People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
THE BEATEN OIL AND THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS
You shall command the Israelites to provide you with clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually [every night]. You are to make sacred garments [official clothing reserved for holy services] for Aaron your brother, for honor and for beauty (ornamentation). ”
THE ALTAR AND THE COURT
“And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.
THE VEIL AND THE SCREEN
“You shall make a veil [to divide the two rooms] of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and fine twisted linen, skillfully worked with cherubim on it.
THE CURTAINS AND BOARDS OF THE TABERNACLE
The curtains and boards of the tabernacle.
THE TABLE FOR SHOWBREAD AND THE LAMPSTAND
The table of showbread and the lampstand. See that you make them [exactly] after their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.
THE ARK AND THE MERCY SEAT
You shall put the Mercy Seat on the top of the Ark, and in the Ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.
MOSES SHOWN GOD’S PLAN FOR THE TABERNACLE
Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP
ou shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice; nor shall you favor or be partial to a poor man in his dispute [simply because he is poor].
LAWS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE
You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
If you harm or oppress them in any way, and they cry at all to Me [for help], I will most certainly hear their cry;
and My wrath shall be kindled and burn; I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
LAWS ABOUT SLAVES
“If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing.