Category: Exodus

This chapter contains several details regarding the incense burner, census tax, bronze basin, anointing oil and incense for the tabernacle. Please feel free to read the entire chapter, I’m only touching on the incense and burner. “You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit…

“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish, and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil… Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according…

The entire chapter describes the newly founded priesthood and most significantly the garments that they are to wear. “Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests – Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you…

This chapter focuses on the courtyard and the altar. “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits[a] long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with…

This entire chapter is a description of the tabernacle blueprint. “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them. And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the…

Today I read Exodus 25. Moses is still on the mountain and God begins giving him specific instructions for the tabernacle and its furnishings, including the the Ark of the Covenant, a table (and accompaniments) for the Bread of the Presence, and a lampstand. “Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle,…

“Then [God] said to Moses, ‘Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.’ And Moses wrote down…

This chapter contains several more laws on social justice, the sabbath and festivals, and it has another promise of the inheritance of Canaan. “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.” (v13) We receive another…

This chapter has a continuation of laws that began in ch21. These laws fall under the categories of restitution (repaying something that is lost/stolen/broken) and social justice. “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a…

“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then…