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The Hebrews, from the words +with which it begins, call it VEELLE SEMOTH: These are the names. It +contains transactions for 145 years; that is, from the death of Joseph +to the erecting of the tabernacle. + + +Exodus Chapter 1 + +The Israelites are multiplied in Egypt. They are oppressed by a new +king, who commandeth all their male children to be killed. + +1:1. These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt +with Jacob: they went in every man with his household: + +1:2. Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, + +1:3. Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, + +1:4. Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser. + +1:5. And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but +Joseph was in Egypt. + +1:6. After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation, + +1:7. The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, +and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land. + +1:8. In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not +Joseph: + +1:9. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of +Israel are numerous and stronger than we. + +1:10. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any +war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome +us, depart out of the land. + +1:11. Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them +with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, +and Ramesses. + +Of tabernacles... Or, of storehouses. + +1:12. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied +and increased. + +1:13. And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them +and mocked them: + +1:14. And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, +and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the +works of the earth. + +1:15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of +whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua, + +1:16. Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the +Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, +kill it: if a woman, keep it alive. + +1:17. But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt +had commanded, but saved the men children. + +1:18: And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant +to do, that you would save the men children? + +1:19. They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for +they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are +delivered before we come to them. + +1:20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people +multiplied and grew exceedingly strong. + +1:21. And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses. + +Because the midwives feared God, etc... The midwives were rewarded, not +for their lie, which was a venial sin; but for their fear of God, and +their humanity: but this reward was only temporal, in building them +houses, that is, in establishing and enriching their families. + +1:22. Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall +be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the +female, ye shall save alive. + +Exodus Chapter 2 + +Moses is born and exposed on the bank of the river; where he is taken up +by the daughter of Pharao, and adopted for her son. He killeth an +Egyptian, and fleeth into Madian; where he marrieth a wife. + +2:1. After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife +of his own kindred. + +2:2. And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, +hid him three months. + +2:3. And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of +bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe +therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink, + +2:4. His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done. + +2:5. And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the +river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the +basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was +brought, + +2:6. She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having +compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews. + +2:7. And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a +Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe? + +2:8. She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother. + +2:9. And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him +for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the +child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter. + +2:10. And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: +Because I took him out of the water. + +Moses... Or Moyses, in the Egyptian tongue, signifies one taken or saved +out of the water. + +2:11. In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his +brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the +Hebrews, his brethren. + +2:12. And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one +there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. + +He slew the Egyptian... This he did by a particular inspiration of God; +as a prelude to his delivering the people from their oppression and +bondage. He thought, says St. Stephen, Acts 7.25, that his brethren +understood that God by his hand would save them. But such particular and +extraordinary examples are not to be imitated. + +2:13. And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he +said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour? + +2:14. But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? +wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses +feared, and said: How is this come to be known? + +2:15. And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he +fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by +a well. + +Madian... A city and country of Arabia, which took its name from Madian +the son of Abraham, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity. + +2:16. And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw +water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's +flocks. + +2:17. And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and +defending the maids, watered their sheep. + +2:18: And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: +Why are ye come sooner than usual? + +Raguel... He had two names, being also called Jethro, as appears from +the first verse of the following chapter. + +2:19. They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the +shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink. + +2:20. But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him +that he may eat bread. + +2:21. And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora +his daughter to wife: + +2:22. And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been +a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called +Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me +out of the hand of Pharao. + +Gersam... Or Gershom. This name signifies a stranger there: as Eliezer +signifies the help of God. + +2:23. Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of +Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up +unto God from the works. + +2:24. And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he +made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. + +2:25. And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them. + +Knew them... That is, he had respect to them, he cast a merciful eye +upon them. + +Exodus Chapter 3 + +God appeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel. + + +3:1. Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of +Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and +came to the mountain of God, Horeb. + +3:2. And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of +a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt. + +The Lord appeared... That is, an angel representing God, and speaking in +his name. + +3:3. And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush +is not burnt. + +3:4. And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him +out of the midst of the bush and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: +Here I am. + +3:5. And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; +for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground. + +3:6. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the +God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst +not look at God. + +3:7. And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people +in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that +are over the works; + +3:8. And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the +hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good +and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the +places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and +Hevite, and Jebusite. + +3:9. For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have +seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians. + +3:10. But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring +forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. + +3:11. And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and +should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? + +3:12. And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have +for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people +out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain. + +3:13. Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and +say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall +say to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them? + +3:14. God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to +the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you. + +I am who am... That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, +independent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the source +of all other beings. + +3:15. And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children +of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of +Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for +ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. + +3:16. Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say +to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of +Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I +have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt. + +3:17. And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction +of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, +and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with +milk and honey. + +3:18: And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the +ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him: The +Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days' journey +into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God. + +3:19. But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a +mighty hand. + +3:20. For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all +my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let +you go. + +3:21. And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the +Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty: + +3:22. But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is in +her house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall put +them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil Egypt. + +Shall spoil, etc... That is, you shall strip, and take away the goods of +the Egyptians. This was not authorizing theft or injustice; but was a +just disposal made by Him, who is the great lord and master of all +things, in order to pay the children of Israel some part of what was due +to them from the Egyptians for their labours. + +Exodus Chapter 4 + +Moses is empowered to confirm his mission with miracles: his brother +Aaron is appointed to assist him. + +4:1. Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my +voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. + +4:2. Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He +answered: A rod. + +4:3. And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, +and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it. + +4:4. And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He +put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod. + +4:5. That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their +fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, +hath appeared to thee. + +4:6. And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he +had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow. + +4:7. And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and +brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh. + +4:8. If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the +former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign. + +4:9. But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy +voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and +whatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood. + +4:10. Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday +and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have +more impediment and slowness of tongue. + +4:11. The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb +and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I? + +4:12. Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee +what thou shalt speak. + +4:13. But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send. + +4:14. The Lord being angry at Moses, said: Aaron the Levite is thy +brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet +thee, and seeing thee, shall be glad at heart. + +4:15. Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy +mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do. + +4:16. He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: +but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God. + +4:17. And take this rod in thy hand wherewith thou shalt do the signs. + +4:18: Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and +said to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may +see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace. + +4:19. And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt; +for they are all dead that sought thy life. + +4:20. Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an +ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand. + +4:21. And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that +thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I +shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. + +I shall harden, etc... Not by being the efficient cause of his sin; but +by withdrawing from him, for his just punishment, the dew of grace that +might have softened his heart; and so suffering him to grow harder and +harder. + +4:22. And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, +my firstborn. + +4:23. I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou +wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. + +4:24. And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and +would have killed him. + +The Lord met him, and would have killed him... This was an angel +representing the Lord, who treated Moses in this manner, for having +neglected the circumcision of his younger son; which his wife +understanding, circumcised her child upon the spot, upon which the angel +let Moses go. + +4:25. Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the +foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art +thou to me. + +4:26. And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to +me, because of the circumcision. + +4:27. And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And +he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. + +4:28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had +sent him, and the signs that he had commanded. + +4:29. And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the +children of Israel. + +4:30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: +and he wrought the signs before the people. + +4:31. And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited +the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: +and falling down they adored. + +Exodus Chapter 5 + +Pharao refuseth to let the people go. They are more oppressed. + +5:1. After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: +Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may +sacrifice to me in the desert. + +5:2. But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and +let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. + +5:3. And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three +days' journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; +lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us. + +5:4. The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off +the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens. + +5:5. And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that +the multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from +their works? + +5:6. Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and +the task-masters of the people, saying: + +5:7. You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as +before; but let them go and gather straw. + +5:8. And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did +before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, +and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God. + +5:9. Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that +they may not regard lying words. + +5:10. And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and +said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw; + +5:11. Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing +of your work be diminished. + +5:12. And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to +gather straw. + +5:13. And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your +work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you. + +5:14. And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were +scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the +task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before? + +5:15. And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to +Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants? + +5:16. Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; +behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is +unjustly dealt withal. + +5:17. And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and +sacrifice to the Lord. + +5:18: Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall +deliver the accustomed number of bricks. + +5:19. And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in +evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be +diminished of the bricks for every day. + +5:20. And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they +came out from Pharao: + +5:21. And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, +made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have +given him a sword, to kill us. + +5:22. And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou +afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me? + +5:23. For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, +he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them. + +Exodus Chapter 6 + +God reneweth his promise. The genealogies of Ruben, Simon and Levi, down +to Moses and Aaron. + +6;1. And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to +Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong +hand shall he cast them out of his land. + +6:2. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord + +6:3. That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of +God Almighty: and my name ADONAI I did not shew them. + +My name Adonai... The name, which is in the Hebrew text, is that most +proper name of God, which signifieth his eternal, self-existent being, +Ex. 3.14, which the Jews out of reverence never pronounce; but, instead +of it, whenever it occurs in the Bible, they read Adonai, which +signifies the Lord; and, therefore, they put the points or vowels, which +belong to the name Adonai, to the four letters of that other ineffable +name Jod, He, Vau, He. Hence some moderns have framed the name Jehovah, +unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians; for the true +pronunciation of the name, which is in the Hebrew text, by long disuse, +is now quite lost. + +6:4. And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, +the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers. + +6:5. I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the +Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant. + +6:6. Therefore say to the children of lsrael: I am the Lord who will +bring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver +you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments. + +6:7. And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God: +and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from +the work-prison of the Egyptians: + +6:8. And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand +to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to +possess: I am the Lord. + +6:9. And Moses told all this to the children of Israel: but they did not +hearken to him, for anguish of spirit, and most painful work. + +6:10. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +6:11. Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children +of Israel go out of his land. + +6:12. Moses answered before the Lord: Behold the children of Israel do +not hearken to me: and how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of +uncircumcised lips? + +Uncircumcised lips... So he calls the defect he had in his words, or +utterance. + +6:13. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a charge +unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Egypt, that +they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. + +6:14. These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons of +Ruben the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi. + +6:15. These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon, Jamuel and +Jamin, and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a +Chanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon. + +6:16. And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: +Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a +hundred and thirty-seven. + + +6:17. The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their kindreds. + +6:18: The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron and Oziel. And the +years of Caath's life, were a hundred and thirty-three. + +6:19. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of +Levi by their families. + +6:20. And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father's side: and +she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's life, were a +hundred and thirty-seven. + +6:21. The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and Zechri. + +6:22. The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and Sethri. + +6:23. And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister +of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar. + +6:24. The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph. These are +the kindreds of the Corites. + +6:25. But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of +Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical +families by their kindreds. + +6:26. These are Aaron and Moses, whom the Lord commanded to bring forth +the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies. + +6:27. These are they that speak to Pharao, king of Egypt, in order to +bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and +Aaron, + +6:28. In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt. + +6:29. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord; speak thou to +Pharao, king of Egypt, all that I say to thee. + +6:30. And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips, how +will Pharao hear me? + +Exodus Chapter 7 + +Moses and Aaron go into Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and +the waters of Egypt into blood, which was the first plague. The +magicians do the like, and Pharao's heart is hardened. + +7:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god +of Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet. + +The god of Pharao... Viz., to be his judge; and to exercise a divine +power, as God's instrument, over him and his people. + +7:2. Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall speak +to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. + +7:3. But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs and +wonders in the land of Egypt. + +I shall harden, etc... not by being the efficient cause of his hardness +of heart, but by permitting it; and by withdrawing grace from him, in +punishment of his malice; which alone was the proper cause of his being +hardened. + +7:4. And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and +will bring forth my army and my people, the children of Israel, out of +the land of Egypt, by very great judgments. + +7:5. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched +forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel +out of the midst of them. + +7:6. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded; so did they. + +7:7. And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they +spoke to Pharao. + +7:8. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: + +7:9. When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron: +Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned +into a serpent. + +7:10. So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and did as the Lord had +commanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his servants, and it +was turned into a serpent. + +7:11. And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also by +Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner. + +Magicians... Jannes, and Mambres, or Jambres, 2 Tim. 3.8. + +7:12. And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned into +serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods. + +7:13. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, +as the Lord had commanded. + +7:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened, he will +not let the people go. + +7:15. Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the waters: and +thou shalt stand to meet him on the bank of the river: and thou shalt +take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent. + +7:16. And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to +thee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and +hitherto thou wouldst not hear. + +7:17. Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am +the Lord: behold I will strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the +water of the river, and it shall be turned into blood. + +7:18: And the fishes that are in the river, shall die, and the waters +shall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they drink +the water of the river. + +7:19. The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod; and +stretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers, +and streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that they may be +turned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in +vessels of wood and of stone. + +7:20. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and lifting up +the rod, he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his +servants: and it was turned into blood. + +7:21. And the fishes that were in the river died; and the river +corrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river, and +there was blood in all the land of Egypt. + +7:22. And the magicians of the Egyptians with their enchantments did in +like manner; and Pharao's heart was hardened, neither did he hear them, +as the Lord had commanded. 7:23. And he turned himself away, and went +into his house, neither did he set his heart to it this time also. + +7:24. And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to +drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. + +7:25. And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord struck the +river. + +Exodus Chapter 8 + +The second plague is of frogs: Pharao promiseth to let the Israelites +go, but breaketh his promise. The third plague is of sciniphs. The +fourth is of flies. Pharao again promiseth to dismiss the people, but +doth it not. + +8:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to +him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me. + +8:2. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will strike all thy +coasts with frogs. + +8:3. And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall +come up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, +and into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy +ovens, and into the remains of thy meats: + +8:4. And the frogs shall come in to thee, and to thy people, and to all +thy servants. + +8:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand +upon the streams, and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth +frogs upon the land of Egypt. + +8:6. And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and +the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. + +8:7. And the magicians also, by their enchantments, did in like manner, +and they brought forth frogs upon the land of Egypt. + +8:8. But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to the +Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let +the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. + +Pray ye to the Lord, etc... By this it appears, that though the +magicians, by the help of the devil, could bring frogs, yet they could +not take them away: God being pleased to abridge in this the power of +Satan. So we see they could not afterwards produce the lesser insects; +and in this restraint of the power of the devil, were forced to +acknowledge the finger of God. + +8:9. And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for thee, +and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven +away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy +people; and may remain only in the river. + +8:10. And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to +thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like to the Lord our +God. + +8:11. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from +thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the river. + +8:12. And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to the +Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the frogs. + +8:13. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs +died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields: + +8:14. And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land +was corrupted. + +8:15. And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and +did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded. + +Pharao hardened his own heart... By this we see that Pharao was himself +the efficient cause of his heart being hardened, and not God.-See the +same repeated in ver. 32. Pharao hardened his heart at this time also: +likewise chap. 9.7, 35, and chap. 13.15. + +8:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy rod, +and strike the dust of the earth; and may there be sciniphs in all the +land of Egypt. + +Sciniphs... Or Cinifs, Hebrew Chinnim, small flying insects, very +troublesome both to men and beast. + +8:17. And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the +rod; and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men +and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs +through all the land of Egypt. + +8:18: And the magicians with their enchantments practised in like +manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not: and there were +sciniphs as well on men as on beasts. + +8:19. And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And +Pharao's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord +had commanded. + +8:20. The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao; +for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus +saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me. + +8:21. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon thee, +and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses, all kind of flies: and the +houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers kinds, and +the whole land wherein they shall be. + +8:22. And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that +flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the +midst of the earth. + +8:23. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to +morrow shall this sign be. + +8:24. And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies +into the houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land of +Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies. + +8:25. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and +sacrifice to your God in this land. + +8:26. And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the +abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those +things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone +us. + +The abominations, etc... That is, the things they worship for Gods: +oxen, rams, etc. It is the usual style of the scriptures to call all +idols and false gods, abominations, to signify how much the people of +God ought to detest and abhor them. + +8:27. We will go three days' journey into the wilderness; and we will +sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us. + +8:28. And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your +God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me. + +8:29. And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the +Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and +from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting +the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. + +8:30. So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord. + +8:31. And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from +Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left +so much as one. + +8:32. And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this time would +he let the people go. + +Exodus Chapter 9 + +The fifth plague is a murrain among the cattle. The sixth, of boils in +men and beasts. The seventh, of hail. Pharao promiseth again to let the +people go, and breaketh his word. + +9:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him: Thus +saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me. + +9:2. But if thou refuse, and withhold them still: + +9:3. Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous +murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep. + +9:4. And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the +possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing +at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel. + +9:5. And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do +this thing in the land. + +9:6. The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts +of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there +died not one. + +All the beasts... That is, many of all kinds. + +9:7. And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that +which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not +let the people go. + +9:8. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of ashes +out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the presence +of Pharao. + +9:9. And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be +boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of +Egypt. + +9:10. And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao, +and Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling +blains in men and beasts. + +9:11. Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils that +were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt. + + +9:12. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not unto +them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. + +Hardened, etc... See the annotations above, chap. 4.21, chap. 7.3, and +chap. 8.15. + +9:13. And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before +Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God of the +Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me. + +9:14. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and +upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there +is none like me in all the earth. + +9:15. For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, +with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth. + +9:16. And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in +thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth. + +9:17. Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go? + +9:18: Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an +exceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that +it was founded, until this present time. + +9:19. Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and +all that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things that +shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields which +the hail shall fall upon, shall die. + +9:20. He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made +his servants and his cattle flee into houses: + +9:21. But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants, +and his cattle in the fields. + +9:22. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, +that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and upon +beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt. + +9:23. And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord +sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the +Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. + +9:24. And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was +of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt +since that nation was founded. + +9:25. And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things +that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every +herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country. + +9:26. Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the +hail fell not. + +9:27. And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have +sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are wicked. + +9:28. Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may +cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer. + +9:29. Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch +forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail +shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's: + +9:30. But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the +Lord God. + +9:31. The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley +was green, and the flax was now bolled; + +9:32. But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they +were lateward. + +9:33. And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched +forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, +neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth. + +9:34. And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders +were ceased, increased his sin: + +9:35. And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it +was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go, +as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. + +Exodus Chapter 10 + +The eighth plague of the locusts. The ninth, of darkness: Pharao is +still hardened. + +10:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened +his heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my signs +in him, + +10:2. And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy grandsons, +how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs amongst +them: and you may know that I am the Lord. + +10:3. Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus +saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to +me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me. + +10:4. But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring +in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts; + +10:5. To cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear, +but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon +all the trees that spring in the fields. + +10:6. And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants, +and of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen, +nor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth, +until this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from +Pharao. + +10:7. And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we endure this +scandal? Iet the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou +not see that Egypt is undone? + +10:8. And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to Pharao; and he said to +them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go? + +10:9. Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and +daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord +our God. + +10:10. And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you +and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great evil? + +10:11. It shall not be so, but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the +Lord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast +out from Pharao's presence. + +10:12. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land +of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb +that is left after the hail. + +10:13. And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the +Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it was +morning, the burning wind raised the locusts. + +10:14. And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all +the coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been +before that time, nor shall be hereafter. + +10:15. And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. +And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever were on +the trees, which the hail had left; and there remained not any thing +that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all Egypt. + +10:16. Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to +them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. + +10:17. But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord +your God, that he take away from me this death. + +10:18: And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the +Lord: + +10:19. And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it took +the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so much +as one in all the coasts of Egypt. + +10:20. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the +children of Israel go. + +10:21. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: +and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be +felt. + +Darkness upon the land of Egypt, so thick that it may be felt... By +means of the gross exhalations, which were to cause and accompany the +darkness. + +10:22. And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came +horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. + +10:23. No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where +he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light. + +10:24. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, +sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your +children go with you. + +10:25. Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt- +offerings, to the Lord our God. + +10:26. All the flocks shall go with us; there shall not a hoof remain of +them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God: +especially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the very +place. + +10:27. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he would not let them +go. + +10:28. And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see +not my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight, +thou shalt die. + +10:29. Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will not +see thy face anymore. + +Exodus Chapter 11 + +Pharao and his people are threatened with the death of their firstborn. + +11:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon +Pharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you +out. + +11:2. Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that every man ask of +his friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of +gold. + +11:3. And the Lord will give favour to his people in the sight of the +Egyptians. And Moses was a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the +sight of Pharao's servants, and of all the people. + +11:4. And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into +Egypt: + +11:5. And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from +the firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the firstborn +of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts. + +11:6. And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as +neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter. + +11:7. But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the +least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how wonderful a +difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel. + +11:8. And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall +worship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under +thee: after that we will go out. + +11:9. And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to +Moses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the land +of Egypt. + +11:10. And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before +Pharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the +children of Israel go out of his land. + +The Lord hardened, etc... See the annotations above, chap. 4.21, and +chap. 7.3. + +Exodus Chapter 12 + +The manner of preparing, and eating the paschal lamb: the firstborn of +Egypt are all slain: the Israelites depart. + +12:1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: + +12:2. This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be +the first in the months of the year. + +12:3. Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say +to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by +their families and houses. + +12:4. But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he +shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according +to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. + +12:5. And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; +according to which rite also you shall take a kid. + +A kid... The phase might be performed, either with a lamb or with a kid: +and all the same rites and ceremonies were to be used with the one as +with the other. + +12:6. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and +the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the +evening. + +12:7. And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the +side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they +shall eat it. + +12:8. And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and +unleavened bread with wild lettuce. + +12:9. You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but +only roasted at the fire; you shall eat the head with the feet and +entrails thereof. + +12:10. Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If +there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire. + +12:11. And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you +shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you +shall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the +Lord. + +12:12. And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will +kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and +against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord. + +12:13. And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where +you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and +the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the +land of Egypt. + +12:14. And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep +it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting +observance. + +12:15. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there +shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing +leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall +perish out of Israel. + +12:16. The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall +be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except +those things that belong to eating. + +12:17. And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in +this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and +you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance. + +12:18: The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, +you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the +same month, in the evening. + +Unleavened bread... By this it appears, that our Saviour made use of +unleavened bread, in the institution of the blessed sacrament, which was +on the evening of the paschal solemnity, at which time there was no +leavened bread to be found in Israel. + +12:19. Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he +that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly +of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land. + +12:20. You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you +shall eat unleavened bread. + +12:21. And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and +said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase. + +12:22. And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and +sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: +let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning. + +Sprinkle, etc... This sprinkling the doors of the Israelites with the +blood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the +sword of the destroying angel, was a lively figure of our redemption by +the blood of Christ. + +12:23. For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when +he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will +pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come +into your houses and to hurt you. + +12:24. Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for +ever. + +12:25. And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give +you, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies. + +12:26. And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of +this service? + +12:27. You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the +Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, +striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing +themselves, adored. + +12:28. And the children of Israel going forth, did as the Lord had +commanded Moses and Aaron. + +12:29. And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in +the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, +unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all +the firstborn of cattle. + +12:30. And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all +Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house +wherein there lay not one dead. + +12:31. And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise and +go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go, +sacrifice to the Lord as you say. + +12:32. Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and +departing bless me. + +12:33. And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land +speedily, saying: We shall all die. + +12:34. The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and tying +it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders. + +12:35. And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they +asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much +raiment. + +12:36. And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the +Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyptians. + +12:37. And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, +being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. + +12:38. And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, +sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many. + +12:39. And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought +out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it +could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not +suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any +meat. + +12:40. And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, +was four hundred and thirty years. + +12:41. Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went +forth out of the land of Egypt. + +12:42. This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them +forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel +must observe in their generations. + +12:43. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the +Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it. + +12:44. But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat. + +12:45. The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof. + +12:46. In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of +the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone +thereof. + +12:47. All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it. + +12:48. And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep +the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and +then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as +he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall +not eat thereof. + +12:49. The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the +proselyte that sojourneth with you. + +12:50. And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded +Moses and Aaron. + +12:51. And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel +out of the land of Egypt by their companies. + +Exodus Chapter 13 + +The paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the firstborn are to be +consecrated to God. The people are conducted through the desert by a +pillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day. + +13:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +13:2. Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the +children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine. + +Sanctify unto me every firstborn... Sanctification in this place means +that the firstborn males of the Hebrews should be deputed to the +ministry in the divine worship; and the firstborn of beasts to be given +for a sacrifice. + +13:3. And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you came +forth out of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, for with a strong +hand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place: that you eat no +leavened bread. + +13:4. This day you go forth in the month of new corn. + +13:5. And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the +Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the +Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land +that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of +sacred rites in this month. + +13:6. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day +shall be the solemnity of the Lord. + +13:7. Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen +any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts. + +13:8. And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the +Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt. + +13:9. And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before +thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with +a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt. + +13:10. Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to +days. + +13:11. And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the +Chanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee: + +13:12. Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and +all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt +have of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord. + +13:13. The firstborn of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if +thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every firstborn of men +thou shalt redeem with a price. + +13:14. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? +thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth +out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. + +13:15. For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord +slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to +the firstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that +openeth the womb of the male sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I +redeem. + +13:16. And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung +between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us +forth out of Egypt by a strong hand. + +13:17. And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by +the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest +perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, +and would return into Egypt. + +13:18: But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the +Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of +Egypt. + +13:19. And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured +the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones +from hence with you. + +13:20. And marching from Socoth, they encamped in Etham, in the utmost +coasts of the wilderness. + +13:21. And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar +of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide +of their journey at both times. + +13:22. There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar +of fire by night, before the people. + +Exodus Chapter 14 + +Pharao pursueth the children of Israel. They murmur against Moses, but +are encouraged by him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao and his army +following them are drowned. + +14:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +14:2. Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over +against Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against +Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea. + +14:3. And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened +in the land, the desert hath shut them in. + +14:4. And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall +be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall +know that I am the Lord. And they did so. + +14:5. And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was +fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with +regard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let +Israel go from serving us? + +14:6. So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him. + +14:7. And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that +were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army. + +14:8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he +pursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty +hand. + +14:9. And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone +before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and +chariots and the whole army were in Phihahiroth, before Beelsephon. + +14:10. And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up +their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, +and cried to the Lord. + +14:11. And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, +therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst +thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt? + +14:12. Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying: +Depart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better +to serve them, than to die in the wilderness. + +14:13. And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great +wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom +you see now, you shall see no more for ever. + +14:14. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. + +14:15. And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the +children of Israel to go forward. + +14:16. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the +sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the midst +of the sea on dry ground. + +14:17. And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and I +will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots +and in his horsemen. + +14:18: And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall be +glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen. + +14:19. And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, +removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the +cloud, leaving the forepart, + +14:20. Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: +and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could +not come at one another all the night. + +A dark cloud, and enlightening the night... It was a dark cloud to the +Egyptians; but enlightened the night to the Israelites by giving them a +great light. + +14:21. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the +Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, +and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided. + +14:22. And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea +dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their +left. + +14:23. And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's +horses, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea. + +14:24. And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking +upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew +their host. + +14:25. And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried +into the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel; for the +Lord fighteth for them against us. + +14:26. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, +that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots +and horsemen. + +14:27. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it +returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the +Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord +shut them up in the middle of the waves. + +14:28. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the +horsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after +them, neither did there so much as one of them remain. + +14:29. But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea +upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand +and on the left: + +14:30. And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the +Egyptians. + +14:31. And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the +mighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared +the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant. + +Exodus Chapter 15 + +The canticle of Moses. The bitter waters of Mara are made sweet. + +15:1. Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the +Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, +the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea. + +15:2. The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation +to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I +will exalt him. + +15:3. The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name. + +15:4. Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his +chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea. + +15:5. The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a +stone. + +15:6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, +O Lord, hath slain the enemy. + +15:7. And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy +adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like +stubble. + +15:8. And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: +the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst +of the sea. + +15:9. The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the +spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall +slay them. + +15:10. Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the +mighty waters. + +15:11. Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to +thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders? + +15:12. Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them. + +15:13. In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou +hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy +habitation. + +15:14. Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the +inhabitants of Philisthiim. + +15:15. Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the +stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff. + +15:16. Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: +let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass +by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed. + +15:17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy +inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; +thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. + +15:18: The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. + +15:19. For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen +into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: +but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof. + +15:20. So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in +her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with +dances. + +15:21. And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, +for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown +into the sea. + +15:22. And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth +into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the +wilderness, and found no water. + +15:23. And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of +Mara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable +to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness. + +15:24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we +drink? + +15:25. But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he +had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he +appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him, + +15:26. Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do +what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his +precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon +thee: for I am the Lord thy healer. + +15:27. And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were +twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by +the waters. + +Exodus Chapter 16 + +The people murmur for want of meat: God giveth them quails and manna. + +16:1. And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the +children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim +and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of +the land of Egypt. + +16:2. And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured +against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. + +16:3. And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died +by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the +fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this +desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine? + +16:4. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven +for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for +every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or +not. + +16:5. But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be +double to that they were wont to gather every day. + +16:6. And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel In the evening +you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of +Egypt: + +16:7. And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he +hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, +that you mutter against us? + +16:8. And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to +eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your +murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? +your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord. + +16:9. Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the +children of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your +murmuring. + +16:10. And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of +Israel, they looked towards the wilderness; and behold the glory of the +Lord appeared in a cloud. + +16:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +16:12. I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to +them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall +have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. + +16:13. So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered +the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp. + +16:14. And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the +wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the +hoar frost on the ground. + +16:15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: +Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. +And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you +to eat. + +16:16. This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one +gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, +according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you +take of it. + +16:17. And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, +another less. + +16:18: And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more +that had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less: but +every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat. + +16:19. And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the +morning. + +16:20. And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the +morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified, and Moses +was angry with them. + +16:21. Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might +suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted. + +16:22. But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two +gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told +Moses. + +16:23. And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow +is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to +be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and +whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning. + +16:24. And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrify, +neither was there worm found in it. + +16:25. And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the +Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field. + +16:26. Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the +Lord, therefore it shall not be found. + +16:27. And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to +gather, found none. + +16:28. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my +commandments, and my law? + +16:29. See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason +on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at +home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day. + +16:30. And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day. + +16:31. And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was +like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with +honey. + +16:32. And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: +Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come +hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the +wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt. + +16:33. And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as +much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto +your generations, + +16:34. As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle +to be kept. + +16:35. And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came +to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached +the borders of the land of Chanaan. + +16:36. Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi. + +Exodus Chapter 17 + +The people murmur again for want of drink; the Lord giveth them water +out of a rock. Moses lifting up his hand in prayer, Amalec is overcome. + +17:1. Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward +from the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the +Lord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to +drink. + +17:2. And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may +drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you +tempt the Lord? + +17:3. So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured +against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to +kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst? + +17:4. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this +people? Yet a little more and they will stone me. + +17:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with +thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith +thou didst strike the river, and go. + +17:6. Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and +thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the +people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel: + +17:7. And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the +chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, +saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not? + +17:8. And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim. + +17:9. And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight +against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the +rod of God in my hand. + +17:10. Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but +Moses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill. + +17:11. And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he +let them down a little, Amalec overcame. + +17:12. And Moses's hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under +him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both +sides. And it came to pass, that his hands were not weary until sunset. + +17:13. And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the +sword. + +17:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, +and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of +Amalec from under heaven. + +17:15. And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, +my exaltation, saying: + +17:16. Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the +Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation. + +Exodus Chapter 18 + +Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His counsel. + +18:1. And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had +heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his +people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt: + +18:2. He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back: + +18:3. And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father +saying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country. + +18:4. And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my +helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao. + +18:5. And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his wife +to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God. + +18:6. And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to +thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her. + +18:7. And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed +him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was +come into the tent, + +18:8. Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and +the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen +them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them. + +18:9. And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done +to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the +Egyptians. + +18:10. And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people +out of the hand of Egypt. + +18:11. Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they +dealt proudly against them. + +18:12. So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and +sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat +bread with him before God. + +18:13. And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by +Moses from morning until night. + +18:14. And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the +people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest +thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night? + +18:15. And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the +judgment of God? + +18:16. And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me +to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws. + +18:17. But he said: The thing thou dost is not good. + +18:18: Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people +that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst +not bear it. + +18:19. But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be +thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their +words to him: + +18:20. And to shew the people the ceremonies, and the manner of +worshipping; and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that +they ought to do. + +18:21. And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in +whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers +of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens, + +18:22. Who may judge the people at all times: and when any great matter +soever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, and let them judge the +lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for thee, the burden +being shared out unto others. + +18:23. If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and +shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to +their places with peace. + +18:24. And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had +suggested unto him. + +18:25. And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them rulers +of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and over +fifties, and over tens. + +18:26. And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of +greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier +cases only. + +18:27. And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his +own country. + +Exodus Chapter 19 + +They come to Sinai: the people are commanded to be sanctified. The Lord, +coming in thunder and lightning, speaketh with Moses. + +19:1. In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of +Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai: + +19:2. For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, +they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over +against the mountain. + +19:3. And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the +mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell +the children of Israel: + +And Moses went up to God... Moses went up to mount Sinai, where God +spoke to him. + +19:4. You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have +carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself. + +19:5. If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you +shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is +mine. + +19:6. And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. +These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. + +19:7. Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he +declared all the words which the Lord had commanded. + +19:8. And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath +spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the +Lord, + +19:9. The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness +of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may +believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the +Lord. + +19:10. And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, +and to morrow, and let them wash their garments. + +19:11. And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day +the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount +Sinai. + +19:12. And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, +and thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and +that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the +mount, dying he shall die. + +19:13. No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he +shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall +not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up +into the mount. + +19:14. And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified +them. And when they had washed thelr garments, + +19:15. He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not +near your wives. + +19:16. And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and +behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very +thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded +exceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared. + +19:17. And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place +of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount. + +19:18. And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come +down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: +and all the mount was terrible. + +19:19. And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, +and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered +him. + +19:20. And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, in the very top of the +mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up +thither, + +19:21. He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they +should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great +multitude of them should perish. + +19:22. The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, +lest he strike them. + +19:23. And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to Mount +Sinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the +mount, and sanctify it. + +19:24. And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come +up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people +pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them. + +19:25. And Moses went down to the people and told them all. + +Exodus Chapter 20 + +The ten commandments. + +20:1. And the Lord spoke all these words: + +20:2. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, +out of the house of bondage. + +20:3. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. + +20:4. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of +any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those +things that are in the waters under the earth. + +A graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing, etc... All such images, +or likenesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be +adored and served; according to that which immediately follows, thou +shalt not adore them, nor serve them. That is, all such as are designed +for idols or image-gods, or are worshipped with divine honour. But +otherwise images, pictures, or representations, even in the house of +God, and in the very sanctuary so far from being forbidden, are +expressly authorized by the word of God. See Ex. 25.15, and etc.; chap. +38.7; Num. 21.8, 9; 1 Chron. or Paralip. 28.18, 19; 2 Chron. or Paralip. +3.10. + +20:5. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, +mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, +unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: + +20:6. And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my +commandments. + +20:7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the +Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord +his God in vain. + +20:8. Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. + +20:9. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. + +20:10. But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou +shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy +manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is +within thy gates. + +20:11. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and +all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore +the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. + +20:12. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived +upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee. + +20:13. Thou shalt not kill. + +20:14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. + +20:15. Thou shalt not steal. + +20:16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. + +20:17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou +desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his +ass, nor any thing that is his. + +20:18. And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound +of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck +with fear, they stood afar off, + +20:19. Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the +Lord speak to us, lest we die. + +20:20. And Moses said to the people: Fear not; for God is come to prove +you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin. + +20:21. And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud +wherein God was. + +20:22. And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children +of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven. + +20:23. You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to +yourselves gods of gold. + +20:24. You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer +upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in +every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, +and will bless thee. + +20:25. And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build +it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be +defiled. + +20:26. Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness +be discovered. + +Exodus Chapter 21 + +Laws relating to Justice. + +21:1. These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. + +21:2. If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in +the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. + +21:3. With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if +having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him. + +21:4. But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and +daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he +himself shall go out with his raiment. + +21:5. And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and +children, I will not go out free: + +21:6. His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the +door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and +he shall be his servant for ever. + +To the gods... Elohim. That is, to the judges, or magistrates, +authorized by God. + +21:7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out +as bondwomen are wont to go out. + +21:8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, +he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign +nation, if he despise her. + +21:9. But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her +after the manner of daughters. + +21:10. And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a +marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her +chastity. + +21:11. If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without +money. + +21:12. He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to +death. + +21:13. But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him +into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee. + +21:14. If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait +for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die. + +21:15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death. + +21:16. He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the +guilt, shall be put to death. + +21:17. He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death. + +21:18. If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or +with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: + +21:19. If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck +him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for +his expenses upon the physicians. + +21:20. He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they +die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime. + +21:21. But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be +subject to the punishment, because it is his money. + +21:22. If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she +miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much +damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall +award. + +21:23. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life, + +21:24. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, + +21:25. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. + +21:26. If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and +leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he +put out. + +21:27. Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, +he shall in like manner make them free. + +21:28. If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: +and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit. + +21:29. But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the +day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and +he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his +owner also shall be put to death. + +21:30. And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life +whatsoever is laid upon him. + +21:31. If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the +like sentence. + +21:32. If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles +of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned. + +21:33. If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or +an ass fall into it, + +21:34. The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that +which is dead shall be his own. + +21:35. If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall +sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that +which died they shall part between them: + +21:36. But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday, and the +day before, and his master did not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox, +and shall take the whole carcass. + +Exodus Chapter 22 + +The punishment of theft, and other trespasses. The law of lending +without usury, of taking pledges of reverences to superiors, and of +paying tithes. + +22:1. If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall +restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep. + +22:2. If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and +be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood. + +22:3. But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed +murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution +for the theft, he shall be sold. + +22:4. If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or +ass, or sheep: he shall restore double. + +22:5. If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to +feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of +whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to +the estimation of the damage. + +22:6. If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of +corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall +make good the loss. + +22:7. If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep, and +they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be found, +he shall restore double: + +22:8. If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be +brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon +his neighbour's goods, + +22:9. To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or +any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to +the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his +neighbour. + +22:10. If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour's +custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies, and no man saw +it: + +22:11. There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth +his hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the +oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution. + +22:12. But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss good +to the owner. + +22:13. If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was +slain, and he shall not make restitution. + +22:14. If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be +hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make +restitution. + +22:15. But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, +especially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work. + +22:16. If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he +shall endow her, and have her to wife. + +22:17. If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give +money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive. + +22:18. Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live. + +22:19. Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death. + +22:20. He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to +the Lord. + +22:21. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves +also were strangers in the land of Egypt. + +22:22. You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. + +22:23. If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their +cry: + +22:24. And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the +sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. + +22:25. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that +dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, +nor oppress them with usuries. + +22:26. If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt +give it him again before sunset. + +22:27. For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the +clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry +to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate. + +22:28. Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy +people thou shalt not curse. + +22:29. Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou +shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me. + +22:30. Thou shalt do the same with the firstborn of thy oxen also and +sheep: seven days let it be with its dam: the eighth day thou shalt give +it to me. + +22:31. You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of +before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs. + +Exodus Chapter 23 + +Laws for judges; the rest of the seventh year, and day: three principal +feasts to be solemnized every year; the promise of an angel, to conduct +and protect them: idols are to be destroyed. + +23:1. Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join +thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person. + +23:2. Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou +yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the +truth. + +23:3. Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment. + +23:4. If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to +him. + +23:5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his +burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him. + +23:6. Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment. + +23:7. Thou shalt fly Iying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not +put to death: because I abhor the wicked. + +23:8. Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and +pervert the words of the just. + +23:9. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of +strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. + +23:10. Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn +thereof. + +23:11. But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to +rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, +let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard +and thy oliveyard. + +23:12. Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that +thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the +stranger may be refreshed. + +23:13. Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of +strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your +mouth. + +23:14. Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me. + +23:15. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt +thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month +of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not +appear empty before me. + +23:16. And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, +whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the +year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field. + +23:17. Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God. + +23:18. Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, +neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning. + +23:19. Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to +the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of +his dam. + +23:20. Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep +thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared. + +23:21. Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one +to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my +name is in him. + +23:22. But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will +be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee. + +23:23. And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto +the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, +and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy. + +23:24. Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not +do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. + +23:25. And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your +bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of +thee. + +23:26. There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will +fill the number of thy days. + +23:27. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people +to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies +before thee: + +23:28. Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and +the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in. + +23:29. I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land +be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. + +23:30. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till +thou be increased, and dost possess the land. + +23:31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the +Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the +inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from +before you. + +23:32. Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods. + +23:33. Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin +against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a +scandal to thee. + +Exodus Chapter 24 + +Moses writeth his law; and after offering sacrifices, sprinkleth the +blood of the testament upon the people: then goeth up the mountain which +God covereth with a fiery cloud. + +24:1. And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab +and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore +afar off. + +24:2. And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come +nigh; neither shall the people come up with him. + +24:3. So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and +all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will +do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. + +24:4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the +morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles +according to the twelve tribes of Israel. + +Titles... That is, pillars. + +24:5. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered +holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord. + +Holocausts... Whole burnt offerings, in which the whole sacrifice was +consumed with fire upon the altar. + +24:6. Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the +rest he poured upon the altar. + +24:7. And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of +the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will +do, we will be obedient. + +24:8. And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he +said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with +you concerning all these words. + +24:9. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients +of Israel went up: + +24:10. And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a +work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear. + +24:11. Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, +that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink. + +24:12. And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be +there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the +commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. + +24:13. Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into +the mount of God, + +24:14. Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You +have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall +refer it to them. + +24:15. And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount. + +24:16. And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a +cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of +the cloud. + +24:17. And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire +upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel. + +24:18. And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the +mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights. + +Exodus Chapter 25 + +Offerings prescribed for making the tabernacle, the ark, the +candlestick, etc. + +25:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +25:2. Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to +me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them. + +Firstfruits... Offerings of some of the best and choicest of their +goods. + +25:3. And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and +brass, + +25:4. Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and +goats' hair, + +25:5. And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood: + +Setim wood... The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which is +said to be incorruptible. + +25:6. Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling +incense: + +25:7. Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the +rational. + +The ephod and the rational... The ephod was the high priest's upper +vestment; and the rational his vestplate, in which were twelve gems, +etc. + +25:8. And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst +of them: + +25:9. According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew +thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall +make it: + +25:10. Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two +cubits and a half; the breadth, a cubit and a half; the height, +likewise, a cubit and a half. + +25:11. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, within and +without; and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about: + +25:12. And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners +of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other. + +25:13. Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them +with gold. + +25:14. And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the +sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them: + +25:15. And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any +time be drawn out of them. + +25:16. And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give +thee. + +25:17. Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the +length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit +and a half. + +A propitiatory... a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or +mercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the +wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence +shewed mercy. It is also called the oracle, ver. 18 and 20; because from +thence God gave his orders and his answers. + +25:18. Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two +sides of the oracle. + +25:19. Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other. + +25:20. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their +wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, +their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is +to to be covered. + +25:21. In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee. + +25:22. Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the +propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be +upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the +children of Israel by thee. + +25:23. Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in +length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height. + +A table... On which were to be placed the twelve loaves of proposition: +or, as they are called in the Hebrew, the face bread, because they were +always to stand before the face of the Lord in his temple: as a figure +of the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, in the church of Christ. + +25:24. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt +make to it a golden ledge round about. + +25:25. And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and +over the same another little golden crown. + +25:26. Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in +the four corners of the same table, over each foot. + +25:27. Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be +put through them, and the table may be carried. + +25:28. The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt +overlay them with gold, to bear up the table. + +25:29. Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, +wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold. + +Libations... That is, drink offerings. + +25:30. And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my +sight always. + +25:31. Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest +gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and +the lilies going forth from it. + +A candlestick... This candlestick, with its seven lamps, which was +always to give light in the house of God, was a figure of the light of +the Holy Ghost, and his sevenfold grace, in the sanctuary of the church +of Christ. + +25:32. Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of one side, +and three out of the other. + +25:33. Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, +and a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other +branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six +branches, that are to come out from the shaft: + +25:34. And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of +a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies. + +25:35. Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make +six, coming forth out of one shaft. + +25:36. And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten +work of the purest gold. + +25:37. Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the +candlestick, to give light over against. + +25:38. The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, +shall be made of the purest gold. + +25:39. The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture +thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold. + +25:40. Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in +the mount. + +Exodus Chapter 26 + +The form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances. + +26:1. And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make +ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet +twice dyed, diversified with embroidery. + +26:2. The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits; the +breadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure. + +26:3. Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five +shall be coupled together in like manner. + +26:4. Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of the +curtains, that they may be joined one to another. + +26:5. Every curtain shall have fifty loops on both sides, so set on, +that one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the +other. + +26:6. Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of +the curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle. + +26:7. Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the +top of the tabernacle. + +26:8. The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty cubits; and the +breadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal. + +26:9. Five of which thou shalt couple by themselves, and the six others +thou shalt couple one to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in +the front of the roof. + +26:10. Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, that +it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of the +other curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow. + +26:11. Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops +may be joined, that of all there may be made one covering. + +26:12. And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared +for the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half +thereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle. + +26:13. And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another on +the other side, which is over and above in the length of the curtains, +fencing both sides of the tabernacle. + +26:14. Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of rams' skins +dyed red: and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins. + +26:15. Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing +upright of setim wood. + +26:16. Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth one +cubit and a half. + +26:17. In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby +one board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall +all the boards be prepared. + +26:18. Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward. + +26:19. For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under +every board may be put two sockets at the two corners. + +26:20. In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the +north, there shall be twenty boards, + +26:21. Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put under +each board. + +26:22. But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six +boards. + +26:23. And again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the +back of the tabernacle. + +26:24. And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, and +one joint shall hold them all. The like joining shall be observed for +the two boards also that are to be put in the corners. + +26:25. And they shall be in all eight boards, and their silver sockets +sixteen, reckoning two sockets for each board. + +26:26. Thou shalt make also five bars of setim wood, to hold together +the boards on one side of the tabernacle. + +26:27. And five others on the other side, and as many at the west side: + +26:28. And they shall be put along by the midst of the boards, from one +end to the other. + +26:29. The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold, and +shalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for places for the bars to +hold together the boardwork: which bars thou shalt cover with plates of +gold. + +26:30. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern +that was shewn thee in the mount. + +26:31. Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet +twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and +goodly variety: + +26:32. And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, +which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads +of gold, but sockets of silver. + +26:33. And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou +shalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of +the holies shall be divided with it. + +The sanctuary, etc... That part of the tabernacle, which was without the +veil, into which the priests daily entered, is here called the +sanctuary, or holy place; that part which was within the veil, into +which no one but the high priest ever went, and he but once a year, is +called the holy of holies, (literally, the sanctuary of the +sanctuaries,) as being the most holy of all holy places. + +26:34. And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the +testimony, in the holy of holies. + +26:35. And the table without the veil, and over against the table the +candlestick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall +stand in the north side. + +26:36. Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entrance of the tabernacle +of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen +with embroidered work. + +26:37. And thou shalt overlay with gold five pillars of setim wood, +before which the hanging shall be drawn: their heads shall be of gold, +and the sockets of brass. + +Exodus Chapter 27 + +The altar; and the court of the tabernacle with its hangings and +pillars. Provision of oil for lamps. + +27:1. Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five +cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits +high. + +27:2. And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou +shalt cover it with brass. + +27:3. And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the +ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou +shalt make of brass. + +27:4. And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of +which, shall be four rings of brass, + +27:5. Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate +shall be even to the midst of the altar. + +27:6. Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which +thou shalt cover with plates of brass: + +27:7. And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both +sides of the altar to carry it. + +27:8. Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, +as it was shewn thee in the mount. + +27:9. Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south +side whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of +a hundred cubits long for one side. + +27:10. And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of +which, with their engraving, shall be of silver. + +27:11. In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of +a hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass, and +their heads with their engraving of silver. + +27:12. But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there +shall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many sockets. + +27:13. In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east, +there shall be fifty cubits. + +27:14. In which there shall be for one side, hangings of fifteen cubits, +and three pillars, and as many sockets. + +27:15. And in the other side, there shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, +with three pillars, and as many sockets. + +27:16. And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging of +twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine +twisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with +as many sockets. + +27:17. All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with +plates of silver, silver heads, and sockets of brass. + +27:18. In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth +fifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine +twisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass. + +27:19. All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies, +and the pins both of it and of the court, thou shalt make of brass. + +27:20. Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest +oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn +always, + +27:21. In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs +before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may +give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual +observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel. + +Exodus Chapter 28 + +The holy vestments for Aaron and his sons. + +28:1. Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among +the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest's +office: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. + +28:2. And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron, thy brother, for +glory and for beauty. + +28:3. And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled +with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's vestments, in +which he being consecrated, may minister to me. + +28:4. And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational +and an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. +They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, +that they may do the office of priesthood unto me. + +28:5. And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet +twice dyed, and fine linen. + +28:6. And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple, and +scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers +colours. + +28:7. It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that +they may be closed together. + +28:8. The very workmanship also, and all the variety of the work, shall +be of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine +twisted linen. + +28:9. And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the +names of the children of Israel: + +28:10. Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other, according +to the order of their birth. + +28:11. With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller, thou +shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold +and compassed about: + +28:12. And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial +for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the +Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance. + +28:13. Thou shalt make also hooks of gold. + +28:14. And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another, +which thou shalt put into the hooks. + +28:15. And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered +work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of +gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted +linen. + +The rational of judgment... This part of the priest's attire, which he +wore at his breast, was called the rational of judgment; partly because +it admonished both priest and people of their duty to God, by carrying +the names of all their tribes in his presence; and by the Urim and the +Thummim, that is, doctrine and truth, which were written upon it; and +partly because it gave divine answers and oracles, as if it were +rational and endowed with judgment. + +28:16. It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a +span both in length and in breadth. + +28:17. And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones. In the first row +shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald: + +28:18. In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper: + +28:19. In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst: + +28:20. In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be +set in gold by their rows. + +28:21. And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with +twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one +according to the twelve tribes. + +28:22. And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to +another, of the purest gold: + +28:23. And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at +the top of the rational. + +28:24. And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in +the ends thereof. + +28:25. And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together +with two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the +rational. + +28:26. Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in +the top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the +ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof. + +28:27. Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on +each side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether joining, +that the rational may be fitted with the ephod, + +28:28. And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the +ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may +continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the +other. + +28:29. And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the +rational of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the +sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever. + +28:30. And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and +truth, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the +Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his +breast, in the sight of the Lord always. + +Doctrine and Truth... Hebrew, Urim and Thummim: illuminations and +perfections. These words, written on the rational, seem to signify the +light of doctrine and the integrity of life, with which the priests of +God ought to approach him. + +28:31. And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod all of violet, + +28:32. In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a +border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts +of garments, that it may not easily be broken. + +28:33. And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou +shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet +twice dyed, with little bells set between: + +28:34. So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again +another golden bell and a pomegranate. + +28:35. And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry, +that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the +sanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die. + +28:36. Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou +shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord. + +28:37. And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon +the mitre, + +28:38. Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall +bear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have +offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate +shall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with +them. + +28:39. And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt +make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work. + +28:40. Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, +and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty: + +28:41. And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and +his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and +shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me. + +28:42. Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their +nakedness, from the reins to the thighs: + +28:43. And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the +tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to +minister in the sanctuary lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It +shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him. + +Exodus Chapter 29 + +The manner of consecrating Aaron and other priests; the institution of +the daily sacrifice of two lambs, one in the morning, the other at +evening. + +29:1. And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me in +priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish, + +29:2. And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with +oil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them all +of wheaten flour. + +29:3. And thou shalt put them in a basket, and offer them: and the calf +and the two rams. + +29:4. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the +tabernacle of the testimony. And when thou hast washed the father and +his sons with water, + +29:5. Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the +linen garment and the tunic, and the ephod and the rational, which thou +shalt gird with the girdle. + +29:6. And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate +upon the mitre, + +29:7. And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this +rite shall he be consecrated. + +29:8. Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen +tunics, and gird them with a girdle: + +29:9. To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon +them; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After +thou shalt have consecrated their hands, + +29:10. Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the +testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head, + +29:11. And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the door +of the tabernacle of the testimony. + +29:12. And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon +the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou +shalt pour at the bottom thereof. + +29:13. Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and +the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon +them, and shalt offer a burn offering upon the altar: + +29:14. But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt +burn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin. + +29:15. Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and his +sons shall lay their hands. + +29:16. And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the blood +thereof, and pour round about the altar. + +29:17. And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and having washed his +entrails and feet, thou shalt put them upon the flesh that is cut in +pieces, and upon his head. + +29:18. And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the +altar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim +of the Lord. + +29:19. Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron and his +sons shall lay their hands. + +29:20. And when thou hast sacrificed him, thou shalt take of his blood, +and put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon +the thumbs and great toes of their right hand and foot, and thou shalt +pour the blood upon the altar round about. + +29:21. And when thou hast taken of the blood that is upon the altar, and +of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, his +sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are +consecrated, + +29:22. Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat +that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, +and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because it is the +ram of consecration: + +29:23. And one roll of bread, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of +the basket of unleavened bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord: + +29:24. And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons, +and shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord. + +29:25. And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them +upon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the +Lord, because it is his oblation. + +29:26. Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was +consecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, +and it shall fall to thy share. + +29:27. And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the +shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram, + +29:28. Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall +to Aaron's share, and his sons', by a perpetual right from the children +of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their +peace victims which they offer to the Lord. + +29:29. And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have +after him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in it. + +29:30. He of his sons that shall be appointed high priest in his stead, +and that shall enter into the tabernacle of the testimony to minister in +the sanctuary, shall wear it seven days. + +29:31. And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt boil +the flesh thereof in the holy place: + +29:32. And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The loaves also, that are in +the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of the +testimony, + +29:33. That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the +offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because +they are holy. + +29:34. And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread, +till the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall +not be eaten, because they are sanctified. + +29:35. All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron and his +sons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands: + +29:36. And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And +thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of +expiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it. + +29:37. Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it +shall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy. + +29:38. This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a +year old every day continually, + +29:39. One lamb in the morning, and another in the evening. + +29:40. With one lamb a tenth part of flour tempered with beaten oil, of +the fourth part of a hin, and wine for libation of the same measure. + +29:41. And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to +the rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said, +for a savour of sweetness: + +29:42. It is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your +generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the +Lord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee. + +29:43. And there will I command the children of Israel, and the altar +shall be sanctified by my glory. + +29:44. I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the testimony with the +altar, and Aaron with his sons, to do the office of priesthood unto me. + +29:45. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will +be their God: + +29:46. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who have +brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might abide among them, I +the Lord their God. + +Exodus Chapter 30 + +The altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the +tabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the +composition of the perfume. + +30:1. Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood. + +An altar to burn incense... This burning of incense was an emblem of +prayer, ascending to God from an inflamed heart. See Ps. 140.2; Apoc. +5.8, and 8.4. + +30:2. It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, +four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same. + +30:3. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate +thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to +it a crown of gold round about, + +30:4. And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars +may be put into them, and the altar be carried. + +30:5. And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay +them with gold. + +30:6. And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth +before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the +testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee. + +30:7. And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the +morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it: + +30:8. And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an +everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations. + +30:9. You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor +oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations. + +30:10. And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the +blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement upon +it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord. + +30:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +30:12. When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according +to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to +the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be +reckoned. + +30:13. And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a +sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty +obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord. + +Half a sicle... A sicle or shekel of silver, (which was also called a +stater,) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which was +the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, that is, about +half a crown of English money. The obol, or gerah, was about three +halfpence. + +30:14. He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, +shall give the price. + +30:15. The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man +shall diminish nothing. + +30:16. And the money received, which was contributed by the children of +Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the +testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may +be merciful to their souls. + +30:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +30:18. Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and +thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. +And water being put into it: + +30:19. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it: + +30:20. When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and +when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord, + +30:21. Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and +to his seed by successions. + +30:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses, + +30:23. Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred +sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty +sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty, + +30:24. And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, +of oil of olives the measure hin: + +30:25. And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment +compounded after the art of the perfumer, + +30:26. And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, +and the ark of the testament, + +30:27. And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and +furniture thereof, the altars of incense, + +30:28. And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the +service of them. + +30:29. And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that +shall touch them shall be sanctified. + +30:30. Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, +that they may do the office of priesthood unto me. + +30:31. And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction +shall be holy unto me throughout your generations. + +30:32. The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall +make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and +shall be holy unto you. + +30:33. What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a +stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. + +30:34. And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and +onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all +shall be of equal weight. + +30:35. And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the +perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of +sanctification. + +30:36. And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt +set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I +will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you. + +30:37. You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because +it is holy to the Lord. + +30:38. What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, +he shall perish out of his people. + +Exodus Chapter 31 + +Beseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to make the tabernacle, +and the things belonging thereto. The observation of the sabbath day is +again commanded. And the Lord delivereth to Moses two tables written +with the finger of God. + +31:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +31:2. Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of +Hur, of the tribe of Juda, + +31:3. And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and +understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work, + +31:4. To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, +and brass, + +31:5. Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood. + +31:6. And I have given him for his companion Ooliab, the son of +Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of +every skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded +thee, + +31:7. The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and +the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the +tabernacle, + +31:8. And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick +with the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense, + +31:9. And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot, + +31:10. The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for +his sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things: + +31:11. The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary, +all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make. + +31:12. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +31:13. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See +that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in +your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you. + +31:14. keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall +profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his +soul shall perish out of the midst of his people. + +31:15. Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, +the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, +shall die. + +31:16. Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in +their generations. It is an everlasting covenant. + +31:17. Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For +in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased +from work. + +31:18. And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave +to Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God. + +Exodus Chapter 32 + +The people fall into idolatry. Moses prayeth for them. He breaketh the +tables: destroyeth the idol: blameth Aaron, and causeth many of the +idolaters to be slain. + +32:1. And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the +mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that +may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of +the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him. + +32:2. And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of +your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. + +32:3. And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to +Aaron. + +32:4. And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' +work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, +O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. + +32:5. And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made +proclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of +the Lord. + +32:6. And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace +victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to +play. + +32:7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy +people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned. + +32:8. They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: +and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and +sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that +have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. + +32:9. And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is +stiffnecked: + +32:10. Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that +I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. + +32:11. But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy +indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of +the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? + +32:12. Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought +them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them +from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness +of thy people. + +32:13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou +sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars +of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to +your seed, and you shall possess it for ever: + +32:14. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken +against his people. + +32:15. And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the +testimony in his hand, written on both sides, + +32:16. And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven +in the tables. + +32:17. And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to +Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp. + +32:18. But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight, +nor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of +singers. + +32:19. And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the +dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and +broke them at the foot of the mount: + +32:20. And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and +beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to the +children of Israel to drink. + +32:21. And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that +thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin? + +32:22. And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou +knowest this people, that they are prone to evil. + +32:23. They said to me: make us gods, that may go before us; for as to +this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not +what is befallen him. + +32:24. And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and +brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out. + +32:25. And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had +stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them +naked among their enemies) + +Naked... Having lost not only their gold, and their honour, but what was +worst of all, being stripped also of the grace of God, and having lost +him.-The shame of the filth... That is, of the idol, which they had +taken for their god. It is the usual phrase of the scripture to call +idols filth and abominations. + +32:26. Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on +the Lord's side, let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered +themselves together unto him: + +32:27. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every +man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through +the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, +and neighbour. + +32:28. And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and +there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men. + +32:29. And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the +Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be +given to you. + +32:30. And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You +have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means +I may be able to entreat him for your crime. + +32:31. And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people +hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of +gold: either forgive them this trespass, + +32:32. Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast +written. + +32:33. And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him +will I strike out of my book: + +32:34. But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my +angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this +sin also of theirs. + +32:35. The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion +of the calf which Aaron had made. + +Exodus Chapter 33 + +The people mourn for their sin. Moses pitcheth the tabernacle without +the camp. He converseth familiarly with God. Desireth to see his glory. + +33:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this +place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of +Egypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and +Jacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it: + +33:2. And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the +Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and +the Hevite, and the Jebusite, + +33:3. That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and +honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked +people; lest I destroy thee in the way. + +33:4. And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no man +put on his ornaments according to custom. + +33:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou +art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and +shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may +know what to do to thee. + +33:6. So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount +Horeb. + +33:7. Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar +off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And +all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of +the covenant, without the camp. + +33:8. And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose +up, and every one stood in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld the +back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle. + +33:9. And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the +pillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with +Moses. + +33:10. And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the +tabernacle. And they stood and worshipped at the doors of their tent. + +33:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to +speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant +Josue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle. + +Face to face... That is, in a most familiar manner. Though as we learn +from this very chapter, Moses could not see the face of the Lord. + +33:12. And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this +people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, +especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast +found favour in my sight. + +I know thee by name... In the language of the scriptures, God is said to +know such as he approves and loves: and to know by name, those whom he +favours in a most singular manner, as he did his servant Moses. + +33:13. If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face, +that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy +people this nation. + +33:14. And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give +thee rest. + +33:15. And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not +out of this place. + +33:16. For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have +found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be +glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth? + +33:17. And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast +spoken, will I do; for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have +known by name. + +33:18. And he said: Shew me thy glory. + +33:19. He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in +the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, +and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me. + +33:20. And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not +see me, and live. + +33:21. And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou +shalt stand upon the rock. + +33:22. And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the +rock, and protect thee with my righthand till I pass: + +33:23. And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: +but my face thou canst not see. + +See my back parts... The Lord by his angel, usually spoke to Moses in +the pillar of the cloud; so that he could not see the glory of him that +spoke familiarly with him. In the vision here mentioned he was allowed +to see something of him, in an assumed corporeal form: not in the face, +the rays of which were too bright for mortal eye to bear, but to view +him as it were behind, when his face was turned from him. + +Exodus Chapter 34 + +The tables are renewed: all society with the Chanaanites is forbid: some +precepts concerning the firstborn, the sabbath, and other feasts: after +forty days' fast, Moses returneth to the people with the commandments, +and his face appearing horned with rays of light, he covereth it, +whensoever he speaketh to the people. + +34:1. And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the +former, and I will write upon them the words, which were in the tables, +which thou brokest. + +34:2. Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into +Mount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount. + +34:3. Let no man go up with thee, and let not any man be seen throughout +all the mount; neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over against it. + +34:4. Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and +rising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had +commanded him, carrying with him the tables. + +34:5. And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, +calling upon the name of the Lord. + +34:6. And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, +merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true, + +34:7. Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and +wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who +renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the +grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation. + +34:8. And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and +adoring, + +34:9. Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee +that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people) and take +away our iniquities and sin, and possess us. + +34:10. The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I +will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any +nations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the +terrible work of the Lord which I will do. + +34:11. Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will +drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the +Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite. + +34:12. Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that +land, which may be thy ruin: + +34:13. But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their +groves: + +34:14. Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a +jealous God. + +34:15. Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they +have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, +some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed. + +34:16. Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, +lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy +sons also to commit fornication with their gods. + +34:17. Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods. + +34:18: Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days +shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the +month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest +out from Egypt. + +34:19. All of the male kind that openeth the womb, shall be mine. Of all +beasts; both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be mine. + +34:20. The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if +thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The firstborn of +thy sons thou shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear before me empty. + +34:21. Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to +plough and to reap. + +34:22. Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the +corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year +returneth that all things are laid in. + +34:23. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight +of the almighty Lord the God of Israel. + +34:24. For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and +shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy +land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God +thrice in a year. + +34:25. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven; +neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the +solemnity of the Phase. + +34:26. The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the +house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his +dam. + +34:27. And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words, by which I +have made a covenant both with thee and with Israel. + +34:28. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he +neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten +words of the covenant. + +34:29. And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two +tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from +the conversation of the Lord. + +Horned... That is, shining, and sending forth rays of light like horns. + +34:30. And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses +horned, were afraid to come near. + +34:31. And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers +of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them, + +34:32. And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in +commandment all that he had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai. + +34:33. And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face. + +34:34. But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it +away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel +all things that had been commanded him. + +34:35. And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, +but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them. + +Exodus Chapter 35 + +The sabbath. Offerings for making the tabernacle. Beseleel and Ooliab +are called to the work. + +35:1. And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered +together, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath +commanded to be done: + +35:2. Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto +you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on +it, shall be put to death. + +35:3. You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath +day. + +35:4. And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This +is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying: + +35:5. Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is +willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and +silver, and brass, + +35:6. Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats' +hair, + +35:7. And rams' skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood, + +35:8. And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet +incense, + +35:9. Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod +and the rational. + +35:10. Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the +Lord hath commanded: + +35:11. To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the +rings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets: + +35:12. The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is +drawn before it: + +35:13. The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of +proposition: + +35:14. The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and +the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires: + +35:15. The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and +the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle: + +35:16. The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and +vessels thereof: the laver and its foot: + +35:17. The curtains of the court, with the pillars and the sockets, the +hanging in the doors of the entry. + +35:18. The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little +cords: + +35:19. The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the +sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do +the office of priesthood to me. + +35:20. And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from +the presence of Moses, + +35:21. Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout +mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was +necessary to the service and to the holy vestments, + +35:22. Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and +tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord. + +35:23. If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine +linen and goats' hair, ramskins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, + +35:24. Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and setim +wood for divers uses. + +35:25. The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, +purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, + +35:26. And goats' hair, giving all of their own accord. + +35:27. But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the +ephod and the rational, + +35:28. And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of +ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour. + +35:29. All, both men and women, with devout mind offered gifts, that the +works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. +All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the Lord. + +35:30. And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold, the Lord hath +called by name Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of +Juda, + +35:31. And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and +understanding, and knowledge, and all learning, + +35:32. To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass, + +35:33. And in engraving stones, and in carpenters' work. Whatsoever can +be devised artificially, + +35:34. He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the son of Achisamech, +of the tribe of Dan: + +35:35. Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters' +work, and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet twice +dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all new +things. + +Exodus Chapter 36 + +The offerings are delivered to the workmen, the curtains, coverings, +boards, bars, veil, pillars, and hanging are made. + +36:1. Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the +Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, +made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and +which the Lord commanded. + +36:2. And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom the +Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered +themselves to the making of the work, + +36:3. He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto +them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in +the morning offered their vows. + +36:4. Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come, + +36:5. Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary. + +36:6. Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier's +voice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the +sanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts, + +36:7. Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too +much. + +36:8. And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of +the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and +purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of +embroidering: + +36:9. The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth +four: all the curtains were of the same size. + +36:10. And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five +he coupled one to another. + +36:11. He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both +sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner, + +36:12. That the loops might meet one against another, and might be +joined each with the other. + +36:13. Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the +loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle. + +36:14. He made also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the roof of +the tabernacle: + +36:15. One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all +the curtains were of one measure. + +36:16. Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart. + +36:17. And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in +the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another. + +36:18. And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit +together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering. + +36:19. He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red; +and another cover over that of violet skins. + +36:20. He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood standing. + +36:21. The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one +cubit and a half. + +36:22. There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be +joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards of +the tabernacle. + +36:23. Of which twenty were at the south side southward, + +36:24. With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one +board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides +end in the corners. + +36:25. At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the +north, he made twenty boards, + +36:26. With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board. + +36:27. But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, +which looketh to the sea, he made six boards, + +36:28. And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind: + +36:29. Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went +together into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners: + +36:30. So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets +of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board. + +36:31. He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the boards +of one side of the tabernacle, + +36:32. And five others to join together the boards of the other side; +and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle +towards the sea. + +36:33. He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the +boards from corner to corner. + +36:34. And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them +sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the +bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of +gold. + +36:35. He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine +twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery: + +36:36. And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he +overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver. + +36:37. He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet, +purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an +embroiderer. + +36:38. And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, +and their sockets he cast of brass. + +Exodus Chapter 37 + +Beseleel maketh the ark: the propitiatory, and cherubims, the table, the +candlestick, the lamps, and the altar of incense, and compoundeth the +incense. + +37:1. And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits +and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height +was of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold +within and without. + +37:2. And he made to it a crown of gold round about, + +37:3. Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings +in one side, and two in the other. + +37:4. And he made bars of setim wood, which he overlaid with gold, + +37:5. And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of the ark +to carry it. + +37:6. He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest +gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in +breadth. + +37:7. Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides +of the propitiatory: + +37:8. One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the top +of the other side: two cherubims at the two ends of the propitiatory, + +37:9. Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking +one towards the other, and towards it. + +37:10. He made also the table of setim wood, in length two cubits, and +in breadth one cubit, and in height it was a cubit and a half. + +37:11. And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a +golden ledge round about, + +37:12. And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of four +fingers breadth, and upon the same another golden crown. + +37:13. And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners +at each foot of the table, + +37:14. Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the +table might be carried. + +37:15. The bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid them +with gold. + +37:16. And the vessels for the divers uses of the table, dishes, bowls, +and cups, and censers of pure gold, wherein the libations are to be +offered. + +37:17. He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold. +from the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies +came out: + +37:18: Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on +the other. + +37:19. Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal +and lilies: and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, +and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went out +from the shaft of the candlestick was equal. + +37:20. And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, +and bowls withal at every one, and lilies: + +37:21. And bowls under two branches in three places, which together made +six branches going out from one shaft. + +37:22. So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten +work of the purest gold. + +37:23. He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels +where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold. + +37:24. The candlestick with all the vessels thereof weighed a talent of +gold. + +37:25. He made also the alter of incense of setim wood, being a cubit on +every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of +which went out horns. + +37:26. And he overlaid it with the purest gold, with its grate, and the +sides, and the horns. + +37:27. And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden +rings under the crown at each side, that the bars might be put into +them, and the altar be carried. + +37:28. And the bars themselves he made also of setim wood, and overlaid +them with plates of gold. + +37:29. He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification, +and incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer. + +Exodus Chapter 38 + +He maketh the altar of holocaust. The brazen laver. The court with its +pillars and hangings. The sum of what the people offered. + +38:1. He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits +square, and three in height: + +38:2. The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it +with plates of brass. + +38:3. And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass, +cauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks and firepans. + +38:4. And he made the grate thereof of brass, in manner of a net, and +under it in the midst of the altar a hearth, + +38:5. Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top, to put +in bars to carry it: + +38:6. And he made the bars of setim wood, and overlaid them with plates +of brass: + +38:7. And he drew them through the rines that stood out in the sides of +the altar. And the altar itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards, +and empty within. + +38:8. He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the +mirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle. + +38:9. He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings of +fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits. + +38:10. Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets, the beads of the +pillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver. + +38:11. In like manner at the north side the hangings, the pillars, and +the sockets and heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work +and metal. + +38:12. But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings of +fifty cubits, ten pillars of brass with their sockets, and the heads of +the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver. + +38:13. Moreover, towards the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits: + +38:14. Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side with three pillars, and +their sockets: + +38:15. And on the other side (for between the two he made the entry of +the tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, and three +pillars, and as many sockets. + +38:16. All the hangings of the court were woven with twisted linen. + +38:17. The sockets of the pillars were of brass, and their heads with +all their gravings of silver: and he overlaid the pillars of the court +also with silver. + +38:18. And he made in the entry thereof an embroidered hanging of +violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, that was twenty cubits +long, and five cubits high, according to the measnre of all the hangings +of the court. + +38:19. And the pillars in the entry were four, with sockets of brass, +and their heads and gravings of silver. + +38:20. The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he +made of brass. + +38:21. These are the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony, +which were counted according to the commandment of Moses, in the +ceremonies of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the +priest: + +38:22. Which Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of +Juda, had made, as the Lord commanded by Moses. + +38:23. Having for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the +tribe of Dan: who also was an ex-cellent artificer in wood, and worker +in tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet, and fine linen. + +38:24. All the gold that was spent in the work of the sanctuary, and +that was offered in gifts, was nine and twenty talents, and seven +hundred and thirty sicles according to the standard of the sanctuary. + +38:25. And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty +years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred +and fifty men able to bear arms. + +38:26. There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were +cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil +hangeth. + +38:27. A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent +being reckoned for every socket. + +38:28. And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the +heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver. + +38:29. And there were offered of brass also seventy-two thousand +talents, and four hundred sicles besides, + +38:30. Of which were cast the sockets in the entry of the tabernacle of +the testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and also +the vessels that belong to the use thereof. + +38:31. And the sockets of the court as well round about as in the entry +thereof, and the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about. + +Exodus Chapter 39 + +All the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made. And the whole work of +the tabernacle is finished. + +39:1. And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the +vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as +the Lord commanded Moses. + +39:2. So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice +dyed, and fine twisted linen, + +39:3. With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew +them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the +foresaid colours, + +39:4. And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either +side, + +39:5. And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded Moses. + +39:6. He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and +graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of +Israel: + +39:7. And he set them in the sides of the ephod, for a memorial of the +children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses. + +39:8. He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the +work of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and +fine twisted linen: + +39:9. Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span. + +39:10. And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row +was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald. + +39:11. In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. + +39:12. In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst. + +39:13. In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and +enclosed in gold by their rows. + +39:14. And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the twelve +tribes of Israel, each one with its several name. + +39:15. They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to +another, of the purest gold, + +39:16. And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings +on either side of the rational, + +39:17. On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put +into the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod. + +39:18. These both before and behind so answered one another, that the +ephod and the rational were bound together, + +39:19. Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings, +which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved +one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses. + +39:20. They made also the tunic of the ephod all of violet, + +39:21. And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a +woven border round about the hole: + +39:22. And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet, +and fine twisted linen: + +39:23. And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the +pomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about: + +39:24. To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high +priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had +commanded Moses. + +39:25. They made also fine linen tunics with woven work for Aaron and +his sons: + +39:26. And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen: + +39:27. And linen breeches of fine linen: + +39:28. And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet +twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses. + +39:29. They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest gold, +and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy of the +Lord: + +39:30. And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the +Lord had commanded Moses. + +39:31. So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the +testimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which +the Lord had commanded Moses. + +39:32. And they offered the tabernacle, and the roof, and the whole +furniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars and their +sockets, + +39:33. The cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the other cover of violet +skins, + +39:34. The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory, + +39:35. The table, with the vessels thereof, and the loaves of +proposition: + +39:36. The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them, with the +oil: + +39:37. The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices: + +39:38. And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle: + +39:39. The altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and all the vessels +thereof: the laver, with the foot thereof: the hangings of the court, +and the pillars, with their sockets: + +39:40. The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and +the pins thereof. Nothing was wanting of the vessels, that were +commanded to be made for the ministry of the tabernacle, and for the +roof of the covenant. + +39:41. The vestments also, which the priests, to wit, Aaron and his +sons, use in the sanctuary, + +39:42. The children of Israel offered, as the Lord had commanded. + +39:43. And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them. + +Exodus Chapter 40 + +The tabernacle is commanded to be set up and anointed. God filleth it +with his majesty. + +40:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +40:2. The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the +tabernacle of the testimony, + +40:3. And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before +it: + +40:4. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things that +are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand with +its lamps, + +40:5. And the altar of gold, whereon the incense is burnt before the ark +of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the +tabernacle, + +40:6. And before it the altar of holocaust. + +40:7. The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt +fill it with water. + +40:8. And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry +thereof. + +40:9. And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle +with its vessels, that they may be sanctified: + +40:10. The altar of holocaust and all its vessels: + +40:11. The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil +of unction, that they may be most holy. + +40:12. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the +tabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water, + +40:13. Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may minister +to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting +priesthood. + +40:14. And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded. + +40:15. So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the +month, the tabernacle was set up. + +40:16. And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and +the bars, and set up the pillars, + +40:17. And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, +as the Lord had commanded. + +40:18. And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, +and the oracle above. + +40:19. And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the +veil before it to fulfil the command ment of the Lord. + +40:20. And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the +north side, without the veil, + +40:21. Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had +commanded Moses. + +40:22. He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony, +over against the table on the south side, + +40:23. Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord. + +40:24. He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony, +over against the veil, + +40:25. And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had +commanded Moses. + +40:26. And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the +testimony, + +40:27. And the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony, +offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had +commanded. + +40:28. And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and +the altar, filling it with water. + +40:29. And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet, + +40:30. When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to +the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses. + +40:31. He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the +altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were +perfected, + +40:32. The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory +of the Lord filled it. + +40:33. Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the +cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the +cloud had covered all. + +40:34. If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the +children of Israel went forward by their troops: + +40:35. If it hung over, they remained in the same place. + +40:36. For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a +fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all +their mansions. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 2 *** + +********** This file should be named 8302.txt or 8302.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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