The Tabernacle Erected

¹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“On the hfirst day of the first month you shall ierect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. ³And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall jscreen the ark with the veil. ⁴And kyou shall bring in the table and arrange it, and lyou shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. ⁵mAnd you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. ⁶nYou shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, ⁷oand place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ⁸And you shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.

⁹“Then you shall take the panointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. ¹⁰You shall also anoint qthe altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, rso that the altar may become most holy. ¹¹You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it. ¹²sThen you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water ¹³and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. ¹⁴You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them, ¹⁵tand anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a uperpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

¹⁶This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did. ¹⁷In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, vthe tabernacle was erected. ¹⁸Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars. ¹⁹And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁰He wtook the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark. ²¹And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and xset up the veil of the screen, and screened ythe ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²²zHe put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil, ²³and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁴aHe put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, ²⁵band set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁶cHe put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, ²⁷and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁸dHe put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle. ²⁹eAnd he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the fgrain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁰gHe set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, ³¹with which Moses and hAaron and his sons iwashed their hands and their feet. ³²When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses. ³³jAnd he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So kMoses finished the work.

The Glory of the Lord

³⁴Then lthe cloud covered the tent of meeting, and mthe glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁵And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁶Throughout all their journeys, nwhenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. ³⁷But oif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. ³⁸For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.

Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

¹Then Pilate took Jesus and qflogged him. ²rAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. ³They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. ⁴Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that sI find no guilt in him.” ⁵So Jesus came out, wearing tthe crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, u“Behold the man!” ⁶When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, v“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for wI find no guilt in him.” ⁷The Jews1 answered him, “We have a law, and xaccording to that law he ought to die because yhe has made himself the Son of God.” ⁸When Pilate heard this statement, zhe was even more afraid. ⁹aHe entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, b“Where are you from?” But cJesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” ¹¹Jesus answered him, d“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ehe who delivered me over to you fhas the greater sin.”

¹²From then on gPilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. hEveryone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” ¹³So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ithe judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic2 Gabbatha. ¹⁴Now it was jthe day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.3 He said to the Jews, k“Behold your King!” ¹⁵They cried out, l“Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” ¹⁶mSo he ndelivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus, ¹⁷and ohe went out, pbearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. ¹⁸qThere they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. ¹⁹Pilate ralso wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” ²⁰Many of the Jews read this inscription, for sthe place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. ²¹So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” ²²Pilate answered, t“What I have written I have written.”

²³uWhen the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.4 But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, ²⁴so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” vThis was to fulfill the Scripture which says,

w“They divided my garments among them,

and for my clothing they cast lots.”

So the soldiers did these things, ²⁵xbut standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus saw his mother and ythe disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, z“Woman, behold, your son!” ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to ahis own home.

The Death of Jesus

²⁸After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now bfinished, said (vto fulfill the Scripture), c“I thirst.” ²⁹A jar full of sour wine stood there, dso they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. ³⁰When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, e“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and fgave up his spirit.

Jesus' Side Is Pierced

³¹Since it was gthe day of Preparation, and hso that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was ia high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. ³²So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other jwho had been crucified with him. ³³But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out kblood and water. ³⁵lHe who saw it has borne witness—mhis testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—nthat you also may believe. ³⁶oFor these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: p“Not one of his bones qwill be broken.” ³⁷And again another Scripture says, r“They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

Jesus Is Buried

³⁸sAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly tfor fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. ³⁹uNicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus5 by night, came vbringing a mixture of wmyrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds6 in weight. ⁴⁰So they took the body of Jesus and xbound it in ylinen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. ⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a zgarden, and ain the garden a new tomb bin which no one had yet been laid. ⁴²So because of the Jewish cday of Preparation, dsince the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

¹The plans of the heart belong to man,

but lthe answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

²mAll the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,

but the Lord nweighs the spirit.1

³oCommit your work to the Lord,

and your plans will be established.

⁴pThe Lord has made everything for its purpose,

even qthe wicked for the day of trouble.

⁵Everyone who is arrogant in heart is ran abomination to the Lord;

sbe assured, he will not go unpunished.

⁶By tsteadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,

and by uthe fear of the Lord one vturns away from evil.

⁷When a man's ways please the Lord,

whe makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

⁸xBetter is a little with righteousness

than great revenues with injustice.

⁹yThe heart of man plans his way,

but zthe Lord establishes his steps.

¹⁰aAn oracle is on the lips of a king;

his mouth does not sin in judgment.

¹¹bA just balance and scales are the Lord's;

all the weights in the bag are his work.

¹²It is an abomination to kings to do evil,

for cthe throne is established by righteousness.

¹³dRighteous lips are the delight of a king,

and he loves him who speaks what is right.

¹⁴eA king's wrath is a messenger of death,

and a wise man will fappease it.

¹⁵gIn the light of a king's face there is life,

and his dfavor is like hthe clouds that bring the spring rain.

¹⁶iHow much better to get wisdom than jgold!

To get understanding is to be chosen rather than ksilver.

¹⁷The highway of the upright lturns aside from evil;

whoever guards his way preserves his life.

¹⁸mPride goes before destruction,

and a haughty spirit before a fall.

¹⁹nIt is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor

than to odivide the spoil with the proud.

²⁰Whoever gives thought to the word2 pwill discover good,

and blessed is he qwho trusts in the Lord.

²¹The wise of heart is called discerning,

and sweetness of speech rincreases persuasiveness.

²²Good sense is sa fountain of life to him who has it,

but the instruction of fools is folly.

²³tThe heart of the wise makes his speech judicious

and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

²⁴uGracious words are like va honeycomb,

sweetness to the soul and whealth to the body.

²⁵There is a way that seems right to a man,

but its end is the way to death.3

²⁶A worker's appetite works for him;

his xmouth urges him on.

²⁷yA worthless man plots evil,

and his speech4 is like za scorching fire.

²⁸aA dishonest man spreads strife,

and ba whisperer cseparates close friends.

²⁹A man of violence dentices his neighbor

and leads him in a way that is not good.

³⁰Whoever winks his eyes plans5 edishonest things;

he who fpurses his lips brings evil to pass.

³¹gGray hair is ha crown of glory;

it iis gained in a righteous life.

³²jWhoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,

and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

³³kThe lot is cast into the lap,

but its every decision is lfrom the Lord.

Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

¹Finally, my brothers,1 krejoice in the Lord. lTo write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.

²Look out for mthe dogs, look out for nthe evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. ³For owe are the circumcision, pwho worship qby the Spirit of God2 and rglory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— ⁴sthough I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵tcircumcised on the eighth day, uof the people of Israel, vof the tribe of Benjamin, ua Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, wa Pharisee; ⁶xas to zeal, ya persecutor of the church; zas to righteousness under the law,3 blameless. ⁷But awhatever gain I had, bI counted as loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸Indeed, I count everything as loss because of cthe surpassing worth of dknowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I ehave suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having fa righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but gthat which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— ¹⁰hthat I may know him and ithe power of his resurrection, and jmay share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹that by any means possible I may kattain the resurrection from the dead.

Straining Toward the Goal

¹²Not that I have already lobtained this or mam already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. ¹³Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: nforgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for othe prize of the upward pcall of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵Let those of us who are qmature think this way, and if in anything ryou think otherwise, sGod will reveal that also to you. ¹⁶Only tlet us hold true to what we have attained.

¹⁷Brothers, ujoin in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk vaccording to the example you have in us. ¹⁸For wmany, of whom I have often told you and now tell you xeven with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹yTheir end is destruction, ztheir god is their belly, and athey glory in their shame, with bminds set on earthly things. ²⁰But cour citizenship is in heaven, and dfrom it we eawait a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹who will transform four lowly body gto be like his glorious body, hby the power that enables him even ito subject all things to himself.