1242 verses about Materialism

But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

“You shall not steal.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,

onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.

and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

You shall make settings of gold,

and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”

All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate;

and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.

He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.

and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.

He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.

He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.

He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.

He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.

He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.

He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.

their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.

This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.

“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.

He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.

Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.

however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.

and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.

The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;

They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.

But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.

“You shall not steal.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;

You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.