¹ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

² And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

³ The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith The LORD.

⁴ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

⁵ Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

⁶ The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith The LORD GOD.

⁷ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

⁸ And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

⁹ And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

¹⁰ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

¹¹ For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

¹² Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

¹³ But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

¹⁴ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

¹⁵ And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

¹⁶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

¹⁷ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

¹³ And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

³ You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

⁴ You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.

⁵ You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

⁶ "You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

⁷ You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.

⁸ You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

⁹ "You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.

¹⁰ You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.

¹¹ You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.

¹² "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

¹³ You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.

¹⁴ You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

¹⁵ You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."

¹⁶ Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷ It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.

¹⁸ Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

¹⁹ He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²⁰ He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

²¹ He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²² He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.

²³ He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²⁴ He put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

²⁵ He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²⁶ He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

²⁷ and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²⁸ He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

²⁹ He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³⁰ He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.

³¹ Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.

³² When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³³ He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

³⁴ Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.

³⁵ Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.

³⁶ When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;

³⁷ but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up.

³⁸ For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.