Sinai & The Law

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Write these words down, because they are the terms of the covenant I have made with you and with Isra'el."

Moshe was there with ADONAI forty days and forty nights, during which time he neither ate food nor drank water. [ADONAI] wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

When Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, he didn't realize that the skin of his face was sending out rays of light as a result of his talking with [ADONAI].

When Aharon and the people of Isra'el saw Moshe, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to approach him.

But Moshe called to them; then Aharon and all the community leaders came back to him, and Moshe spoke to them.

Afterwards, all the people of Isra'el came near; and he passed on to them all the orders that ADONAI had told him on Mount Sinai.

Once Moshe had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

But when he went in before ADONAI for him to speak, he would take the veil off until he came out; then, when he came out, he would tell the people of Isra'el what he had been ordered.

But when the people of Isra'el saw Moshe's face, that the skin of Moshe's face shone, he would put the veil back over his face until he went in again to speak with [ADONAI].

Moshe assembled the whole community of the people of Isra'el and said to them, "These are the things which ADONAI has ordered you to do.

On six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day for you, a Shabbat of complete rest in honor of ADONAI. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.

You are not to kindle a fire in any of your homes on Shabbat."

Moshe said to the whole community of the people of Isra'el, "Here is what ADONAI has ordered:

'Take up a collection for ADONAI from among yourselves -anyone whose heart makes him willing is to bring the offering for ADONAI: gold, silver and bronze;

blue, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen, goat's hair,

tanned ram skins and fine leather; acacia-wood;

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ritual vest and the breastplate.

"'Then let all the craftsmen among you come and make everything ADONAI has ordered:

the tabernacle with its tent, covering, fasteners, planks, crossbars, posts and sockets;

the ark with its poles, ark-cover and the curtain to screen it;

the table with its poles, all its utensils and the showbread;

the menorah for the light, with its utensils and lamps, and the oil for the light;

the incense altar with its poles; the anointing oil; the fragrant incense; the screen for the entranceway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

the altar for burnt offerings, with its poles and all its utensils; the basin with its base;