-necked people.”

Exodus 33:4 When the people heard this discouraging word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

Exodus 33:5 Because Yahveh had told Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, so that I may know what to do with you.'”

Exodus 33:6 Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Exodus 33:7 That was when Moses had taken the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he had called it the conference tent. And everyone who wanted to request something from Yahveh would go out to the conference tent, which was outside the camp.

Exodus 33:8 Whenever Moses had gone out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.

Exodus 33:9 When Moses had entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and Yahveh would speak with Moses.

Exodus 33:10 And when all the people had seen the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at their tent door.

Exodus 33:11 And Yahveh had spoken to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not leave the tent.

Exodus 33:12 Moses told Yahveh, “See, you told me, ‘Bring up these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.’

Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now how you do things, so that I may know you in order to find grace in your sight. Consider that this nation is also your people.”

Exodus 33:14 And he said, “My face will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:15 And he said to him, “If your face will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.

Exodus 33:16 For how should it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are different, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the land?”

Exodus 33:17 And Yahveh said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, because you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Exodus 33:18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

Exodus 33:19 And he said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘Yahveh.’ And I will show grace to whom I will show grace and will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.

Exodus 33:20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, because a man should not see me and live.”

Exodus 33:21 And Yahveh said, “Notice, there is a place by me where you should stand on the rock,

Exodus 33:22 and while my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

Exodus 33:23 Then I will take away my hand, and you should see my back, but my face should not be seen.”

Exodus 33 quotes:

“Moses did not experience the full dosage of God’s Glory. If He had—there is no question about it— Moses would have died on the spot (see Exodus 33:20). God could only reveal to Moses a diluted or lesser degree of Glory. But even so, it was a greater manifestation of Glory than Moses had experienced up to that moment—even though he had been living in the fire for well over forty days.”

Sorge, Bob. Glory : When Heaven Invades Earth. Oasis House, 2000. p. 56.

“There must be a good reason why Joshua and Caleb stayed strong in faith when the crowd chose to act in doubt and unbelief Then the Lord prompted me to read Exodus 33 and I saw what that reason was. I saw that while Moses prayed in the tent of meeting, Joshua stayed right there with him.”

Hammond, Lynne. Renewed in His Presence : Satisfying Your Hunger for God. Harrison House, 2001. p. 63.

Exodus 33 links:

a prayer to be different
Exodus- the presence makes the difference
reverent fellowship
this discouraging word
wanting more

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 32

Exodus 32:1 After the people saw that Moses was overdue coming down from the mountain, the people collected[1] together to Aaron and said to him, “Stand up, make us gods who will go before us. We do not know what has become of this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, of him.”

Exodus 32:2 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

Exodus 32:3 So all the people took off the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Exodus 32:4 And he took the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrow should be a feast to Yahveh.”

Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early the next day and offered ascending offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Exodus 32:7 And Yahveh said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have ruined themselves.

Exodus 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'”

Exodus 32:9 And Yahveh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and notice, it is a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”

Exodus 32:11 But Moses implored Yahveh his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, He brought them out with a wrong motive, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the land? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your slaves, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they should inherit it permanently.'”

Exodus 32:14 And Yahveh relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

Exodus 32:15 Moses then turned and went down from the mountain and the two tablets of the reminder were in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back, they were written.

Exodus 32:16 The tablets fashioned by God, and the writing was the writing of God, he had engraved the tablets.

Exodus 32:17 When Joshua had heard the noise of the people as they were shouting, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”

Exodus 32:18 But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”

Exodus 32:19 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 32:20 He took the calf that they had made and had it burned with fire and ground it to powder and scattered on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

Exodus 32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great failure[2] upon them?”

Exodus 32:22 And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Exodus 32:23 Because they said to me, ‘Make us gods who should go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

Exodus 32:24 So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So, they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people had lost control of themselves (for Aaron had let them lose control, so that those standing with them gossiped),

Exodus 32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who belongs to Yahveh? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.

Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, “This is what Yahveh God of Israel says: ‘Put your sword on your side each of you and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his friend and his neighbor.'”

Exodus 32:28 And the sons of Levi did what Moses said. And among the people that day about three thousand men were killed.

Exodus 32:29 And Moses said, “Today you have shown yourselves committed to the service of Yahveh, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.”

Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have failed a great sin. So now I will go up to Yahveh; perhaps I can make atonement for your failure.”

Exodus 32:31 So Moses returned to Yahveh and said, “Now, this people have failed a great failure. They have made for themselves gods of gold.

Exodus 32:32 But now, if you will forgive their sin – but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

Exodus 32:33 But Yahveh said to Moses, “I will blot out of my book the one who has failed me.

Exodus 32:34 But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; notice, my agent will go before you. But on the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”

Exodus 32:35 Then Yahveh sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.

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[1] קָהַל = collect. Exodus 32:1; 35:1.

[2] חֲטָאָה = failure. Exodus 32:21, 30, 31.

Exodus 32 quotes

“The reality that divine grace does not come easily or cheaply is quite dramatically illustrated by Yahweh’s reaction to the people’s sin in 32:10: Yahweh’s initial impulse is to obliterate these treacherous people entirely. But Yahweh’s words also reveal a struggle within to suppress a gentler nature. God commands Moses to leave so that the divine wrath will not be impeded. But Moses coaxes Yahweh to do that which Yahweh really wants to do—forgive the people”

Newsome, James D. Exodus. First edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998. p, 109.

“The narrator tells us that, in response to Moses, “the LORD changed his mind © about the terrible things he said he would do to his people” (Exodus 32:14). There is no question that punishment was justified. It would not have © been unfair to hold the people accountable. But the simple statement that © “the LorD changed his mind” is most remarkable—and for some people, © most difficult to accept.”

March, W. Eugene. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Abingdon Press, 2012. p. 41.

“There is little wonder that the story of the golden calf has loomed large in the consciousness of many men and women of faith. Ezekiel 20:8, Acts 7:40—42 (Ex. 32:1 is quoted almost verbatim in 7:40), and 1 Corinthians 10:7 (which quotes Ex. 32:6) are all texts that recall this terrible moment of Israel’s sinfulness. In each case (although from different perspectives), the later passages cite the golden calf incident as an example of how God’s people are not to live or act. “

Newsome, James D. Exodus. 1st ed, Geneva Press, 1998. p. 108.

Exodus 32 links:

Exodus- glory upstaged
passionately wrong
perhaps I can make atonement
The sky above – shamayim, the land beneath – erets
The sky God is supreme
these are your gods

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, August 31, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, August 30, 2017

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 31

Exodus 31:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 31:2 “Notice, I have called by name Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

Exodus 31:3 and I have filled him with the Breath of God, with skill and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,

Exodus 31:4 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 31:5 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft.

Exodus 31:6 And notice, I have appointed as his assistant Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all the skilled workers their skill, so that they may make everything that I have commanded you:

Exodus 31:7 the conference tent, and the ark of the reminder, and the atonement cover that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent,

Exodus 31:8 the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

Exodus 31:9 and the altar of ascending offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand,

Exodus 31:10 and the finely worked garments, the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons, for their service as priests,

Exodus 31:11 and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Sacred Place. They will do just what I have commanded you,”

Exodus 31:12 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 31:13 “You are to speak to the sons of Israel and tell them, ‘You must keep my Sabbaths, because this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, so that you may know that I, Yahveh, sanctify you.

Exodus 31:14 You should keep the Sabbath, because it is sacred for you. Everyone who profanes it should be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that throat should be cut off from among his people.

Exodus 31:15 Work should be done six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of sacred rest, sacred to Yahveh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day should be put to death.

Exodus 31:16 Therefore the people of Israel should keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a permanent covenant.

Exodus 31:17 It is a permanent sign between me and the people of Israel that in six days Yahveh made the sky and land, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'”

Exodus 31:18 And when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the reminder, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 31 quotes:

“But the Old Testament itself draws a distinction between the law given at Mount Sinai and the other laws. For one thing, the Ten Commandments were written down on two stone tablets. So we read that God ‘gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God’ (Exodus 31:18). The traditional understanding of this has been that half the commandments were written on one stone and half on the other; but more recently it has been suggested that one stone was a copy of the other. In the ancient world, it was common practice for a conquering king to impose obligations on other nations he had conquered, to have these written down (in what is often called a ‘vassal treaty’), and to have one copy placed in the temple of the conqueror’s god and another in the temple of the vassal’s god. The two tablets of stone, therefore, may have been two copies of the covenant treaty, one of which was a witness to God, and the other a witness to the people.”

Campbell, Iain D. On the First Day of the Week : God, the Christian and the Sabbath. Day One Publications, 2005. p. 33.

“Yes, according to Exodus 31:16 the children of Israel were “to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant.” However, this does not prove that the sabbath is to be observed by Christians for a perpetual covenant!”

Sutton, Carrol Ray. Must We Keep the Sabbath Today? : What Do the Scriptures Teach? Thrasher Publications, 2003. p. 36.

“These Tables of the Law were broken by Moses symbolizing to the people of Israel how they had already broken those commandments in their sinful idolatry in making the golden calf (Exodus 32:19). Finally, these commandments were written a second time on Stone(Exodus 34:1-4)and placed in the Ark by Moses (Deuteronomy 10:1-5).They were placed beneath the Blood-stained Mercy Seat.”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 28.

Exodus 31 links:

Exodus- God alone … Israel alone
faith in community
introducing the breath of God
invaded
invaded-
the sign day
The sky God is supreme

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, March 26, 2021
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 30

Exodus 30:1 “You should make an altar on which to burn incense; from the wood of acacia trees, you should make it.

Exodus 30:2 Its length should be one cubit, and its breadth one cubit. It should be square, and its height should be two cubits. Its horns should be of one piece with it.

Exodus 30:3 You should overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. You should also make a molding of gold around it.

Exodus 30:4 And you should make two golden rings for it. You should place them under its molding on two opposite sides of it, and they should serve as houses for poles with which to carry it.

Exodus 30:5 You should make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 30:6 And you should put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the reminder, in front of the atonement cover that is above the reminder, where I will meet with you.

Exodus 30:7 And Aaron should burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he should burn it,

Exodus 30:8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he should burn it, a regular incense offering before Yahveh throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:9 You should not offer unauthorized incense on it, or an ascending offering, or a grain offering, and you should not pour a drink offering on it.

Exodus 30:10 Aaron should make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he should make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most sacred to Yahveh.”

Exodus 30:11 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 30:12 “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each should give a ransom for his throat to Yahveh when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.

Exodus 30:13 Each one who is numbered in the census should give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel equaling twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to Yahveh.

Exodus 30:14 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and older, should give Yahveh’s offering.

Exodus 30:15 The rich should not give any more, and the poor should not give less, than the half shekel, when you give Yahveh’s offering to make atonement for your throats.

Exodus 30:16 You should take the atonement money from the people of Israel and should give it for the service of the conference tent, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before Yahveh, so as to make atonement for your throats.”

Exodus 30:17 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 30:18 “You should also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You should put it between the conference tent and the altar, and you should put water in it,

Exodus 30:19 with this, Aaron and his sons can wash their hands and their feet.

Exodus 30:20 When they go into the conference tent, they should wash with water, so that they may not die. When they come near the altar to minister, to burn a fire offering to Yahveh,

Exodus 30:21 they should wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It should be a permanent prescribed task for them, both to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”

Exodus 30:22 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 30:23 “And you, take for yourself the best spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of sweet-smelling cane,

Exodus 30:24 and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

Exodus 30:25 And you should make of these a sacred anointing oil blended like the perfumer would; it will be a sacred anointing oil.

Exodus 30:26 With it you should anoint the conference tent and the ark of the reminder,

Exodus 30:27 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

Exodus 30:28 and the altar of ascending offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.

Exodus 30:29 You should consecrate them, so that they may be most sacred. Whatever touches them is to be sacred.

Exodus 30:30 You should anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

Exodus 30:31 And you should say to the people of Israel, ‘This should be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:32 It should not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you should make no other like it in composition. It is sacred, and it should be sacred to you.

Exodus 30:33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider should be cut off from his people.'”

Exodus 30:34 Yahveh said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each there should be an equal part),

Exodus 30:35 and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and sacred.

Exodus 30:36 You should beat some of it very fine and put part of it before the reminder in the conference tent where I should meet with you. It should be most sacred for you.

Exodus 30:37 And the incense that you should make according to its composition, you should not make for yourselves. It should be for you sacred to Yahveh.

Exodus 30:38 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume should be cut off from his people.”

Exodus 30 quotes:

“Three metals are mentioned, gold alone being used for the main sanctuary furnishings. Altogether roughly one ton of gold, three tons of copper, and four tons of silver (Exodus 38:24-31) were used. The relatively large amounts of silver came from gifts freely offered by the people (Exodus 30:11-16), and this was added to the silver and gold already obtained from the Egyptians (Exodus 12:15).”

Dowley, Tim. The Tabernacle. Candle Books, 2001. p. 15.

“he Golden Altar of Incense was placed in the following position: It was before the Veil. Exodus 30:6 It was also before the Ark. Exodus 40:5 It is spoken of as being before the Mercy Seat. Exodus 30:6. This would place the Incense Altar in line with the Ark of the Covenant, or at the ‘‘Heart” of the Tabernacle, in the Holy Place.”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 12.

“Two kinds of outstanding cleansing experiences took place at the laver. First, at the time when the priests consecrated themselves to the office of priesthood the entire body was washed here at the laver (Exodus 29:4; Leviticus 8:6). And second, the priests washed both hands and feet before entering the tabernacle, before ministering at the brazen altar, and before offering a burnt offering (Exodus 30:20, 21). Washing resulted in cleansing. Unless the priests experienced cleansing themselves, they were both unfit to carry on the service of the Lord and were liable for death (Exodus 30:21).”

Zehr, Paul M. God Dwells with His People : A Study of Israel’s Ancient Tabernacle. Herald Press, 1981. p. 54.

Exodus 30 links:

atonement money
Exodus- God alone … Israel alone
FIRST FISH – jeffersonvann
holy smoke
ritual washing
the aroma of worship

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