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48 : Basic English : Exodus 40; Leviticus 1; Psalms 41,42 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting. 3. And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. 4. And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning. 5. And put th...

47 : Basic English : Exodus 38,39; Psalms 39,40 1. The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, 2. And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass; 3. And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all t...

46 : Basic English : Exodus 36,37; Psalms 38 1. So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders. 2. Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved b...

45 : Basic English : Exodus 34,35; Psalms 36,37 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you. 2. And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain. 3. No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen an...

44 : Basic English : Exodus 32,33; Psalms 35 1. And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him. 2. Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and y...

43 : Basic English : Exodus 30,31; Psalms 34 1. And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. 2. The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. 3. It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. 4. Under the edge on...

42 : Basic English : Exodus 29; Psalms 32,33 1. This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them, 2. And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal; 3. Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two s...

41 : Basic English : Exodus 27,28; Psalms 30,31 1. And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. 2. Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. 3. And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. 4. And make a net...

40 : Basic English : Exodus 25,26; Psalms 28,29 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me. 3. And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass; 4. And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair; 5. And sheepskins coloured...

39 : Basic English : Exodus 23,24; Psalms 26,27 1. Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness. 2. Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision: 3. But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause. 4. If you come across t...

38 : Basic English : Exodus 21,22; Psalms 23,24,25 1. Now these are the laws which you are to put before them. 2. If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment. 3. If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him. 4. If his master gives him a...

37 : Basic English : Exodus 19,20; Psalms 21,22 1. In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai. 2. And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents. 3. And Moses went up to God, and the voic...

36 : Basic English : Exodus 17,18; Psalms 19,20 1. And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people. 2. So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test? 3. An...

35 : Basic English : Exodus 15,16; Psalms 17,18 1. Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea. 2. The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him...

34 : Basic English : Exodus 13,14; Psalms 14,15,16 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine. 3. And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his ha...

33 : Basic English : Exodus 10,11,12; Psalms 11,12,13 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them: 2. And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lo...

32 : Basic English : Exodus 8,9; Psalms 10 1. And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship. 2. And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land: 3. The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the ho...

31 : Basic English : Exodus 6,7; Psalms 8,9 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of his land because of my outstretched arm. 2. And God said to Moses, I am Yahweh: 3. I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Ya...

30 : Basic English : Exodus 4,5; Psalms 6,7 1. And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord. 2. And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. 3. And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it...

29 : Basic English : Exodus 2,3; Psalms 3,4,5 1. Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi. 2. And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months. 3. And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it t...

28 : Basic English : Genesis 50; Exodus 1; Psalms 1,2 1. And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. 2. And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. 3. And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egypt...

27 : Basic English : Genesis 48,49; Gospel of Matthew 28 1. Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim. 2. And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed. 3. And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a...

26 : Basic English : Genesis 46,47; Gospel of Matthew 27 1. And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac. 2. And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3. And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there: 4....

25 : Basic English : Genesis 44,45; Gospel of Matthew 26 1. Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag; 2. And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said. 3. And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away. 4....

24 : Basic English : Genesis 42,43; Gospel of Matthew 25 1. Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another? 2. And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours. 3. So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt. 4. But Jacob did not send Benjamin,...