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[1]And the Lord spak to Moyses, `and seide, Lo!
[2]Y haue clepid Beseleel bi name, the sone of Hury, sone of Hur, of the lynage of Juda;
[3]and Y haue fillid hym with the spirit of God, with wisdom, and vndirstondyng, and kunnyng in al werk,
[4]to fynde out what euer thing may be maad suteli, of gold, and siluer, and bras, and marbil,
[5]and gemmes, and dyuersite of trees.
[6]And Y haue youe to hym a felowe, Ooliab, the sone of Achisameth, of the kynrede of Dan; and Y haue put in `the herte of hem the wisdom of ech lerned man, that thei make alle thingis, whiche Y comaundide to thee;
[7]the tabernacle of boond of pees, and the arke of witnessyng, and the propiciatorie, ether table, which is theronne, and alle the vessels of the tabernacle;
[8]also the bord, and vessels therof, the clenneste candilstike with hise vessels, and the auteris of encence,
[9]and of brent sacrifice, and alle the vessels of hem; the greet `waischyng vessel with his foundement;
[10]hooli clothis in seruyce to Aaron prest, and to hise sones, that thei be set in her office in hooli thingis;
[11]the oile of anoyntyng, and encence of swete smellynge spiceryes in the seyntuarie; thei schulen make alle thingis whiche Y comaundide to thee.
[12]And the Lord spak to Moises, `and seide, Speke thou to the sones of Israel,
[13]and thou schalt seie to hem, Se ye that ye kepe my sabat, for it is a signe bytwixe me and you in youre generaciouns; that ye wite, that Y am the Lord, which halewe you.
[14]Kepe ye my sabat, for it is hooli to you; he that defoulith it, schal die bi deeth, the soule of hym, that doith werk in the sabat, schal perische fro the myddis of his puple.
[15]Sixe daies ye schulen do werk; in the seuenthe dai is sabat, hooli reste to the Lord; ech man that doith werk in this dai schal die.
[16]The sones of Israel kepe sabat, and halewe it in her generaciouns;
[17]it is a couenaunt euerlastinge bitwixe me and the sones of Israel, and it is `a signe euerlastynge; for in sixe daies God made heuene and erthe, and in the seuenthe day he ceessid of werk.
[18]And whanne siche wordis weren fillid, the Lord yaf to Moises, in the hil of Synay, twei stonun tablis of witnessyng, writun with the fyngur of God.
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