all go with thee, and I will give thee rest."

The Lord called Moses again into the mount, and told him to bring with
him two tablets of stone and He would again write the ten commandments
upon them.

So Moses hewed them from the rock and took them up into Mount Sinai.
Then the Lord came down again in a thick cloud and talked with Moses,
and wrote upon the tablets of stone.

After forty days Moses came down to the people bringing the
commandments with him, but his face shone with a strange light that the
people never saw before, and they were afraid of him. It was something
above the light of the sun, for Moses had seen the Glory of the Lord.

[Illustration: Moses descending from the Mount]

While they still camped around the mount they began to build the
Tabernacle. Moses told the people to bring gold, and silver, and
brass, and wood. They also brought precious stones, and oil for the
lamp, and fine linen, and they gave so willingly that at last Moses
told them that there was more than enough.

These were put in the hands of two wise men whom the Lord had chosen
and taught to do the work, and they had willing helpers among the
people, for wise hearted women did spin with their own hands, and bring
what they had spun, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen to
make the hangings of the Tabernacle.

If you would know all the beautiful and costly and curious things that
were made for this church in the wilderness, you will find them
described in the last chapters of Exodus.

The Israelites camped a long time in the high valleys around the Mount
of God, and at last set up the Tabernacle. It was so made that it
could be taken down and carried with them when they journeyed, for it
was a beautiful tent. Over it the pillar of cloud stood. Whenever it
moved the people followed, and when it stood still, they rested.
Within the Tabernacle they placed a beautiful chest of wood overlaid
with gold, which ever after held their most precious things, the
tablets of stone written upon by the Lord himself.

This "Ark of Testimony," as it was called, had rings at the sides
through which men laid strong rods by which to carry it, and so had the
golden table for bread, and the golden altar of incense. There was a
beautiful seven-branched candlestick of pure gold in which olive oil
was burned for a sacred sign, and there was a brazen altar for burnt
offerings, and a great brazen bowl for washing, and other things to