18 Whereupon the king of Egypt sent lor the midvvives and said to them, Why have you done this and saved the male chil-

19 dren? And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian; for they bring forth instantly. Be-

20 fore the midwives can come to them, they are delivered. And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied

21 and grew mighty. And because the midwives feared God they

22 established families for themselves. Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you sliall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

II. Now there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi who had married one of the daughters of Levi and she conceived and

2 bore a son. And when they saw that he was a beautiful child

3 they hid him three months. But when they could not conceal him any longer, his mother provided for him a wicker basket and plaistered it with bitumcnous pitch and put the child into it and placed it in the stagnant water by the side of the river.

4 And his sister watched it at a distance to see what would be-

5 come of it. And the daughter of Pharao came to bathe herself at the river and.her maids were walking with her along the bank. And seeing the basket in the stagnant water she sent

6 her maid and had it brought to her. And upon opening it she saw in the basket a child weeping. And the daughter of Pha.- rao had compassion on it and said, This is one of the Hebrew

7 children. Whereupon his sister said to Pharao's daughter. Shall I call for thee a nurse from among the Hebrews to suckle the child for thee ? And the daughter of Pharao said, Go.

8 Upon which the girl went and called the child's mother. And

9 the daughter of Pharao said to her, Take eare of this child for

10 me and suckle it for me; and I will pay thee the wages. So the woman took the child and suckled it; and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he be. came her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water.

11 And after a course of many years, when Moses was become great he went out to his brethren the children of Israel. And as- he was observing their distress, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, who was one of his brethren the children of Israel. 12 Whereupon looking about on every side and seeing no body

13 he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And going out the next day he saw two Hebrew men quarrelling and said

14 to him who was in the wrong, Why dost thou beat thy neighbour ? To which he replied, Who made thee a ruler or a judge over us?Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? Thereupon Moses was alarmed and said, Is the thing become so public ?

15 Now when Pharao heard of this deed lie sought to slay Moses, but he withdrew from the presence of Pharao and toolc

16 up his abode in the land of Madiam. When he came to the land of Madiam he sat down by a well. Now the priest of Madiam had seven daughters who tended the flocks of their father Jothor. And they having come to the well began to draw water to fill the troughs that they might water the flocks of their father Jothor, and the shepherds came and drove them

17 away. Upon which Moses arose and protected them and drew

18 water for them and watered their flocks. And when they came to their father Raguel, he said to them, Why have you come

19 so soon to-day? To which they replied, An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds and drew for us and watered our

20 flocks. And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why did you leave the man behind? Therefore call him that he may

21 eat bread. So Moses dwelt with the man ; and he gave him

22 his daughter Sepphora to be his wife. Antl his wife conceived and bore him a son; And Moses called his name Gersam, saying, Because I am a sojourner in a strange land.

23 And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outer' ; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to

24 God. And God heard their groans. And God remembered his covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaak and Jacob. And God looked upon the Israelites and was made known to them.

III. Now when Moses was feeding the flocks of Jothor his

father in law the priest of Madiam he led them below the wil-

2 derness and came to the mountain Choreb. And an Angel of

the Lord appeared to him in a fire blazing out of a bush. And

when he saw that the bush blazed with fire, but was not con3 sumed, Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight;

4 why the bush is not consumed. But when the Lord saw that he drew near to look; the Lord called to him out of the bush saying, Moses! Moses! And he said, What is it? And he

5 said, Approach not hither. Loose the sandals from thy feet;

6 for the place where thou standest is holy ground. Then he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and

7 the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob. Whereupon Moses turned away his face; for he was afraid to look forward in the presence of God. And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their

8 cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow, therefore I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land, and conduct them to a land good and spacious—to a land flowing with milk and honey—to the country of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Pherezites, and the Gergasites and

9 the Evites and the Jebusites. And now behold the cry of the children of Israel hath reached me and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them, now therefore

10 come: I will send thee to Pharao king of Egypt and thou shalt

11 bring my people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt. Thereupon Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharao king of Egypt, and that I should bring the Israelites out of the

12 land of Egypt? Upon which God spoke to Moses saying, That I will be with thee, even this is the sign for thee. And because I will send thee, therefore when thou hast brought my people out of Egypt you shall worship God on this mountain.

13 Then Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the Israelites and say to them, The God of our fathers hath sent me to you; and they shall say, What is his name? What shall I

14 say to them? On which God spoke to Moses saying, I am The I Am. Moreover he said, Thus shalt thou say to the children

15 of Israel, The I Am hath sent me to you. Again God said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you. This^is my

16 everlasting name and memorial to all generations. Go therefore and assemble the Senate of the children of Israel and say

to them, The Lord, the God of our fathers hath appeared to me, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob saying, With watchfulness I have observed you

17 and all that hath befallen you in Egypt. Moreover he said, I will bring you up from the oppression of the Egyptians to the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites, and the Gergasites and the Evites and the Je- busites—to a land flowing with milk and honey, and they will

18 hearken to thy voice, and thou and the Senate of Israel shall go to Pharao king of Egypt, and thou shall say to him, The God of the Hebrews hath called us; let us therefore go three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to our

19 God. But I know that Pharao king of Egypt will not suffer

20 you to go, but by a strong hand. Therefore I will stretch forth my hand and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders which I will do among them. And after these he will dismiss you.

21 And I will give the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you shall not go away empty; but ever"

22 woman shall ask of her neighbour and of him who sojourneth in her house vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment which you shall put on your sons and your daughters and you shall

IV. spoil the Egyptians. Then Moses answered and said, If they will not believe and hearken to my voice—for they may say, God hath not appeared to thee: What shall I say to them?

2 And the Lord said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he

3 said a staff. Then he said, Cast it on the ground. So he cast it on the ground and it became a serpent: and Moses fled from

4 it. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand and take it by the tail. So he stretched forth his hand and caught it

5 by the tail; and it was in his hand a staff. That they may be. lieve thee that the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob hath appeared to thee,

6 said the Lord again, Put thy hand in thy bosom. So he put his hand in his bosom; and when he drew his hand out of his bo-

7 som, his hand was like snow. Then the Lord said to him again, Put thy hand in thy bosom. So he put his hand in his bosom, and when he drew it out of his bosom, it was again restored

8 to the colour of its flesh. Now if they will not believe thee nor hearken to the voice of the first sign, they will be-

9 lieve thce at the voice of the second sign. But if they will not believe thee for these two signs, nor hearken to thy voice, thou shalt take some of the water of the river and pour it out on the dry ground; and the water which thou shalt take

10 from the river shall be blood on the ground. Then Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not sufficiently qualified, neither heretofore nor since thou hast begun to speak to thy servant. I have a stammering voice and a faltering tongue.

11 Uppn which the Lord said to Moses, Who gave man a mouth? and who made the hard of hearing and the deaf—

12 him who seeth and the blind? Was it not I who am God? Now therefore go and I will open thy mouth and teach thee what

13 thou shalt say. Then Moses said, O Lord, provide another

14 capable person whom thou wilt send. Whereupon the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, Lo! is not Aaron the Levite thy brother ? I know that he can speak well for thee. And lo! he will come out to meet thee, and when

15 he shall see thee he will be rejoiced. Thou therefore shalt speak to him and commit my words to his mouth. And I will open thy mouth and his mouth and teach you what you shall

16 do. He shall speak to the people for thee and he shall be thy

17 mouth and thou shalt be to him as the Oracle of God. And this staff which was turned into a serpent thou shalt take in thy hand. With it thou shalt perform miracles.

18 Then Moses went and returned to Jothor his father in law and said, I must go and return to my brethren who are in

19 Egypt and see if they be still living. And Jothor said to Moses, Go in peace. So after many years, when the king of Egypt was dead, and the Lord said to Moses in Madiam, Go return

20 to Egypt, for all who sought thy life are dead; Moses took his wife and children and mounted them on asses to return to Egypt. And he took in his hand the staff which he had

21 from God. And the Lord said to Moses, Thou art on thy way and returning to Egypt. See that thou do in the sight of Pharao all the miracles which I put in thy hands. And I will make his heart stubborn, so that he will not let the people go.

22 And thou shalt say to Pharao, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is

23 my first born son, and I have said to thee, Send away this my people that they may serve me; if therefore thou wilt not dismiss them behold I will slay thy son—thy first bom.

24 Now when he was on the way at the resting place, an

25 Angel of the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Whereupon Sepphora took a sharp stone and circumcised her son. Then she fell at his feet and said, The blood of the circumci-

26 sion of my son hath stopped me. So she departed from him, because she said, The blood of the circumcision of my son hath stopt me.

27 Now the Lord had said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mount of God;

28 and they saluted each other. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, which he had sent and all the orders which

29 he had given him in charge. And Moses and Aaron went and

30 assembled the Senate of the Israelites, and Aaron rehearsed all the words which God had spoken to Moses; and he per-

31 formed the miracles in the presence of the people. And the people believed and were rejoiced that God had visited the children of Israel and that he had seen their affliction. So bowing their heads the people worshipped.

V. And after this Moses went in with Aaron to Pharao and they said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Let my people go that they may keep a festival for me in the wil-

2 derness. Upon which Pharao said, Who is he, that I should

3 hearken to his voice so as to send away the Israelites ? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go. Then they said to him, The God of the Hebrews hath called us. Let us therefore go three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest death or destruction

4 befal us. Thereupon the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, divert the people from their labours?

5 Begone each of you to his work. And Pharao said, Behold this people is now numerous, therefore we must not let them

6 rest from their labours. So Pharao gave orders to the task

7 masters of the people and to the clerks saying, You shall no more give the people straw to make bricks as heretofore; but let them go and gather straw for themselves; yet the dairy

8 task of brick making which they now perform, you shall lay upon them. Thou shalt make no abatement; for they are idle. Therefore they have cried saying, Let us go and sacrifice to

9 our God. Let the work of these men be made heavy and let them employ their thoughts about that, and not trouble them-

10 selves with vain discourses. Upon this the task masters and

11 clerks hurried them and spoke to the people saying, Thus saith Pharao, I will no more give you straw; go and collect straw for yourselves where you can find it; for no abatement shall be

12 made of your task. So the people were dispersed through all

13 the land of Egypt to collect stubble instead of straw. And the task masters urged them saying, Compleat the customary daily

14 tasks as when straw was furnished you. And when they beat the clerks of the nation of the Israelites who were set over them by the officers of Pharao and said, Why have you not as hereto-

15 fore compleated your tasks of brick making to day ? the clerks of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharao saying, Why dost

16 thou deal thus with thy servants ? There is no straw giver* to thy servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks. And lo! thy servants are beaten. Wilt thou then deal unjustly with thy

17 people? But he said to them, You are idle: You are idlers.

18 Therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Go therefore now and work; for there shall be no straw given

19 you, yet you shall deliver the task of bricks. So the clerks of the children of Israel saw themselves in a miserable situation, when they said, You shall be allowed no abatement from the

20 customary daily task of brick making. And upon meeting Moses and Aaron who had come to meet them as they came

21 out from Pharao they said to them, God look upon you and judge. For you have made the smell of us horrible before Pharao and before his servants to put a sword in his hand to

22 kill us. Thereupon Moses turned to the Lord and said, O Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people ? And why hast thou sent me ? For since I went to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath ill treated this people and thou hast not delivered thy

VI. people. Then the Lord said to Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao; for by a strong hand he shall let them go; and by an uplifted ann he shall drive them out of his land.

2 Moreover God spake to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord;

3 and I appeared to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob as their God. Though I did not clearly manifest to them my name

4 Lord, yet I established this my covenant with them to give them the land of the Chananites—the land wherein they had

5 sojourned—in which they were then sojourning. Now I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, which the Egyp-

6 tians have occasioned by enslaving them. And I have remembered the covenant with you. Go speak to the children of Israel and say", I am the Lord and I will bring you out from the bondage of the Egyptians, and deliver you from this slavery, and redeem you with an uplifted arm and with great decision and take you to myself for my own people, and I will be your God.

7 And you shall know that I the Lord am your God, who brought

8 you out from the tyranny of the Egyptians. And I will bring you to the land for which I stretched out my hand to give it to Abraham and Isaak and Jacob. And I will give it to you for a heritage. I am the Lord.

9 In these terms Moses spoke to the Israelites; but they hearkened not to him on account of their despondency, and on ac-

10 count of their hard labours. Then the Lord spoke to Moses

11 saying; Go in ; speak to Pharao king of Egypt that he may

12 send the children of Israel out of his land. Upon which Moses spoke before the Lord saying, Behold the Israelites have not hearkened to me, how then should Pharao hearken to me, incapable as I am of speaking?

13 (Now when the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge to Pharao king of Egypt to send away the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, these were the chief lead-

14 ers of their patriarchal houses. The sons of Reuben the first born of Israel, Enoch and Phallus, Asron and Carmi. This

15 was the family of Reuben. And the sons of Symeon were Jemuel and Jamin and Aod and Jachin and Saar and Saul the

16 son of a Chananitish woman. These were the patriarchal houses of the Symeonites. And these are the names of the children of Levi according to their families, Gerson, Kaath and Merari. Now the years of the life of Levi were a hun-

17 dred and thirty seven. And these were the sons of Gerson, Lobeni and Semei. These were houses of their patriarchal

18 family. And the sons of Kaath were Ambram and Issaar, Che- bron and Oziel. Now the years of the life of Kaath were a

19 hundred and thirty three. And the sons of Merari were Mooli and Mousi. These were the houses of the patriarchal family of

20 Levi according to their families. Now Ambram had taken to

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wife Jochabed a daughter of his father's brother and she bore to him Aaron and Moses and Mariam their sister. And the years

21 of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty two. And

22 the sons of Issaar were Kore and Naphek and Zechri. And

23 the sonsofOziel were Misael and Elisaphan and Segri. And Aaron had taken to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab and the sister of Naason, and she bore to him Nadab and

24 Abiud and Eleazar and Ithamar. And the sons of Kore were Asir and Elkana and Abiesar. These were the families of

25 Kore. And Eleazar the son of Aaron had taken to wife one of the daughters of Phoutiel, and she bore to him Phineas. These were the heads of the patriarchal family of the Levites

26 according to their genealogies. This Aaron and Moses were they whom God ordered to lead the Israelites out of the land of Egypt with their armies. These were they who spoke to

27 Pharao king of Egypt. And the same Aaron and Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.

28 Now on the day when the Lord spoke to, Moses in the knd of Egypt, when the Lord spoke to Moses and said, I am the Lord, Speak to Pharao king of Egypt all the words which I say to thee, and Moses said before the Lord, Behold I am a stammerer and how will Pharao listen to me, the

VII. Lord spoke to Moses saying, Behold I have made thee a god to Pharao, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet,

2 and thou shalt deliver to him all that I command thee. And Aaron thy brother shall speak to Pharao, to send the Israelites

3 out of his land. But I will let Pharao's heart be stubborn, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

4 And when Pharao will not hearken to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring out my people, the children of Israel with my host out of the land of Egypt with great vengeance.

5 And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I lay my hand on Egypt and bring the children of Israel out

6 from among them. So Moses acted in conjunction with Aaron;

7 and as the Lord commanded so they did. Now Moses was

8 eighty years old and his brother Aaron was eighty three years old, when he spoke to Pharao.)

9 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, If Pharao shall speak to you and say, Give us a sign or a miracle, then thou shall say to thy brother Aaron, Take this staff and throw it on the ground in the presence of Pharao and before

10 his attendants and it shall be a dragon. So Moses went in with Aaron before Pharao and his attendants and they did as the Lord commanded them. But when Aaron threw down the staff before Pharao and before his attendants and it became a dragon, Pharao called together the wise men of Egypt and the

11 sorcerers. And the Egyptian enchanters by their sorceries did in like manner. They cast down each his staff, which became

12 dragons. Though Aaron's staff devoured their staves, yet Pha-

13 rao's heart was stubborn and he hearkened not to them to do as the Lord commanded them.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, Pharao's heart is obstinately bent not to let the people go. Go in the morning to Pharao.

15 Behold he is going out to the water and thou wilt meet him at the border of the river. And thou shall take in thy hand the

16 staff which was lurned into a serpent, and say to him, The Lord the God of the Hebrews hath sent to thee saying, Send away my people that they may serve me in the wilderness, and

17 behold thou hast not hearkened hitherto. Thus saith the Lord, By this thou shaltknowthat I am the Lord, Behold with this staff which is in my hand I smite upon the water in the river

18 and it shall turn into blood. And the fishes which are in the river shall die. And the river shall stink. And the Egyptians

19 shall not be able to drink the water of the river. Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy staff" in thy hand and stretch forth thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against the rivers and against the canals and against their ponds and against all their reservoirs of water; and they shall become blood, and there shall be blood ihroughoul-all the land of Egypt bolh in the cisterns of wood and in- those of stone.

-20 So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them. And lifting up his staff he smote the water in the river in the presence of Pharao and before all his attendants and changed all the water of the river into blood. And the fishes which were

21 in the river died. And the river stunk so that the Egyptians could nol drink ihe water of the river. And there was blood

22 in all the land of Egypt. But when the magicians of Egypt

did in like manner by their enchantments, Pharao's heart became inflexible so that he hearkened not to them as the Lord

23 had said. So Pharao returned and went to his house and paid

24 no attention to this. And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink for they could not drink the water of the river.

25 And when seven days were fulfilled after the Lord had smitten the river, the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharao and

VIII. say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Send away my peo-

2 pie that they may serve me. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will smite all thy borders with frogs and the river shall

3 swarm with frogs. And they shall go up and come into thy houses and into thy bed chambers, even upon thy beds; and into the houses of thy servants and thy people and into thy

4 kneading troughs and thy ovens. Both against thee and against

5 thy attendants and thy people shall the frogs come up. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron thy brother, Stretch forth the staff with thy hand over the rivers and over the canals and

6 over the lakes and bring up the frogs. So Aaron stretched forth his hand over the waters of Egypt and brought up the frogs. And frogs came up in abundance and covered the land

7 of Egypt. Though the Egyptian sorcerers did in like manner by their enchantments and brought up frogs on the land

8 of Egypt; yet Pharao called Moses and Aaron and said, Pray for me to the Lord, and let him take away the frogs from me and my people ; and I will let them go that they may sacrifice

9 to the Lord. Whereupon Moses said to Pharao, Set me the time when I shall pray for thee and for thy attendants and thy people, that the frogs may vanish from thee and from thy peo-

10 pie and out of your houses and be left only in the river. And he said against to-morrow. And Moses said, It shall be as thou. hast spoken. That thou mayst know that there is no other

11 besides the Lord; the frogs shall be removed from thee and from your houses and from your villages and from all thy attendants and from thy people ; but in the river they shall be

12 left. Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharao; and Moses cried to the Lord for the performance of the promise

13 touching the frogs as Pharao had stated. And the Lord did as Moses said. The frogs died out of the houses and out of

14 the villages and out of the fields. And they collected them in heaps and the land stank.

15 But when Pharao saw that there was a respite, his heart became stubborn and he hearkened not to them as the Lord

16 .had said. Then the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron,

Stretch forth thy staff with thy hand and smite the dust of the ground, and there shall be stinging gnats among the men and

17 the four footed beasts throughout all the land of Egypt. Accordingly Aaron stretched forth the staff with his hand and smote the dust of the ground, and there were stinging gnats amongthe men and among the four footed beasts, and in all the

18 dust of the ground there were gnats. And the magicians did in like manner by their enchantments to remove the stinging gnats but could not, so the stinging gnats were among the

19 men and among the four footed beasts. Therefore the sorcerers said to Pharao, This is the finger of God. But Pharao's heart was inflexible and he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said.

20 Then the Lord said to Moses, Rise early to-morrow and stand before Pharao. Lo ! he will come forth to the water, and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Send away my

21 people that they may serve me in the wilderness. But if thou wilt not send away my people behold I will send against thee and against thy attendants and against thy people and against your houses, the dog fly. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with dog flies throughout all the land in which

22 they are. But in that day I will distinguish in a glorious manner the land of Gesem in which my people are. In it there shall be no dog flies, that thou mayst know that I am the Lord the

23 .God of the whole earth. And I will make a difference between my people and thy people. To-morrow this shall be

24 in the land. And the Lord did so. And there came a swarm of dog flies into the houses of Pharao and into the houses of his attendants and into all the land of Egypt: and the land

25 was utterly wasted by them. Whereupon Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and sacrifice to the Lord your

26 God in this land. And Moses said, It is not possible to do so. For we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians. Now if we should sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before their faces we shall be stoned.

27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacri-

28 fice to our God, as the Lord hath commanded us. Then Pha- rao said, I give you leave to go, that you may sacrifice to your God in the wilderness; but you must not extend your journey to a great distance. Therefore pray to the Lord

29 for me. And Moses said I will go out from thee and pray to God; and the dog flies shall depart from thy servants and from thy people to-morrow. But let not Pharao deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacri-

30 fice to the Lord. So Moses went out from Pharao and prayed

31 to God. And the Lord did as Moses said and removed tlie dog flies from Pharao and his attendants and his people and

32 there was not one left. But Pharao emboldened his heart at this time also and would not let the people go.

IX. Then the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharao and say to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews, Send away

2 my people that they may serve me. For if thou wilt not send

3 away my people but still detain them, behold the hand of the Lord will be upon thy cattle in the field: and among the horses and among the asses and the camels and the herds and

4 the flocks there shall be a grievous pestilence. And at this time also I will make a remarkable distinction between the cattle of the Egyptians and the cattle of the Israelites. Among the

5 aforementioned belonging to Israel not one shall die. And God fixed a set time saying, To-morrow the Lord will do this

6 in the land. So on the morrow the Lord executed this, and all the cattle which died belonged to the Egyptians; but of the

7 cattle belonging to the Israelites not one died. But though Pharao saw that of all the cattle belonging to the Israelites not one died, his heart was inflexible and he would not let the people go.

8 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, Take handfuls of ashes from the furnace; and let Moses scatter them towards heaven in the presence of Pharao and before his at-

9 tendants and let there be dust on all the land of Egypt, and there shall be on men and four footed beasts an inflammation; blains oozing forth both on man and beast in all the land of

10 Egypt. So Moses took the ashes of a furnace in the sight of

Pharao and scattered them towards heaven, and there was an

11 inflammation with oozing blams both on man and beast, so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, because of these boils. For the boils were on the sorcerers and through-

12 out all the land of Egypt. But the Lord made Pharao's heart stubborn and he hearkened not to diem as the Lord commanded.

13 Then the Lord said to Moses, Rise early to-morrow morning and stand before Pharao and say to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews, Send away my people that they

14 may serve me. For at this time I am going to send all my plagues into thy heart and the heart of thy servants and thy people, that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all

15 the earth. I might now indeed have stretched forth my hand and smitten thee and destroyed thy people with pestilence, so

16 that thou shouldst have been blotted out from the earth: but thou hast been preserved for this purpose that by thee I might display my power and that my name may be celebrated

17 throughout all the earth. Shouldst thou therefore still deter-

18 mine with respect to my people not to let them go, behold at this time to-morrow I will pour down a great storm of hail— such as hath never been in Egypt, from the day it was created

19 even to this day. Now therefore haste and gather in thy cattle and whatever thou hast in the field. For every man and beast, which shall be found in the fields and shall not have come home, on them the hail shall fall and they shall die.

20 Such of the attendants of Pharao as feared the Lord gather-

21 ed their cattle into houses. But such as paid no regard to the

22 word of the Lord left their cattle in the fields. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on man and

23 beast and on every herb which is on the ground. And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of

24 Egypt. And there was hail, with flaming fire among the hail. And the hail storm was excessively great such as had never

25 been in Egypt from the day there was a nation in it. And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote both man and beast. The hail also smote every herb of the field and broke

26 to pieces all the trees in the fields. But in the land of Gcsem

27 where the children of Israel were, there was no hail. Then Pharao sent for Moses and .Aaron and said to them, I have

28 sinned this time. The Lord is righteous; but as for me and my people, we are wicked. Pray therefore for me to the Lord; and let the voices of God and the hail and fire cease

29 and I will send you away and you shall stay no longer. And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city I will spread out my hands to the Lord and the voices will cease and there will be no more hail and rain, that thou mayst know

30 that the earth is the Lord's. But as for thee and thy attendants I know that you do not yet fear the Lord.

31 Now the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley

32 had eared and the flax was in seed. But the wheat and spelts were not smitten for they had been lately sown.

33 So Moses went out from Pharao without the city and stretched forth his hands to the Lord. And the thunder ceased and the hail and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.

34 And when Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder were stayed he continued on in his course of sinning and hardened his own heart and the hearts of his servants.

25 And when Pharao's heart was inflexible and he would not let the people go as the Lord had said to Moses, then the Lord

X. spake to Moses saying, Go to Pharao, for I have suffered the heart of him and his attendants to continue stubborn that these

2 my signs might come upon them in succession, that you may tell in the hearing of your children even- to your children's children, with what contempt I have treated the Egyptians, even these my signs which I have done among them, and you will know that I am the Lord.

3 Then Moses and Aaron went in before Pharao and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews. How

4 long wilt thou refuse to reverence me? Send away my people that they may serve me. Otherwise, if thou refuse to let my

5 people go, behold at this time to-morrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on all thy borders and they shall cover the face of the ground, so that thou shalt not be able to see the ground; and they shall devour all the remaining product of the land

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which the hail hath left you; and they shall devour every tree

6 which groweth for you in the land. And thy houses and the houses of thy servants, all the houses of the Egyptians throughout the whole land, shall be filled in such a manner as thy fa- thers and their forefathers never saw from the time they had an existence in the land even to this day. And Moses turned and went out from Pharao.

7 Upon this the attendants of Pharao said to him, How long shall this be a snare to us? Send the men away that they may serve their God. Dost thou not know that Egypt is ruined ?

8 Then they brought back Moses and Aaron to Pharao; and he said to them, Go and serve the Lord your God. But who and

9 who are going? And Moses said, We must go with young and old, with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds,

10 for it is the festival of the Lord. Whereupon he said to them, The Lord be so with you! as I send you away, must I also

send away your substance ? Take notice! you have wicked in-

11 tentions. No: Let the men go and worship; for this is what you desire. So they drove them out from the presence of

12 Pharao. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand against the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up against the land. And it shall devour every herb of the field and all

13 the fruit of the frees which the hail hath left. So Moses lifted up the staff towards heaven^and the Lord brought a south wind upon the land all that day and all that night, and by the morning the south wind had lifted up a swarm of locusts and wafted

14 it over the whole land of Egypt: and it settled on all the borders of Egypt—an immense swarm. Such a swarm of locusts had never been before it, nor shall there ever be such a one

15 hereafter. It covered the whole surface of the ground and the land was wasted. And it devoured every herb of the ground and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There was nothing green left among the trees, or among the herbs of the

16 field throughout all the land of Egypt. Upon this Pharao sent in haste for Moses and Aaron and said; I have sinned in the

17 sight of the Lord your God and against you; therefore forgive v_{ this offence of mine this once more, and pray to the Lord your

18 God; and let him remove from me this pestilence. Then Moses went out from Pharao and prayed to God, and the Lord

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19 brought a contrary wind with great violence from the sea; and it lifted up the swarm of locusts and cast it into the Red sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt. '

20 But the Lord suffered Pharao's heart to be stubborn so that

21 he did not let the Israelites go. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven and let there be dark-

522 ness over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness. So Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven, and there was a darkness—a thick, turbid darkness over the whole land of

23 Egypt three days. And for three days one saw not another, nor did any one rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

24 Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and worship the Lord your God. But you must leave your flocks and

25 your herds. Your baggage may go with you. And Moses said. But thou must give us burnt offerings and sacrifices to offer

26 to the Lord our God. Our cattle therefore must go with us. We cannot leave a hoof behind. For of them we must take to worship the Lord our God; and we do not know whh what we are to worship the Lord our God, until we come there.

27 Now the Lord had suffered the heart of Pharao to continue stubborn so that he would not let the people go, therefore Pharao said, Begone from me. Take heed to thyself not to see my face any more. For the day thou appearest before me thou

28' shalt die. Whereupon Moses said, Thou hast spoken. I will not appear again in thy presence.—

XL (Now the Lord had spoken to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt and said,-1 will inflict yet one stroke more on Pharao and on Egypt and after that he will send you away from his country. And when he shall send you away he will drive you out altogether in haste. Speak therefore privately to the ears of the people, and let every one ask of his neighbour

2 vessels of silver and gold and raiment. And the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and

3 they supplied them. The man Moses also was become very- great in the sight of the Egyptians and in the sight of Pharao, and in the eyes of his attendants, therefore Moses said,)

4 Thus saith the Lord, About midnight I will go into the

5 midst of Egypt, and every first born in the land of Egypt shall

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die—from the first born of Pharao who sitteth on the throne, to the first born of the female slave who is at the grinding

6 mitt; including also the first born of all the cattle. And there shall be a great cry through all the land of Egypt—such as

7 hath never been, nor shall the like be again any more. But among all the children of Israel and their cattle not even a dog shall bark at man or beast, that thou mayst know what a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and the

8 Israelites. And all these thy servants will come down to me and make obeisance to me and say, Go away thou and all thy people whom thou wouldst take with thee.

9 Then Moses went out from Pharao with indignation and the Lord said to Moses, Pharao will not hearken to you that I may fully compleat my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.—

10 (Though Moses and Aaron had done all those signs and those wonders in the land of Egypt in the presence of Pharao, yet the Lord suffered the heart of Pharao to be stubborn that he hearkened not to send away the Israelites out of

XII. the land of Egypt. Now the Lord had spoken to Moses

2 and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It is the first for you

3 among the months of die year. Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel and say, On the tenth of this month let them take every one a sheep according to the houses of

4 patriarchal families, every one a sheep for a family; and if there be too few in the family to be sufficient for one sheep,

5 let him associate with him his next neighbour. With regard to the number of souls, every one shall collect to him a number sufficient for a sheep. Your sheep shall be without blem- ish, a male and in its first year. You may take either from

6 the lambs or the kids. And it shall be kept up by you until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it in theeven-

7 ing. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel of the door of the house in which

8 they are to eat it. And that night they shall eat the flesh roasted with fire. They shall also eat unleavened bread with bitter

9 herbs. You shall not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but » . * «

only roasted with fire, head and feet and carcase together. ^

10 Nothing of it shall be left till the morning. And you shall not break a bone of it. And what is left of it till the morningfyou

11 shall burn with fire. And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and

12 your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It.is a Passover to the Lord. For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord.

13 But the blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses in which you are. And when I see the blood, I will protect you and .there shall be no destroying plague among you, when I smite

14 in the land of Egypt. And that day shall be to you for a memorial. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord

15 throughout all your generations. As an everlasting ordinance you shall celebrate it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened

.bread. And from the first day you shall remove all leaven out of your houses. Whoever shall eat leaven from the first to the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from among Israel.

16 And with regard to the first day, it shall be proclaimed holy; and the seventh day shall be holy to you. In them you shall not do any kind of sacrificial service, save that which must be done for every soul. This alone shall be done for you and you

17 shall keep this commandment. For on that day I will lead out your host from the land of Egypt; therefore you shall make the observance of that day an everlasting rite to your genera-

18 tions. Beginning at evening with the fourteenth day of the first month, you shall eat unleavened bread until the evening

19 of the twenty first day. For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. Whoever shall eat leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation of Is-

20 rael; whether he be a stranger or born in the land. You shall . eat nothing that is leavened. But in all your habitations you

must eat unleavened bread.)

21.- Moses therefore convened the whole senate of the chil-

; dren of Israel and said to them, Go take for yourselves the

22 sheep according to your families and kill the passover; and

ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and having dipped. it in the

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blood by the door you shall smear the lintel and the two side posts with some of the blood which is at the door; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morn-

23 ing. For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians; and when he shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not suffer

24 the destroyer to enter into your houses to smite. And this or- dinance you shall keep as a rite established for thee and thy

25 children for ever. And when you come to the land which the Lord will give you as he hath spoken, you must keep up this

26 religious service. And if your children say to you, What is the

27 meaning of this religious service? then you shall say to them, It is the sacrifice of the Passover of the Lord; because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Upon which

28 the people bowed down and worshipped; and the Israelites

29 went and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the

30 cattle. Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his attendants and all the Egyptians ; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there

31 was not one dead. And Pharao called for Moses and Aaron by night and said to them, Arise and depart from among my

32 people, both you and the Israelites. Go and serve the Lord your God as you say. Take your flocks and your herds and

33 go away, and bless me, I beseech you. And the Egyptians pressed the people with great earnestness to hurry them away out of the country; for they said, We shall all die. . *

34 So the people took up, upon their shoulders, their dough which had not yet been leavened—the masses of mixed up

35 meal, bound up in their mantles—(now the Israelites had done as Moses commanded them; they had asked of the Egyptians

36 gold and silver vessels and raiment, and the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and they had

37 supplied them, so they spoiled the Egyptians) and the Israelites to the number of six hundred thousand men on foot besides women and children began their march from Harnesses

38 to Succoth. And there went up with them a mixed multitude

39 with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance. And of the dough which they brought out of Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened: for the Egyptians hurried them away and they could not wait, and they had not dressed any provisions for themselves for the journey.

40 Now the sojourning of the Israelites which they and their fathers had sojourned in the land of Egypt and in the land of

41 Chanaan was four hundred and thirty years. And at the end of four hundred and thirty years all the host of the Lord came

42 out of the land of Egypt. At night there was a watch for the Lord. This watch of the Lord was instituted that very night

43 to bring them out of the land of Egypt. That it might be kept by all the children of Israel throughout their generations, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the

44 Passover—No stranger shall eat of it; but every servant born at home or bought with money thou shalt circumcise and then

45 he may eat of it. A sojourner or a hireling shall not eat of it.

46 In one family it shall be eaten, and you must not carry any of the flesh abroad out of the house; nor shall you break a bone

47 thereof. All the congregation of the children of Israel shall keep

48 this festival. And if any proselyte come to you to keep the pass- over to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise all his males and then he may come and keep it, and he shall be as a native of the land.

49 No uncircumcised person shall eat of it. There shall be one law

50 for the home born and for the proselyte who shall come among you. Now the children of Israel had done as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron; and when they had done so, on that very day the Lord led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt with their host.

XIII. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Consecrate

2 to me every first born. Every first born among the children

3 of Israel, whether man or beast, is mine. Therefore Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from the land of Egypt—from the house of bondage. For with a strong hand the Lord hath brought you out from this

4 place; and let no leaven be eaten, for on this day you are

5 marching out in the month of new things. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites and the Pherezites which the Lord with an oath promised to thy fathers that he would give thee—a land flowing with milk and honey, thou shalt

6 perform this religious service in this month. Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall

7 be a festival to the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Nothing that is leavened shall be seen with thee;

8 nor shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders. And on that day thou shalt tell thy son and say, This is on the account of what the Lord God did for me, when I came out of Egypt.

9 And it shall be to thee for a sign on thy hand and for a memorial before thy eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord thy God hath brought

10 thee out of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this law in revolv-

11 ing seasons from year to year. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites, as he sware

12 to thy fathers, and shall give it to thee, thou shalt set apart every first born—all the males for the Lord. Every firstling of the kine or among the cattle which thou mayst have, even all the

13 males thou shalt consecrate to the Lord. Every firstlingof an ass thou shalt exchange for a sheep, and if thou wilt not ex. change it thou must redeem it. And every male first born

14 of thy children thou shalt redeem. And if at any time hereafter, thy son should ask thee saying, What is the meaning of this ? thou shalt say to him, Because with a strong hand the

1$ Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt—from the house of bondage; and, when Pharao hardened himself against sending us away, the Lord slew every first born in the land of Egypt, both the first born of men and the first born of cattle, therefore I sacrifice all firstlings—all the males to the Lord:

16 and every male first born of my children I must redeem. And it shall be for a sign on thy hand, and immoveably before thy eyes. For with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

17 Now when Pharao sent away the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, because it was near. For God said, Perhaps the people will repent when they

18 see war and will return to Egypt: therefore God led the peo-

pie by a circuitous march to the wilderness—to the Red sea. And in the fifth generation the Israelites went up out of the

19 land of Egypt. And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For with an oath he had adjured the Israelites saying, The Lord will assuredly visit you and you shall carry hence my bones with you.

20 And the children of Israel removed from Succoth and en-

21 camped at Otham on the edge of the wilderness. And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them

22 the way, and at night in a pillar of fire. And there was no failure of the pillar of a cloud by day, and of the pillar of fire by night before all the people.

XIV. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the

2 children of Israel and let them turn and encamp on the ground between Magdolus and the sea, from the sheep cot on the one

3 side to Beelsepphon on the other. In front of these thou shalt encamp by the sea; whereupon Pharao will say to his people, The Israelites have lost their way in the land for the wilderness

4 hath shut them in. And I will make Pharao's heart<stout, so that he will pursue them, and I shall be glorified by Pharao

- and by all his army. And all the Egyptians shall know that . .5 I am the Lord. Accordingly the Israelites did so. Now when the king of the Egyptians was told that the people had fled, his heart and the heart of his servants were turned against the people. And they said, What is this we have done in sending the

6 Israelites away from serving us? Therefore Pharaoequipt his .

7 chariots and took all his people with him. And having selected six hundred chosen chariots and all the cavalry of the Egyp-

8 tians and officers of the highest rank overall (for the Lord had emboldened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt and of his at-

9 tendants) he pursued the Israelites. Though the Israelites had gone out with a high hand, yet the Egyptians pursued them with all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharao. And his horse men and his army found them encamped by the sqa«Sf?itK the,,

10 sheep cot on one flank and Beelsepphon on the cither. 'Anda)-. Pharao approached; the children of Israel raising their'eyes saw the Egyptians encamping in their rear and were greatly.

11 terrified. And the Israelites cried to the Lord, andfSaidtb' Moses, Was it because there vyere no graves in the land of

Egypt, that thou hast brought us out to die in the wilderness?
Why hast thou dealt thus with us in bringing us out of Egypt?

12 Is not this what we told thee in Egypt saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians ? For, it was better for us to

13 serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness. Where- upon Moses said to the people, Take courage; stand still and see the salvation which cometh from the Lord—which he will work for you this day. For in the manner you have seen the Egyptians this day, you shall never see them again any more.

14 The Lord will fight for you. Be ye therefore silent.

15 Now the Lord had said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them prepare for march-

16 ing. And lift thou up thy staff and stretch forth thy hand over the sea and divide it, and let the children of Israel go into the

17 midst of the sea as on dry ground. And behold I will embolden the heart of Pharao and of all the Egyptians and they will go in after them. And I shall be glorified by Pharao and by

1& all his army and by his chariots and by his horses. And all the Egyptians shall know, that I am the Lord when I make my-

19 self glorious by Pharao and by his chariots and his horses. Now the Angel of the Lord who marched before the camp of the Israelites had removed and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud had removed from the front and taken its station in the

20 rear. And when it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and had taken its station; there came on a thick darkness and night intervened so that they did not in-

21 termix one with the other during that whole night. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord restrain-

- ed the sea that whole night with a strong south easterly wind and made the sea dry ground; and the water was cleft asunder.

22 And the- Israelites went into the midst of the sea as on dry ground. And the water thereof was a wall on the right and a

23 wall on the left. And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them* even all Pharao's cavalry and his chariots and chari-

24 oteers, into the midst of the sea. And in the morning watch, the Lord cast a look on the army of the Egyptians with the

25 pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian army into con- fusion, and entangled their chariot wheels and caused them to

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the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the

26 Egyptians. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand over the sea and bring back the water to its place; and let it overwhelm the Egyptians, their chariots and their horse-

27 men. So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and about day break the water was brought back to its place. And when the Egyptians were fleeing below the water the Lord

28 shook them off in the midst of the sea; and the water being brought back to its place overwhelmed the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharao who had marched after

29 the Israelites into the sea, so that not one of them was left. But the Israelites marched on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall to them on their right and on their

30 left. Thus did the Lord on that day deliver Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead on

31 the sea shore. And when Israel saw that great hand—what the Lord had done to the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they put confidence in God and in Moses his servant.

XV. Then sung Moses and the Israelites this song to God, and spoke saying,

Let us sing to the Lord,

For he is gloriously exalted;

Horse and rider he hath thrown in the sea.

2 He was my help and defence for safety :
He is my God, therefore I will praise him—
My father's God, therefore I will extol him—

3 A Lord crushing battles, his name is The Lord.

4 Pharao's chariots and host he threw in the sea— Chosen bands—Officers of highest rank.

They were swallowed up in the Red sea.

5 In the sea, he whelmed them;
They sank to the bottom like a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power.
Thy right hand, O Lord, dashed enemies to pieces.

7 With thy great glory thou didst crush thine adversaries. Thou sentest forth thy wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

8 At the blast of thy wrath the water parted—- The waters were compacted like a wall—

The waves were condensed in the midst of the sea. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue and overtake,

I will divide the spoil—I will glut my vengeance :
My sword shall slay; my hand shall prevail.

10 Thou didst send forth thy blast, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty water.

11 Who among the gods is like thee, O Lord ? Who is like thee? Glorified among Holies ; Marvellous among Glories—working miracles !

12 Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, The earth swallowed them up,

13 In thy kindness thou hast been the guide

Of this thy people whom thou hast redeemed.
By thy power thou hast called them forth
To thy holy place for resting.

14 Nations have heard and are troubled:

Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Phylisteim;

15 The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion;

And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them:
All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled.

16 On them let dread and terror fall.

By the greatness of thine arm may they be petrified,

Till thy people pass through, O Lord—

Till this thy people pass by, whom thou hast purchased.

17 Introduce and plant them on the mount of thy heritage— In the settlement thou hast prepared for thy dwelling, O Lord—

The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have prepared.

18 The Lord reigneth for ever and for evermore.

19 Because Pharao's cavalry with chariots and charioteers went into the sea, and the Lord brought upon them the water of the sea; and the Israelites marched in the midst of the sea on dry

20 ground; therefore Mariam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took in her hand a timbrel and all the women went out after

21 her with timbrels in choirs, and Mariam led the song for them, saying,

Let us sing to the Lord,

For he is gloriously exalted :

Horse and rider he hath thrown in the sea—

22 Then Moses drew off the Israelites from the Red sea; and led them into the wilderness of Sour, and they marched three

23 days in the wilderness and found no water to drink. And when they came to Merra they could not drink the water there, for it was bitter. Therefore they called the name of that place Bit-

24 terness. And the people murmured against Moses and said,

25 What are we to drink ? Upon this Moses cried to the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a piece of wood and he threw it into the water, and the water was made sweet.

There he instituted for them rules of rectitude and judg-

26 ments, and there he proved them and said, If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and do the things well pleasing in his sight, and hearken to his commandments, and keep all these his rules of rectitude, I will not bring upon thee any of the diseases which I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord thy God who healeth thee.

27 Then they came to Aileim, where there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.

XVI. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel removed from Aileim and came to the wilderness of Sin, which

2 is between Aileim and Sina. And on the fifteenth day of the second month after their coming out of Egypt all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and

3 Aaron. The Israelites indeed said to them, Oh that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh meat and ate bread in plenty! For you have brought us to this wilderness to kill this whole as-

4 sembly with hunger. Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, Behold I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go and gather it day by day, that I may try

5 them whether they will walk in my law or not. But on the sixth day they must be provident in respect to what they bring in. It shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

6 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the congregation of the Israelites, In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath

7 brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, by his hearkening to your mur- murings against God. As for us, -what are we that you should

8 murmur against us? (Now Moses had dictated, by the Lord's giving you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread in plenty, because the Lord hath heard your murmurings -which you utter against us. But as, for us what are we ? your murmuring is not against us but against God.)

9 Then Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Attend in the presence of God, for

10 he hath heard your murmuring. And when Aaron had spoken to all the congregation of the Israelites and they had turned about towards the wilderness, the glory of the Lord appeared

11 in a cloud, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, I have heard

12 the murmuring of the Israelites. Speak to them and say, Towards evening you shall eat flesh and in the morning you shall be plentifully supplied with bread. And you shall know that

13 I am the Lord, your God,. Accordingly there came up in the

14 evening a flock of quails, which covered the camp, and in the morning while the dew lay around the camp, behold on the face of the wilderness something small like coriander, white

15 like hoar frost, on the ground! And when the Israelites saw this they said one to another, What is this? for they did not

16 know what it was. Upon which Moses said to them. This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. This is what the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it, every one for his family a gomer a head according to the number of souls,

17 you must every one gather for those in the tent with you.

And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more

18 and some less, and when they measured it by the gomer, he who had gathered much had nothing over, and he who had gathered little did not fall short. Every one had gathered suf-

19 ficient for the family with him. Then Moses said to them,

20 Let none leave any of it till the morning. Notwithstanding this they hearkened not to Moses, but some left of it till the mom- ing. And it bred worms and gave an offensive smell. On

21 which Moses was angry with them. So they gathered it every

22 morning, every one a sufficiency for his family. And when the sun grew warm, it melted away.

Now on the sixth day when they were gathering a double quantity, two gomers for every one, all the heads of the con-

23 gregation came and told Moses, whereupon he said to them, Is not this what the Lord spoke, Sabbaths are a rest holy to the Lord? As for to-morrow, bake what you chuse to bake and boil what you chuse to boil and what is left lay up for to-mor-

24 row. So they left some of it till the morning as Moses commanded them and it did not become putrid, nor was there a

25 worm in it. Then Moses said to them, Eat it to-day, for to-

26 day is the Sabbath to the Lord. It will not be found in the field. Six days you shall gather but because the Sabbaths are on the

27 seventh day, therefore in it there will be none. And it came to pass that on the seventh day some of the people went out to

28 gather, but found none. Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to hearken to my commandments and

29 my law? You see that because the Lord gave you this day for sabbaths, therefore on the sixth day he gave you the bread of two days. Abide ye every one at home. Let none go out from

30 his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 Now the Israelites called its name Manna. It was like coriander seed. It was white; and its taste was like a cake made

32 with honey. And Moses said, This is what the Lord hath commanded, Fill the gomer with Manna to be laid up for your posterity, that they may see the bread which you ate in the wilderness, when the Lord brought you out of the land of

33 Egypt. Then Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden urn and put therein the full of a gomer of Manna; and thou shalt lay

34 it up before God to be kept for your posterity. As the Lord commanded Moses so Aaron laid it up before the testimony

35 that it might be kept. And the children of Israel ate this Manna forty years till they came to the inhabited land. They ate it till they came to the border of Phoenicia. Now the gomer is the tenth of the trimeter.

XVII. When all the congregation of the Israelites had removed from the wilderness of Sin according to their encampments by the command of the Lord and encamped at Raphidin and

2 there was no water for the people to drink, and the people were reviling Moses and saying, Give us water that we may drink, Moses said to them, Why do you revile me? And why do you

3 tempt the Lord? Now when the people had thirsted there for water and murmured against Moses saying, How is this? Hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and

4 our cattle with thirst? Moses cried to the Lord and said, What shall I do for this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

5 Upon which the Lord said to Moses, Go on at the head of the people, and take thee some of the elders of the people, and take in thy hand the staff with which thou didst smite the river.

6 And thou shalt go to the place where I before caused thee to stand on the rock at Choreb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and water will gush out that the people may drink. And Moses

7 did so in the presence of the Israelites, and he called the name of that place, Temptation and Upbraiding, because of the upbraiding of the Israelites, and because they tempted the Lord

8 and said, Is the Lord among us or not? Now Amalek had come and made war on Israel at Raphidin, upon which Moses said to Joshua, Select for thyself able men and go out and draw

9 up in array to-morrow against Ajnalek; when lo I have stood

10 on the top of that hill with the staff of God in my hand. So Joshua did as Moses commanded him. And when he had gone out and drawn up in array against Amalek, and Moses and

11 Aaron and Hur had gone up to the top of the hill, it came to pass that when Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed; but

12 when he let down his hands Amalek prevailed. But Moses hands were heavy, therefore they took a stone and put it under him and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his

13 hands, one on one side, and the other, on the other. So his liands were stayed up till the going down of the sun and Joshua discomfited Amalek and his whole people with the slaughter

14 of the sword. Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book to keep it in remembrance; and rehearse it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will entirely blot out the remembrance

15 of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar to the Lord and called its name, The Lord my refuge; because with a secret hand the Lord fighteth against Amalek from generation to generation.

XVIII. . Now when Jothor the priest of Madiam, Moses' father in law heard of all that the Lord had done for his people Israel,

2 (for while the Lord was bringing Israel out of Egypt Jothor the father in law of Moses had taken home Sepphora, Moses'

3 wife, after she had gone back, with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gersam; for he said, I was a stranger in a

4 strange land; and the name of the other Eliezer; for the God of my fathers, said he, hath been my help, and hath delivered

5 me out of the hand of Pharao) Jothor the father in law of Mo- ses came out to him with his sons and his wife to the wilder-

6 ness where he was encamped by the mount of God. And when they told Moses saying, Behold Jothor thy father in law

7 is coming to thee with thy wife and thy two sons with him, Moses went out to meet his father in law and made obeisance to him and kissed him. And when they had embraced each

8 other he conducted them to his tent. And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done to Pharao and to all the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the difficulties which they had encountered on the way, and how the Lord had rescued them out of the hand of Pharao and out of the hand of the Egyp-

9 tians. Whereupon Jothor was enrapt in wonder at all the good things which the Lord had done for them in delivering them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pha-

10 rao; and Jothor said, Blessed be the Lord. Because he hath delivered these out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the

11 hand of Pharao, I know now that the Lord is great above all the gods, for this reason because they were set against these.

12 Then Jothor the father in law of Moses took whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for God ; and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father in law.

13 And on the morrow Moses sat to administer justice to the people, and all the people attended on Moses from early in the

14 morning till late in the evening. And when Jothor saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this that thou dost for the people? Why hast thou sitten alone and all the people attended

15 thee from morning till night? And Moses said to his father in law, Because the people come to me to have a determination

16 from God. For when a controversy happcneth among them and they come to me, I administer justice to every one, and teach

17 them the statutes of God and his law. Thereupon Moses' father in law said to him, Thou dost not transact this business right.

18 Both thou and this people with thee must needs be worn down by this intolerable service. This business is too fatiguing for

19 thee. Thou canst not perform it thyself alone. Now therefore hearken to me and I will advise thee; and God be with thee.

20 Be thou to the people as the Oracle of God; and lay their cases before God; and testify to them the statutes of God and his law; and point out to them the ways in which they shall walk,

21 and the works which they shall do: but look out for thyself from among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens; and let them administer justice to the people on all occasions:

22 and the matter which is too high for them, they shall lay before thee; but causes easily determined they themselves shall de-

23 cide. Thus they will remove a burden from thee and help thee. If thou do this God will strengthen thee so that thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall go to their place with

24 peace. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law,

25 and did all that he said. And when Moses had chosen able men from among all Israel and made them rulers of thousands,

26 and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, with orders to administer justice to the people on all occasions, and that they should lay before him the matter which was too high for them; but the causes easily determined they them-

27 selves should decide ; then Moses gave his father in law leave to depart and he returned to his own land.

XIX. Now on the first day of the third month after the departure of the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, on the very day

2 they came to the wilderness of Sina—when they had re- moved from Raphadin and came to the wilderness of Sina

3 and Israel were encamping there before the mount, Moses went up to the mount of God. And God called to him out of

1 the mount and said, Thus shalt thou say t6 the house of Jacob, and announce to the children of Israel—You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians ; and how I have taken you up

5 as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself. Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above.

6 all the nations; for the whole earth is mine : but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words

7 thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel. Upon this Moses came and called the elders of the people and laid before them

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8 all these words which God enjoined on them. And all the people with one consent answered and said, All that God hath said we will do and we will be obedient. And Moses carried up

9 these words to God. Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold I will come to thee in a pillar of cloud, that the people may hear

10 me speaking to thee and believe thee for ever.—When Moses told the Lord the words of the people the Lord said to Moses,

11 Go down and testify to the people and purify them to-day and to-morrow and let them wash their garments and be ready against the third day ; for on the third day the Lord will de-

12 scend upon mount Sina in the sight of all the people. Therefore thou shalt remove the people to some distance round about and say, Take heed to yourselves not to go up to the mount nor touch any part of it. Whoever shall touch the

13 mount shall surely die. A hand shall not touch him, for he shall be stoned with stones or shot with a dart. Whether man or beast it shall not live. When die voices and the trumpets and the cloud are gone from the mount, they may go up to the mount.

14 So Moses went down from the mount to the people and

15 purified them, and they washed their garments. And he said to the people, Be ready, for three days you must not approach a wife,

16 And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all

17 the people in the camp were terrified. Then Moses led forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they halted at the

18 foot of the mount. The whole mountain Sina was enveloped with smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire. And

19 the smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, so that all the people were exceedingly amazed.

Still the sounds of the trumpet waxed louder and louder. Moses had spoken and God had answered him by a voice. And

20 the Lord descended upon mount Sina on the summit of the mount, and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount,

21 and Moses went up. And God spoke to Moses saying, Go down and testify to the people ; peradventure they may come nigh to God to observe, and a multitude of them may perish. 22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord God be puri-

23 fied, lest peradventure the Lord withdraw from them. And Moses said to God, The people cannot advance to mount Sina; for thou hast testified to us saying, Set apart the mount

24 and hallow it. But the Lord said to him, Away; go down and come up thou and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests nor the people presume to come up to God lest perad-

25 venture the Lord destroy some of them. And when Moses had gone down to the people and spoken to them, the Lord spoke all these words saying,

XX. I am the Lord thy, God, who brought thee out of the

3 land of Egypt—out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods besides me.

4 Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth ; thou shalt not worship

5 them; nor serve them ; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon

6 children to the third and fourth generation; but shewing mercy for thousands [of generations] to them who love me and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the Lord thy God will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain.

8 Re member the day of the sabbaths to hallow it. Six days

9 labour and do all thy works ; but on the seventh day are sab-

10 baths to the Lord thy God; On it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle,

11 nor the stranger who sojourneth with thee ; for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.

12 Honour thy father and thy mother that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

14 Thou shalt not steal.

15 Thou shalt not commit murder.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor any thing belonging to thy neighbour.

18 And all the people looked towards the thunder and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mount which was smoking; and all the people being struck with terror stood at

19 a distance. And they said to Moses, Speak thou to us : and

20 let not God speak to us lest we die. Whereupon Moses said to them, Take courage; for God is come to you to prove you, that the dread of him may be in you, that you

21 may not sin. Then the people stood afar off, and Moses

22 went into the thick darkness, where God was. And the Lord said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the house of

23 Jacob and announce to the children of Israel, You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven. You shall not make for yourselves gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves

24 gods of gold. An altar of earth you shall make for me, and sacrifice thereon your whole burnt offerings and your offerings of thanksgiving, both your sheep and your young bulls in

25 ever- place where I record my name. And I will come to thee and bless thee. And if thou makest for me an altar of stones; thou shalt not build it of hewn stones : for thou hast put thy

26 workmanship on them and they are polluted. Thou shalt not go up to my altar by steps, that thou mayst not discover thy nakedness on it.

XXI. And these are the rules of rectitude which thou shalt set

before them. 2 If thou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six

years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without 8 ransom. If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; but if his

4 wife came with him his wife shall go out with him. And if his master hath given him a wife and she hath born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall belong to his master,

5 and he shall go out alone. And if the servant sliall answer and say, I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go

6 away free, his master shall bring him to God's court of Justice and there lead him to the door—to the door post, and his mas

ter shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him for ever.

7 When any man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid she

8 shall not go away as those who are in bondage go. If she please not her master provided he betrothed her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed ; but he is not her master to sell her into another family, because he hath broken covenant with her:

9 but if he betroth her for his son, he shall deal by her accord-

10 ing to the privilege of daughters. And if the son take another for himself, he shall not deprive her of food and raiment and

11 her marriage rites. And if he do not these three for her she shall go away ransom free.

12 If any one smite another and he die, he shall be put to

13 death. But if he was not a voluntary agent, but God delivered into his hands, I will appoint for thee a place to which he

14 who -hath killed shall flee. But if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him insidiously, and flee, thou shall drag him from my altar to put him to death.

15 He who smiteth his father or his mother shall be put to death.

16 He who curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death.

17 He %vho stealeth any of the children of Israel, and having got him in his power selleth him, or if he be found with him, shall be put to death.

18 If two men quarrel and one smite the other with a stone

19 or his fist and he dieth not, but is confined to his bed; if the man rise and walk abroad on his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted but shall pay for his loss of time and the expence of his cure.

20 If a man smite his man servant or his maid servant with a staff; and the servant die under his hand, vengeance sliall be

21 taken by a judicial process; but if the servant live a day or two, let no vengeance be taken, for he is his money.

22 If two men fight and strike a woman with child and she miscarry of an embrio, atonement shall be made by a fine. According as the husband of the woman shall with a judicial de-

23 cision lay upon him, he shall pay: but if the child be compleatly

24 organised he shall give, life for life; eye for eye; tooth for 25 tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot; burning for burning;

26 wound for wound; stripe for stripe. But if a man smite the eye of a man servant, or the eye of a maid servant; and it become

27 blind, he shall set them free for their eye's sake. And if he beat out the tooth of a man servant, or the tooth of a maid servant, he shall set them free for their tooth's sake.

28 If a bull gore a man or a woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but

29 the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless: but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; if he kill a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and

30 his owner also may be put to death. But if a fine shall be laid

31 upon him, he shall pay as a ransom for his life whatever they lay upon him. And if the bull shall gore a son or a daughter, they

32 shall deal with him according to this law. But if the bull shall gore a man servant or a maid servant he shall pay their master thirty didrachms of silver and the bull shall be stoned.

33 If any man open a pit, or dig a pit and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, the owner of the pit shall make it

34 good. He shall pay the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his.

35 If any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour and he die, they shall sell the live bull and divide the money and they shall

36 divide the dead bull. But if the bull be noted for having been heretofore accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up he shall be fined bull for bull and the dead bull shall be his.

XXII. If any man steal an ox or a sheep and kill, or sell it, he shall pay as a fine five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

2 If a thief be found in the act of breaking in and be struck

3 and die, he who struck him is not liable to death; but if the sun was risen upon him he is liable and may be put to death.

4 If a thief liath no property, let him be sold for the theft. If the thing stolen, whatever it be from an ass to a sheep, be left alive and found in his hand, he shall be fined double.

5 If any man cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten and shall send out his cattle to feed upon the field of another, with the

produce of his own field he shall make restitution; and if he shall cause a whole field to be eaten up; with his choicest field or his choicest vineyard he shall make compensation.

6 If a fire break out and catch in thorns and consume com on the threshing floors or on the stalk, or in the field, he who kindled the fire shall make compensation.

7 If any man deliver to his neighbour money or furniture to keep, and they be stolen out of the man's house; the thief, if

8 he be found, shall be fined double. But if the thief cannot be found, the owner of the house shall go before God and be examined on oath whether he may not in some manner have ac-

9 ted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour. On every supposed act pf injustice touching an ox or an ass or a sheep or raiment or any kind of deposit which is lost, whatever it may be, the cause of both parties shall come before God, and he whom God pointeth out shall pay his neighbour two fold.

10 And if a man deliver to his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep, and it be hurt or die, or be car-

11 ried offby an enemy unknown to any one, there shall be an oath of God between the parties, that he hath not in any manner acted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour; and the owner shall thus be satisfied; and the other shall not make it

12 good. But if it be stolen from him he shall make restitution

13 to the owner; and if it be torn by wild beasts he shall bring

14 the owner to the prey and shall not make compensation. But if any one borrow of his neighbour and that which was borrowed be hurt or die or be carried off by an enemy and the

15 owner be not with it, he shall make compensation; but if the owner be with it he shall not make it good, and if it be hired he shall have it for the hire of it.

16 If any man delude an unmarried virgin and lie with her,

17 he shall by paying a dowry purchase her for a wife: but if her father absolutely refuse and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay the father in money to the amount of the dowry paid for virgins.

18 You shall not protect sorcerers.

19 Every act of bestiality you shall punish with death.

20 He who sacrificeth to any god save to the Lord alone shall be destroyed by death.

21 A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. If you in any-

23 wise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice

24 and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

25 If thou lend money to thy brother, who is near thee and in want; thou shalt not be rigorous with him, nor charge him in-

26 terest. And if then hast taken the mantle of thy neighbour as a pledge, thou shalt restore it to him before the setting of the

27 sun ; for it is his covering. This mantle is the only covering of his nakedness. In what can he sleep? If therefore he cry to me, I will hear him; for I am merciful.

28 Thou shalt not revile gods, nor speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

29 The first fruits of thy threshing floor and of thy press thou shalt not withhold.

30 The first born of thy sons thou shalt give to me. Thou shalt do the same with thy calf, thy sheep and thy ass. Seven days it shall be with the dam and on the eighth day thou shalt

31 dedicate it to me. You shall be men holy to me, and you shall not eat what is torn by wild beasts. You shall throw it to the dogs.

XXIII. Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor con-

2 spire with the unrighteous to be a false witness. Thou shalt not be with the majority in wickedness, nor join with the multi-

3 tucle to shut out justice. In passing judgment thou shalt not

4 be influenced by compassion for the needy. If thou meet the ox of thy enemy or his ass going astray thou shalt turn it

5 back and restore it to him. And if thou seest thine enemy's assy fallen under his burden thou shalt not pass it by, but shalt raise it up with its load.

6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of a poor man in the

7 trial of his cause. Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes.

8 Bribes thou shalt not receive, for they blind the eyes of them who see, and pervert judgment.

9 You shall not afflict a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground and gather in the pro-

11 ducts thereof; but on the seventh thou shalt give it rest and let it lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, let the wild beasts of the field eat. The same thou,

12 shalt do with thy vineyards and thy olives. Six days thou shalt do thy work; but on the seventh there shall be a rest; that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and that the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may repose.

13 You shall keep all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the name of strange gods, nor let it be heard out of your mouth.

14 Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me—the fes-

15 tival of unleavened bread you shall carefully observe. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time fixed in the month of new tilings. For in that

16 month thou didst come out of Egypt. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. Thou shalt also keep the festival of the ingathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year,

17 when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field. Three times a year all thy males must appear before the Lord thy God; for when I have driven out the nations from before thee I will enlarge thy borders.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; nor shall the fat of my festival remain till the morning.

19 The dedications of the first products of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God.

20 Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of its dam.

Now behold I send my angel before thy face, that he may guard thee in the way, and bring thee to the land, which I have

21 prepared for thee. Take heed to thyself and hearken to him and disobey him not; for he should not withdraw from you;

22 for my name is upon him. If you will hearken diligently to this voice of mine, and do whatever I command thee, and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine, but you shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words you

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shall deliver to the children of Israel—If you will hearken diligently to my voice, and do all that I command thee, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries;

23 For my angel shall go before thee as thy leader, and conduct thee to the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Cha- nanite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite, and I will

24 exterminate them. Thou shalt not worship their gods nor serve them. Thou shalt not do according to their works; but destroy utterly and break in pieces their pillars and worship the Lord

25 thy God. And I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy

26 water, and turn away sickness from you. There shall not be a

27 man childless, nor a woman barren in diy land. The number of your days I will completely fulfil. And I will send terror before thee and confound all the nations to which thou shalt go;

28 and cause all thy adversaries to flee before thee. And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt drive out the Amo- rites and the Evites and the Chananites and the Chettites from

29 before thee. I will not drive them out in one year, lest the land become a waste and the wild beasts of the earth multiply against

30 thee. By little and little I will drive them away from thee until '31 thou art increased and canst possess the land. And I will establish thy boundaries from the Red sea to the sea of Philis- teim, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates, and deliver into your hands those who are settled in the land, or

32 drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt not make a treaty

33 with them and their gods, nor shall they dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me. For if thou serve their gods, they will be to thee a stumbling block.

XXIV. Then the Lord said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the ciders .

2 of Israel; and let them at a distance worship the Lord; and let Moses alone approach near to God. As for them they shall not approach near; nor shall the people come up with them.

3 So Moses came and told the people all the words of God and the rules of rectitude, and all the people with one voice answered and said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken

4 we will perform and we will be obedient. Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next mom- ing Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve

5 stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving

6. to the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and poured it into bowls, and the other half of the blood he poured out

7 against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, All that the

8 Lord hath spoken we will do and we will be obedient. Thereupon Moses took the blood and scattered it towards the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord

9 hath made with you touching all these words. Then Moses and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the senate of

10 Israel went up; and they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and what was under his feet was like a pavement of Sapphire, and in clearness like the appearance of the firmament of

11 heaven. And of these chosen men of Israel not one uttered a dissenting voice.

12 Now when they had appeared in the presence of God and liad eaten and drunk the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mount and stay there and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments which I have written to

13 be promulgated to them. Thereupon Moses arose with Joshua

14 his attendant and they went up to the mount of God—Having said to the elders, Remain quiet here till we return to- you, and behold Aaron and Hur are with you, if any one hath

15 a controversy with another let them go to them'. Moses then went up with Joshua to the mount and the cloud covered the

16 mount. And the glory of God descended on mount Sina and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day the Lord

17 called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like fire blazing on the top

18 of the mount in the view of the Israelites; and Moses went into the midst of the cloud and ascended the mount and remained there forty days and forty nights.

XXV. And the Lord spake to Moses saying, Say to the chil-

2 dren of Israel, Take offerings from all who may be willing.

3 And these you shall take as dedications to me. And this is the offering which you shall receive from them; gold and silver and

4 brass, and blue and purple and scarlet yarn, and cotton thread,

5 and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and skins of a violet

6 colour, and incorruptible wood, and oil for giving light, and

7 spices for the anointing oil and for the compound incense, and sardine stones, and stones to be engraved for the ephod and the

8 robe which cometh down to the feet. And thou shalt make a

9 sanctuary for me and I will appear among you. And thou shalt make every thing for me according to what I show thee on this mount—according to the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its utensils, so shalt thou make them.

10 Thou shalt make the Ark of the testimony of incorruptible wood—two cubits and a half, the length, and a cubit and a

11 half, the breadth, and a cubit and a half, the height. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold. Within and without thou shalt overlay it. And thou shalt make for it a rim of gold welked

12 and waved around. And thou shalt beat out for it four rings of gold and fasten them to the four corners, two rings on one

13 side and two rings on the other side. And thou shalt make

14 staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put the staves in the rings on the sides of the ark,

15 that with them the ark^onay be carried. The staves shall re-

16 main immoveably in the rings of the ark. And thou shalt deposit in the ark the testimonies which I give thee.

17 And thou shalt make a propitiatory—a lid of pure gold, two cubits and a half, the length; and a cubit and a half, the breadth.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubs of turned gold, and place .them,

19 at the two sides of the propitiatory. They shall be made, one cherub at one side, and the other cherub at the other side of the

20 propitiatory. Thou shall make the two cherubs at the two sides; and the cherubs shall have their wings stretched forth above and shall overshadow the propitiatory with their wings; and their faces shall be towards each other. The faces of the che-

21 rubs shall be towards the propitiatory. And thou shalt put the propitiatory upon the ark; and into the ark thou shalt put the

22 testimonies which I give thee. And there I will make myself known to thee and speak to thee from above the propitiatory, from between the two cherubs which are on the ark of the testimony, touching all that I give thee in charge to the children of Israel.

23 Thou shalt also make a golden table of pure gold; two cubits long; and one cubit broad; and a cubit and a half high:

24 And thou shalt make for it a rim of gold, welked and waved

25 around: And thou shalt make for it a border of a hand breadth all around, and to the border thou shalt make a welked wave

26 all around: And thou shalt make four rings of gold and fasten the four rings to the four sides of its feet under the border.

27 And the rings shall be for places to hold the staves so that with

28 them they may carry the table. And thou shalt make the staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with pure gold, and

29 with them the table shall be carried. And thou shalt make its plates and its incense vessels and its libation vessels and the cups with which thou shalt pour out libations, all of pure gold.

30 And on this table thou shalt lay the loaves which are to be in my presence before me continually.

31 Thou shalt make also a candlestick of pure gold. Thou shalt make it a turned work. Its shaft and its branches and the cups and the knobs and the lilly ornaments shall be of one piece.

32 And from its sides there shall issue six branches; three bran-

33 ches of the candlestick from one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick from the other side, with three cups beaten out in form of almonds, and a knob and an ornament like a lilly on each branch; and so on the six branches issuing

34 from the candlestick: and on the shaft 'there shall be four cups beaten out in form of almonds, and for each branch, knobs and

35 ornaments like lillies, of the same piece; the knob under the first pair of branches issuing from it; and a knob under the second pair of branches issuing from it, and so under the third pair of branches issuing from the shaft; and on the shaft four

36 cups beaten out in form of almonds. Let the knobs and the branches be of one piece. The whole must be turned out of

37 one piece of pure gold. And thou shalt make the seven lamps for it, and place the lamps so that they may give light in one

38 row. And its snuffers and its snuff dishes thou shalt make of

39 pure gold. All these utensils shall be a talent of pure gold.

40 See that thou make them according to the pattern shewn thee on this mount.

XXVI. Thou shalt make also the tabernacle with ten curtains made of cotton thread and blue and purple and scarlet

yarn with cherubs. With the workmanship of a tapestry weav-

2 er thou shalt make them. The length of one curtain shall be

3 eight and twenty cubits and its breadth four cubits. All the curtains shall be of the same measure. And five curtains shall be joined together one to another and the other five curtains

4 shall be joined together one to another. And thou shalt make for them loops of blue yarn on the border of the outer curtain on one side for the coupling; and the same thou shalt do on the selvage of the outermost curtain of the other sheet for the

5 second coupling. Fifty loops thou shalt make for the one cur- tain, and fifty loops thou shalt make on the selvage of the other curtain for joining them together. Being directly opposite one

6 to another they will meet each other at each joining place. And thou shalt make fifty links of gold and fasten the curtains one to another with these links; and it shall be one tabernacle.

7 And thou shalt make a covering for the tabernacle of hair cloth.

8 Thou shalt make eleven hair cloth curtains. The length of the first curtain shall be thirty cubits and the breadth four cubits. The eleven hair cloth curtains shall be of the same mea-

9 sure. And thou shalt fasten five hair curtains together, and six hair curtains together. And thou shalt lap the sixth cur-

10 tain over directly in front of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of the first hair curtain which is in the middle over the junction; and thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of the other hair curtain which is to be

11 joined with it, and thou shalt make fifty links of brass, and fasten the links together by the loops and so couple the hair

12 curtains that they may be one. And thou shalt put the overplus of the hair curtains of the tabernacle underneath—the half of the hair curtain which remaineth, thou shalt fold in underneath that being the surplusage of the hair curtains of the ta-

13 bernacle. So thou shalt fold back, underneath the tabernacle, a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other from the length of the hair curtain more than that of the tabernacle. It shall compleatly infold both the sides of the tabernacle so as to co-

14 ver it. And thou shalt make a counter covering for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red and an upper covering of skins

15 dyed blue. Thou shalt also make pilasters for the tabernacle

16 of incorruptible wood. Thou shalt make each pilaster ten cu-

17 bits long and a cubit and a half broad with two rabbets to each pilaster to fit the pilasters one to another. In this manner thou

18 shalt make all the pilasters of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make the pilasters for the tabernacle twenty pilasters for the

19 north side; and for these twenty pilasters thou shalt make forty bases of silver, two for each pilaster, for both the ends thereof:

20 And for the other side towards the south, twenty pilasters

21 with their forty bases of silver, two for each pilaster for both

22 the ends thereof: and for the end of the tabernacle which is

23 towards the west thou shalt make six pilasters; and at the corners of the tabernacle out of the hinder ends thou shalt make two pilasters and the side on the end shall be of the same piece

24 and as wide as the other side—both sides shall be equal from the corner to the first joint. That thou mayst do this at both

25 comers the corner pilasters must have equal sides. So there will be eight pilasters and their bases of silver sixteen, two for

26 each pilaster for the two ends thereof. And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood—five for one range of pilasters on

27 one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the other range

28 of pilasters on the other side of the tabernacle; and five for the end of the tabernacle facing the west. And let the bar which is along the middle of the ranges of pilasters reach from one

29 corner to the other. And thou shalt overlay the pilasters with gold. And thou shalt make rings of gold into which thou shalt

30 put the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern shewn thee on this mount.

31 Thou shalt also make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet

32 yarn and cotton thread. This thou shalt make a work inwoven with cherubs : and thou shalt hang it on four pillars of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold, the capitals of which arc

33 to be of gold and their four bases of silver. And having hung up the veil upon the pillars, thou shalt bring in there within the

34 veil the ark of the testimony. And the veil shall make a divi- sionforyou, between the lloly and the Holy of Holies. And with the veil thou shalt cover from view the ark of the testimony in

35 the Holy of Holies. And thou shalt place the table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the table on the south -side of the tabernacle, and the table thou shalt place on thf

36 north side of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make a draw curtain for the door of the tabernacle, of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, the work of an embroiderer:

37 And for this veil thou shalt make five pillars and overlay them with gold and their capitals shall be of gold but thou shalt cast for them five bases of brass.

XX VII. Thou shalt make also an Altar of incorruptible wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The Altar shall be

2 square and the height of it shall be three cubits. And thou shalt make the horns at the four corners. The horns shall be a component part of it and thou shalt overlay them with brass.

3 And thou shalt make a border for the Altar. And its cover and its pans and its flesh hooks and its fire hearth and all its

4 utensils thou shalt make of brass. And thou shalt make for it a brass grate of net work ; and for the grate thou shalt make

5 four rings of brass under the four sides; and thou shalt put them under the grate of the altar below (now the grate must

6 be half way up the height of the altar.) And thou shalt make for the altar poles of incorruptible wood and overlay them

7 with brass, and thou shalt put the poles into the rings ; and

8 let the poles be along the sides of the altar in carrying it. Hollow, and of boards thou shalt make it. According to what is shewn thee on this mount so shalt thou make it.

9 Thou shalt also make a court for the tabernacle. For die south side, the hangings of the court shall be of cotton thread; the length for that side one hundred cubits and their pillars

10 twenty. And the twenty bases of these pillars shall be of brass

11 and their links and their fillets of silver. So for the north side there shall be liangings a hundred cubits long with their twenty pillars; and the twenty bases of them shall be of brass, and the links and the fillets of these pillars and their bases shall be

12 overlaid with silver. And for the breadth of the court westward there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and

13 their bases ten. And for the breadth of the court eastward there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and

14 their bases ten. But on one side of the gateway, the length of the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their

15 bases three ; and for the other side of the gateway, the length of the hangings sliall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three and

16 their bases three : and for the gate of the court there shall be a curtain of twenty cubits long, made of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread woven with a variety of em-

17 broidery ; the pillars four and their bases four. All the pil- lars of the court round about shall be filletted with silver and

18 the capitals shall be silvered and their bases of brass. The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty cubits at each end, and the height of the cot-

19 ton hangings five cubits. And the bases shall be of brass, and all the implements and all the utensils and all the pins of the court shall be of brass.

20 Moreover thou shall give orders to the children of Israel; and let them provide for thee, clear, pure oil expressed from olives to bum for a light, that a lamp may be kept burning

21 continually in the tabernacle of the testimony. On the outside of the veil which is before the covenant Aaron and his sons shall keep it burning from evening till morning before the Lord. This shall be an everlasting ordinance for your genera-

XXVIII. tions among the children of Israel. Therefore associate thou with thyself thy brother Aaron and his sons, that from among the children of Israel, Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron may minis-

2 ter to me in the priest's office. And thou shall make for thy

3 brother Aaron holy raiment for dignity and glory. For this purpose speak to all those who are wise in heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom and understanding and let them make the holy raiment of Aaron for the sanctuary, in which he shall minister to me.

4 Now ihese are the robes which they shall make, The breast plate, and the ephod, and a long robe reaching clown to the feet, and a broidered vesture, and a mitre, and a girdle. And thai ihey may make holy robes for Aaron and his sons lo mi-

5 nister to me, they shall take the gold and the blue and the pur-

6 pie and the scarlet yarn and the cotton thread, and they shall

7 make the ephod of cotton thread, a woven work of an embroiderer. It shall have two shoulder pieces connected with it

8 and to one another, being joined at the two sides. And ihe texture of the two shoulder pieces which are over it shall be of the same fabrick and materials as it is; of pure gold and of

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9 blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread. And thou shalt take the two stones, smaragdine stones, and engrave upon

10 them the names of the sons of Israel, six names on one stone and the other six names on the other stone; according to their

11 births. With the workmanship of a skilful engraver, like the engraving of a seal, thou shalt engrave the two stones with the

12 names of the sons of Israel. And thou shalt fix these two stones on the shoulders of the ephod. They are stones of remembrance for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall carry the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two

13 shoulders as a memorial concerning them. Thou shalt also make little shields of pure gold; and thou shalt make two

14 pieces of net work of pure gold intermixed with flowers, the work of a curious plaiter, and thou shalt put the plaited net works upon the little shields in the fore front of the shoulder

15 pieces. And thou shalt make the oracle of judgment, a work of an embroiderer—thou shalt make it, conformable to the ephod, of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton

16 thread—thou shalt make it four square. It shall be double.

17 The length of it a span and the breadth a span. And thou shalt inweave in it a texture to contain stones in four rows. One row of stones shall be a sardius, a topaz and a smaragdus;

18 this shall be the first row. And the second row, an anthrax,

19 and a sapphire and a jaspis; and the third row, a ligure, an

20 agate and an amethyst; and the fourth row, a chrysolite and a beryl and an onyx. They must be cased in gold, and bound

21 together with gold according to their rows. And the stones from the names of the sons of Israel must be twelve according to their names. They must be engraved like seals every

22 one with its name for the twelve tribes. And thou shalt make upon the oracle net works inwoven with it, a chain work of

23 pure gold; and thou shalt make for the oracle two rings of gold and thou shalt put the two rings of gold on the two upper ends

24 of the oracle. And thou shalt put the nettings and chain works of gold on the two rings on the two upper ends of the oracle;

25 and the other two ends of the two pieces of net work thou shalt put on the two pieces of plaiters work, so as to put them upon die shoulders of the ephod over against each other in the

26 fore front. And thou shalt make two rings of gold and put them on the two wings of the oracle on the very tip next to the

27 lowest hinder tip of the ephod: And thou shalt make two rings of gold and put them below on both the shoulder pieces of the ephod, over against the upper juncture of the contexture

28 of the ephod; And from the two rings which are on it thou shalt bind the oracle to the two rings of the ephod, which are fastened with blue yam and plaited into the texture of the

29 ephod, that the oracle may not be loosed from the ephod. And Aaron shall carry 6n his breast the names of the children of Israel on the oracle of judgment, when he goeth into the sane-

30 tuary, as a memorial before God. And upon the oracle of judgment thou shalt put the Manifestation and the Truth. And it shall be on the breast of Aaron, when he goeth into the sanctuary, before the Lord. And Aaron shall carry the judgments of the Israelites upon his breast before the Lord con-

31 tinually. And thou shalt make a robe to be worn under this,

32 which shall reach down to the feet, entirely of blue yarn: And the opening of it at the neck shall be in the middle, having a hem round the opening, a woven work, the binding being in-

33 terwoven with it, that it may not be rent. And underneath the lower border of this robe thou shalt make clusters as of a blooming pomegranate of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread. Under the border of this robe round about thou shalt make clusters all of the same appearance and golden bells

34 between them round about— by a cluster a golden bell with

35 a running branch on the border of the robe round about; so that when Aaron officiateth the sound of him may be heard as he goeth into the sanctuary before the Lord, or cometh out, that he may not die.

36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on

37 it with the engraving of a seal, Holiness to the Lord, and thou

38 shalt fix it on a blue lace; and it shall be upon the mitre. It shall be upon the front of the mitre and upon Aaron's forehead; and Aaron shall bear away the sins of the holy things which the children of Israel may dedicate—of every gift of their holy things. And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead con-

39 tinually to make them acceptable before the Lord. Now the embroideries of the vestures shall be of cotton and thou shalt make a tiara of cotton, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work

40 of an embroiderer. And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make vestures and girdles. Thou shalt also make tiaras for them for

41 dignity and glory. And with these thou shalt clothe Aaron thy brother and his sons with him. And thou shalt anoint them and fill their hands and consecrate them that they may minis-

42 ter to me in the priest's office. Moreover thou shatt make for them linen drawers to cover their nakedness. These shall reach

43 from the loins to the thighs, and Aaron and his sons shall wear them when they come into the tabernacle of the testimony or when they come near to minister at the altar of the sanctuary, that they may not bring sin upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and his seed after him.

XXIX. Now these are the things which thou shalt do for them. Thou shalt consecrate them that they may minister to me in

2 the priest's office. For this purpose thou shalt take one young bull of the herd and two rams without blemish and unleavened bread tempered with oil and unleavened cakes anointed

3 with oil. These thou shalt make of fine wheaten flour and put them in one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the

4 young bull and the two rams. Then thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony

5 and wash them with water. Then taking the robes thou shalt put on Aaron thy brother the robe reaching down to the feet, and the ephod, and the oracle; and thou shalt fasten for him

6 the oracle to the ephod. Then thou shalt put the mitre on his

7 head and fasten the plate Holiness to the mitre. And thou shalt take some of the anointing oil and pour it on his head and

8 anoint him. Then thou shalt bring his sons near, and clothe them with vestures and gird them with girdles and put the

9 tiaras on them. And the office of serving me as priests shall be theirs for ever. Then thou shalt consecrate the hands of

10 Aaron, and the hands of his sons—for this purpose thou shalt bring the young bull to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the young bull before the Lord at the doors of the tall bernacle of the testimony. Then thou shalt slay the bull before the Lord at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, 12 and thou shalt take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger; and all the rest of the

13 blood thou shalt pour out at the base of the altar. And thou shalt take the whole caul which covereth the belly and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the suet on them;

14 and lay them on the altar: but the flesh of the bull and the hide and the excrements thou shalt burn with fire without the camp:

15 for it is a sin offering. Then thou shalt take one ram and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram;

16 and thou shalt slay it; and taking the blood thou shalt pour it

17 around the altar. Then thou shalt cut the ram in pieces according to its members and thou shalt wash the entrails and the feet

18 with water and lay them on the pieces with the head, and thou shalt carry up this whole ram on the altar for a whole burnt offer-

19 ing to the Lord, for a sweet savour. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. Then thou shalt take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of this ram; and thou

20 shalt kill it; and thou shalt take some of its blood and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot; and on the tip of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right

21 hands, and on the great toes of their right feet: and thou shalt take some of the blood from the altar, and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his raiment, and upon his sons and their raiment. So shall he and his raiment be hallowed ; and his sons and their raiment with him. But the blood

22 of this ram thou shalt pour against the altar round about. And thou shalt take from this ram the fat tail, and the caul which covereth the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the suet on them, and the right shoulder (for this is a

23 consecration offering) and one loaf of oil bread, and one cake out of the basket of unleavened cakes which were laid before

24 the Lord; and thou shalt lay all these upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and set them apart as a dedi-

25 cation befpje the Lord. Then thou shalt take them out of their hands and'carry them up, upon the altar of burnt offerings fora smell of.ifagrance before the Lord. It is an homage offering to

26 the Lord. And \hou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and set it apart as a dedication before the Lord,

27 and thou shalt have it for a portion. And thou shalt hallow this breast dedication and the shoulder dedication which was set

apart and taken from the ram of consecration on account of

28 Aaron and his sons; and they shall belong to Aaron and his sons by an everlasting statute from the Israelites. For this is a dedication and it shall be a portion taken from the Israelites, from the burnt offerings of thanksgiving of the children of Israel—a portion set apart for the Lord.

29 Now the sanctuary robes which are appropriate to Aaron shall be for his sons after him to be anointed in them and to

30 consecrate their hands. The priest—that one of his sons who is to succeed him and come into the tabernacle of the testimony to minister in the Holies shall put them on seven days.

31 And thou shalt take the flesh of the ram of consecration

32 and boil this flesh in a holy place; and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of this ram and the bread which is in the bas-

33 ket. At the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony they shall eat those meats, with which they were hallowed to consecrate

34 their hands with them, to hallow themselves. None of another family shall eat of them, for they are holy. And if any of the flesh of the consecration sacrifice or of the bread be left till the morning, thou shalt burn what remaineth with fire. It shall not be eaten; for it is a dedication.

35 Having done thus for Aaron and his sons according to all

36 that I have commanded thee, and consecrated their hands seven days, thou shalt offer on the day of the purification a young bull for a sin offering, and thou shalt purify the altar, when thou

37 consecratest upon it, and anoint it so as to hallow it. Seven days thou shalt purify the altar and hallow it, so shall the altar

38 be most holy. Whoever toucheth it shall be hallowed. Now these are what thou shalt offer on the altar—two yearling lambs without blemish every day on the altar continually, an

89 offering of homage without intermission; the one lamb thou

40 shalt offer in the morning with a tenth of fine flour tempered with a quarter of a hm of expressed oil; and for a libation a

41 quarter of a hin of wine for the first lamb: and the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening with the same cake offer-

42 ing and the same libation as in the morning. For a smell of fragrance—as an offering of homage to the Lord thou shalt offer this continual sacrifice throughout your generations, at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord in

the places where I shall make myself known to thee so as to

43 speak to thee. And there I will issue orders to the children of

44 Israel and be hallowed by my glory. And I will hallow the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar; and I will hallow Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office;

45 and I will be invoked by the children of Israel and will be

46 their God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt to be invoked by them and to be their God.

XXX. Thou shalt also make an Altar to burn incense thereon.

2 Of incorruptible wood thou shalt make it a cubit long and a cubit broad. It shall be square and the height shall be two

3 cubits. The horns sliall be a component part of it. And thou shalt overlay with pure gold its grate and its sides round about and the horns thereof. And thou shall make for it a wreathed

4 border of gold round about. And thou shalt make two rings of pure gold under its wreathed border for the two corners. Thou shalt make them on the two sides and there shall be

5 clasps for the staves with which it is to be carried. And thou shalt make staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with

6 gold. And thou shalt place this before the veil, which is over the ark of the testimonies, from which I will make myself

7 known to thee. And Aaron shall burn thereon every morning compound incense beaten fine. When he replenished! the

8 lamps he shall bum incense thereon. And when Aaron light- eth the lamps in the evening he shall burn incense thereon every day continually before the Lord throughout their gene-

9 rations. And upon it thou shalt not oifer any other incense offering, homage offering, nor cake offering; nor shall thou pour

10 a libation thereon. But Aaron shall make an atonement on it—on the horns thereof, once a year. With the blood of the purifying sacrifice he shall purify it throughout their generations. It is a Holy of Holies to the Lord.

11 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, When thou

12 takest an account of the children of Israel, on being reviewed they shall give every man a ransom for his life to the Lord, so there shall be no destruction among them by the -review

13 made of them. And this is what every one who passeth review shall give, the half of a didrachm, which is according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli making a didrachm. And this

14 half of a didrachm shall be an offering to the Lord. Every one who passeth the review from twenty years old and upwards

15 shall give this offering to the Lord. He who is rich shall add nothing to it, and he who is poor shall deduct nothing from the half of a didrachm when you give this offering to the Lord to

16 make atonement for your lives. And thou shall take the money of this offering from the children of Israel and apply it to the sen ice of the tabernacle of the testimony. And it shall be a memorial before the Lord to make atonement for your lives.

17 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Make a laver of brass with its base of brass for the purpose of washing.

18 And thou shall place it between the tabernacle of ,the testi-

19 mony and the altar, and thou shall pour water into it. And out of it Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their

20 feet with water. When they go into the tabernacle of the testimony, they shall wash with water. That they may escape death, when they go to the altar to minister as priests and to carry up the whole burnt offerings to the Lord they shall wash their

21 hands and their feet with water; and when they go into the tabernacle of the testimony they shall wash with water that they may not die: and this shall be to them a perpetual ordinance—to him and his posterity after him.

22 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Thou thyself

23 shall lake spices—the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels: and sweet scented cinnamon half as much—two hun-

24 dred and fifty shekels; and sweet scented calamus two hundred and fifty shekels; and of iris five hundred shekels, sanc-

25 tuary weight; and olive oil a hin; and of these thou shalt make an holy ointmenl, an odoriferous perfume, compounded

26 by ihe art of an apothecary. It shall be a holy anointing oil and with it thou shall anoint the tabernacle of the testimony

27 and the ark of the tabernacle of the testimony and all the uten-

28 sils thereof, and the candlestick and all the utensils belonging to it; and the allar of incense; and the allar of whole burnt offerings and all its ulensils; and ihe lable and all ils ulensils

29 and ihe laver. And thou shalt hallow them, and they shall be

30 holy of holies. Every one who toucheth them shall be hallowed. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons and hallow

31 them to minister to me as priests. And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel and say, This shall be to you a holy

32 anointing oil throughout your generations. Upon the flesh of man. it must not be poured; nor shall you make any for your-

33. selves according to this composition. It shall be holy, and held in veneration by you. Whoever shall make any like it or give any of it -to a stranger, shall be rooted out from among his people.

34 Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Take thee spices— stacte, onycha and sweet scented chalbanum and pellucid

35 frankincense, of each an equal quantity. And of these they shall make compound incense mixed up by the art of an apo,-

36 thecary, a pure holy composition. And thou shalt beat some of it fine, and lay it over against the testimonies in the tabernacle of the testimony, where I shall make ntyself known to

37 thee. It shall be to you a most holy incense. According to the composition thereof you shall not make any for yourselves.

38 You shall consider it as a holy thing appropriate to the Lord. Whoever shall make any like it to yield a fragrance for himself shall be rooted out from among his people.

XXXI. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Behold I have 2 called by name, Beseleel the son of Ourius, the son of Hur, 5 of the tribe of Judas, and filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding and knowledge in every kind o£

4 workmanship, to contrive and execute as a master carpenter; and to manufacture gold and silver and brass, and blue and

5 purple and scarlet yarn; and to cut stones; and in works of architecture made of wood to execute all kinds of workman-

6 ship. Him I have given with Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan. And to every man of an understanding heart I have given wisdom and they will make all that I have com-

7 manded thee—the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of

8 the covenant, and the propitiatory upon it, and the furniture of the tabernacle, and the altars, and the table and all the utensils thereof, and the pure candlestick and all its utensils, and

9 the laver with its base, and the sacerdotal robes of Aaron, and

10 the robes of his sons to minister to me in the priest's office,

11 and the anointing oil and the compound incense of the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded thee they will do.

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12 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Charge the

13 children of Israel saying, See that you keep my sabbaths. It is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth you;

14 therefore you shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy to the Lord for you. He who profaneth it shall surely be put to death. Whoever shall do any work on it, that person shaft be

15 rooted out from among his people. Six days thou shall per- form works, but on the seventh day are the sabbaths, a rest holy to the Lord. Whoever shall do any, work on the seventh day

16 shall be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbaths and cause them to be kept throughout their

17 generations. It is an everlasting covenant between me and the children of Israel. It is for me a perpetual sign that in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and rested on the seventh.

18 Here he paused, and gave Moses, when he had ceased speaking to him on mount Sina, two tables of the testimony— tables of stone written with the finger of God.

XXXII. (Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, they rose up together against Aaron and said to him; Arise and make for us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of

2 him. Thereupon Aaron said to them, Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters and

3 bring them to me. So all the people took off the gold ear-rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron; and he

4 received them at their hands and having made of them a molten bull he fashioned it with a graving tool and said, These are thy gods O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of

5 Egypt. And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation, saying, To-morrow is the fes-

6 tival of the Lord. So rising early in the morning he caused whole burnt offerings to be brought up, and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.)

7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Go quickly, go down from this place; for thy people whom thou hast brought

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8 out of the land of Egypt have transgressed. They have quickly

turned aside out of the way in which thou commandedst them

to walk and have made for themselves a young bull and wor-

9 shipped it; and have sacrificed to it and said, These are thy

gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

10 Now therefore let me alone, that being provoked to wrath against them I may utterly destroy them, and I will make thee a great nation.

11 -'.Upon which Moses made supplication before the Lord God and said, Shouldst thou, O Lord, be provoked to wrath against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with thine uplifted arm, perhaps

12 the Egyptians may speak, saying, With an ill intent he led them out to slay them on the mountains and utterly consume them from the earth. Stay thy fierce indignation and be mer-

13 cifiil at this wickedness of thy people, remembering Abraham and Isaak and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself and didst speak saying, I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of heaven for multitude; and didst say that thou wouldst give them all that land, that they should possess it for

14 ever. And when the Lord was moved with compassion to save

15 his people, Moses turned and went down from the mount with

16 the two tables of the testimony in his hands. Now the tables were of stone written on both sides. On the one side and on the other they were written, and the tables were the work of God. And the writing was the writing of God engraved on the ta-

17 bles. And Joshua hearing the sound of the people shouting

18 said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp. To which he replied, It is not the sound of men singing alternately as they rush to battle, nor is it the sound of men answering each other on a retreat, but the sound of responsive strains at

19 a revel, which I hear. And when he approached the camp and saw the young bull and the choirs, Moses being inflamed with wrath threw the two tables from his hands and broke them at

20 the foot of the mount. And taking the bull which they had made he burned it with fire and grinded it fine and strewed

21 it in the water and made the Israelites drink it. And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou hast

22 brought upon them this great sin? Upon which Aaron said to

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Moses, Be not angry, my lord, for thou knowest the impetu-

23 ousness of this people. For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us, for as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of Egypt we know not what is become of him.

24 Whereupon I said to them> If any one hath golden ornaments take them off. So they gave me and I cast into the fire, and out came that bull.

25 And when Moses saw that the people were scattered abroad; for Aaron had scattered and made them a derision to their ene-

26 mies, Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, Who is

27 for the Lord? Let him come to me. Upon which all the sons of Levi joined him. Then Moses said to them, Thus saiththe Lord the God of Israel, Gird ye every man his sword on his thigh and pass through and wheel about'from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his neighbour and every one him who is nearest of kin

28 to him. And the children of Levi did as Moses spoke to them and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

29 For Moses said to them, Fill your hands to-day for the Lord, every oile with his son or with his brother that a blessing may be bestowed on you.

30 And on the following day Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin, now therefore I will go up to God

31 that I may appease him for this sin of yours. So Moses went back to the Lord and said, O Lord ! this people have committed a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold.

32 Now therefore, if thou indeed forgivest this their sin, forgive it: but if not: blot me out of thy book which thou hast writ-

33 ten. And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever have sinned be-

34 fore me, them will I blot out of my book. Now therefore go thy way; go down and lead this people to the place which I commanded thee. Behold my angel will go before thee but on the day when I visit I will bring upon them this sin of theirs.

35 Now when the Lord had smitten the people for making the XXXIII. bull which Aaron had made, the Lord said to Moses,

Depart, go up hence thou and thy people whom thou hast led out of the land of Egypt, to the land which with an oath I promised to Abraham and Isaak and Jacob, saying, To your

2 seed I will give it. And I will send my angel before thee and he will drive out the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite

3 and the Chananite. And I will .bring thee to a land flowing with .milk and honey : for I must not go with thee because thou art a stiff necked people, lest I destroy thee in the way.

4 And when the people heard these evil tidings they mourned

5 bitterly. Whereupon the Lord said to the Israelites, You are a stiff necked people, take care that I bring not another stroke on you and utterly consume you. Now therefore strip off the robes of your glory and your ornaments and I will shew thee

6 what I will do to thee. So the Israelites stript off their ornaments and took down the barrier from the mountain Choreb and Moses struck his tent and pitched it without the camp at

7 a distance from the camp, (Now it was called the tabernacle of the testimony, and every one who sought the Lord

8 went out to this tabernacle without the camp. And as Moses was going to the tabernacle without the camp, all the people stood looking, every one at his tent door, and kept their eyes upon Moses as he was going until he entered the tabernacle)

9 And when Moses entered the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and talked

10 with Moses. And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle all the people as they

11 were standing worshipped every one at his tent door. And when the Lord had talked with Moses face to face as one would talk to his friend, Moses returned to the camp, but his attendant Joshua the son of Nave being young did not go out of the tabernacle.

12 Now Moses had said to the Lord, Behold thou sayest, Lead on this people, but hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said to me, I know thee

13 above all men and thou art in favour with me. If therefore I have found favour in thy sight manifest thyself to me in an evident manner, that I may see thee in what way soever I may have found favour in thy sight, and that I may know that this

14 great nation is thy people. And he said, Must I myself go be-

15 fore thee and give thee rest? To which Moses replied, Unless thou thyself accompany us, take me not away from this place :

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16 for how can it be known for certain that I and this people have found favour in thy sight, but by thy going with us? or I and this people be glorious above all that are on the earth ?

17 Then the Lord said to Moses, Even this which thou hast said, I will do for thee; for thou hast found favour in my sight and

181 know thee above all men. Upon which Moses said, Mani-

19 fest thyself to me. And he said, I will go before thee \vith my glory and I will call by my name The Lord, before thee ; and I will have mercy on whom I please to have mercy ; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I compassionate ; but, said

20 he, thou canst not see my face ; for no man can see my face

21 and live. Then the Lord said, Behold there is a place near me. Thou shalt stand upon the rock, and when my glory is passing

22 by, I will place thee in a cleft of the rock and cover thee with

23 my hand over thee, until I pass by, then I will withdraw my hand and then thou shalt see-what are behind me but my face cannot be seen by thee.

XXXIV. Then .the Lord said to Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like the first and come up to me on the mount, arid I will write on those tables the words which were in the first

2 tables which thou didst break; and be ready against the morning and thou shalt come up to mount Sina, and wait for me there

3 on the top of the mount, but let none come up with thee nor be seen in all the mountain; and let neither flocks nor herds

4 pasture near the mount. So when Moses had hewn two tables of stone such as the first he arose early in the morning and

5 went up mount Sina, as the Lord had commanded him. And Moses took the two tables of stone and the Lord descended in a cloud and stood by him there and called in the name of the

6 Lord. And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and

7 abundant in goodness and truth, keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children's children to the third and

8 fourth generation. Upon which Moses made haste and having bowed down on the ground he worshipped and said, If I have

9 found favour in thy sight; let my Lord go with us : for this people is stiff necked, and thou wilt take away our sins and our

10 iniquities and we shall be for thee. And the Lord said to Moses, Behold I make a covenant with thee, Before all thy people I will do marvellous things such as have not been done in all

. the earth nor in any nation. And all the people among whom thou art shall see the works of the Lord, that those which I shall

11 do for thee are marvellous. Attend thou to all that I command thee. Behold I drive out before you the Amorite and the Chananite and the Pherezite and the Chettite and the Evite

12 and the Gergasite and the Jebusite : Take thou heed to thyself that thou make not a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou art going,-lest it become a stumbling block to

13 you. Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces; and their groves you shall cut down ; and the

14 graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. For you must not worship other gods; for the Lord God, a zealous

15 name, is a zealous God. Peradventure, shouldst thou make a covenant with those settled in that land, when they go a whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite

16 thee thou mays! eat with them; and shouldst thou take their daughters for thy sons and give some of thy daughters to their sons, thy daughters may go a whoring after their gods and

17 thy sons may go a whering after their gods. Thou shall not

18 make for thyself molten gods. The festival of unleavened bread thou shalt keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread as I commanded thee at the set time in the month of new things; for in the month of new things thou didst come

19 out Of Egypt. With regard to every firstling, the males are

20 mine—every firstling of kine and sheep; but the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem, with a sheep; and if thou wilt not redeem it with that thou shalt pay the worth of it. Every first

21 born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. Six days perform works, but on the seventh thou shalt rest. In seeding time and harvest it shall be

22 a rest. The festival of weeks thou shalt celebrate for me at the beginning of the reaping of wheat; and the festival of the

23 ingathering in the middle of the year. Three times a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord the God of Israel.

24 For when I shall have driven out the nations from before thed and enlarged thy borders, none shall covet thy land, when thou comest up to appear before the Lord thy God three

25 times a year. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my burnt-offerings with leaven, nor shall the victims of the passover fes-

26 tival remain till the morning. The first fruits of thy land thou shalt lay by for the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam.

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, Write for thyself these words ; for on these terms I have made a covenant with thee and Israel. . . . '

28 , And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant—the ten command-

29 ments. And when Moses came down from the mount with the two tables in his hands, he did not know, while he was coming down from the mount, that the skin of his face had

30 been irradiated with glory by his talking with him; but whea Aaron and all the elders of Israel saw Moses, and that the skin of his face was irradiated with glory, they were afraid to

31 approach him. Whereupon Moses called them; and Aaron and all the chiefs of the congregation turned to him and Moses

32 spoke to them. And after that all the sons of Israel came to him; and he enjoined upon them all that the Lord had given

33 him ia charge on mount Sina. And when he had done speak-

34 ing to them he put a veil on his face. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak to him he took off the veil until he

35 came out, and when he came out and rehearsed to all the children of Israel what the Lord commanded him (as the children of Israel saw that Moses' face was irradiated with glory therefore) Moses put the veil on his face until he should go in to speak to him.

XXXV. Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the

2 Israelites and said, These are the things which the Lord said you shall do. Six days thou shalt perform works; but on the seventh tfiere shall be a rest, holy sabbaths, a rest to the Lord;

3 whoever doth work on it let him be put to death. You shall not kindle a fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

4 I am the Lord. Again Moses spoke to all the congregation of the Israelites and said, This is the thing which the Lord hath

5 commanded saying, Take from yourselves an offering for the Lord. Let every one whose heart is so disposed bring these

6 ^offerings to the Lord, gold, silver, brass, blue, purple and

7 scarlet yarn doubled; and cotton thread and goats' hair and

8 rams' skins dyed red and skins dyed blue and incorruptible 9. wood and sardine stones and stones to be engraved for the

10 ephod and the long robe; and let every wise hearted man among you come and make all the works which the Lord hath com-

11 manded—the tabernacle, and the coverings, and upper cover-

12 ings and the hangings, and the bars and the pilasters, and the ark of the testimony with its staves and its propitiatory, and the veil and the hangings of the court with its pillars, and the smaragdine stones and the incense and the anointing oil and the table with all its utensils, and the candlestick for light with all its utensils, and the altar with all its utensils, and the holy

19 garments of Aaron the priest, and the robes and the sacerdotal vestures for the sons of Aaron in which they are to minister

and the anointing oil and the compound incense.

20 Thereupon all the congregation of the children of Israel went out from Moses and all whose heart prompted them and all to whom it seemed good in their mind brought every one

21 an offering. And when they had brought an offering to the Lord for all the works of the tabernacle of the testimony, and

22 for all its appurtenances, and for all the holy garments, then the men brought from their wives—every one as it seemed good brought seals and pendants and rings and necklaces and brace-

23 lets and all sorts of jewels of gold. And when they had all brought their offerings of gold to the Lord, then every one who had cotton or skins of blue or rams' skins dyed red brought

24 them; And every one who had made a dedication of silver or brass brought them as offerings to the Lord; and they who

25 had incorruptible timber did the same. And when they had brought materials for all the works of the service, then every woman skilled in spinning brought blue and purple and scar-

26 let and cotton thread; and all the women who had understand-

27 ing and skill spun the goats' hair. And the chiefs brought the smaragdine stones and the stones to be set in the ephod and the

28 oracle, and the materials both for the anointing oil and the compound incense.

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29 And when all the Israelites, men and women, whose understanding prompted them to promote all the works which the Lord had by Moses commanded them to make, had brought

30 an offering to the Lord, then Moses said to the children of Israel, Behold God hath called by name Beseleel the son of

31 Ourius the son of Hur of the tribe of Judas and filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding and skill in all

32 things to execute all works of architecture and to work up

33 gold and silver and brass and to cut stones and to model wood

34 and to perform every kind of curious workmanship. He hath indeed qualified him and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the

35 tribe of Dan and hath filled them with wisdom, knowledge and skill to know how to make all the works of the sanctuary, and to weave the embroidery and tapestry with scarlet yarn and cotton thread—to execute every kind of work in architecture and embroidery.

XXXVI. Accordingly Beseleel and Eliab and every man skilled in arts, to whom had been given wisdom and understanding to know how to execute every kind of work suitable for the holy service, performed it according to all that the

, & Lord had commanded. When Moses called Beseleel and Eliab and all who had skill—every one in whose heart God had put knowledge and all who were freely willing to come to

3 the work so as to finish it compteady, they received from Moses all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for making all the works of the sanctuary. They received also the offerings from those who still continued to bring them in, every

4 morning. And all the artists who did the works of the sanctuary attended diligently every one at the work in which he was

5 engaged. And when Moses was told that the people were bringing in more than sufficient for all the works which the

6 Lord had ordered to be made, Moses issued orders and caused proclamation to be made throughout the camp saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offerings

7 of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing any more; for the materials which they had were sufficient for all the work to be done; and there was an overplus.

8 Now the most skilful among the workmen made the holy garments, which are appropriate to Aaron the priest as the Lord commanded Moses. They made the ephod of gold and of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, the thin plates of gold being cut into fine threads so as to be inwoven with the blue and purple and with the scarlet yarn and cotton thread. They made it a woven work, the shoulder pieces having from both the sides a work woven one piece into another alternately, each convoluted through itself out of itself. They made it according to its peculiar fabrick of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread as the Lord commanded Moses. And they worked the two smaragdine stones fastened with it and set in gold, which were excavated and engraven, like the engraving of a seal, with the names of the sons of Israel; and put them on the shoulders of the ephod, as stones of remembrance of the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses. And they made the Oracle, a work of embroider', like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread. The Oracle they made double, and it was square, a span, the length; and a span, the breadth on both sides. And there was inwoven with it a texture containing stones in four rows: the first row of stones, a sardine and a topaz and a smaragdus; and the second row, an anthrax and a sapphire and a jaspis; and the third row, a ligure and an agate and an amethyst, and the fourth row, a chrysolite and a beryl and an on)'x, set in gold and bound in with gold. Now these stones were twelve from the names of the sons of Israel, engraven like seals, every one with its peculiar name, for the twelve tribes. And on the oracle they made pieces of plaited net work, the work of a plaiter, of pure gold. They made also two little shields of gold and two rings of gold; and they put the two rings of gold on the two upper sides of the oracle; and they put the two pieces of plaited work of gold on the two rings on the two sides of the oracle; and they put the two pieces of plaited work for the the two junctions, on the two shields which were on the shoulders of the ephod over against each other in front; and they made two rings of gold and put them on the two wings below the tip of the oracle and on the tip of the hinder part of the ephod on the inside; and they made two rings of gold and put them on both the shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, over against the upper June-

tion of the texture of the ephod; and they fastened the oracle by the rings on it to the rings of the ephod which were fastened to it with blue yarn, being plaited into the texture of the ephod, that the oracle might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses. And they made the long robe under the ephod, a woven work, all of blue yarn: and the opening of the under robe in the middle was woven with a binding of plaited work, having a hem all around the hole that it might not be rent. And on the border of the robe below, they made clusters as of a blooming pomegranate of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread: And they made golden bells and put the bells on the border of the robe round about between the clusters, a golden bell and a cluster on the border of the robe round about, to minister in as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they made cotton vestures, a woven work for Aaron and his sons and the tiaras' of cotton and the mitre of cotton and the drawers of cotton, and the girdles of cotton thread and of blue and purple and scarlet yarn a work of embroidery as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they made the plate of gold, a dedication of the sanctuary, of pure gold, and wrote thereon in letters engraved like a seal, Holiness to the Lord, and put it on a ribbon of blue that it might be hung upon the mitre above as the Lord commanded Moses.

XXXVII. They made also for the tabernacle ten curtains, the first eight and twenty cubits long and all the rest the same, and four cubits broad. And they made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, a work woven with cherubs and they put this on four pillars of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold, the capitals of which were of gold, and their four bases of silver. And they made the curtain of the door of the tabernacle of the testimony of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, a work woven with cherubs, and their five pillars and hooks, the capitals and hooks of which they overlaid with gold, but their five bases were of brass. And they made the court—on the south side the hangings of the court were of cotton, a hundred cubits long with their twenty pillars, and the twenty bases thereof; and on

the north they were the same as on the south side, a hundred cubits with their twenty pillars and the twenty bases thereof; but on the end towards the sea [ the west ] the hangings were fifty cubits, and then- pillars ten with their ten bases; and on the east end fifty cubits, the hangings on one side of the gateway were fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their bases three, and on the other side of the gateway of the court, the hangings were fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their bases three. All these hangings of the tabernacle were of cotton and the bases of the pillars were of brass, but their hooks were of silver and their capitals were overlaid with silver. And the pillars—all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. And the curtain of the gate of the court was a work of tapestry of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, twenty cubits long and the height and breadth, five cubits, answering the hangings of the court, and their pillars were four, the four bases of which were of brass but their hooks were of silver and their capitals were overlaid with silver, and all the pins of the court round about were of brass but they were overlaid with silver. This was the arrangement of the tabernacle of the testimony, as it was given in charge to Moses, that the service thereof should belong to the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. Now Beseleel the son of Ouriusof the tribe of Judas performed the work as the Lord commanded Moses, he and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan, who was the head workman in making the woven work and the embroidery and the tapestry of scarlet yarn and cotton thread.

XXXVIII. Beseleel also made the ark and overlaid it with pure gold within and without; and he cast the four rings of gold, two on the one side and two on the other, wide enough for the staves, with which it was to be carried: and he made the propitiatory above the ark of pure gold, and the two cherubs of gold, one cherub at one end of the propitiatory and the other cherub at the other end of the propitiatory, overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings. And he made the table to be set before it of pure gold; and cast for it four rings, two on one side and two on the other, wide enough to receive the staves. And he made the staves of the ark and of the table, and

overlaid them with gold. And he made the vessels for the ta. ble, the platters and the censers and the large goblets and the cups for making libations, all of gold. And he made the candlestick to give light also of gold, the shaft solid, and the six branches on both its sides. Out of its branches were knobs, three on one side and three on the other answering each other; and their lamp dishes on the tops were made in the form of almonds out of the same piece, with sockets in them for the lamps to rest on, and the seventh socket on the top of the shaft was solid, entirely of gold; and he made the seven lamps upon it of gold; and its snuffers of gold, and its oil vessels of gold. He also overlaid the pilasters with gold and cast gold rings for each pilaster and overlaid the bars with gold. He also gilded the pillars of the veil with gold and made the golden hooks, and he made the links of the tabernacle of gold, and the hooks of the court and the hooks for stretching the upper covering, of brass. He cast the silver capitals of the tabernacle and the brass capitals of the door of the tabernacle and for the gate of the court: and he made the silver hooks for the pillars—those on the top of the pillars he overlaid with silver. He made the brass pins of the tabernacle and the brass pins of the court. He made the brasen altar out of the brasen censers which belonged to the men who conspired with the congregation of Kore. He made all the utensils of the altar, its fire hearth and its base and the cups and the flesh forks which were of brass. He made for the altar a grate, a piece of net work below the fire hearth about halfway up it; and he put, on the four sides of the casing of the altar, the four brass rings large enough for the poles with which the altar is to be carried.

He made the holy anointing oil and the compound incense the pure work of an apothecary. He made the brass laver and its base of brass out of the mirrors of the women who were fasting at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony on the day h was set up. He made also the laver, that out of it Moses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet, when they went into the tabernacle of the testimony or when they went to minister at the altar. They washed out of it as the Lord commanded Moses. XXXIX. All the gold which was worked up for all the work of the holy things was of the gold of the offering twenty nine talents and seven hundred shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary. And the silver was the offering of silver from the men of the congregation who were reviewed amounting to a hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels being a drachm the half of a shekel after the holy shekel for each head, all who passed the review from twenty years old and upwards being six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. Now the hundred talents of silver were for casting the hundred capitals of the tabernacle including the capitals of the veil, a hundred capitals for the hundred talents, a talent for each capital. And the thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels he wrought up into hooks for the pillars. And he gilded the capitals and ornamented them. And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and a thousand five hundred shekels. And of this they made the bases of the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and the bases of the court round about and the bases of the gate of the court and the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court round about, and the brass casing of the altar and all the utensils of the altar, even all the works of the tabernacle of the testimony.

And when the Israelites had compleated the work—when they had compleated it in the manner the Lord had commanded Moses, they then made up the rest of the gold of the offering into vessels to be used in the holy service before the Lord. And what was left of the blue and purple and scarlet yarn they made up into sacerdotal garments for Aaron to minister in them, as a priest in the sanctuary. And they brought to <Moses the robes and the tabernacle and the utensils thereof and its bases and bars and pilasters and the ark of the covenant with its staves, and the altar and all its utensils; and the anointing oil, and the compound incense, and the pure candlestick with its lamps, the lamps for burning oil and the oil for giving light, and the presence table and all its utensils, and the loaves to be laid on it, and the robes of the sanctuary appropriate to Aaron, and the robes of his sons to minister in as priests, and the hangings of the court and the pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle and of the gate of the court, and all the utensils of the tabernacle and all the imple-

merits thereof, and the upper coverings of rams' skins dyed red and the blue coverings, and the other coverings, and the pins and all the instruments for the service of the tabernacle of the testimony, which the Lord had commanded Moses. And when the children of Israel had thus made all the furniture and Moses had viewed all the works and they had executed them and made them in the manner the Lord commanded Moses, Moses blessed them. XL. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, On the first day

2 of the first month it being then new moon, thou shall rear up the tabernacle of the testimony and place therein the ark of the

3 testimony and cover it with the veil. Then thou shall carry in the table and set in order the service thereof. And thou shalt

5 carry in the candlestick and place on it the lamps: and thou shalt set the golden altar, to burn incense, in its place before tho ark; and thou shalt hang up the covering curtain at the door

6 of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the altar of homage offerings thou shalt place at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony. Then thou shalt surround the tabernacle and

.9 hallow all the things belonging to it round about. For this purpose thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all the things in it and hallow it and all its utensils 10 and they shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint the altar of homage offerings and all its utensils and hallow the altar, and

12 this altar shall be a holy of holies. Then thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of the testi-

13 mony and wash them with water. And thou shalt put the holy robes on Aaron and anoint him and hallow him that he may mi-

14 nister to me in the priest's office. Thou shalt then bring forward his sons and clothe them with vestures and anoint them as

15 thou didst their father and they shall serve me as priests. And this unction of the priesthood shall belong to them forever

throughout their generations.

16 So Moses did all these things. Whatever the Lord com-

17 manded him so did he. Accordingly in the first month in the second year of their coming out of Egypt, at the new moon

18 the tabernacle was reared up. And when Moses had reared up the tabernacle he put on the capitals and put in the bars and

JL9 set up the pilasters and spread the curtains over the tabernacle and put over rt the upper covering of the tabernacle as the

20 Lord commanded Moses. Then taking the testimonies he put

21 them in the ark, and put the staves under the ark, and carried the ark into the tabernacle and hung up the covering of the veil and covered from view the ark of the testimony in the

22 manner the Lord commanded Moses. Then he placed the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the north side with-

23 out the veil of the tabernacle and set thereon the presence loaves

24 before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses. Then he placed the candlestick in the tabernacle of the testimony on the

25 south side of the tabernacle and put the lamps thereon before

26 the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. He then placed the golden altar in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the

27 veil and burned thereon compound incense as the Lord com- 29 manded Moses. Then he placed the altar of homage offerings

33 at the doors of the tabernacle and reared up the court around

34 the tabernacle and the altar. And when Moses had finished all these works the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimo-

35 ny, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord so that Moses could not go into the tabernacle of the testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it and with the glory of the Lord the tabernacle was filled.

36 Now when the cloud ascended from the tabernacle, the

37 Israelites prepared to march with their baggage. But if the cloud did not ascend they did not prepare to march till the day

38 when the cloud ascended. For there was a cloud on the tabernacle by day and in the night there was a fire on it in the sight of all Israel throughout all their journeyings.