words of Moses, and there were slain that day | nacle, all the people rose up, and every one about three and twenty thousand men. stood in the door of his pavilion, and they 29 And Moses said: You have consecrated beheld the back of Moses, till he went into the your hands this day to the Lord, every man in tabernacle. his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you. 30 And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: you have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime. 31 And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people have sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass, 32 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written. 33 And the Lord answered him: he that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book: 34 But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my Angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs. 35 The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made. CHAP. XXXIII. The people mourn for their sin. Moses pitcheth the tabernacle without the camp. He converseth familiarly with God. Desireth to see his glory. AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it. 2 2 b And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, 3 That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff necked people: lest I destroy thee in the way; 4 And the people hearing these very bad tidings, inourned and no man put on his ornaments according to custom. 5 And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiff-necked people; once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do with thee. 6 So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by mount Horeb. 9 And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the pillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door and he spoke with Moses. 10 And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle. And they stood, and worshipped at the doors of their tents. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle. 12 And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people: and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my sight. 13 If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people this nation. 14 And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give thee rest. 15 And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not out of this place. 16 For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth? 17 And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will I do: for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have known by name. e I 18 And he said: Shew me thy glory. 19 He answered: I will show thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and will be merciful to whom it shall please me. 20 And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live. 21 And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock. 22 And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the rock, and protect thee with my right hand, till I pass: 23 And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see. CHAP. XXXIV. The tables are renewed: all society with the Chanaanites is forbid: some precepts concerning the first. born, the sabbath, ond other feasts: After forty days' fast, Moses returneth to the people with the commandments, and his face appearing horned with rays of light, he covereth it, whensoever he speaketh to the people. 7 Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And all the people that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp. AND after this he said: Hew thee two 8 And when Moses went forth to the taber ⚫ Gen. 12. 7.-b Supra, 32. 34.- Deut. 7. 22. Jos. 24. 11.Supra, 32. 9. Deut. 9. 13.- Rom. 9. 15.- Deut. 10. 1. Ch. 33. v. 11. Face to face. That is, in a most familiar manner. Though as we learn from this very chapter, Moses could not see the face of the Lord. Ver. 12. I know thee by name. In the language of the scriptures, God is said to know such as he approves and loves: and to know by name, those whom he favours in tables of stone like unto the former, and a most singular manner, as he did his servant Moses Ver. 23. See my back parts. The Lord by his Angel, usually spoke to Moses in the pillar of the cloud; so that he could not see the glory of him that spoke familiarly with him. In the vision here mentioned, he was allowed to see something of him, in an assumed corporeal form: not in the face, the rays of which were too bright for mortal eye to bear, but to view him as it were behind, when his face was turned from him. I will write upon them the words which were the spring time thou camest out from Egypt. in the tables, which thou brokest. 19 All of the male kind, that openeth the womb, shall be mine. Of all beasts, both of oxer and of sheep, it shall be mine. 20 The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear before me empty. 2 Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into mount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount. 3 Let no man go up with thee, and let not any man be seen throughout all the mount: neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over-against it. 4 Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before: and rising very early he went up into the mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables. 5 And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord. 6 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true, 7 Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grand-children, unto the third and fourth generation. 8 And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring, 9 Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee, that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiff-necked people,) and take away our iniquities and sin, and possess us. 10 The Lord answered: d I will make a covenant in the sight of all. I will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations: that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the terrible work of the Lord which I will do. 11 Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite. 12Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: 13 But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves: 14 Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is Jealous, he is a jealous God. 15 Make no covenant with the men of those countries lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed. 16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods. 17 Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods. 18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of Dent. 5. 10. Jer. 32. 18.-b Ps. 142. 2.- Deut. 5. 9. Jer. 32. 21 Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap. 22 Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the first-fruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in. 23 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty Lord the God of Israel. 24 For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year. 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven: neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase. 26 The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam. 27 And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words by which I have made a covenant both with theed with Israel. 28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty night.: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables" the ten words of the covenant. 29 And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord. 30 And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near 31 And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them. 32 And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord in mount Sinai. 33 And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face. 34 But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him. 35 And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them. CHAP. XXXV. The Sabbath. Offerings for making the tabernacle. Beseleel and Ooliab are called to the work. AND all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together, he said to them: 18. Deut. 5. 2. Jer. 32. 40- Supra, 23. 32. Dent. 7, 2- These are the things which the Lord hath com13 King 11. 2. Deut. 7. 3.- Supra, 13. 2. 12. & 22. 29. Sumanded to be done.P pra, 23. 15.- Supra, 23. 17. Deut. 16. 16.- Supra, 23. 19. & & 18.- Deut. 4. 13.- 2 Cor. 3. 13.-P A. M. 2513. 19. Supra, 23. 19. Deut. 14. 21.- Supra, 21. 18. Deut. 9. 9. 2 Six days you shall do work: the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath, and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death. Ch. 34. v. 29. Horned. That is, shining, and sending forth rays of light like horns. 3 You shall kindle no fire in any of your habi- | offered gifts, that the works might be done tations on the sabbath day. the Lord had commanded by the hand of All the children of Israel dedicated vol offerings to the Lord. 4 And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying: 5 Set aside with you first-fruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass, 6 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats' hair, 7 And rams' skins dyed red, and violet-coloured skins, setim-wood, 8 And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet incense. 9 Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational. 10 Whosoever of you is wise, let him come and make that which the Lord hath commanded: 11 To wit, the tabernacle and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars, and the sockets: 12 The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is drawn before it: 13 The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of proposition: 14 The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires: 15 The altar of incense, and the bars and the oil of unction and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle: 16 The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot: 17 The curtains of the court with the pillars and the sockets, the hanging in the doors of the entry, 18 The pins of the tabernacle and of the court with their little cords: 19 The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high-priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me. 20 And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from the presence of Moses, 21 Offered first-fruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatsoever was necessary to the service, and to the holy vestments, 22 Both men and women gave bracelets and ear-rings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord. 23 If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine linen and goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and violet-coloured skins, 24 Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and setim-wood for divers uses. 25 The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, 30 And Moses said to the children of Behold, the Lord hath called by name E the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe o 31 And hath filled him with the spirit with wisdom and understanding and kno and all learning, 32 To devise and to work in gold and and brass, 33 And in engraving stones, and in carp work. Whatsoever can be devised artific 34 He hath given in his heart: Ooliab a son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan: 35 Both of them hath he instructed wi dom, to do carpenters' work, and tapestr embroidery in blue and purple, and scarle dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all and to invent all new things. CHAP. XXXVI. The offerings are delivered to the workmen : tains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, pillar hanging are made. BESE ESELEEL, therefore, and Ooliab every wise man, to whom the Lord wisdom and understanding, to know h work artificially, made the things that a cessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and the Lord commanded. 2 And when Moses had called them, and skilful man, to whom the Lord had give dom, and such as of their own accord had themselves to the making of the work, 3 He delivered all the offerings of the ch of Israel unto them. And while they earnest about the work, the people daily morning offered their vows. 4 Whereupon the workmen being const to come, 5 Said to Moses: The people offereth than is necessary. 6 Moses therefore commanded proclama be made by the crier's voice: Let neither m woman offer any more for the work of the tuary. And so they ceased from offering 7 Because the things that were offere suffice, and were too much. 8 And all the men that were wise of he accomplish the work of the tabernacle, ma curtains of twisted fine linen, and viole purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with work, and the art of embroidering: 9 The length of one curtain was twenty cubits, and the breadth four: all the cu were of the same size. 10 And he joined five curtains, one to an and the other five he coupled one to anoth 11 He made also loops of violet in the ed one curtain on both sides, and in the edge 26 And goats' hair,giving all of their own accord 29 All both men and women with devout mind Supra. 25. 2.-b Supra, 31. 2.— A. M. 2514.- Supr2, 2 L-1 Par. 21. 29. 12 That the loops might meet one against ther, and might be joined each with the 13 Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of that might catch the loops of the curtains they might be made one tabernacle. 14 He made also eleven curtains of goats' to cover the roof of the tabernacle: 15 One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all the curtains were of one measure. 16 Five of which he joined apart, and the other SIX apart. 17 And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another. 18 And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering. 19 He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red: and another cover over that of violet skins. 20 He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim-wood standing. 21 The length of one board was ten cubits: and the breadth was one cubit and a half. 22 There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 Of which twenty were at the south side southward, Nood: it was two cubits and a half in length, ND Beseleel made also, the ark of setimand a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height was of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold within and without. 2 And he made to it a crown of gold round about, 3 Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in one side, and two in the other. 4 And he made bars of setim-wood, which he overlaid with gold. 5 And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of the ark to carry it. 6 He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth. 7 Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides of the propitiatory: 8 One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the top of the other side: two cherubims at the two ends of the propitiatory, 9 Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking one towards the other, and towards it. 24 With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, 10 He made also the table of setim-wood, in where the mortises of the sides end in the corners. length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, and 25 At that side also of the tabernacle, that look-in height it was a cubit and a half. eth towards the north, he made twenty boards, 26 With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board. 27 But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards, 28 And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind: 29 Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went together into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners: 30 So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board. 31 He made also bars of setim-wood, five to hold together the boards of one side of the tabernacle. 32 And five others to join together the boards of the other side: and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle towards the sea. 33 He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the boards from corner to corner. 34 And the board-works themselves he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of gold. 11 And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about. 12 And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of four fingers' breadth, and upon the same another golden crown. 13 And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners at each foot of the table, 14 Over-against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried. 15 And the bars also themselves he made of setim-wood, and overlaid them with gold. 16 And the vessels for the divers uses of the table, dishes, bowls, and cups, and censers of pure gold, wherein the libations are to be offered. 17 He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold. From the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies came out: 18 Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on the other. 19 Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal and lilies; and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went out from the shaft of the candlestick was equal. 20 And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every 35 He made also a veil of violet, and purple, 36 And four pillars of setim-wood, which with their heads he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver. 37 He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an embroiderer. 38 And five pillars, with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of brass. CHAP. XXXVII. Beseleel maketh the ark: the propitiatory, and cheru- 21 And bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six branches going out from one shaft. 22 So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten work of the purest gold. 23 He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold. 24 The candlestick with all the vessels thereof weighed a talent of gold. 25 He made also the altar of incense of setimwood, being a cubit on every side four-square, and in height two cubits: from the corners of which went out horns. 26 And he overlaid it with the purest gold, with its grate and the sides, and the horns. 27 And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden rings under the crown at each side, that the bars might be put into them, and the altar be carried. 28 And the bars themselves he made also of setim-wood, and overlaid them with plates of gold. 29 He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer. CHAP. XXXVIII. He maketh the altar of holocaust. The brazen laver. The court with its pillars and hangings. The sum of what the people offered. HE E made also the altar of holocaust of setimwood, five cubits square, and three in height: 2 The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass. 3 And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass, caldrons, tongs, flesh-hooks, pot-hooks, and fire-pans. 4 And he made the grate thereof of brass, in manner of a net, and under it in the midst of the altar a hearth, 5 Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top, to put in bars to carry it. 6 And he made the bars of setim-wood, and overlaid them with plates of brass: 7 And he drew them through the rings that stood out in the sides of the altar. And the altar itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards, and empty within. 8 He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle. 9 He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings of fine twisted linen, of a hundred cubits, 10 Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets, the heads of the pillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver. 11 In like manner at the north side the hangings, the pillars, and the sockets and heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work and metal. 12 But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings of fifty cubits, ten pillars of brass with their sockets, and the heads of the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver. 13 Moreover towards the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits: 14 Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side with three pillars, and their sockets: 15 And on the other side (for between the two he made the entry of the tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, and three pillars, and as many sockets. 16 All the hangings of the court were woven with twisted linen. 17 The sockets of the pillars were of brass, and their heads with all their gravings of silver: and he overlaid the pillars of the court also with silver 18 And he made in the entry thereof an embroidered hanging of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, that was twenty cubits long, and five cubits high according to the measure of all the hangings of the court. 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Sup. 28.6. 19 And the pillars in the entry were four with sockets of brass, and their heads and gravings of silver. 20 The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he made of brass. 21 These are the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony, which were counted according to the commandment of Moses, in the ceremo nies of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest: 22 Which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda had made as the Lord commanded by Moses, 23 Having for his companion Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan: who also was an excellent artificer in wood, and worker in tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet, and fine linen. 24 All the gold that was spent in the work of the sanctuary, and that was offered in gifts, was nine and twenty talents, and seven hundred and thirty sicles according to the standard of the sanctuary. 25 And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms. 26 There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth. 27 A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent being reckoned for every socket. 28 And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy five he made the heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver. 29 And there were offered of brass also seventy two thousand talents, and four hundred sicles besides, 30 Of which were cast the sockets in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and all the vessels that belong to the use thereof. 31 And the sockets of the court as well round about as in the entry thereof, and the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about. CHAP. XXXIX. All the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made. And the whole work of the tabernacle is finished. AND he made, dof violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses. 2 So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twicedyed, and fine twisted linen, 3 With embroidered work: and he cut thic plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the foresaid colours. 4 And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side, 5 And a girdle of the same colours, as t Lord had commanded Moses. 6 He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel 7 And he set them in the sides of the ephod for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses. |