 25 There the everliving spoke to Moses and said, Tell the children of Israel that they must bring offerings to me. From anything their heart induces them they may offer, and these are the offerings they may offer for themselves. Gold, silver, and brass, and blue and purple and scarlet and red, spun goats hair and red ram skins and badgers skins, and acacia wood. Oil for the light for the lamps, with oil to anoint, and incense to perfume, and make for me a sanctuary, and I will dwell amongst them. Exactly according to the pattern I have shown you, you shall form the dwelling and form all its furniture, thus you shall make it. You shall also make an ark of acacia wood, of two cubits and a half long, and two cubits and a half breath, and a cubit and a half high, and you shall plate it with pure gold inside and out, and wreath and make a border of gold around it. You shall also cast rings of pure gold, and place on the four corners of it, that is, two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it, and you shall make staves of acacia wood and plate them with gold, and put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. The staves shall remain in the rings, they shall not be removed from them. You shall then put into the ark the evidences that I will give to you. You shall also make a cover of pure gold, of two cubits in length, and a cubit and a half in breath. You shall besides make two covers of gold, shaped as dishes, in two divisions for the covers. Make the cases thus, one for each side, and a carob for that division of the cover. You shall make it with carabim upon the two divisions. Thus the carabim will be stretching their wings as overshadowing the covers with their wings, with the wings of each towards his brother over the covers. The carabim shall be face to face. Then you shall place the covers upon the top of the ark, and you shall put into the ark the evidences that I will give to you. Then I will instruct you there, and I will speak to you from off the covers, from between the two carabim, which are upon the ark, all that I command you for the children of Israel. You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit broad, and a cubit and a half high, and plate it with pure gold, and make a border of gold around it. Construct thus a border like a coping around it, and make points of gold upon the surrounding border. Also make for it four staves of gold, and put the staves in the four sockets which are above the legs. These four sockets shall be above the border for the staves to carry the table by. So you shall make the staves of acacia wood, and plate them with gold to carry the table. You shall also make dishes and spoons and bowls and the cups in which the wine is of pure gold, and place upon the table the shoe-bread before me continually. You shall also make lamps of pure gold. Make the lamp with spreading branches, with a stock rising upwards like a blossom, with a bowl on it. Let there be six stocks going from the sides of it, three stocks for lamps on one side of it, and three stocks for lamps on the other side of it, three knobs with almonds on each stock, a flower and a bowl, the same for each of the three stocks that are provided for the lamps, and for the fourth lamp a knob with an almond, a knob and a bowl, and a knob under two of the stocks between them, and a knob under two of the stocks between them, and a knob under two of the stocks between them, for the six branches that come from the lamp. The knobs and the stocks between them shall be, all of them, each one, turned from pure gold. You shall also make seven reflectors to throw the light in front of themselves, and dishes and snuffers of pure gold. You shall use a talent of pure gold for it, and all its instruments, and be careful to make them according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain. CHAPTER XXVI You shall also make for the tent ten curtains of twisted linen and azure, purple and blue, ornamented artistically with two carabs. The width of each curtain shall be eighteen cubits, and the height of it four cubits. The extent of each curtain shall be the same to all the curtains. Two curtains shall be attached one to the other, and five curtains attached one to the other. You shall also make loops of azure on the edge of each of the curtains in the selvedge to join them, and make the same in the selvedge of the two curtains to join them. Make five loops to each curtain, thus make five loops on the selvedge of the two curtains that are joined by the opposite loops to the first one, and make five golden hooks to unite the curtains, each to the other by hooks so that they may be one tent. Also make curtains of goat's skin as a covering for the first tent. Make eleven curtains of them. The length of the first curtain to be thirty cubits, and the breadth four cubits. Make each one of the eleven curtains the same. Then join five of the curtains together, and six curtains together, for the doublings of the sixth curtain in the front of the tent. You shall also make fifty loops upon the edge of the first curtain, upon the selvedge at the juncture, and fifty loops upon the edge of the second curtain. And make hoops for the loops, and unite them for the pavilion, and let it be one. But part of the curtains must hang down from the roof of the pavilion. Half the curtains of the roof you shall hang over the back part of the tent, with a cubit on this side, and a cubit on that side, for the fold in the length of the curtains of the pavilion shall hang down over the sides of the tent on this side, and that side, to conceal it. You shall in addition make a covering to the tent of red ram skins, and a covering of skins of badgers all over it. You also make the boards of the sanctuary of Acacia Wood, plained. Ten cubits the length of each board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each plank. You shall set clasps upon the first plank at the edges of each of its counterparts. You shall do the same to all the planks of the sanctuary, and make the planks for the sanctuary twenty planks for the face to the right, with forty sockets of silver to fix under the twenty planks, two sockets under each plank to fix the clutches into, and upon the second side of the sanctuary to face the north twenty planks, and forty sockets of silver, two sockets under each plank, and two clutches under each plank. And to the breadth of the sanctuary westward, you shall make six planks with two planks made for a corner of the sanctuary at its lengths, and there shall be rings to fasten them, for the one shall have a ring on the top of it to meet the ring of the other. This shall be for the two corners, that is eight planks with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets for each plank. Make also crossbars of Acacia Wood, five to a plank at one side of the sanctuary, and five crossbars for the second side of the sanctuary, and five crossbars to the planks at the side of the sanctuary stretching west, and fix the crossbars in the middle of the planks, with bolts from one junction to the other junction. And overlay the planks and their rings with gold, make also of gold, rests for the crossbars, and plate the crossbars with gold, and erect the sanctuary according to the plan I showed you in the mount. Make besides a veil of azure, and purple and blue, and red and twisted linen, ornament it with an embroidery of carabin, and place it upon four supports of Acacia, overlaid with gold, with pins of gold, upon four sockets of silver, and hang the veil below the hooks, and bring there, within the veil to the Holy of Holies, the Ark of the Witnesses. Then put the covers upon the Ark in the Holy of Holies, and place the table outside the veil, and put the lamp upon the table at the south side of the sanctuary, and place the table towards the north side. Then make a screen for the door of the tent, of azure and purple and blue, and have it embroidered with spun flax. Also make five standards of Acacia for the screen, and plate them with gold, and have pins of gold, and cast for them five sockets of brass. CHAPTER XXVII Make besides an altar of Acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height three cubits. And make horns to it upon its four sides. The horns shall project from it. You shall also sheath it in brass. And make buckets for the ashes, and shovels, and brushes, and tongs. Make all its instruments of brass. Make also a net like a lattice of brass, and form on the network four projections of brass on its four corners, and fix it below the fireplace of the altar by its projections, so that the grating may be in the center of the altar. Make also staves for the altar, staves of Acacia wood, and plate them with brass, so that the staves may go into projections, and let the staves be upon the two sides of the altar to carry it by. Make it with hollow panels, such as were shown to you in the mountain. You shall make them the same. Make the court of the sanctuary to face towards the south. The curtains of the court have spun linen, one hundred cubits in length on one face, with twenty standards, and twenty sockets of brass, with spikes to the standards, and hooks of silver. And then on the length of the north side, one hundred cubits of curtains, and twenty standards, with their twenty sockets of brass, with spikes for the standards, and hooks of silver. Let the breath of the court to face the west be fifty cubits of curtains, ten standards, and ten sockets. And the breath of the court to face the east, towards the sunrise, fifty cubits, with fifteen cubits of curtains to the gateway, with three standards and three sockets. And from the other shoulder, fifteen cubits with three standards and three sockets. But for the gate of the court, let there be a mask of twenty cubits made of azure, and purple, and crimson, and blue, and red, and embroidered spun linen, with four standards and four sockets. All the standards around the court shall have silver connecting rods and pins of silver, and sockets of brass. The length of the court a hundred cubits, and the breath, fifty by fifty. And the height, five cubits of spun linen, with standards of brass, with all the furniture of the sanctuary, and all the service, and all its nails, and all the nails of the court of brass. You shall further command the children of Israel, that they must bring to you pure pressed olive oil for the lamps, for a continual offering in the pavilion of the testimony, outside the veil which is over the evidences, providing it for Aaron and his sons to serve till the morning before the ever-living, as an everlasting institution for their descendants among the children of Israel. And you shall separate to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons with him from among the children of Israel to be priests to me. Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eliezer and Ephemar, the sons of Aaron. Also make sacred robes for Aaron your brother to honor and beautify him, and speak to all the skillful-minded who have a skillful intellect that they should make those robes for Aaron to consecrate him as a priest to me. And these are the robes which they shall make, a breastplate and ephod, and a cloak and a cape of embroidery, with a turban and girdle. These are the sacred robes to be made for Aaron your brother and for his sons as priest to me. They must also bring gold and azure, and purple and blue and red and thread. Make the ephod of gold, azure, purple, blue, red, and spun linen embroidery. The two shoulder pieces shall be joined to it on the two sides and fastened, and the embroidery which they work upon the ephod shall be of gold, azure, and purple, and blue, red, and spun flax. Then you shall take two onyx stones and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names upon one stone, and the names of the other six of them upon the second stone, in order of their birth. You shall make the engraving like a seal. Having engraved the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel, you shall cause them to be surrounded with settings of gold, and set the two stones upon the two shoulders of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall carry their names before the everliving upon his two shoulders for a remembrance. Make as well settings of gold and two chains of pure gold. Make them with edgings as a wreath is made, and fix the chains on to the settings. Also make a breast plate of justice of embroidery like the ephod. Make it of gold, azure, and purple, and blue, red, and spun linen combined. It shall be square, a double span long, and a span wide, with settings in it, a setting of four stones in a row. A ruby, a topaz, and a diamond for the first row, the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, a jasper, the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst, the fourth row, an amber, an onyx, and pearl. They shall be in settings of gold with their fastenings, and the stones shall have the names of the twelve sons of Israel, their names engraven like a seal. Each shall have one name of the twelve tribes. Also make for the breast plate linked chains of pure gold as a wreath. Also make for the breast plate two buttons of gold, and fix the two buttons on the two edges of the breast plate, and fix the two wreaths of gold upon the two buttons at the edges of the breast plate, and the two ends of the two wreaths you shall fasten on to the two settings, and put them upon the shoulders of the ephod upon its front face. Also make two buttons of gold, and place them on the two sides of the breast plate upon its edges, where the ephod turns over to its inside. Besides, you shall make buttons of gold, and fix them upon the two shoulders of the ephod, extending from the top of it to the juncture at the top of the girdle of the ephod, and shall bind on the breast plate by its button to the hook of the ephod, so that the breast plate shall not fall off from the ephod. Thus Aaron will carry the names of the sons of Israel upon the breast plate of justice, upon his heart, when he goes to the sanctuary as a remembrance before God continually. Also fix on to the breast plate the urem and thumim, so that they may be over the heart of Aaron when he goes before the ever-living, and Aaron shall carry justice for the children of Israel before the ever-living continually. Also make for the cape of the ephod loops of Azur, and let there be eyelets at the middle of the edge, at the seam around it, made like the weaving for the eyelets of a coat of mail, so as not to tear away. Also make upon the hem pomegranates of Azur, and purple and blue and red on the hems around, and bells of gold beside them around, a bell of gold and a pomegranate upon the hem of the cape around, and they shall be upon Aaron when ministering, so that their sound may be heard at his going into the sanctuary before the ever-living, and coming from him, so that he may not die. Make also a flower of pure gold, and engrave upon it like the engraving of a seal, holiness to the Lord, and fasten to it an Azur cord that it may be held upon the turban in the front of the turban, and be above the brow of Aaron, so that Aaron may carry their weaknesses to the sanctuaries when he sanctifies the children of Israel, sanctifying them with every offering, so it shall be above his brow continually to bring favor to them from the ever-living. Also embroider a robe of white linen, and make a turban of white linen, and make an embroidered sash. Also make robes for the sons of Aaron, and make for them sashes, and make them miters to honor and adorn them. And clothe with them Aaron your brother, and his sons with them. Then consecrate them, and put a ring on their hands, and sanctify them, and they shall be my priests. Also make drawers for their legs to cover their naked body from the waist, and to extend down the thighs. These shall be worn by Aaron and his sons when they go into the tent of the congregation, or to clothe them at the altar when serving religion, so that they may not excite passion and die. This is a perpetual order to him, and his descendants after him. CHAPTER XXIX And these are the things you shall use in consecrating them to be priests to me. You shall take an heifer from the cows, and two perfect rams, and unfermented bread, and unfermented cakes mixed with oil, and then unfermented wafers buttered with oil, which you shall make of wheat and flour, and put them in a basket, and offer them in the basket with the heifer and the two rams. Then Aaron and his sons shall approach the door of the hall of assembly, and you shall wash them with water. Next you shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the robe, and the cape of the ephod, and the ephod and the breastplate, and you shall invest him with the adjuncts of the ephod. Then you shall place the turban upon his head, and the crown of righteousness upon the turban. Afterwards take the oil of consecration and pour it upon his head, and consecrate him. Then bring forward his sons and clothe them with their robes, and gird Aaron and his sons with the sashes, and bind the mitres on them, which shall indicate the priesthood as a perpetual institution. Appoint Aaron and appoint his sons in this manner. Next you shall bring forward the heifer before the hall of assembly, and Aaron and his sons shall strike their hands upon the head of the heifer. Then slay the heifer before the ever-living at the door of the hall of assembly, and take of the blood of the heifer, and put upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood pour out at the foundation of the altar. Then take all the fat of the call of the bowels, and the call over the liver and two kidneys, and the fat which is about them, and burn them before the altar. But the flesh of the heifer, and its skin, and the dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp as a sin offering. Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall strike their hands upon the head of the ram. Afterwards slay the ram, and take its blood and sprinkle upon the altar all round. But divide the ram into portions, and wash its entrails and its legs, and lay them upon the portions with its head, and burn all the ram upon the altar. It is a whole burnt offering to the ever-living. It is a sweet odor to the ever-living. Afterwards take the second ram, and let Aaron and his sons strike their hands upon the head of the ram. Then slay the ram, and take some of its blood, and put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the ears of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hands, and upon the great toe of their feet, and sprinkle the blood all around the altar. Next take some of the blood which is upon the altar, and some of the oil of consecration, and sprinkle upon Aaron and upon his robes, and upon his sons, and upon their robes with him, and sanctify him and his robes, and his sons, and their robes as well. Afterwards take from the ram the fat and the suet, and the fat of the call of the bowels, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is over them, for it is a ram of consecration, and one round loaf of bread, and one loaf buttered with oil, and one thin cake from the basket of unfermented cakes that are before the ever-living, and place the hole on the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons, and they shall wave them before the ever-living. Then take them from their hands, and burn with incense upon the altar for a whole offering, as a sweet smell before the ever-living, they shall be for the ever-living. Next take the breast of the ram of consecration, which was for Aaron, and you yourself shall wave it before the ever-living, and it shall be to yourself for a portion, and sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the legs of the wave-offerings which were raised up from the ram of consecration, which was for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall be for Aaron and his sons to take always from the children of Israel a sacrifice of thanks, you shall raise them to the ever-living. And the sacred robes that are for Aaron shall be for his sons after him to be consecrated in, and to serve with their hands in them. The priests from his sons after him, who come to the Hall of Assembly for the holy service, shall be clothed in them seven days. Next take the ram of consecration and boil its flesh in the holy place, and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread which was in the basket at the door of the Hall of Assembly. They shall eat it as a protection to them in the work of their hands, in the sanctuary alone, and a stranger shall not eat that holy thing with them. But if there remains any of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread until the morning, you shall burn the remnants by fire, they shall not be eaten, because they are holy. Do this with Aaron and his sons exactly as I have commanded. Thus for seven days you shall fill their hands and offer a bullock for a sin offering daily as a protection for them, with a sin offering upon the altar to protect yourself, and you shall consecrate it to sanctify it. You shall protect for the altar seven days and sanctify it. Then the altar shall be holy of holies, all approaching to the altar shall be sacred. This is what you shall offer daily upon the altar, two lambs of a year old continually. Offer the first ram in the morning, and offer the second lamb between the dusks, with a tenth of flour mixed with a quarter of a hen of olive oil, and a quarter of a hen of wine with a first lamb as a drink offering, and offer the second lamb between the dusks, like the offering in the morning, and offer a similar drink offering with it, a sweet meat to the everliving, as continuous offerings from your posterity before the everliving at the door of the Hall of Assembly, at the place he indicates to you, where he will speak to you. For I will show myself to the children of Israel, and will sanctify them by my majesty. Thus you shall sanctify the Hall of Assembly and the altar for me, but I will sanctify Aaron and his sons to myself as priests, and I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel and be their God, and they shall know that I am the everliving, the God who brought them from the land of the Mitsarayim, and dwell in the midst of them. I am the everliving God. Make also an altar for incense of Acacia wood. It shall be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high from the base of it. And you shall plate it with pure gold, its top and its sides all round, and round its top make battlements of gold. You shall also make two projections of gold on it, below the battlements. Make also two golden rings below the battlements. You shall form them upon both sides, as sockets for two staves to carry it by. Make the staves of Acacia wood and plate them with gold, and place it before the veils which are over the ark of the witnesses, before the veils which are over the witnesses that give evidence to you there. And Aaron shall offer incense of spices upon it evening by evening. He shall burn the incense at the lighting of the lamps. When Aaron's sons light the lamps between the dusks, he shall burn the incense perpetually before the everliving among your descendants. You shall not offer upon it scattered incense or whole burnt offerings or gifts, nor shall you pour a drink offering upon it, but Aaron shall expiate once a year upon its horns with blood. He shall expiate upon it with a sin offering of expiation once in a year for your descendants. It is the holy of holies to the everliving. Afterwards the everliving spoke to Moses, saying, When you take a conscription of the children of Israel to regiment them, then each shall give an expiation for his life to the everliving for conscripting them, so that the Lord may not punish them for conscripting. This is the offering for everyone passing to the conscription, half a shekel by the sacred shekel, twelve garras to the shekel. You shall offer half a shekel to the everliving. Everyone passing to the conscription from the age of twenty years old and upwards shall give this offering to the everliving. The rich shall not add, and the poor shall not diminish from the half shekel given as an offering to the everliving as a protection for their lives, and you shall take the protection money from the children of Israel and give it to the workers in the hall of assembly, and it shall be as a remembrance for the children of Israel before the everliving to protect their lives. Another time the everliving spoke to Moses, Make a bath of brass with a base of brass for washing, and place it between the hall of assembly and the altar, and put water in it, and Aaron and his sons shall bathe themselves in it, both their hands and their feet. Upon coming into the hall of assembly, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die when they approach the altar to offer sweet perfumes to the everliving. They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die, and this shall be a perpetual order to him and to his descendants in their generations. Again the everliving spoke to Moses, saying, Now take to you perfumes of heads of flowering myrrh, five hundred, of sweet cinnamon, one hundred and twenty-five, and of sweet cane, one hundred and twenty-five, of sweet cassia, five hundred shekels weighed by the sacred shekel and a hint of olive oil, and make from them the holy consecrating oil, a compound of compounds. It shall be a perfumed, holy consecrating oil to consecrate the hall of assembly and the ark of witnesses, and the table and all its instruments of the altar and its furniture and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering and all its furniture, and the bath and its appliances, consecrate them thus, and they shall be holy. Consecrate Aaron and his sons also, consecrate them to be priests to me. Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This is the holy oil of consecration to me and all your generations. It shall not be poured upon a man's body, nor shall you make any of similar ingredients. It is holy of holies for you to the everliving. The man who compounds like it and whoever puts it upon a foreigner shall be excommunicated from his people. The everliving also said to Moses, Take to yourself sweet drops and scented shell and sweet galbanum and pure frankincense of equal weights and make of them a sweet compound seasoned with pure holy salt and pound it very fine. Lay some of it before the witnesses in the hall of assembly where I will meet you. It shall be holy of holies for you. And this perfume that you make by weight they shall not use for themselves. It is sacred to you and the everliving. The man who uses it as a personal perfume shall be excommunicated from his people. CHAPTER 31 The everliving also spoke to Moses, saying, See I have called by name Bezalal, the son of Arai, the son of Hor of the tribe of Judah. I have also filled him with a divine spirit of skill and understanding and knowledge and with constructive ability and with inventive genius to work in gold and silver and brass and to cut stone for all works and to cut timber to work for any purpose. I have also given him Aholiab, the son of Ahesomak of the tribe of Dan, and I have endowed him also with intelligence and science so that they may construct all I have commanded you. The hall of assembly and the arc of witnesses and the covers which are upon it and all the furniture of the tabernacle with the table and its appurtenances and the lamps of purity and all their appliances and the altar of incense and the altar of burnt offerings and all its furniture with the bath and its bases and the robes for service and the sacred robes of Aaron the priest and the robes of his sons to officiate in besides the oil of consecration and the sweet perfumes to sanctify all as I commanded you. Afterwards the everliving spoke to Moses, saying, Now speak to the children of Israel and say, Take care and keep my Sabbaths, for they are a witness between you and me and your generations that I am the everliving who sanctifies you. Therefore you shall keep the rest for it is sacred to you. Whoever curses it, he shall die, and whoever does work in it, that person shall be excommunicated from the community of his people. You may do your business upon six days, but on the seventh is the day of rest. It is a holy rest to the everliving. All who do business upon the day of rest shall die. The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to make a rest for their posterity as an everlasting covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever, for in six ages the everliving made the solar system and the earth, but upon the seventh age he rested and refreshed. Then he gave to Moses when he had finished his commands to him upon Mount Sinai, two tablets of stone with the evidence written by the finger of God. CHAPTER 32 When the people saw that Moses delayed to descend from the mountain, they called upon Aaron and said to him, Rouse up and make for us gods who may go before us, for as for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of the land of the Mitsarayim, we know not what has become of him. Then Aaron replied to them, Pull off the earrings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, sons, and daughters, and bring them to me. All the people pulled off the rings of gold which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron, and he took them from their hands and modeled for it with a tool, and made a calf by casting, and said, Israel, these are your gods who brought you up out of the land of the Mitsarayim. Then Aaron paid it reverence and built an altar before it. Aaron also proclaimed and said, A feast to the power tomorrow. So they arose early on the morrow and offered sacrifices and presented thank offerings. Then the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play. The Lord however said to Moses, Go, descend, for your people whom you led out of Mitsaray have corrupted themselves. They have soon turned from the path which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and they are worshiping it, and they sacrifice to it and say, This is your God, Israel, that brought you up from the land of the Mitsarayim. And the Lord said to Moses, I fear for this people, for it is a people of stiff neck. So now let me alone and my anger will burn against them, and consume them, and I will make from you a great nation. But Moses fell upon his face before his ever living God, and said, Why, Lord, should your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought up out of the land of the Mitsarayim with great power, and with a strong arm, why should the Mitsarayim say, He brought them out for evil, to kill them among the mountains, and to exterminate them from the face of the earth. Turn away your anger and forgive your people. Remember Abraham and Isaac and Israel, your servants, what you swore to them by yourself, and promised them that their race should be as numerous as the stars of heaven, and also of this land which you promised to give to their descendants to inherit forever. So the ever living had compassion upon the sin which his people had done against him. Then Moses turned and descended from the hill with the two tables of the law in his hands, both tablets written upon both sides with writing, and God had made those tablets, and God wrote the writing that was engraved upon the tablets. When Joshua heard the voice of the people at sin, he said to Moses, There is the sound of war in the camp! But he replied, It is not the sound of contention with swords, nor is it the sound of contention in charging that I hear the roar of. And when they approached the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, then the anger of Moses burnt, and he flung the two tablets from his hands, and broke them under the mountain. He afterwards took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it until it was like dust, and threw it upon the face of the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. Then Moses demanded of Aaron, What have this people done to you, that you should bring upon them this great sin? But Aaron replied, Let not my prince's anger burn. You know this people how bad they are, and they said to me, Make gods for us who can go before us. For as for this fellow Moses who brought us up from the land of the miser I am, we know not what has become of him. So I said to them, Bring me gold, and they brought it, and gave me it, and I threw it into the furnace, and this calf was produced. Then Moses saw that the people were in revolt, and had involved Aaron in their insurrection. Therefore Moses stood up at the gate of the camp, and cried, Who is for my ever living God? When all the sons of Levi joined him. And he said to them, Thus says the ever living, the God of Israel. Let every man bind his sword upon his thigh. Go through and return from gate to gate of the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his neighbor, and every man his friend. So the sons of Levi did it, as Moses commanded, and there fell of the people in that day, three thousand men. Moses afterwards said, Your hands today have worked for the ever living, thus each man has gained for himself a blessing through his son, and through his brother. Some days afterwards however, Moses said to the people themselves, You have sinned a great sin, so now I will offer to the ever living a ram as an expiation on account of your sin. Therefore Moses turned to the ever living and said, Certainly this people have sinned a great sin when they made a God of gold for themselves, but yet remove their sin, and if not strike me out of your book which you have written. Then the ever living answered Moses, What is their sin to me? I will strike them from my book, but now go, lead the people to where I command you, and my messenger shall go before your face, and in the day of visitation I will visit upon them their sin. Thus the ever living punished the people for what they had done, regarding the calf that Aaron had made. The end of chapters twenty-five through thirty-two of the book of Exodus. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters thirty-three through forty of the book of Exodus from the Holy Bible in modern English. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Mark Penfold. The Holy Bible in modern English, translated by Farrar Fenton. The book of Exodus, chapters thirty-three through forty. Chapter thirty-three. Then the ever living said to Moses, Go from here, you and the people whom you brought up from the land of the Mitsarayim to the land which I promised to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob saying, To your descendants I will give it, and I will send my messenger before your face and drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Parasites, the Hivites and the Jebusites from the land flowing with milk and honey. Yet I shall not bring you straight to it, for you are a stiff-necked people, therefore I shall march you by a journey. When the people heard this hard command, they grieved, and many men would not put on their armor. Therefore the ever living spoke to Moses. Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people, a rebellious one. If I came a single moment into your midst, I could destroy you. However, strip off your arms, and I will make known what I will do to you. So the children of Israel quickly stripped off their armor. Then Moses seized the tabernacle and pitched it for himself outside the camp, at a distance from the camp, and named it his Hall of Meeting, so that all who wished to inquire of the ever living were obliged to come to him to his Hall of Assembly that was outside the camp. But when Moses had gone away with the tabernacle, all the people rose in insurrection, and every man stood at the door of his tent and looked after Moses as he went off with the tabernacle. And when Moses went with the tabernacle, the cloud tremblingly descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the word was with Moses. When all the people saw the trembling cloud standing at the door of his tabernacle, then all the people arose and everyone bowed down towards that tent. There the ever living spoke with Moses face to face as a man speaks with his friend. Then he turned towards the camp and watched it, but Joshua, the son of Nun, his attendant, did not depart from the inside of the tabernacle. And Moses said to the ever living, See, you spoke to me to bring up this people, but yet you have not instructed me as to whom you will send with me. You have, however, said, I know you by name, and you have found favor in my eyes. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, teach me your path, that I may know you, since I have found favor in your sight, and perceive that your people are this nation. Then he replied, Turn their advance back, and I will support you, but he answered to him. If your presence is not with our marches, do not take us from here, and by what can it be possibly known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Would it not be by your marching with us, and distinguishing me and your people from every nation upon the face of the earth? Then the ever living answered, Moses, I will grant also this request which you have made, for you have found favor in my eyes, and I have made myself known to you by a name. He therefore replied, Show me, I pray, your majesty. And he was answered, I have passed all my beauty before your face, and I made myself known to you openly by my name of the ever living. I show favor to those I love, and compassion to those I compassionate. But, he added, You are not able to see my face, for no man can see me and live. However, said the ever living, Mount up to me and sit on the rock, and my majesty shall pass over, and I will place you in a cleft of the rock, and shade you with my hand over you, until I pass over, so that upon removing my hand you may see my back, for you cannot look upon my face. Chapter 34 The ever living afterwards said to Moses, Cut for yourself two tablets of stone, like the former ones, and I will write upon them the commandments, which were upon the first that you broke. And when dawn comes, go up at dawn to the Mount Sinai, and sit with me upon the top of the hill. But no man shall come up with you, for no man must be seen in all the hill, nor sheep, or beast approach to the hill. Moses accordingly cut two tablets of stone, like the former, and arose at morning, and ascended Mount Sinai, as the ever living commanded him, and took in his hands the two tablets of stone. Then the ever living descended in the cloud, and sat there with him, and he called on the name of Jehovah, when the ever living passed over before his face, and he cried out, Ever living, living God of gentleness and pity, slow to anger but great in mercy and truth, preserving mercy to thousands, taking away passion and rebellion, and forgiving sin, but not ceasing to visit the passions of the fathers upon their children, and upon the children of their children, to the third and the fourth generation. Then Moses hastily rose and fell to the earth and worshiped, and said, If now I have found favor in your sight, Almighty, come, I pray, Almighty, near to us, for they are a stiff-necked people, and pardon our passions and sins, and give us our inheritance. And he replied, Now I make a covenant with all your people. I will produce wonders, such as have not been from creation in all the earth, or in any nation, and every people among whom you are, shall see the work of the ever living, for what I will do by you will be splendid. Attend to what I have communicated to you today. Then I will drive before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Parasites, the Hivites, and Jebusites. Keep yourselves from making treaties with the residents of the land when you come to it, for fear they should be a snare in your midst. Therefore overthrow their altars, and break down their pillars, and cut down their shrines, for you shall not worship another God, for the ever living is jealous of his name. He is a jealous God. Beware of making alliances with the inhabitants of the land, for fear you whore after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and approach to eat at their altars, or take from their daughters for your sons, for their daughters will whore after their gods, and your sons whore after their gods. Nor shall you make a metallic God for yourselves. You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread for seven days. You shall eat biscuits as I have commanded you at the assembly in the harvest month, for in the month of harvest I brought you from among the Mitsurayim. All breaking the womb is mine, and every male of your possessions, of cattle or sheep, bursting it. But an ass bursting it, you shall redeem with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. All your eldest sons you shall redeem, for you shall not see my presence empty-handed. You shall labor six days, but on the seventh you shall cease from plowing and rest in harvest. You shall also make a festival of rest for yourselves at the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and a festival at the completion of the solar circuit of the year. Three times in a year all your men shall appear before the presence of the Lord, the ever-living God of Israel, for I will drive out the heathen before you, and will extend your boundaries. Therefore no man of your land shall neglect to go up three times in a year to see the presence of your ever-living God. You shall not shed the blood of my sacrifices away from it, and you shall not leave until the morning the sacrifice of the Passover. You shall also decorate the house of your ever-living God with the first fruits of your fields when you come up. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Finally the ever-living said to Moses, Write these commands, for upon the basis of these commands I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. And he was there with the ever-living forty days and forty nights, and ate no bread nor drank water, but wrote upon the tablets the commands of the covenant, the ten commandments. Then Moses descended from Mount Sinai with the tables of the testimony in the hands of Moses. On his descent, however, from the hill, Moses did not know that blinding rays of light from his face prevented their speaking to him. But Aaron and all the children of Israel saw those rays of light from his face, and they were afraid to approach him. Moses, however, called to them when Aaron turned to him with all the leaders of the assembly, and Moses addressed them, and after that all the children of Israel approached, and he communicated all that the ever-living had commanded him in Mount Sinai. But that Moses might speak to them, he put a veil over his face. But when Moses went to speak with the ever-living, he removed the veil from his face until he returned, and came and related to them what he had been commanded. So the children of Israel feared in the presence of Moses, for rays of splendor preceded Moses. Therefore Moses placed the veil over his face when he went to speak with them. Chapter 35 Then Moses assembled all the parliament of the children of Israel, and said to them, These are the commandments which the ever-living has commanded you to practice. You shall do your work for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy rest for you. You shall rest to the ever-living. Everyone doing business on it shall die. No man shall labor in all your habitations upon the day of rest. Moses continued to speak to all the parliament of the children of Israel, saying, This is also a commandment which the ever-living commanded, saying, Let everyone of willing heart bring an offering from themselves to the ever-living. All a free heart consequently brought an offering from themselves to the ever-living of gold, silver, and brass, and azure and purple, and blue, red, and spun linen, and rams skins, dyed red, and badger skins, and acacia wood, and oil for the lamps, and perfumes for the oil of consecration, and incense for the veils, and onyx stones, and stones for the setting of the effod and breastplate, whilst those of skill among them came and made all that the ever-living commanded. The enclosures of the tent and its veils, the hooks and the planks, the crossbars, the standards and the bases, the ark and the staves for it, the covers and the covering veil, the table and its staves, and all its appurtenances, and the shoe-bread, and the reflectors for the lamps, and the appurtenances for them, and the burners, and the oil for the lights, and the incense altar and its staves, and the oil of consecration, and the perfumes for the aromatics, and the veil for the door at the opening of the sanctuary, the altar of burnt offering, and its base of brass, the staves and the hole of the instruments, the bath and its bases. The curtains for the court and its standards, and their bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, the stakes for the sanctuary, and the stakes for the court and the rest. The robes for the service, when serving in the holy place, the sacred robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons the priests. Then the hole of the chiefs of the children of Israel came before Moses, and brought whatever their heart suggested, and all that their spirit dictated to them, they brought as an offering to the ever-living, to supply the hall of assembly and its appartenances, and for the sacred robes. Thus the chiefs coming to Moses, all who were of liberal heart, brought ear and nose rings, and brooches, and beads and all things made of gold, and everything which was adorned with gold to the ever-living. Every man also who possessed azure and purple and blue, red and spun linen, and red goat skins, and badger skins, brought them. Many nobles brought gifts of silver and brass, as presents to the ever-living, or of anything they possessed. Some brought acacia wood for the works, and the skillful women brought yarn in their hands, azure yarn, and purple, and blue, red, and linen. All the men also who were skillful in spinning, invited by their hearts, gave goat hair yarn. Other men brought precious stones to set the ephod in the breastplate, and perfumes and oil for the lights, and for the consecration oil, and perfumes for the incense. Every man and woman with a liberal heart brought all the things that the ever-living commanded by the hand of Moses, to be made as gifts to the ever-living. Then Moses said to the children of Israel, The ever-living has called Bezal El, the son of Aorai, the son of Hor, of the tribe of Judah, and has filled him with genius, skill, intelligence, and knowledge, and a mechanical mind and inventive faculties for working in gold and silver and brass, and to cut stones for jewelry, and to shape timber for use, and for all engineering work. He has also given as a fitting assistant to him, Ahayelab, the son of Ahisomak, of the tribe of Dan, filling them with intelligence to work in every kind of contrivance, in jewelry and embroidery, in azure and purple, in blue and red and flax, and to weave all materials, and to make patterns. Chapter 36 Bezal El and Ahayelab consequently worked with all the skillful men to whom the ever-living had given intelligence and understanding to assist them in their operations for the production of all the furniture for the sanctuary which the ever-living had commanded. Thus Moses appointed Bezal El and Ahayelab and all the skillful men to whom the ever-living had given an intelligent mind with everyone whose mind invited them to go to the work to effect it, and they received in the presence of Moses all the offerings that the children of Israel had brought to make the appliances for the services of the sanctuary. They fetched their part from the treasury, morning by morning, and every skilled worker brought back the articles for the sanctuary which he had made from his workshop, until they reported to Moses, saying, The material which the people have brought is more than the requirements for the furniture that the ever-living commanded to be made from it. Moses therefore ordered to make a proclamation in the camp to inform every man and woman not to bring further material to offer for the sanctuary. So the people ceased to bring it, for the material was sufficient for all the appliances that had to be made, and in excess. So the workmen made the furniture for the tent. Ten curtains of spun linen and azure and purple and blue-red with pictures of carabin formed in damask. The length of the curtains was 18 cubits each, and the width four cubits, each curtain, the same to each curtain, and the end of one curtain was joined to the other, and the next curtain's edge was joined to the following, for they made loops upon the selvedge of each of the curtains at the end of the edges. Thus they made the curtains with attachments to join the two. They made fifty loops on each curtain, and fifty loop attachments were made upon the second curtain, which joined it to the next, opposite to the loops, one for one. They also made fifty hooks of gold to join the curtains one to the other, so as to form one tent. They also made curtains of goat-skins for the canopy over the tent, which were divided into twenty curtains. The length of each curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits broad for each curtain. All the twenty curtains were made equal, and they joined five of the curtains together, and six of the curtains together, and made fifty loops on the lip of a curtain at its edge to fasten with, and made fifty loops upon the lip of the second curtain for fastenings. They also made hooks of brass to join the canopy to form it into one piece. Then they made the hall of assembly of red ram's skins, with a veranda of badger skins over all of it. They also made the planks for the tabernacle of acacia wood-plained. The length of a plank was ten cubits, and a cubit and a half broad for each plank. There were two hands to each plank at the joinings on one side and the other. They made the same to all the planks of the tabernacle. Twenty planks were made for the tabernacle on the side towards the south, and forty bases of silver were formed under the twenty planks, two bases under a plank with two hands on them, and for the opposite side towards the north they made twenty planks, with forty bases of silver, two bases for each plank. But the width of the tabernacle to the west was six planks, and two planks made the corners of the tabernacle at the corners, and there were clutches fitting together and uniting them. Thus both were fastened at their edges. Thus there were eight planks and sixteen silver bases, two bases and two bases under each plank. He also made bars of acacia wood, five bars for the planks at the first side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the planks at the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the planks of the tabernacle at its length towards the west, and bars were made for the uprights placed between the sets of planks from end to end. The planks, however, were plated with gold, and their buttons were made of gold with wok holes to each one, and the bars were plated with gold. The veils also were made of azure and purple and blue red and spun linen, with demasked carabims worked on them. They also made four posts of acacia, and plated them with gold, with pins of gold, and cast for them four bases of silver. They also made a screen for the door of the sanctuary of azure and purple and blue red and spun linen, worked as embroidery, and the five pillars and the pins with the chappeters on their heads and the rods were of gold, but the five bars were of brass. Basilol himself made the arc of acacia wood, its length two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height, and he plated with pure gold within and without, and made it a wreath of gold around, and cast four knobs of gold for its four feet, two knobs at the one side, and two knobs at the other side. He also made staves of acacia wood, and plated them with gold, so that they could put the staves into the ears upon the sides of the arc to carry the arc by. He also made covers of pure gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in width. Besides, he made two carabim of gold. They were made standing at the two ends of the covers, one carab at this end, and the other at that. But the carabim were extending their wings like a protection from above with their wings over the covers, with the face of each towards the other over covers. The carabim faced each other. He also made the table of acacia wood, two cubits in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height, and plated it over with pure gold, and made a coronal round about it of gold. He also made a ridge of a hand breadth around it, with rays of gold upon the ridge all round, and cast four tabs of gold, and fixed the tabs upon the four sides where its feet were. The tabs were fixed near the ridge for the staves to carry the table with. He made the staves to carry the table of acacia wood, and plated them with gold, as well as the instruments that were upon the table, the dishes and the snuffers, and the cups and the plates which covered them, of pure gold. He also made the lamp of turned work of pure gold. Its shank, upright stock, its branches, its cups, and blossoms were made of it. And there were six branches going from the sides, three branches from one side, and three branches from the other side. There were three almond cones and flowers upon one branch, a cup and a blossom, and three almond cones and flowers on an alternate branch, a cup and a blossom. Thus six branches rose up for the lamps, and upon the lamp four cones like almonds, a cup and a blossom. But there was a ball between two of the branches mutually, and a ball between two of the branches mutually, and a ball between two of the branches mutually, for the six branches that rose up from them. There were balls and branches for them mutually, all the appliances were of pure gold. He also made seven reflectors and holders and snuffers of pure gold, a talent weight of pure gold made these, and all the instruments. Afterwards he made the altar of incense of acacia wood, its length was a cubit and its breadth a cubit square, and its height two cubits with its horns, and he covered the top of it with pure gold, and around its sides and its horns, and made a coronal of gold around it. He also made two tabs of gold for it between the coronal, upon the two sides, upon its opposite sides, to insert the two staves to carry it by. He made the staves also of acacia wood and plated them with gold. He also made the holy consecration oil, and the incense of pure spices for perfume. Then he made a acacia wood the altar of burnt offerings, its length was five cubits and its breadth five cubits square, and its height three cubits. He also made horns upon its four faces, its horns were all alike, and he plated them with brass. Besides he made all the instruments for the altar, the cauldrons and the brushes, and the sprinklers and the rakes and the shovels he made of brass. He also made for the altar a netted sieve of brass under its fireplace with projections at its edges, and he cast four tabs of brass for the borders of the sieve, as receptacles for staves which he made of acacia wood, and covered them with brass, and placed the staves in the tabs at the sides of the altar to carry it by. He made them to fit into valves. He also made the bath and its pedestals of brass with the mirrors for the use of whoever served before the Hall of Assembly. He also made the court at the side towards the south. The curtains for the court were a hundred cubits of spun linen, the pillars twenty and the bases twenty. The spikes of the pillars and the pins were of brass, but the rods of silver, and on the north face it was a hundred cubits with twenty pillars and twenty bases. The spikes of the pillars were brass, but the rods of silver, but on the west face the curtains were fifty cubits, ten pillars and the bases with spikes for the pillars, but the rods were of silver, and upon the eastern face the sunrise fifty cubits, fifteen cubits of curtains to the gateposts, six pillars and six bases, but from the other gatepost on this side and that, to the gate of the court, curtains for fifteen cubits, six pillars and six bases. All the curtains around the court were of spun linen, and the bases of the pillars were of brass, but the spikes of the pillars and the rods were of silver, and the capitals of the pillars of silver, with rods of silver for all the pillars of the court. The screen for the gate of the court, however, was made of embroidery of azure and purple and blue red and spun linen, and its length was twenty cubits and in height at the foldback five cubits to the juncture with the curtains of the court, with four pillars and four bases of brass, but the pins of silver and the capitals of the heads of the pillars of silver, with all the other things for the tent and the court around of brass. These were the officers of the tent, the hall of assembly, which were appointed by the mouth of Moses for the service of the Levites under Athamar, the son of Aaron the priest, with Bezalal, the son of Arai, the son of Hor of the tribe of Judah, to make everything that the ever-living had commanded by Moses, and with them Ahaliad, the son of Ahisomak of the tribe of Dan, to engrave and damask an embroider in azure and purple and blue and red and in spinning. The whole of the gold that was used in the furniture of the sanctuary was twenty-nine talons and nine hundred and thirty shekels by the sacred weight, and of silver from the chiefs of the congregation, one hundred talons and one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven shekels by the sacred weight. The half-shekel pole tax by the sacred weight from those who were passed into the regiments, from twenty years of age and over that, was six hundred and thirty thousand, five hundred and fifty, and there were used one hundred talons of silver in casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the doors, a hundred bases from a hundred talons, a talent to a base. They also used a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five for the spikes to the pillars and the capitals on their heads and the rods for them. Besides, the brass offered was seventy thousand talons and four hundred shekels which were used for the bases of the doors of the hall of assembly and the brass of the doorposts and the brazen altar and the lattice work of brass ferret and the whole of the instruments of the altar with the bases of the court around and the bases of the gates of the court and all the rest of the tent and the remainder of the court around. Chapter thirty-nine And of the azure and purple and blue red they made the service robes to serve in the sanctuary as well as the holy robes for Aaron as the ever-living commanded to Moses. They also made the ephod of gold, azure, purple and blue red and spun linen, and there were strips of gold and wire twisted in the working among the azure and among the purple and among the blue red and among the linen threads that made the demasking. They made shoulder pieces that joined upon the two halves by a seam. They also made the breastplate of the ephod to be worn over it of gold, azure and purple and blue red and spun linen as the ever-living commanded Moses. Besides, they made two onyx stones surrounded with gold settings, engraved like the engraving of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel, and placed them upon the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel as the ever-living commanded to Moses. They also made the breastplate of demasked work as they made the ephod of gold and azure and purple and blue red and spun linen. The breastplate was made a square doubled, a span long and a span broad doubled, and it was filled with four rows of stones. The first row was a ruby, a topaz, and a diamond. The second row was an emerald, a sapphire, and an opal. The third row was a legure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row was a tarshish, an onyx, and a jasper, surrounded by settings of gold to fix them. Thus there were twelve stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the names engraven like a seal, each with one name of the twelve tribes. They also made for the breastplate chain boarderings of plated work of pure gold, beside which they made two gold fastenings and two buttons of gold, and fixed the two buttons upon the two sides of the breastplate, and placed the two chains of gold upon the two buttons at the sides of the breastplate, and the two ends of the two chains they fixed upon the two buttons, and fastened them upon the two shoulders over the front of them. They also made two gold buttons and placed them upon the two edges of the breastplate upon the lips which went over the ephod inwards. Besides they made two buttons of gold and fixed them upon the two shoulders of the ephod before and behind to unite together at the top of the ephod with the breastplate, and they laced the breastplate from button to button to the ephod with laces of azure to secure the breastplate to the ephod, so that the breastplate might not fall off from the ephod as the everliving had commanded to Moses. They also made a mantle for the ephod of azure-woven velvet, and the mouth of the mantle was in the middle of it, like a coat of mail, with a binding around it so that it might not tear, and they made on the hem of the mantle pomegranates of azure and purple and blue-red with embroidery, and also made bells of pure gold and fixed the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem around the mantle between the pomegranates, a bell and a pomegranate upon the hem around the mantle as the everliving commanded to Moses. They also made vests of woven linen work for Aaron and his sons, and turbans of linen, and mitres of linen, and white drawers of spun linen, with girdles of spun linen and azure and blue-red as the everliving commanded Moses. They also made the flower of the holy crown of pure gold, and engraved upon it with the engraving of a seal, holiness to the everliving, and fixed a cord of azure upon it to fasten it upon the top as the everliving commanded to Moses. Thus were completed all the appliances for the hall of assembly. They were made in the manner that the everliving commanded to Moses. Therefore they brought the tent to Moses, the sanctuary and all its furniture, its hooks, its planks, its bars, its pillars and bases, and the awning of red ram-skins, and the awning of badger-skins, and curtains for the screen, with the arc of witnesses, and its staves and its covers, and the table and all its furniture, and the shoe-bread with the lamp of splendor, and its reflectors, and its series of lamps and the whole of its appliances, and the oil for the lamps, with the altar of gold and the oil of consecration and the sweet incense, and the screen of the veil of the pavilion, the brazen altar and the brass grating for it, its staves and all its instruments, the bath and its buckets, the curtains of the court, its pillars and their bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its ropes and pegs, and the rest of the appliances for the uses of the tent of the hall of assembly, the ornamented robes for service in the sanctuary, the sacred robes for Aaron, the priest, and the robes for his sons, the priests. According to all that the everliving commanded to Moses, the children of Israel made the whole for the service. Then Moses inspected all the work to see if they had made all of it according to the command of the everliving. They had done so, and Moses blessed them. CHAPTER XIV Then the everliving spoke to Moses, saying, Tomorrow is the first month. Upon the first of the month you shall set up the tent of the hall of assembly, and place there the ark of witnesses, and cover the ark with the veil. Then you shall bring the table, and arrange its appliances, and bring the golden lamp, and set up its reflectors, and place the golden altar of incense before the ark of the witnesses, and fix the screen of the doors to the tabernacle. Then place the altar of burnt offering opposite the door of the hall of assembly, and set the bath between the hall of assembly and the altar, and put water in it. Afterwards fix up the court around, and put the screen to the gate of the court, and then take the oil of consecration, and consecrate the tent and everything in it, and sanctify it, and the whole of its furniture, when it shall be sacred. The altar shall be holy of holies. Next consecrate the bath and its buckets, and sanctify it. Then present Aaron and his sons at the door of the hall of assembly, and wash them with water, and clothe Aaron in the sacred robe, and consecrate him. Thus you shall make him holy, and he shall be a priest to me. Afterwards present his sons, and clothe them with vests, and consecrate them as you consecrated their father, and they shall be priests to me. And the consecration shall be an appointment of them as priests for ever in their descendants. Moses consequently did all that the ever-living commanded him. He affected it. Thus it was in the first month, in the second year, on the first of the month, they erected the tent. And Moses set up the tent, and fixed its bases, and placed its planks, and fixed its curtains, and erected its pillars, and spread the canopy over the tabernacle, and put the awning of the tabernacle over its roof, as the ever-living commanded him. Then he took and put the witnesses into the ark, and placed the staves to the ark, and put the covers upon the top of the ark, and brought the ark to the tent, and hung the veil of the screen, and veiled off the witnesses, as the ever-living commanded Moses. Then he placed the table in the hall of assembly at the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil, and arranged upon it the prepared bread before the ever-living, as the ever-living commanded to Moses. Next he placed the lamp in the hall of assembly, upon the table opposite at the south side of the tabernacle, and raised the lights before the ever-living, as the ever-living commanded Moses. Then he placed the golden altar in the hall of assembly before the veil, and offered sweet incense upon it, as the ever-living commanded Moses. Then he put the screen to the door of the tabernacle, and set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the hall of assembly, and offered upon it the burnt offering, and the gift, as the ever-living commanded Moses. Then he placed the bath between the Hall of Assembly and the altar and put water in it to wash with, and Moses washed himself his feet and hands there, with Aaron and his sons, before going into the Hall of Assembly and approaching the altar they washed themselves, as the ever-living commanded Moses. They also erected the court around the tabernacle, and the altar and fixed the screen at the gate of the court. Then Moses ceased from his labours. Then the cloud covered the Hall of Assembly and the splendor of the ever-living filled the tabernacle, and Moses was not able to go into the Hall of Assembly for the cloud rested upon it, and the splendor of the ever-living filled the tent. Afterwards, when the cloud arose from off the tabernacle, the children of Israel marched in all their marches, and if the cloud did not arise, then they did not march until the day when it arose. For the cloud of the ever-living was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire by night. It was in the sight of the house of Israel in all their marches. The end of chapters 33 through 40. And the end of the Book of Exodus. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 1 through 7 of the Book of Leviticus from the Holy Bible in Modern English. This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Mark Penfold. The Holy Bible in Modern English, translated by Farrar Fenton. The Book of Leviticus. Chapters 1 through 7. Chapter 1. Then the ever-living called to Moses and spoke to him from the Hall of the Assembly, saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, A man of you who would offer an offering to the ever-living can offer it from the herd, or from the fold, or from the flock. If they offer a burnt offering from the fold, it shall be a perfect male, it shall be offered at the door of the tent of assembly as a pleasure to him before the ever-living. Then he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sacrifice, and present it before the ever-living to expiate for himself, and he must slay the son of the fold before the ever-living. Then the sons of Aaron the priest shall approach the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood around over the altar, that is at the door of the Hall of Assembly. Afterwards he shall skim the sacrifice and divide it into parts, then the sons of Aaron the priest shall lay the parts of the head and fat in order upon the wood, and put fire upon the altar, and arrange wood upon the fire that is on the altar after washing the inwards and the feet in water, and the priest shall burn the whole of them on the altar as a sweet delightful perfume to the ever-living. But if he offers from the sheep or from the lambs, or from the goats, he shall offer as a burnt offering a perfect male, and slay it at the north side of the altar before the ever-living, and the sons of Aaron the priest shall sprinkle some of its blood around the altar. Then he shall divide it into parts, and the priest shall arrange its head and its fat upon the wood that is upon the fire that is on the altar. Then he shall wash its inwards and legs in water, and the priest shall offer the whole of them with incense upon the altar of burnt offering as a sweet breath delightful to the ever-living. But if he sacrifices a gift from the birds to the ever-living, let him offer his gift from the turtle doves, or the young of pigeons, and the priest shall take it to the altar and ring off its head and perfume the altar and present its blood at the side of the altar and pull out its crop and feathers and throw them to the eastern side of the altar into the receptacle for the fat. Then the priest shall cleave it, not separate, and perfume the altar for it, offering it upon the wood which is on the fire. It is sweet smell, delightful to the ever-living. And the soul that gives a present to the ever-living, let it be a fine flower and pour oil upon it and put frankincense on it and bring it to the sons of Aaron the priest, and the priest shall grasp a handful from the fine flower and the oil with all the frankincense and shall burn as a remembrance on the altar a sweet perfume delightful to the ever-living. But the rest of the offering shall be for Aaron and his sons, holy of holies from the fire of the ever-living. But if he would offer a present baked in the oven, let it be a fine ground flower, biscuits mixed with oil, or wafer biscuits buttered with oil. If, however, your gift is a present of baked bread, it shall be a fine flower with oil, unfurmented and broken in pieces with oil poured upon it, it is a present. But if you give a boiled present, let it be made a fine flower with oil, and you shall bring the present that you have made from it to the ever-living and approach to the priest and he shall carry it to the altar. Then the priest shall lift up the present as a remembrance and perfume the altar, a sweet smell delightful to the ever-living. But the rest of the present shall be for Aaron and his sons, holy of holies from the fire of the ever-living. Any present which they offer to the ever-living shall not be made with ferment, for not any ferment or any honey shall be burnt with it as a delight to the ever-living. You shall bring them as an offering of the best kinds to the ever-living. They shall not be burnt upon the altar as a breath of delight. Every offering presented by you shall be salted with salt, and you shall not withhold the salt of the covenant of your God from your presence. Upon every offering you shall offer salt. And if you offer a present from your crops to the ever-living, it shall be ears of wheat or oats from the field as a present from your crops. You shall also put upon it oil, and add along with it frankincense. It is a present, therefore the priest shall burn the remembrance from the corn and from the oil with all the frankincense as a perfume to the ever-living. CHAPTER III But if any one offers a thank-offering, let it be offered from the herd. Only a perfect spotless male may be offered to the ever-living, and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and slay it at the door of the hall of assembly, and the sons of Aaron the priest shall sprinkle some of the blood around upon the altar. He shall offer on the altar the thank-offering as a delight to the ever-living, the fat of the call, the chest, and the whole of the fat that is upon the chest, with the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, and on the viscera, but the rest on the liver, and upon the kidneys he shall put aside, for the sons of Aaron shall offer them upon the altar of burnt offering, with wood and fire, as a sweet breath to the ever-living. But if he offers a sacrifice from the flock as a thank-offering, let him offer a perfect male or female. If he offers a lamb as his gift, then he shall bring it before the ever-living, and lay his hand upon the head of the gift, and slay it before the hall of assembly, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle some of its blood around the altar, and shall carry to the altar, from the thank-offering made by fire to the ever-living, the entire fat of the rump cut near the backbone, and the fat of the call, and of the chest, and all the fat that is upon the chest, and the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them, with that upon the bowels, and the remainder that covers the kidneys he shall put aside, and the priest shall offer them upon the altar as a sweet scent to the ever-living. But if he offers a gift of a goat before the ever-living, he shall lay his hand upon its head, and slay it before the hall of assembly, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle some of its blood around the altar, and offer of the gift as a sweet scent to the ever-living, the fat of the call, and the chest, and the whole of the fat that is upon the chest, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, with that upon the bowels, but the remainder covering over the kidneys he shall put aside. Thus the priest shall burn them on the altar, consuming as a sweet breath delightful to the ever-living, all the fat. It is an institution forever for your descendants in all your dwelling places that you shall not eat any fat or any blood." CHAPTER IV Then the ever-living spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, to command, the soul that sins by ignorance in any of the commands of the ever-living through not having done or doing it unconsciously. If a consecrated priest shall sin to the injury of the people, then he shall offer for the sin which he has sinned, a perfect bullock from the fold, to the ever-living for his sin. And he shall bring the ox to the door of the hall of assembly before the ever-living, and lay his hand upon the head of the ox, and slay the ox before the ever-living. Then the consecrated priest shall take some of the blood of the ox, and carry it into the hall of assembly, where the priest shall dip his forefinger into the blood, seven times before the ever-living, opposite the door of the sanctuary. And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of perfumed incense which is before the ever-living in the hall of assembly. And the rest of the blood of the ox shall be poured at the side of the altar which is at the door of the hall of assembly. Then he shall remove the whole of the fat of the ox of the sin offering from it, the fat of the call, with the chest and all the fat upon the chest, and the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them, with the fat of the bowels and the remainder covering the kidneys he shall put aside, exactly as it is taken from the ox sacrificed as a peace offering. Then the priest shall burn it upon the altar of burnt offering. But all the skin of the ox and the whole of the flesh, with its head and chest and dung, he shall also cause to be brought the whole of the ox to the outside of the camp, to a clean place, to burn the fat upon wood with fire. It shall be burnt where the ashes are poured out. But if any of the fathers of Israel goes and secretly commits out of the sight of the public a breach of one of the commandments of the ever-living which they should not do, and he sins, then he shall confess the sin that he has sinned, and shall offer publicly an ox from the fold for his sin, and bring it to the front of the hall of assembly, where the elders of the parliament shall lay their hands upon the head of the ox before the ever-living, and slay the ox before the Lord. Then the consecrated priest shall bring some of the blood of the ox to the hall of assembly, where the priest shall dip his forefinger into some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the ever-living at the front of the veil. But he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar, that is before the ever-living in the hall of assembly, and all the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the side of the altar of burnt offerings at the door of the hall of assembly. He shall then remove the whole of the fat from it, and offer it on the altar. And do with the ox, as he does with the ox for a sin offering, he shall do the same. Thus the priest shall expiate for him and forgive him. Next he shall cause the ox to be brought outside of the camp and burn it as he burnt the former ox. It is a public offering. When a man sins and breaks one of all the commandments of his ever-living God, which he ought not to do, by ignorance and has sinned, or if he is informed of his sin that he has sinned, then he shall offer as a gift a perfect ram of the goats, and lay his hand upon the head of the ram, and slay it in the place where the burnt offerings are slain before the ever-living. It is a sin offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood upon the tip of his forefinger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offerings, and pour the rest of the blood at the side of the altar of burnt offerings, and offer all the fat on the altar, like the fat of the thank offering, and expiate for him for his sin, when it shall be forgiven to him. But if any of the people of the land break a commandment of the ever-living, which ought not to be done, and transgresses, or he is informed that he has sinned some sin, he shall then bring a perfect she-goat as an offering for the sin he has sinned, and lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of burnt offerings. Then the priest shall take some of the blood upon his forefinger, and put on the horns of the altar of burnt offerings, and pour out the rest of the blood at the side of the altar, and remove the hole of the fat as he removed the fat from off the thank offering. Then the priest shall offer it upon the altar as a breath delightful to the ever-living, and the priest shall expiate for him, and he shall be forgiven. But if a person brings his gift for sin, let him bring for it a perfect female, and lay his hand upon the head of his sin offering, and slay it in the place where the burnt offerings are slain. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering on his forefinger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offerings, but pour out all the rest of the blood at the side of the altar, and remove all the fat as he removed the fat of the lamb offered for thanks. And the priest shall consume it upon the altar as a perfume to the ever-living, and the priest shall expiate for him for his sin that he sinned, and it shall be forgiven to him. CHAPTER V When a person who is a witness sins when he has taken the declaration of an oath about an event he saw or knew, if he does not relate it he shall bear his crime. Or a person who has touched anything unclean, or a corpse that is unclean, or carcass of an unclean beast, or an unclean reptile, and it was unknown to him he is unclean and guilty. Or if he touches uncleanness of blood, or any uncleanness that may defile him and he did not know it, yet he is guilty. Or a person listening to a libel injurious to his neighbor, or who delights in anything which injures the man by being reported, and hides it when he knew it. Then he is guilty by it. And as he has offended in this, he shall make confession that he has sinned over it, and shall bring to the ever-living for his fault that he has sinned, a female lamb from the sheep, or a female goat for a sin offering, and the priest shall expiate for his sin. But if he did not personally participate with the fault, then he shall bring for the fault that he has sinned, two turtle doves, or two young pigeons to the ever-living, one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt offering. Let him bring them to the priest, and offer that which is for the sin offering first, and ring off its head from its neck, but not separate it, and sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering at the side of the altar, and throw the rest of the blood to the side of the altar for sin offerings. But make of the second a burnt offering for judgment, and the priest shall expiate for him for the sin he has committed, and it shall be forgiven to him. But if he does not possess the two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, then let him bring as his gift for the sin he has sinned, the tenth of an effa of fine flour. He shall not pour upon it oil, nor put frankincense with it, for it is a sin offering, but bring it to the priest, and the priest shall grasp a handful of it for a remembrance, and burn it on the altar for a perfume to the ever-living. It is a sin offering. Then the priest shall expiate for him over the sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven to him. But the gift shall belong to the priest." The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, A person who perversely sins in what is holy to the ever-living shall bring for his gift to the Lord a perfect ram of the sheep, of the value of two shuckles by the sacred shuckle for his fault, and that in which he has sinned in what is holy he shall restore fivefold as much for it and give it to the priest, and the priest shall expiate with the ram for his fault, and it shall be forgiven to him. But if a person has sinned and broken one of the commandments of the ever-living, which should not be done, and did not know it, yet he is faulty, and shall bear his fault and bring a perfect ram of the sheep on account of his fault to the priest, and the priest shall expiate for him over his error which he has erred when he knew it not, and it shall be forgiven to him. It is a fault offering for error to the ever-living. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, A person who sins with willful perversity against the ever-living by deceiving his neighbor in a contract or in a confidential trust, or robs or betrays his neighbor or retains a find and lies about it and swears with falsehood about anything which may injure the man sins by it. But if it be that he has sinned and done wrong, but returns the theft that he has stolen, or the deception that he has sinned in, or the trust that was entrusted to him, or the strailing that he has found, or in anything where he has sworn about it to deceive and rectifies it, on the head of it he shall add fivefold to what he took to himself, they shall be given in place of his fault. Then the guilty man shall bring for the ever-living a perfect ram of the sheep to the priest because of his fault, and the priest shall expiate for him before the ever-living and he shall be forgiven at once for all that he has done wrong in it. CHAPTER VI The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Command Aaron and his sons, saying, These are the laws of the burnt offerings that is the offerings for burning upon the altar. All the night until daybreak fire shall burn upon the altar for it. The priest shall be clothed with his garments upon his limbs and his frock on to cover his flesh, and he shall rake out the ashes that the fire upon the altar produces and supply wood to the altar. Then he shall strip off his clothes and put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. The fire of the altar must burn unextinguished upon it, none shall quench it, but the priest shall lay wood upon it every morning and lay upon it the burnt offering and incense with the fat of the peace offerings. The fire shall always burn upon the altar, it shall not be quenched. And these are the laws of the food gifts that the sons of Aaron shall offer before the ever-living in front of the altar. They shall take some from the flower of the gift and put upon the altar with the whole of the frankincense which is with the gift, and burn as incense upon the altar as a delightful breath of remembrance to the ever-living. But the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. They shall eat it unfermented in the holy place in the court of the hall of assembly. They shall not bake their portion with ferment. I give it to them for a flavor. It is holy of holies like the sin offering and like the trespass offering. Any male of the children of Aaron may eat of it. This is a perpetual constitution for their descendants, as it is a flavor of the ever-living, let all be holy who touch it. The ever-living further spoke to Moses, saying, This is the gift that Aaron and his sons shall offer during the period of their consecration. The tenth of an aether of flower as a perpetual offering between daybreak and evening, or half at the daybreak, and half at the dusk. Let it be made saturated with oil in a pan. Bring it in baked flat cakes, a delightful breath to the ever-living. The consecrated priest of that course shall make it. It is a perpetual constitution to the ever-living to be totally burnt. Every food offering from a priest shall be burnt. You shall not eat it. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Speak, commanding Aaron and his sons. These are the laws of the sin offering. In the place where you slay the burnt offering, you shall slay the sin offering before the ever-living. It is holy of holies. The priest that offers it for sin shall eat it in the holy place. Eat it in the court of the hall of assembly. All who touch the flesh shall be holy. And whoever is sprinkled with the blood upon his garments, whatever is sprinkled with it, shall wash his clothing in the holy place. Any vessel of pottery also in which it is boiled shall be broken, and if it is boiled in a vessel of bronze it shall be scoured and washed with water. Every male of the priests may eat of it. It is holy of holies. But any sin offering that is brought to the hall of assembly for a holy expiation you shall not eat. It shall be consumed by fire. These are also laws of the trespass offerings. They are holy of holies. In the place where they slay the sacrifices for sin they shall slay the trespass offerings, and their blood shall be sprinkled around the altar, and all the fat of it shall be offered up. The fat of the tail, and the fat of the call, and of the chest. But the two kidneys with a fat that is upon them he shall put aside. Then the priest shall burn them with incense at the altar, as a flavor to the ever-living it is a trespass offering. As with the sin offering, so with the trespass offering, there is one law for them. The priest who has expiated with it shall have it for himself. The priest who offers up the burnt offering for a man, the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered shall belong to the priest. Every food offering which is baked in an oven and all made in a pan or upon a pan it shall belong to the priest who presents it. But every food offering mixed with oil or dry shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, each one as brothers. And these are the laws of the sacrifices of thanks which may be presented to the ever-living. If a man offers for Thanksgiving, let him offer as a sacrifice of Thanksgiving cakes of unfermented bread mixed with oil and unfermented wafers buttered with oil, and flour saturated by rolling in oil. Let him offer no cakes of fermented bread with his gift upon the altar when Thanksgiving for a benefit. And let him offer the same with every offering lifted up to the ever-living. It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the thank offering for him to the ever-living. But the flesh of the sacrifice of the thank offering shall be eaten that day, none of it shall be left till the next morning. But if he gives a sacrifice for a vow or a freewill gift, he may eat of it the day it is offered in sacrifice, and what remains of it he may eat tomorrow. But the remainder of the flesh of a sacrifice shall be burnt with fire on the third day. And if he eats of the flesh of a sacrifice for a benefit on the third day, it shall not be accepted as an offering from him, it shall not benefit him. It will be unclean, and the person who eats of it shall bear his punishment. Flesh also that has touched anything unclean shall not be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire. But the flesh of everything clean may be eaten as food. But the person who eats the flesh of a sacrifice made to the ever-living for a benefit and defiles himself over it, that person shall be excommunicated from his people. The person also who touches anything defiled by the defilement of blood, or by an unclean beast, or by any unclean reptile, and yet eats of the flesh as a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the ever-living, that person shall be excommunicated from his people. Again, the ever-living spoke to Moses, saying, Any of the fat of an ox, or sheep, or goat you shall not eat, but the fat of a carcass, and the fat of a torn animal may be used for any work, but you shall not eat of it, for whoever eats the fat of a beast which is offered to the ever-living, that person shall be excommunicated from his people. Nor shall you eat any blood in any of your dwelling places, either of bird or beast, every person who eats any blood, that person shall be excommunicated from his people. The ever-living spoke further to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever offers at the altar his thank offering to the ever-living, let him bring his gift to the altar of the ever-living for his benefit. He shall bring in his hand the present to the ever-living, bring the breast with its fat to be waived for waving before the ever-living, but the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. The raised leg also you shall give to the priest who lifts it up as a sacrifice for a benefit. Whoever of the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the thank offering shall have the right leg for a gift, for the waived breast and the raised leg I have taken from the children of Israel from their sacrifice of thanks, and I give them to Aaron the priest and to his sons to be taken by them forever from the children of Israel. They are the portion of Aaron and the portion of his sons from the gifts to the ever-living during the time they offer them as priests to the ever-living, which the ever-living commanded to be given to them at the time he consecrated them as an endowment from the children of Israel and their posterity forever. This is the law for burnt offerings, and for sins, and for trespasses, and for consecrations, and for sacrifices of thanks, which the ever-living commanded to Moses upon Mount Sinai, at the time he commanded the children of Israel to offer gifts to the ever-living in the desert of Sinai.