have found favour in thy sight, O Lord, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance, EXODUS XXXV, XXXVI And Moses gathered the people together, and said unto them, Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord, wherewith to make him a sanctuary; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering unto the Lord. And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whose spirit made him willing, and brought the Lord's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought gold and silver in abundance. And every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. And all the women that were wisehearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun. Thus they brought a freewill offering unto the Lord; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing. And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, men filled with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship: and they received of Moses all the offering which the people had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary. THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS LEVITICUS XIX, XXVI Deuteronomy x, xxii, xxiv Now these are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: Thou shalt reverence every man his father and his mother. Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and the face of the old man shait thou honour. Thou shalt not vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of the strangers that are in thy land: thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in thy land, he shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. And now what doth the Lord require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul? And it shall come to pass, if ye walk in these statutes, and keep these commandments, and do them, that the Lord will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. THE BOOK OF NUMBERS NUMBERS XI And it came to pass, that Moses complained unto the Lord and said, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that I should carry them in my bosom as a father carrieth the nursing child? I am not able to bear all this people alone. And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee. And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and I will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. Is the Lord's hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tent. And the Lord came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they began to prophesy. But there remained two men in the camp, who were of them that were written, but had not gone out to the tent; the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them! But Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them! NUMBERS XIII, XIV Then came the children of Israel near unto Moses, and said, Let us send men before us to spy out the land of Canaan, and bring us word again of the way we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. And the thing pleased Moses, and he took twelve men, from each tribe a man, and said to them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strongholds; and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether |