Exodus 26, John 5, Proverbs 2, Galatians 1

Exodus 26,

1 "Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman.
 
2 All the curtains are to be the same size-twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
 
3 Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.
 
4 Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.
 
5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
 
6 Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
 
7 "Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle-eleven altogether.
 
8 All eleven curtains are to be the same size-thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
 
9 Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.
 
10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
 
11 Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
 
12 As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.
 
13 The tent curtains will be a cubit longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it.
 
14 Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.
 
15 "Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
 
16 Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
 
17 with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
 
18 Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
 
19 and make forty silver bases to go under them-two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
 
20 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames
 
21 and forty silver bases-two under each frame.
 
22 Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
 
23 and make two frames for the corners at the far end.
 
24 At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top, and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.
 
25 So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases-two under each frame.
 
26 "Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
 
27 five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
 
28 The center crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames.
 
29 Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
 
30 "Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
 
31 "Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman.
 
32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
 
33 Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
 
34 Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
 
35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
 
36 "For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen-the work of an embroiderer.
 
37 Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.

John 5,

1 The LORD said to Moses,
 
2 "Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
 
3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them."
 
4 The Israelites did this; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
 
5 The LORD said to Moses,
 
6 "Say to the Israelites: 'When a man or woman wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD, that person is guilty
 
7 and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution for his wrong, add one fifth to it and give it all to the person he has wronged.
 
8 But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for him.
 
9 All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
 
10 Each man's sacred gifts are his own, but what he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.' "
 
11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
 
12 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
 
13 by sleeping with another man, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
 
14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure-or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure-
 
15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to draw attention to guilt.
 
16 " 'The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the LORD.
 
17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
 
18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
 
19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, "If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
 
20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband"-
 
21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse of the oath-"may the LORD cause your people to curse and denounce you when he causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.
 
22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells and your thigh wastes away." " 'Then the woman is to say, "Amen. So be it."
 
23 " 'The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
 
24 He shall have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water will enter her and cause bitter suffering.
 
25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD and bring it to the altar.
 
26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.
 
27 If she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then when she is made to drink the water that brings a curse, it will go into her and cause bitter suffering; her abdomen will swell and her thigh waste away, and she will become accursed among her people.
 
28 If, however, the woman has not defiled herself and is free from impurity, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
 
29 " 'This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and defiles herself while married to her husband,
 
30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the LORD and is to apply this entire law to her.
 
31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.' "

Proverbs 2,

1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
 
2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
 
3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
 
4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
 
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
 
6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
 
7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
 
8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
 
9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair-every good path.
 
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
 
11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
 
12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
 
13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
 
14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
 
15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
 
16 It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
 
17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
 
18 For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
 
19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
 
20 Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
 
21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
 
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

Galatians 1

1 Paul, an apostle-sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead-
 
2 and all the brothers with me, To the churches in Galatia:
 
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
 
4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
 
5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-
 
7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
 
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
 
9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
 
10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
 
11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up.
 
12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
 
13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
 
14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
 
15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased
 
16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man,
 
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
 
18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days.
 
19 I saw none of the other apostles-only James, the Lord's brother.
 
20 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.
 
21 Later I went to Syria and Cilicia.
 
22 I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
 
23 They only heard the report: "The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
 
24 And they praised God because of me.