 CHAPTER XXV to XXXI Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From every one whose heart makes him willing, you shall take my offering. This is the offering which you shall take from them. Gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, ramskins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it. They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits. Its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it. You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it. You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel. You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height. You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. You shall make a rim of a hand-breadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim 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. The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold. You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always. You shall make a lamp-stand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lamp-stand be made. In its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. There shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lamp-stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp-stand out of its other side. Three cups made like almond blossoms on one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bud and a flower. So for the six branches going out of the lamp-stand, and in the lamp-stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp-stand. Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it beaten work of pure gold. You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. Its snuffers and its snuff-dishes shall be of pure gold. It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. See that you make them after their pattern which has been shown to you on the mountain. CHAPTER XXVI Moreover, you shall make the tent with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet with cherubim. The work of the skillful workmen you shall make them. The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains shall have one measure. Five curtains shall be coupled together, one to another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled, one to another. You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another. You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps, and the tent shall be a unit. You shall make curtains of goat's hair for covering over the tent. You shall make them eleven curtains. The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall have one measure. You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. You shall make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tent. The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side, and on that side, to cover it. You shall make a covering for the tent of ramskins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above. You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board. There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another. Thus you shall make for all the boards of the tent. You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward. 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. For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards, and there forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. For the far part of the tent, whispered, you shall make six boards. You shall make two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part. They shall be double beneath, and in like manner, they shall be entire to its top, to one ring. Thus shall it be for them both. They shall be for the two corners. There shall be eight boards, and there sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward. The middle bar in the midst of the board shall pass through from end to end. You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold. You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain. You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen with cherubim. The work of the skillful workmen shall it be made. You shall hang it on the four pillars of acacia and overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold on four sockets of silver. You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the arc of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. You shall put the mercy seat on the arc of the testimony in the most holy place. You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand over against the table on the south side of the tent toward the south. And you shall put the table on the north side. You shall make a screen for the door of the tent of blue and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them. Chapter 27 You shall make the altar of acacia wood five cubits long, and five cubits broad. The altar shall be four square, and its height shall be three cubits. You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with brass. You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its firepans. All its vessels you shall make of brass. You shall make a grating for it of network of brass, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings on its four corners. You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. You shall make poles for the altar. The poles of acacia wood and overlay them with brass. Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. You shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain. You shall make the court of the tent. For the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side, and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. The breadth of the course on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three. For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three. For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer, their pillars four, and their sockets four. All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver. Their hooks of silver and their sockets of brass. The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen and their sockets of brass. All the instruments of the tent in all its service and all its pins and all the pins of the court shall be of brass. You shall command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light to cause a lamp to burn continually. In the tent of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh. It shall be a statute for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel. CHAPTER XXVIII Bring Aaron your brother and his sons with him near to you from among the children of Israel that he may minister to me in the priest's office. Even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Elizer and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garment to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. These are the garments which they shall make, a breastplate and an e-fod and a robe and a coat, a checker work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons that he may minister to me in the priest's office. They shall take the gold and the blue and the purple and the scarlet and the fine linen. They shall make the e-fod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the skilled workmen. It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it that it may be joined together, the skillfully woven band which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen. You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel, six of their names on the one stone and the names of the six that remain on the other stone in the order of their birth. With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold. You shall put the two stones in the shoulder straps of the e-fod to be the stones of memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial. 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. You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman. Like the work of the e-fod, you shall make it of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. You shall make it. It shall be square and fold the double. A span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth. You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones. A row of ruby, toe pass, and barrel shall be the first row. In the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald. In the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. In the fourth row, a chrysalite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings. The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet. Everyone according to his name. They shall be for the twelve tribes. You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords of braided work of pure gold. You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its four part. You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward. He shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod, underneath in its four-part, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod. Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart. And he goes into the holy place for a memorial before Yahweh continually. You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart. When he goes in before Yahweh, and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually. You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. It shall have a hole for the head in its midst. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn. On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet around its hem, and bells of gold between and around them, a golden bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe. It shall be on Aaron to minister, and its sound shall be heard when he goes out to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out that he not die. You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave it, like the engravings of a signet, holy to Yahweh. You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. On the front of the sash it shall be. It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts. It shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh. You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer. You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make sashes for them, and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty. You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. You shall make the linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the waste even to the thighs they shall reach. They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come nearer to the altar to minister in the holy place that they don't bear the iniquity and die. It shall be a statute for ever to him, and to his sentence after him. CHAPTER XXIX This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office. You shall make one young bull and two rams without blemish, unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them a fine wheat-flower. You shall put them in one basket, and bring them in the basket with the bull and the two rams. You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the e-fod, the e-fod, and the breast-plate, and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the e-fod, and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. Then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and anoint him. You shall bring his sons and put coats on them. You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute, and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons. You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the tent of meeting. You shall take of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. You shall take all the fat that covers the innards and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering. You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar. You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. You shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to Yahweh. It is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of the right hand, on a big toe of the right foot, and sprinkle the blood around the altar. You shall take the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him, and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of concentration, and one loaf of bread, one cake of oil bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. You shall put all this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh, and it shall be your portion. You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering which is waived, and which is heaved up, and of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons, and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion for ever from the children of Israel, for it is a wave offering, and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh. The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place. You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place. 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. They shall eat these things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them, but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy. If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy. You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days. Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement, and you shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it. Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy. Now this is what you shall offer on the altar. Two lambs a year old, day by day continually. One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at evening, and with the one lamb a tenth part of an effa fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hinn of beaten oil, and a fourth part of a hinn of wine for a drink offering. The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering for a pleasant aroma and offering made by fire to Yahweh. It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. There I will meet with the children of Israel, and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar. Aaron also, and his sons, I will sanctify to minister to me in the priest's office. I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. I know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them. I am Yahweh their God. CHAPTER XXXI. You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horn shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. And you shall make a gold molding around it. You shall make two gold rings for it under its molding, on its two ribs, on its two sides. You shall make them. They shall be for places for poles with which to bear it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. You shall put it before the veil, that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat, that is over the testimony where I will meet with you. Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps he shall burn it. When Aaron lights the lamps at evening he shall burn it. A perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you shall pour no drink offering on it. Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, When you take a census of the children of Israel according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel is twenty garas, half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh. Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, for twenty years old and upward shall give the offering to Yahweh, the rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel when they give the offering of Yahweh to make atonement for your souls. You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel and shall appoint it for the children of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh to make atonement for your souls. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. When they go into the tent of meeting they shall wash with water that they may not die, or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. So they shall wash their hands and their feet that they not die, and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations. Moreover, Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Also take fine spices of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels, and a fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty, and a fragrant cane two hundred and fifty, and of Kesea five hundred after the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hint of olive oil. You shall make it a wholly anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer. It shall be a wholly anointing oil. You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the table, and all its articles, the lamp stand, and its accessories, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. You shall sanctify them that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a wholly anointing oil to me throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on man's flesh. Neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition. It is wholly. It shall be wholly to you. Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. Yahweh said to Moses, Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, anoncha, and galbenum, sweet spices with pure frankincense. Of each shall there be equal weight, and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy, and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most wholly. The incense which you shall make, according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be to you wholly for Yahweh. Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people. CHAPTER XXXI. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, I have called by my name Bezal, the son of Irri, the son of Her, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to devise skillful works, to work in gold and in silver and in brass, and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood to work in all manner of workmanship. I, behold, I have appointed with him, Aholia, the son of Ahisomach, of the tribe of Dan, and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted, I have put wisdom that they may make all I have commanded you, the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the tent, the table and its vessels, and the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place, according to all that I have commanded you, they shall do. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Most certainly you shall keep my sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. You shall keep the sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death. For everyone who does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. He gave to Moses when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger. End of chapters 25 to 31. Chapter 32 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us gods which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him. 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, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh. They rose up early the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat, and to drink, and rose up to play. Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go, get down, for your people, who you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I have commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Yahweh said to Moses, I have seen these people, and behold, they are stiff-necked people, therefore leave me alone that my wrath may burn hot against them, that I may consume them, and I will make of you a great nation. Moses begged Yahweh, his God, and said, Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountain, and to consume them from the surface of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, that they shall inherit it, for ever. Yahweh repented of the evil which he had said he would do to his people. Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both their sides, on the one side and on the other they were written. The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tables. When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said to Moses, there is the noise of war in the camp. He said, it isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome, but the noise of those who sing that I hear. It happened as soon as he came near to the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing, and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them beneath the mountain. He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. Moses said to Aaron, what did these people do to you that you have brought a great sin on them? Aaron said, don't let the anger of my Lord grow hot. You know the people that they are sent on evil, for they said to me, make us gods which shall go before us, for as for this Moses the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt we don't know what has become of him. 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. Then Moses saw that the people had broken loose, for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies. Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, whoever is on Yahweh's side come to me. All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. He said to them, thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. Moses said, consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son and against his brother, that he may bestow on you a blessing this day. It happened on the next day that Moses said to the people, you have sinned a great sin, now I will go up to Yahweh, perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin. Moses returned to Yahweh and said, oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin, and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written. Yahweh said to Moses, whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin. Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made. Chapter 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Parasite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way. When the people heard this evil news they mourned, and no one put on his jewellery. Yahweh said to Moses, Tell the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment I would consume you, therefore now take off your jewellery from you, that I may know what to do to you. The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward. Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it the Tent of Meeting. It happened that everyone who saw Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting which was outside the camp. It happened that when Moses went out to the tent that all the people rose up and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses until he had gone into the tent. It happened when Moses entered into the tent that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the tent, and spoke with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the tent, and all the people rose up and worshipped, everyone at their tent door. Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the tent. Moses said to Yahweh, Behold, you tell me, bring up this people, and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight. Now, therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight and consider that this nation is your people. He said, My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. He said to them, If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. For how will people know that I have found favor in your sight, I, and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I, and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth? Yahweh said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name. He said, Please show me your glory. He said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. He said, You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live. Yahweh also said, Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face shall not be seen. CHAPTER 34 Yahweh said to Moses, Chisel two stone tablets like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. No one shall come up with you, neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain, neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mountain. He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first, and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, keeping loving-kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the children's children on the third and on the fourth generation. Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance. He said, Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been worked in all the earth nor in any nation, and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh, for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Parasite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Be careful lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you, but you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their ashram, for you shall worship no other God, for Yahweh, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God. Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you, and you eat his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods. You shall make no cast idols for yourselves. You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the time appointed in the month of Abib. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. All that opens the womb is mine, and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep, the firstborn of donkey, you shall redeem it with a lamb, and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty. Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. During time and in harvest you shall rest. You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end. Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel, for I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in the year. You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven bread. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning. You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. Yahweh said to Moses, Write you these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant the ten commandments. It happened when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him, when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses behold the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. When Moses was done speaking with them he put a veil on his face. But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him he took the veil off until he came out, and he came out and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face shone, and Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with him. CHAPTER 35 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel and said to them, these are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest of Yahweh. Whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day. Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, this is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying, take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is a willing heart let him bring it. Yahweh's offering, gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, ram's skins dyed red, sea-cow hides, acacia wood, oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. Let every wise-hearted man among you come and make all that Yahweh has commanded, the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets, the ark and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen, the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show-bread, the lamp-stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps and the oil for the light, and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door at the door of the tent, the altar of burnt offering with its grating of brass, the poles and all its pillars, the basin and its base, the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords, the finely-worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office. All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold, even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh, everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, and linen, goats' hair, ramskins dyed red, and sea-cow-heights brought them. Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering, and everyone with whom was found acacia-wood, for any work of the service, brought it. All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. All the women whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair, the rulers brought onyx-stones, and the stones to be set for the ephot, and for the breastplate, and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh. Every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses. Moses said to the children of Israel, Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Her, of the tribe of Judah. He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, in an all manner of workmanship, and to make skillful works to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. He has put in his heart that he may teach both he and Oholiab the son of Ahizamach, of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works. CHAPTER XXXVI Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary according to all that Yahweh has commanded. Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every wise-hearted man in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it, and they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel have brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill offerings every morning. All the wise men who performed the work of the sanctuary each came from his work which they did. They spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make. Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing. So the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it and too much. All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tent with ten curtains, a fine-twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. With cherubim the work of the skillful workmen they made them. The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and a breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure. He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. He made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling. He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another. He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with clasps so that the tent was a unit. He made curtains of goats hair for a covering over the tent. He made them eleven curtains. The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure. He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling. He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. He made a covering for the tent of ramskins dyed red, and a covering of sea-cow hides above. He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood standing up. Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. Each board had two tenons, one joined to another. He made all the boards of the tent this way. He made the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward. He made 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, for the second side of the tent. On the north side he made twenty boards, and there are forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. For the far part of the tent, westward, he made six boards. He made two boards for the corners of the tent, in the far part. They were double beneath, and in like manner they were all the way to its top, to one ring. He did thus to both of them in the two corners. There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets under every board, two sockets. He made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tent, and five for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward. He made the middle bar pass through in the midst of the boards from one end to the other. He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman. 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. He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, 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. CHAPTER 37 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. 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, and 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 put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. He made a mercy seat of pure gold, its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth. He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work at the two ends of the mercy seat, one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half. He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. He made a border of a hand breadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it. He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were at its four feet. The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table. 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 the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it. There were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side. Three cups were made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud, and a flower, and three cups were made like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bud, and a flower. So for the six branches going out of the lampstand. In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds, and its flowers, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it. For the six branches going out of it, their buds the branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. He made it seven lamps and its snuffers and its snuff dishes of pure gold. He made it of a talent of pure gold with all its vessels. He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was a cubit and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. He overlaid it with pure gold. Its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it. He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it. He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. He made the wholly anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices after the art of the perfumer. After thirty-eight he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits. He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it and he overlaid it with brass. He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans. He made all its vessels of brass. He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass under the ledge around it beneath, reaching half way up. He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating to be places for the poles. He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with brass. He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks. He made the basin of brass and its space of brass out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting. He made the court. For the south side southward the hangings of the court were a fine twined linen, one hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass. The hooks of the pillars and the 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 for the west side were hanging of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. For the east side eastward fifty cubits, the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three, and so for the other side. On this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three. All the hangings around the court were a fine twined linen. The sockets for the silver 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. The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height and the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court. The pillars were four and their sockets four of brass. The hooks of silver and all the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver. All the pins of the tent and around the court were of brass. This is the amount of material used for the tent, even the tent 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. Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses. With him was Oholiah, the son of Ahisomach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen. All the gold that was used for the work and all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. A becca ahead, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. 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. Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels. With this he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar, the sockets around the court, and the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tent, and all the pins around the court. CHAPTER 39 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet they made finely worked garments, for administering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twine linen. They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workmen. They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together. The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work, of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twine linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel. He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workmen, like the work of the ephod, of gold, of blue, scarlet, and fine twine linen. It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and it spread the span, being double. They set in it four rows of stone. A row of ruby, topaz, and barrel was the first row. In the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald. In the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. In the fourth row a chrysalet, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings. The stones were, according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet. Everyone, according to his name, for the twelve tribes. They made, on the breastplate, chains like cords of braided work of pure gold. They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its front. They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward. They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath in its front, close by its coupling above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod as Yahweh commanded Moses. He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening that it should not be torn. They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen, and they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe between the pomegranates, a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the skirts of the robe to minister in as Yahweh commanded Moses. They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons, and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twine linen, and the sash of fine twine linen, and blue and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer as Yahweh commanded Moses. They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing like the engravings of a signet, holy to Yahweh. They tied it to a lace of blue to fasten it on the turban above as Yahweh commanded Moses. Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did. They brought the tent to Moses, the tent with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, the covering of ramskins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, the arc of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, the table, all its vessels, the showbread, the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the tent, the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the tent of meeting, the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for air in the priest, and the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it, as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it, and Moses blessed them. Chapter 40 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the tent of meeting. You shall put the arc of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the arc with the veil. You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps. You shall set the golden altar for incense before the arc of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent. You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting. You shall set the basin between the tent of the meeting and the altar. You shall put water therein. You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy. You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy. You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it. You shall bring Aaron and its sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. You shall put on Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. Moses did so, according to all that Yahweh commanded him. So he did. It happened in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month that the tent was raised up. Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark. He put the mercy seat above the ark. He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil. He set the bread in order on it, before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He put the lamp stand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tent southward. He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. He put up the screen of the door to the tent. He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering as Yahweh commanded Moses. He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein with which to wash. Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. When they went into the tent of meeting and when they came nearer to the altar they washed as Yahweh commanded Moses. He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tent. Moses wasn't able to enter into the tent of meeting because the cloud stayed on it. And Yahweh's glory filled the tent. When the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the children of Israel went onward throughout all their journeys. But if the cloud wasn't taken up, they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was a fire in the cloud by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. End of the Book of Exodus. Leviticus from the World English Bible. Chapters 1 through 8. Take his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting. He shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay wood in order on the fire. And Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head and the fat, in order on the wood, that is on the fire which is on the altar. But it's innards in its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the hole on the altar for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. He shall cut it into its pieces with the head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, but the innards in the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the hole and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons. The priest shall bring it to the altar and ring off its head and burn it on the altar, and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar. And he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be a fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, and he shall take his handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. When you offer an offering of meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour mixed with oil. You shall cut it into pieces and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh, and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast, for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. As an offering of first fruits, you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not descend for a pleasant aroma on the altar. Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. Neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its bruised grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Yahweh. He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar. He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings and offering made by fire to Yahweh, the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is on the innards and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver with the kidneys he shall take away. Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire. It is an offering made by fire of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh, and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it before the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings and offer made by fire to Yahweh. It's fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the innards, and the fat that is on the innards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver with the kidneys he shall take away. The priest shall burn it on the altar. It is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh. If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh, and he shall lay his hand on his head, and kill it before the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. He shall offer from it as his offering and offering made by fire to Yahweh, the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is on the innards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver with the kidneys he shall take away. The priest shall burn them on the altar. It is the food of the offering made by fire for a pleasant aroma. All the fat is Yahweh's. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings that you shall eat neither fat nor blood. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, speak to the children of Israel, saying, if anyone sins unintentionally in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done and does any one of them, if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before Yahweh. The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary. The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh which is in the tent of meeting, and he shall pour out all the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting. He shall take all of the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it, the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is on the innards and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is by the loins and the cover on the liver with the kidneys he shall take away. As it has taken off the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. The bull's skin, all its flesh with its head and with its legs, its innards and its dung, even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned. If the whole congregation of Israel sins and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done and are guilty, when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting. The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh. The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil. He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh that is in the tent of meeting and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting. All its fat he shall take from it and burn it on the altar. Thus shall he do with the bull as he did with the bull of the sin offering. So shall he do with this and the priest shall make atonement for them and they shall be forgiven. He shall carry before the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burn the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly. When a ruler sins and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done and is guilty, if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male, without blemish. He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. All its fat he shall burn on the altar like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin and he will be forgiven. If any one of the common people sins unwittingly in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done and is guilty, if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female, without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. All its fat he shall take away like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh and the priest shall make atonement for him and he will be forgiven. If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering he shall bring a female without blemish. He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. All its fat he shall take away like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall burn them on the altar on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned and he will be forgiven. If anyone sins in that he hears the voice of adoration he being a witness whether he is seen or known if he doesn't report it then he shall bear his iniquity. Or if anyone touches any unclean thing whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal or the carcass of unclean livestock or the carcass of unclean creeping things and it is hidden from him and he is unclean then he shall be guilty. Or if he touches the uncleanness of man whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean and it is hidden from him when he knows of it then he shall be guilty. Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath and it is hidden from him when he knows of it then he shall be guilty of one of these. It shall be when he is guilty of one of these he shall confess that in which he has sinned and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin. If he can't afford a lamb then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtle loves or two young pigeons to Yahweh, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. He shall bring them to the priest who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering and ring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. He shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the ordinance and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned and he shall be forgiven. But if he can't afford two turtle loves or two young pigeons then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an effa of flower for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and neither shall he put any frankincense on it for it is a sin offering. He shall bring it to the priest and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion and burn it on the altar on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things and he will be forgiven and the rest shall be the priests as the meal offering. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, If anyone commits a trespass and sins unwittingly in the holy things of Yahweh then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary for a trespass offering. He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing and shall add a fifth part to it and give it to the priest and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering and he will be forgiven. If anyone sins and does any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done though he didn't know it yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity. He shall bring a ram without blemish from the flock according to your estimation for a trespass offering to the priest and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it and he will be forgiven. It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, If anyone sins and commits a trespass against Yahweh and deals falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit or of bargain or of robbery or has oppressed his neighbour or has found that which was lost and dealt falsely therein and swearing to a lie in any of all these things that a man does sinning therein then it shall be if he has sinned and is guilty he shall restore that which he took by robbery or the thing which he has gotten by oppression or the deposit which was committed to him or the lost thing which he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely he shall restore it even in full and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it in the day of his being found guilty. He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh a ram without blemish from the flock according to your estimation for a trespass offering to the priest. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, Command Aaron and his son saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. The priest shall put on his linen garment and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar and he shall put them beside the altar. He shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually. It shall not go out. This is the law of the meal offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh before the altar. He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering and of its oil and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma as its memorial to Yahweh. That which is left of it Aaron and his son shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the tent of meeting. It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy as the sin offering and as the trespass offering. Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it as their portion forever throughout your generations from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed. The tenth part of an effa of flour for a meal offering perpetually half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever it shall be holy burnt to Yahweh. Every meal offering of a priest shall be holy burnt. It shall not be eaten. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, Speak to Aaron and to his sons saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy. The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place in the court of the tent of meeting. Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel it shall be scoured and rinsed in water. Every meal among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy. No sin offering of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy. In the place where they kill the burnt offering he shall kill the trespass offering and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. He shall offer all of its fat the fat tail and the fat that covers the innards and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is by the loins and the cover on the liver and with the kidneys he shall he take away. And the priests shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a trespass offering. Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. As is the sin offering so is the trespass offering. There is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. The priest who offers any man's burnt offering even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which is he has offered. Every meal offering that is baked in the oven and all that is dressed in the pan and on the griddle shall be the priests who offers it. Every meal offering mixed with oil or dry belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another. This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which one shall offer to Yahweh. If he offers it for thanksgiving then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and cakes mixed with oil. With cakes of unleavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving. Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priests who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a free will offering it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day it will not be accepted. Neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh everyone who is clean may eat it but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh having his uncleanness on him that soul shall be cut off from his people. When anyone touches any unclean thing the uncleanness of man or an unclean animal or any unclean abomination and eat some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh that soul shall be cut off from his people. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying Speak to the children of Israel saying You shall eat no fat of bull or sheep or goat. The fat of that which dies of itself and the fat of that which is torn of animals may be used for any other service but you shall in no way eat of it. For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. You shall not eat any blood whether it is a bird or a animal in any of your dwellings. Whoever it is who eats any blood that soul shall be cut off from his people. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying Speak to the children of Israel saying He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast that the breast may be waved for a way of offering before Yahweh. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar but the breast shall be errands and his sons. The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. For the waved breast and the heave thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel. This is the anointing portion of Aaron and the anointing portion of his sons out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. In the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest's office. Which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. This is the law of the burnt offerings of the meal offering and of the sin offering and of the trespass offering and of the consecration and of the sacrifice of peace offerings which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, Take Aaron and his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil and the bolt of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread and assemble all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting. Moses did as Yahweh commanded him and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting. Moses said to the congregation This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done. Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the effod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the effod on him and fastened it to him with it. He placed the breastplate on him and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thumim. He set the turban on his head and on the turban in front he set the golden plate the holy crown as Yahweh commanded Moses. Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and sanctified them. He sprinkled it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its vessels and the basin and its base to sanctify them. He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to sanctify him. Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes on them and put headbands on them as Yahweh commanded Moses. He brought the bowl of the sin offering and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bowl of the sin offering. He killed it and Moses took the blood and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and sanctified it to make atonement for it. He took all the fat that was on the innards and the cover of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and Moses burned it on the altar. But the bowl and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned with fire outside the camp as Yahweh commanded Moses. He presented the ram of the burnt offering and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. He killed it and Moses sprinkled the blood around the altar. He cut the ram into its pieces and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat. He washed the innards and the legs with water and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh as Yahweh commanded Moses. He presented the other ram the ram of consecration and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. He killed it and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot. He brought Aaron's sons and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear and on the thumb of their right hand and on the great toe of their right foot and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. He took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the innards and the cover of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh and out of the basket of unleaven bread that was before Yahweh. He took one unleavened cake and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. He put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons hand and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh. Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh. Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses's portion of the ram of consecration as Yahweh commanded Moses. Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments and on his sons and on his son's garments with him and sanctified Aaron, his garments and his sons and his son's garments with him. Moses said to Aaron and to his sons boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration as I commanded saying Aaron and his sons shall eat it. What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with the fire. You shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days until the days of your consecration are fulfilled for he shall consecrate you seven days. What has been done this day so Yahweh has commanded to do to make atonement for you. You shall stay at the door of the tent of meeting day and night seven days and keep Yahweh's command that you don't die for so I am commanded. Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses. End of chapters one through eight Recording by Kalinda in Raymond, New Hampshire on February 4th, 2008.