348 passages · Life and end
God places the man in the garden to work and care for it. He allows eating from every tree but forbids the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, warning of death.
God tells Noah to build an ark of specified size and design, promises a covenant, and instructs him to bring his family and pairs of animals with food aboard. Noah obeys.
God tells Noah to enter the ark with his family because he is righteous, with seven pairs of clean animals and birds and a pair of the unclean. Noah does as commanded.
Noah, his family, and the animals go into the ark two by two, as commanded, and after seven days the floodwaters come.
God tells Noah to come out with his family and the animals so they can spread over the earth and multiply. They all leave the ark.
God commands every male in Abraham's household to be circumcised at eight days old as the sign of the covenant. Any male who is not is cut off from his people.
Abraham obeys that very day, circumcising Ishmael, aged thirteen, himself at ninety-nine, and every male in his household.
God tells Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering on Moriah. Abraham sets out early. Isaac asks where the lamb is, and Abraham answers that God will provide.
Aging Abraham has his chief servant swear not to choose a Canaanite wife for Isaac but to find one among Abraham's own relatives. Isaac must not be taken back to the old homeland, and God's promise of the land is the reason.
God tells Jacob to go to Bethel and build an altar. Jacob has his household remove their foreign gods, and at Bethel he builds an altar; Rebekah's nurse Deborah dies there.
Pharaoh orders the Hebrew midwives to kill baby boys, but they fear God and let them live. When questioned, they give an excuse, and Pharaoh then orders all newborn Hebrew boys thrown into the Nile.
Moses gets Jethro's blessing and sets out with his family and the staff of God. The LORD warns that Pharaoh's heart will be hardened and gives the message to deliver: let my firstborn son Israel go.
At a lodging place the LORD confronts Moses and is about to kill him. Zipporah circumcises her son and touches Moses' feet with the foreskin, and the LORD lets him alone.
The day is to be a memorial and a lasting statute. For seven days no leaven is to be eaten, and there are to be sacred assemblies on the first and last days.
The LORD says he will rain down bread from heaven and test whether they will follow his instructions, with a double portion on the sixth day. Moses says their grumbling is against the LORD, whose glory then appears in the cloud.
On the sixth day the people gather twice as much, and Moses explains that the next day is a holy Sabbath. What is kept keeps fresh, some go out looking on the seventh day and find nothing, and the people rest.
Israel camps before Sinai and the LORD tells Moses to remind them how he carried them on eagles' wings. If they obey his covenant they will be his treasured possession, a kingdom of priests, and they answer that they will do all he says.
The people tremble at the thunder and smoke and ask Moses to speak instead of God. Moses says God has come to test them and keep them from sinning, and he approaches the thick darkness.
God says he is sending an angel ahead to guard them and lead them to the promised place. If they obey, God will be an enemy to their enemies, bless their food and water, and remove sickness.
The LORD summons Moses and leaders to worship from a distance. Moses relays the laws, the people promise to obey, and Moses writes them down, builds an altar, offers sacrifices, reads the Book of the Covenant and sprinkles blood on the people.
Bezalel, Oholiab and skilled workers receive the offerings from Moses. The people keep bringing gifts every morning until the workers report there is too much, and Moses has the people stopped from giving more.
The workers make the cherub-embroidered veil with its gold-covered posts and silver bases, and the entrance curtain with its five posts and bronze bases.
The tabernacle's inventory was recorded by the Levites under Ithamar. Bezalel made everything the LORD commanded, with Oholiab as his assistant.
The workers weave the priestly garments for ministry. Bezalel makes the ephod with gold thread and colored yarn, and the onyx stones engraved with the names of Israel's sons are fastened to its shoulders.
The Israelites complete all the work and bring every part of the tabernacle and garments to Moses. He inspects it, sees it was done as the LORD commanded, and blesses them.
On the first day of the first month of the second year, Moses assembles the tabernacle, places the ark, table, lamps, altars and basin, and hangs the curtains. The text repeats that he did each thing as the LORD commanded.
The LORD tells Moses to gather Aaron, his sons, their garments, the oil, and the animals at the entrance of the Tent. Moses obeys and tells the assembled congregation what the LORD has commanded.
Moses tells Aaron and his sons to eat the ordination meat and bread at the entrance and burn what is left. They must stay there seven days, and they do everything the LORD commanded.
On the eighth day Moses summons Aaron, his sons, and the elders, and lists the animals for Aaron and the people to offer. He says the LORD will appear to them that day.
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu offer fire the LORD had not commanded, and fire from the LORD kills them. Moses has their cousins carry the bodies out of the camp and tells Aaron and his other sons not to mourn openly.