Daily Reading

1 Then Jehovah said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you shattered.

2 And 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.

3 And no one shall come up with you, nor let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain, nor let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.

4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, just as Jehovah had commanded him; and he took two tablets of stone in his hand.

5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud and took His place there with him and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

6 Then Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, God compassionate and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

7 Keeping lovingkindness with thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; but He will by no means clear the guilty, but visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the grandchildren, to the third and fourth generations.

8 And Moses made haste and bowed to the ground and worshipped.

9 And he said, If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord please go in our midst; although they are a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for Your inheritance.

10 And He said, Now I hereby make a covenant: Before all your people I will perform wonders such as have not been produced in all the earth, nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.

11 Observe what I am commanding you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

12 Be careful that you do not make any covenant with the inhabitants of the land against which you are going, lest they become a snare in your midst.

13 But their altars you shall tear down, and their pillars you shall shatter, and their Asherahs you shall cut down

14 (For you shall not worship any other god; for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go as harlots after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, and you eat of his sacrifice;

16 And you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters go as harlots after their gods, and make your sons go as harlots after their gods.

17 You shall not make for yourself any molten gods.

18 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

19 All that opens the womb is Mine, even the first male produced by all your livestock, of cattle or sheep.

20 And the first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before Me empty.

21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor. Even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall cease from labor.

22 And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks, that is, of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

23 Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.

25 You shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain all night until the morning.

26 The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

27 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words, for according to the speaking of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

28 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

29 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai — and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain — Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone by reason of His speaking with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, at that time the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the assembly returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

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

34 But whenever Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out; and when he came out and spoke to the children of Israel what he had been commanded,

35 The children of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. Then Moses would put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with Him.

1 And Moses gathered all the assembly of the children of Israel and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded you to do.

2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

3 You shall kindle no fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

4 And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah has commanded, saying,

5 Take from among yourselves a heave offering to Jehovah; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the heave offering of Jehovah: gold and silver and bronze,

6 And blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,

8 And oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

9 And onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

10 And let every man who is wise in heart among you come and make all that Jehovah has commanded:

11 The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering; its clasps and its boards; its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

12 The Ark and its poles, the expiation cover, and the veil of the screen;

13 The table and its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;

14 And the lampstand for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

15 And the altar of incense and its poles; and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; and the screen for the entrance, at the entrance of the tabernacle;

16 The altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base;

17 The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

18 The pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;

19 The finely worked garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests.

20 And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

21 And they came, everyone whose heart lifted him up and everyone whose spirit made him willing, and brought the heave offering of Jehovah for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

22 And they came, men together with women, as many as were of a willing heart, and brought nose rings and earrings and signet rings and pendants, all kinds of articles of gold; even every man who waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah.

23 And every man with whom was found blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine linen and goats’ hair and rams’ skins dyed red and porpoise skins brought them.

24 Everyone who offered a heave offering of silver and bronze brought the heave offering of Jehovah, and every man with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

25 And all the women who were wise in heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands and the fine linen.

26 And all the women whose heart lifted them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

27 And the leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastplate,

28 And the spices and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

29 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded through Moses to be done.

30 And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

31 And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all kinds of workmanship;

32 Even to fashion skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze,

33 And in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.

34 And He has put in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of an engraver and of a skillful workman and of an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet strands and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do all kinds of workmanship and of those who fashion skillful designs.

1 And Bezalel and Oholiab and every man who is wise in heart, in whom Jehovah has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, shall work according to all that Jehovah has commanded.

2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every man who was wise in heart, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart lifted him up to come to the work to do it.

3 And they received from Moses every heave offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to carry it out. And they still kept bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.

4 And all the wise men who did all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which he was doing,

5 And spoke to Moses, saying, The people are bringing much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded us to do.

6 And Moses gave commandment; and a proclamation was passed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman produce any more material for the heave offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

7 For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to do it.

1 At that time the kingdom of the heavens will be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were foolish and five were prudent.

3 For the foolish, when they took their lamps, did not take oil with them;

4 But the prudent took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 And while the bridegroom delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.

6 But at midnight there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Go forth to meet him!

7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their own lamps.

8 And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

9 But the prudent answered, saying, Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.

10 And as they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast. And the door was shut.

11 And later the rest of the virgins came also, saying, Lord, lord, open to us!

12 But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.

13 Watch therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

14 For the kingdom of the heavens is just like a man about to go abroad, who called his own slaves and delivered to them his possessions.

15 To one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability. And he went abroad.

16 Immediately he who had received the five talents went and traded with them and gained another five.

17 Similarly, he who had received the two gained another two.

18 But he who had received the one went off and dug in the earth and hid his master’s money.

19 Now after a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.

20 And he who had received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, Master, you delivered to me five talents; behold, I have gained another five talents.

21 His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.

22 And he who had received the two talents also came and said, Master, you delivered to me two talents; behold, I have gained another two talents.

23 His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.

24 Then he who had received the one talent also came and said, Master, I knew about you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow.

25 And I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the earth; behold, you have what is yours.

26 And his master answered and said to him, Evil and slothful slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not winnow.

27 Therefore you should have deposited my money with the money changers; and when I came, I would have recovered what is mine with interest.

28 Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

29 For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he shall abound; but from him who does not have, even that which he has shall be taken away from him.

30 And cast out the useless slave into the outer darkness. In that place there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.