שֵׁנִי

God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,

And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

…but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.

Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.

Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames

…five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

…and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.

…six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.

…in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.

Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.

And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

He made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.

He made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops lined up opposite one another.

He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames

…five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

And he cast four gold rings for its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

Six branches extended from the sides, three on one side and three on the other.

And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.

…the second row had a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

And the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

After that, Moses presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.

The priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a rash. The person must wash his clothes and be clean.

But if the rash spreads further on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.

…then the person must shave himself except for the scaly area. Then the priest shall isolate him for another seven days.

…the priest is to order the contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven days.

If the mildew disappears from the fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article after washing, then it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.

On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

…and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,