have a hole for the head in the midst thereof; it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent. MAnd upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pome- granates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: Ma golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about. ^And it shall be upon Aaron to minister; and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not. ^And thou shalt make a. plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLT TO THE LORD. 37And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. ^And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron bear the iniquity committed in the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow, even in all then* holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be ac- cepted before the LORD. 39And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt __ _ _ A. ^ make a girdle, the work of the weaver his heart, when he goeth In unto*the in colours. 40And for Aaron's sons 99 EXODUS thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head- tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty. 41And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me hi the priest's office. ^And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the t flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach. ^And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die; it shall be a statute forever unto him and unto his seed after him.
f)Q And this is the thing that thou ^ shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto Me in the priest's office: take one young bul- lock and two rams without blemish, 2and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened spread with oil; of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. 5And thou shalt take the gar- ments, and put upon Aaron the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 6And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. 8And thou shalt bring his sons, and put tunics upon them. 9And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on them; and they shall have the priest- hood by a perpetual statute; and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. 10And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock. "And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meet- ing. 12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the re- maining blood at the base of the altar. 13And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and make them smoke upon the altar. 14But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp; it is a sin-offering. 16Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. 16And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and dash it round about against the altar. 17And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its in- wards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. 18And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar;. it is a burnt-offering unto the LORD; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 19And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. -°Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb EXODUS of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and dash the blood against the altar round about. ^And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the gar- ments of his sons with him; and he and his garments shall be hallowed, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. ^Also thou shalt take of the ram "the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right thigh; for it is a ram of consecration; ^and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD. ^And thou shalt put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD. ^And thou shalt take them from their hands, and make them smoke on the altar upon the burnt- offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.?6And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of con- secration, and wave it for a wave- offering before the LORD; and it shall be thy portion. 27And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the. heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is Aaron's, and of that which is his sons'. ^And it shall be for Aaron and his sons as a due for ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering; and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of ' unto the LORD. 29And the holy gar- ments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. 30Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, even he who cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place. 31And thou shalt take the ram of conse- cration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place. ^And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. ^And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. 34And if aught of the flesh of the consecra- tion, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 36And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have com- manded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them. ^And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin- offering, beside the other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; thus shall the altar be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
38Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs of the first year day by day continually. 39The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at dusk. 40And with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part Israel of their sacrifices of peace- of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth offerings, even their heave-offering i part of a hin of wine for a drink- EXODUS offering. 4lAnd the other lamb thou shalt offer at dusk, and shaft do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink- offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ^It shall be a continual burnt- offering tliroughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting be- fore the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there unto thoe. ^And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and [the Tent] shall be sancti- fied by My glory. 44And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar; Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify, to minister to Me in the priest's of- fice. 45And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. ^And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
Q A And thou shalt make an altar ^^ to burn incense upon; of acacia- wood shalt thou make it. 2A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; four-square shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. 3And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. 4And two gold- en rings shalt thou make for it under tlie crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it. 6And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. 6And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the ark-, cover that is over the testimony, where II will meet with thee. 7And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dress- eth the lamps, he shall burn it. 8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at dusk, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. 9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt- offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon. 10And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it through- out your generations; it is most holy unto the LORD.'
11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are num- bered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary— the shekel is twenty gerahs— half a shekel for an offering to the LORD. "Every one that pass- eth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of the LORD. 15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the of- fering of the LORD, to make atone- ment for your souls. 16And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meet- ing, that it may be a memorial for the EXODUS children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls/ 17And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18'Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, whereat to wash; and thou shalt put it between the tent of meet- ing and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat; 20when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to cause an offering made by fire to smoke unto the LORD; 21so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not; and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.7 ^Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'Take thou^also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet cala- mus two hundred and fifty, Mand of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. ^And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. ^And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, 27and the table and all ^ the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of in- cense, 28and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels thereof, and the laver and the base thereof. 29And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. 30And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office. 31And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations. ^Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the composition thereof; it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you. ^Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people/ ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight. ^And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. ^And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testi- mony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee; it shall be unto you most holy. 37And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves; it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. ^Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.7 Q~l And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^x saying: 2fSee, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 3and I have filled him, with' the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understand- ing, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, *to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, %nd in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of work- manship. 6And I, behold, I have appointed with him OhoHab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise- EXODUS hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee: 7the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark- cover that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent; 8and the table and its vessels, and the pure candle- stick with all its vessels, and the altar of incense; 9and the altar of burnt- offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base; 10and the plaited garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office; uand the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place; according TO all that I have commanded thee shall they do.'
12And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 13i Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying: Verily ye shall keep My sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the LORD who sanctify you. 14Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you; every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 16Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested/ 18And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of speaking with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables.
of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. OO And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him: 'Up, make us a god who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.' 2And Aaron said unto them: 'Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.' 3And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said: 'This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' 5And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.' 6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to make merry.
7And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have dealt corruptly; *they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said: This is thy god, 0 Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' 9And the LORD said unto Moses: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people. 10Now therefore iet Me alone, that My wrath may wax EXODUS EXODUS hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.' uAnd Moses besought the LORD his God, and said: 'LORD, why doth Thy wrath wax hot against Thy people, that Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ^Wherefore should the Egyp- tians speak, saying: For evil did He bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people. "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy serv- ants, to whom Thou didst swear by Thine own self, and saidst unto them: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.' 14And the LORD repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people.
15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp/ 18And he said- 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear/ 19And it came tQ pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount. 20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. 21And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?' ^And Aaron said: 'Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil. ^So they said unto me: Make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. ^And I said unto them: Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.' 25And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose — f or Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies — 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said: 'Whoso is on the LORD'S side, let him come^unto me.' And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27And he said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.' 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there f eU of the people that day about three thousand men. 29And Moses said* 'Consecrate yourselves to-day to the LORD, for every man hath been against his son and against his brother; that He may also bestow upon you a blessing this day/ 80An<i it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go EXODUS up unto the LORD, peradventure 1 shall make atonement for your sin/ wAnd Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold. ^Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin —; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written/ ^And the LORD said unto^ Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book. wAnd now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, Mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them/ ^And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
0 O And the LORD spoke unto Moses: uo 'Depart., jgo up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I swore unto Abra- ham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, say- ing: Unto thy seed will I give it — 2and 1 will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebu- site — 3unto a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff- necked people; lest I consume thee in the way/ 4AJ1d when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him. his orna- ments. 6And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto the children of Israel: Ye are a stiff necked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee/ 6And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb on- ward.
7Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought the LORD went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the camp. 8And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent. 9And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and [the LORD] spoke with Moses. 10And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door. uAnd the LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And be would return into the camp; but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a oung man, departed not out of the 'ent.
^And Moses said unto the LORD: 'See, Thou sayest unto me: Bring up this people; and Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me. Yet Thou hast said: I know ihee by name, and thou hast also found grace in My sight. wNow therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in Thy sight, show me now Thy ways, that I may know Thee, to the end that I may find grace in Thy sight; and consider that this nation is Thy people/ ^AndHesaid: 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest/ 15And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. 16For wherein now shall it be known that I have found EXODUS grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?'