¹ 摩西招聚以色列全会众，对他们说：这是耶和华所吩咐的话，叫你们照着行：

² 六日要做工，第七日乃为圣日，当向耶和华守为安息圣日。凡这日之内做工的，必把他治死。

³ 当安息日，不可在你们一切的住处生火。

⁴ 摩西对以色列全会众说：耶和华所吩咐的是这样：

⁵ 你们中间要拿礼物献给耶和华，凡乐意献的可以拿耶和华的礼物来，就是金、银、铜，

⁶ 蓝色、紫色、朱红色线，细麻，山羊毛，

⁷ 染红的公羊皮，海狗皮，皂荚木，

⁸ 点灯的油，并做膏油和香的香料，

⁹ 红玛瑙与别样的宝石，可以镶嵌在以弗得和胸牌上

¹⁰ 你们中间凡心里有智慧的都要来做耶和华一切所吩咐的：

¹¹ 就是帐幕和帐幕的罩棚，并帐幕的盖、钩子、板、闩、柱子、带卯的座，

¹² 柜和柜的杠，施恩座和遮掩柜的幔子，

¹³ 桌子和桌子的杠与桌子的一切器具，并陈设饼，

¹⁴ 灯台和灯台的器具，灯盏并点灯的油，

¹⁵ 香坛和坛的杠，膏油和馨香的香料，并帐幕门口的幔子，

¹⁶ 燔祭坛和坛的铜网，坛的杠并坛的一切器具，洗濯盆和盆座，

¹⁷ 院子的帷子和帷子的柱子，带卯的座和院子的门帘，

¹⁸ 帐幕的橛子并院子的橛子，和这两处的绳子，

¹⁹ 精工做的礼服和祭司亚伦并他儿子在圣所用以供祭司职分的圣衣。

²⁰ 以色列全会众从摩西面前退去。

²¹ 凡心里受感和甘心乐意的都拿耶和华的礼物来，用以做会幕和其中一切的使用，又用以做圣衣。

²² 凡心里乐意献礼物的，连男带女，各将金器，就是胸前针、耳环（或作：鼻环）、打印的戒指，和手钏带来献给耶和华。

²³ 凡有蓝色、紫色、朱红色线，细麻，山羊毛，染红的公羊皮，海狗皮的，都拿了来；

²⁴ 凡献银子和铜给耶和华为礼物的都拿了来；凡有皂荚木可做甚麽使用的也拿了来。

²⁵ 凡心中有智慧的妇女亲手纺线，把所纺的蓝色、紫色、朱红色线，和细麻都拿了来。

²⁶ 凡有智慧、心里受感的妇女就纺山羊毛。

²⁷ 众官长把红玛瑙和别样的宝石，可以镶嵌在以弗得与胸牌上的，都拿了来；

²⁸ 又拿香料做香，拿油点灯，做膏油。

²⁹ 以色列人，无论男女，凡甘心乐意献礼物给耶和华的，都将礼物拿来，做耶和华藉摩西所吩咐的一切工。

³⁰ 摩西对以色列人说：犹大支派中，户珥的孙子、乌利的儿子比撒列，耶和华已经题他的名召他，

³¹ 又以神的灵充满了他，使他有智慧、聪明、知识，能做各样的工，

³² 能想出巧工，用金、银、铜制造各物，

³³ 又能刻宝石，可以镶嵌，能雕刻木头，能做各样的巧工。

³⁴ 耶和华又使他，和但支派中亚希撒抹的儿子亚何利亚伯，心里灵明，能教导人。

³⁵ 耶和华使他们的心满有智慧，能做各样的工，无论是雕刻的工，巧匠的工，用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线，和细麻、绣花的工，并机匠的工，他们都能做，也能想出奇巧的工。

¹ Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

² He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

³ and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

⁴ Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

⁵ I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

⁶ Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

⁷ Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

⁸ He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

⁹ They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

¹⁰ He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

¹² Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

¹³ Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

¹⁵ Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

¹⁶ The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

¹⁷ Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

¹⁸ since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

²⁰ Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

²² The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

²³ Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

²⁶ Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

²⁷ Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

²⁸ What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

²⁹ He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

³⁰ He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

³¹ He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

³² He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

³³ Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.