Exodus Chapter 37
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32:1And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him. 32:2Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. 32:3And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. 32:4And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt. 32:5And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord. 32:6So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure. 32:7And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways; 32:8Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt. 32:9And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people. 32:10Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation. 32:11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand? 32:12Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people. 32:13Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever. 32:14So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people. 32:15Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back. 32:16The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones. 32:17Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents. 32:18And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear. 32:19And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain. 32:20And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it. 32:21And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them? 32:22And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil. 32:23For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him. 32:24Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out. 32:25And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them loose to their shame before their haters: 32:26Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him. 32:27And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour. 32:28And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day. 32:29And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day. 32:30And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin. 32:31Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold; 32:32But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book. 32:33And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book. 32:34But now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them for their sin. 32:35And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

33:1And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you and the people whom you have taken up out of the land of Egypt, to that land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it. 33:2And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite: 33:3Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way. 33:4Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments. 33:5And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you. 33:6So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb, and did not put them on again. 33:7Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle, at some distance away; giving it the name of The Tent of meeting. And everyone desiring to make his prayer to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle. 33:8And whenever Moses went out to the Tent of meeting, all the people got up and everyone went to the door of his tent, looking after Moses till he went inside the Tent. 33:9And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses. 33:10And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent. 33:11And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent. 33:12And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes. 33:13If then I have grace in your eyes, let me see your ways, so that I may have knowledge of you and be certain of your grace; and my prayer is that you will keep in mind that this nation is your people. 33:14And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest. 33:15And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here. 33:16For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth? 33:17And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you have grace in my eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your name. 33:18And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory. 33:19And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy. 33:20But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living. 33:21And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock: 33:22And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past: 33:23Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

34:1And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you. 34:2And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain. 34:3No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot. 34:4So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand. 34:5And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. 34:6And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; 34:7Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation. 34:8Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship. 34:9And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage. 34:10And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared. 34:11Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 34:12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you. 34:13But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down: 34:14For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another. 34:15So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts, 34:16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them. 34:17Make for yourselves no gods of metal. 34:18Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt. 34:19Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep. 34:20A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering. 34:21Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest. 34:22And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields. 34:23Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel. 34:24For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year. 34:25No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning. 34:26Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk 34:27And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you. 34:28And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law. 34:29Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God. 34:30But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear. 34:31Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them. 34:32And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. 34:33And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face. 34:34But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say; 34:35And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.

35:1And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders. 35:2Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death. 35:3No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day. 35:4And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given: 35:5Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass; 35:6And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair, 35:7And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood, 35:8And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning. 35:9And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag. 35:10And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord; 35:11The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases; 35:12The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it; 35:13The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread; 35:14And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light; 35:15And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House; 35:16The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base; 35:17The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway; 35:18The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords; 35:19The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests. 35:20And all the children of Israel went away from Moses. 35:21And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes. 35:22They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord. 35:23And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them. 35:24Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it. 35:25And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen. 35:26And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth. 35:27And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag; 35:28And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes. 35:29The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done. 35:30And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 35:31And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort; 35:32As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass; 35:33Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork. 35:34And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others. 35:35To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

36:1So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders. 36:2Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work: 36:3And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning. 36:4Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work; 36:5And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do. 36:6So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more. 36:7For the material they had was enough and more than enough for all the work which had to be done. 36:8Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers. 36:9Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. 36:10And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together. 36:11And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group. 36:12Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another. 36:13And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made. 36:14And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made. 36:15Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. 36:16Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group. 36:17And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group, 36:18And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent. 36:19And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that. 36:20And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood. 36:21The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide. 36:22Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way. 36:23They made twenty boards for the south side of the House: 36:24And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues. 36:25And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards, 36:26With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board. 36:27And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards, 36:28And two boards for the angles at the back. 36:29These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles. 36:30So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board. 36:31And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House, 36:32And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west. 36:33The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other. 36:34All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold. 36:35And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen. 36:36And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases. 36:37And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red; 36:38And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

37:1And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high; 37:2Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it. 37:3And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other, 37:4And rods of the same wood plated with gold. 37:5These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. 37:6And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 37:7And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover; 37:8Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover. 37:9And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover. 37:10And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high; 37:11Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it. 37:12And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round. 37:13And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet. 37:14The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted. 37:15The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold. 37:16And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold. 37:17Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal: 37:18It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other; 37:19Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches; 37:20And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower; 37:21And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it. 37:22The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold. 37:23And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold. 37:24A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels. 37:25And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same. 37:26The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it. 37:27And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two opposite sides under the edge, to take the rods for lifting it. 37:28The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold. 37:29And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.

38:1The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, 38:2And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass; 38:3And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass 38:4And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up; 38:5And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods. 38:6The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass. 38:7He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood. 38:8And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting. 38:9To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long: 38:10Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. 38:11And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands. 38:12And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands. 38:13And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long. 38:14The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases; 38:15And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases. 38:16All the hangings were of the best linen. 38:17And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver. 38:18And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides. 38:19There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver. 38:20All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass. 38:21This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. 38:22Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 38:23And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen. 38:24The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place. 38:25And the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place. 38:26A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over. 38:27Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the bases of the pillars of the holy place and of the veil; a talent for every base. 38:28And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands. 38:29The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels; 38:30From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar, 38:31And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.

39:1And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 39:2The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen; 39:3Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer. 39:4And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms. 39:5And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 39:6Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel. 39:7These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel, as the Lord had said to Moses. 39:8The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red. 39:9It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand; 39:10And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; 39:11In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; 39:12In the third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 39:13In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold. 39:14There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp. 39:15And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords. 39:16And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag; 39:17And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at the ends of the priest's bag; 39:18And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the arm-holes. 39:19And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod. 39:20And two other gold rings were put on the front of the ephod, over the arm-holes, at the join, and over the worked band. 39:21And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 39:22The robe which went with the ephod was made all of blue; 39:23With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong. 39:24The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen. 39:25And between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold bells, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 39:26All round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits in turn. 39:27The coats for Aaron and his sons they made of the best linen; 39:28And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful head-dresses of linen, and linen trousers, 39:29And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had said to Moses. 39:30The plate for the holy crown was made of the best gold, and on it were cut these words, HOLY TO THE LORD. 39:31It was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 39:32So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it. 39:33Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases; 39:34The outer cover of sheepskins coloured red, and the cover of leather, and the veil for the doorway; 39:35The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover; 39:36The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread; 39:37The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights; 39:38And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent; 39:39And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base; 39:40The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting; 39:41The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron and his sons when acting as priests. 39:42The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 39:43Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.

40:1And the Lord said to Moses, 40:2On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting. 40:3And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. 40:4And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning. 40:5And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House. 40:6And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting. 40:7And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put between the Tent of meeting and the altar. 40:8And put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway. 40:9And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy: 40:10And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it and all its vessels holy; this altar is to be most holy. 40:11And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make them holy. 40:12Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after washing them with water, 40:13You are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to put oil on him, and make him holy, so that he may be my priest. 40:14And take his sons with him and put coats on them; 40:15And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation. 40:16And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did. 40:17So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up. 40:18Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places; 40:19Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders. 40:20And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it; 40:21And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders. 40:22And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the veil. 40:23And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as the Lord had said. 40:24The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side: 40:25Lighting the lights before the Lord, as the Lord had given him orders. 40:26And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil: 40:27Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders. 40:28And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House. 40:29And at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting, he put the altar of burned offerings, offering on it the burned offering and the meal offering, as the Lord had given him orders. 40:30And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the vessel with water in it for washing. 40:31In it the hands and feet of Moses and Aaron and his sons were washed, 40:32Whenever they went into the Tent of meeting, and when they came near the altar, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 40:33And he put up the hangings forming the open space round the House and the altar, and put the curtain over the doorway. So Moses made the work complete. 40:34Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord; 40:35So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord. 40:36And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the children of Israel went forward on their journey: 40:37But while the cloud was there, they made no move till it was taken up. 40:38For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their journeys.

Leviticus

1:1And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying, 1:2Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock. 1:3If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord. 1:4And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin. 1:5And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting. 1:6And the burned offering is to be skinned and cut up into its parts. 1:7And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put fire on the altar and put the wood in order on the fire: 1:8And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put the parts, the head and the fat, in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar: 1:9But its inside parts and its legs are to be washed with water, and it will all be burned on the altar by the priest for a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord. 1:10And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark. 1:11And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar. 1:12And the offering is to be cut into its parts, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to put them in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar: 1:13But the inside parts and the legs are to be washed with water; and the priest will make an offering of all of it, burning it on the altar: it is a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord. 1:14And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons. 1:15And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar: 1:16And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put: 1:17And let it be broken open at the wings, but not cut in two; and let it be burned on the altar by the priest on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burned offering; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

2:1And when anyone makes a meal offering to the Lord, let his offering be of the best meal, with oil on it and perfume: 2:2And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord. 2:3And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings. 2:4And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil. 2:5And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil. 2:6Let it be broken into bits, and put oil on it; it is a meal offering. 2:7And if your offering is of meal cooked in fat over the fire, let it be made of the best meal mixed with oil. 2:8And you are to give the meal offering made of these things to the Lord, and let the priest take it to the altar. 2:9And he is to take from the meal offering a part, for a sign, burning it on the altar; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord. 2:10And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings. 2:11No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord. 2:12You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar. 2:13And every meal offering is to be salted with salt; your meal offering is not to be without the salt of the agreement of your God: with all your offerings give salt. 2:14And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain. 2:15And put oil on it and perfume: it is a meal offering. 2:16And part of the meal of the offering and part of the oil and all the perfume is to be burned for a sign by the priest: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

3:1And if his offering is given for a peace-offering; if he gives of the herd, male or female, let him give it without any mark on it, before the Lord. 3:2And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar. 3:3And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts, 3:4And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away; 3:5That it may be burned by Aaron's sons on the altar, on the burned offering which is on the wood on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord. 3:6And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it. 3:7If his offering is a lamb, then let it be placed before the Lord: 3:8And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons are to put some of its blood on and round the altar. 3:9And of the peace-offering, let him give an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat of it, all the fat tail, he is to take away near the backbone; and the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts, 3:10And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away; 3:11That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord. 3:12And if his offering is a goat, then let it be placed before the Lord, 3:13And let him put his hand on the head of it and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron are to put some of its blood on and round the altar. 3:14And of it let him make his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts, 3:15And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, let him take away; 3:16That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's. 3:17Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

4:1And the Lord said to Moses, 4:2Say to the children of Israel: These are the offerings of anyone who does wrong through error, doing any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done: 4:3If the chief priest by doing wrong becomes a cause of sin to the people, then let him give to the Lord for the sin which he has done, an ox, without any mark, for a sin-offering. 4:4And he is to take the ox to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord; and put his hand on its head and put it to death before the Lord. 4:5And the chief priest is to take some of its blood and take it to the Tent of meeting; 4:6And the priest is to put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of it before the Lord seven times, in front of the veil of the holy place. 4:7And the priest is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar on which perfume is burned before the Lord in the Tent of meeting, draining out all the rest of the blood of the ox at the base of the altar of burned offering which is at the door of the Tent of meeting. 4:8And he is to take away all the fat of the ox of the sin-offering; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat of the inside parts, 4:9And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away, 4:10As it is taken from the ox of the peace-offering; and it is to be burned by the priest on the altar of burned offerings. 4:11And the skin of the ox and all its flesh, with its head and its legs and its inside parts and its waste, 4:12All the ox, he is to take away outside the circle of the tents into a clean place where the burned waste is put, and there it is to be burned on wood with fire. 4:13And if all the people of Israel do wrong, without anyone's knowledge; if they have done any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done, causing sin to come on them; 4:14When the sin which they have done comes to light, then let all the people give an ox for a sin-offering, and take it before the Tent of meeting. 4:15And let the chiefs of the people put their hands on its head before the Lord, and put the ox to death before the Lord. 4:16And the priest is to take some of its blood to the Tent of meeting; 4:17And put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil. 4:18And he is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord in the Tent of meeting; and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar of burned offering at the door of the Tent of meeting. 4:19And he is to take off all its fat, burning it on the altar. 4:20Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness. 4:21Then let the ox be taken away outside the tent-circle, that it may be burned as the other ox was burned; it is the sin-offering for all the people. 4:22If a ruler does wrong, and in error does any of the things which, by the order of the Lord his God, are not to be done, causing sin to come on him; 4:23When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, let him give for his offering a goat, a male without any mark. 4:24And he is to put his hand on the head of the goat and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering before the Lord: it is a sin-offering. 4:25And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, draining out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burned offering. 4:26And all the fat of it is to be burned on the altar like the fat of the peace-offering; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness. 4:27And if any one of the common people does wrong in error, doing any of the things which the Lord has given orders are not to be done, causing sin to come on him; 4:28When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, then he is to give for his offering a goat, a female without any mark, for the sin which he has done. 4:29And he is to put his hand on the head of the sin-offering and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering. 4:30And the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of its blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar. 4:31And let all its fat be taken away, as the fat is taken away from the peace-offerings, and let it be burned on the altar by the priest for a sweet smell to the Lord; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness. 4:32And if he gives a lamb as his sin-offering, let it be a female without any mark; 4:33And he is to put his hand on the head of the offering and put it to death for a sin-offering in the place where they put to death the burned offering. 4:34And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar; 4:35And let him take away all its fat, as the fat is taken away from the lamb of the peace-offerings; and let it be burned by the priest on the altar among the offerings made by fire to the Lord: and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

5:1And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible: 5:2If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible: 5:3Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible: 5:4Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things. 5:5And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing; 5:6And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin. 5:7And if he has not money enough for a lamb, then let him give, for his offering to the Lord, two doves or two young pigeons; one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering. 5:8And let him take them to the priest, who will first give the sin-offering, twisting off its head from its neck, but not cutting it in two; 5:9And he is to put drops of the blood of the offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin-offering. 5:10And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness. 5:11But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering. 5:12And let him come to the priest with it, and the priest will take some of it in his hand, to be burned on the altar as a sign, among the offerings of the Lord made by fire: it is a sin-offering. 5:13And the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness: and the rest of the offering will be the priest's, in the same way as the meal offering. 5:14And the Lord said to Moses, 5:15If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place. 5:16And he is to make payment to the priest for what he has done wrong in relation to the holy thing, together with a fifth part of its value in addition; and the priest will take away his sin by the sheep of his offering, and he will have forgiveness. 5:17And if anyone does wrong, and does any of the things which the Lord has given orders are not to be done, though he has no knowledge of it, still he is in the wrong and he is responsible. 5:18Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness. 5:19It is an offering for his error: he is certainly responsible before the Lord.

6:1And the Lord said to Moses, 6:2If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour, 6:3Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things, 6:4Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance, 6:5Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong. 6:6Then let him take to the Lord the offering for his wrongdoing; giving to the priest for his offering, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you: 6:7And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done 6:8And the Lord said to Moses, 6:9Give orders to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law for the burned offering: the offering is to be on the fire-wood on the altar all night till the morning; and the fire of the altar is to be kept burning. 6:10And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar. 6:11Then having taken off his linen robes and put on other clothing, he is to take it away into a clean place, outside the tent-circle. 6:12The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned. 6:13Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out. 6:14And this is the law for the meal offering: it is to be offered to the Lord before the altar by the sons of Aaron. 6:15The priest is to take in his hand some of the meal of the meal offering and of the oil of it, and all the perfume on it, burning it on the altar as a sign, for a sweet smell to the Lord. 6:16And whatever is over Aaron and his sons may have for their food, taking it without leaven in a holy place; in the open space of the Tent of meeting they may take a meal of it. 6:17It is not to be cooked with leaven. I have given it to them as their part of the offerings made by fire to me; it is most holy, as are the sin-offerings and the offerings for error. 6:18Every male among the children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy. 6:19And the Lord said to Moses, 6:20This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to make to the Lord on the day when he is made a priest: the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering for ever; half of it in the morning and half in the evening. 6:21Let it be made with oil on a flat plate; when it is well mixed and cooked, let it be broken and taken in as a meal offering, for a sweet smell to the Lord. 6:22And the same offering is to be given by that one of his sons who takes his place as priest; by an order for ever, all of it is to be burned before the Lord. 6:23Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food. 6:24And the Lord said to Moses, 6:25Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law for the sin-offering: the sin-offering is to be put to death before the Lord in the same place as the burned offering; it is most holy. 6:26The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting. 6:27Anyone touching the flesh of it will be holy: and if any of the blood is dropped on any clothing, the thing on which the blood has been dropped is to be washed in a holy place. 6:28But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water. 6:29Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy. 6:30No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.

7:1And this is the law of the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy. 7:2They are to put to death the offering for wrongdoing in the same place as the burned offering; and the priest is to put the blood on and round the altar. 7:3And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering. 7:4And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away: 7:5They are to be burned by the priest on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord: it is an offering for wrongdoing. 7:6Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy. 7:7As is the sin-offering, so is the offering for wrongdoing; there is one law for them: the priest who makes the offering to take away sin, he is to have it. 7:8And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him. 7:9And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered. 7:10And every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, is for all the sons of Aaron in equal measure. 7:11And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord. 7:12If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil. 7:13With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering. 7:14And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar. 7:15And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning. 7:16But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after: 7:17But if any of the flesh of the offering is still unused on the third day, it is to be burned with fire. 7:18And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food. 7:19And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food: 7:20But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people. 7:21And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people. 7:22And the Lord said to Moses, 7:23Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food. 7:24And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food. 7:25For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people. 7:26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses. 7:27Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people. 7:28And the Lord said to Moses, 7:29Say to the children of Israel: He who makes a peace-offering to the Lord, is to give an offering to the Lord out of his peace-offering: 7:30He himself is to take to the Lord the offering made by fire, even the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. 7:31And the fat is to be burned by the priest on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons. 7:32And the right leg you are to give to the priest for an offering to be lifted up out of what is given for your peace-offerings. 7:33That man, among the sons of Aaron, by whom the blood of the peace-offering and the fat are offered, is to have the right leg for his part. 7:34For the breast which is waved and the right leg which is lifted up on high I have taken from the children of Israel, from their peace-offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their right for ever from the children of Israel. 7:35This is the holy part given to Aaron and to his sons, out of the offerings made to the Lord by fire, on the day when they were made priests before the Lord; 7:36Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation. 7:37These are the laws for the burned offering, the meal offering, and the offering for wrongdoing; and for the making of priests, and for the giving of peace-offerings; 7:38As they were given by the Lord to Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when the Lord gave orders to the children of Israel to make their offerings to the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai.

8:1And the Lord said to Moses, 8:2Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the robes and the holy oil and the ox of the sin-offering and the two male sheep and the basket of unleavened bread; 8:3And let all the people come together at the door of the Tent of meeting. 8:4And Moses did as the Lord said, and all the people came together at the door of the Tent of meeting. 8:5And Moses said to the people, This is what the Lord has given orders to be done. 8:6Then Moses took Aaron and his sons; and after washing them with water, 8:7He put the coat on him, making it tight with its band, and then the robe, and over it the ephod, with its band of needlework to keep it in place. 8:8And he put the priest's bag on him, and in the bag he put the Urim and Thummim. 8:9And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 8:10And Moses took the holy oil and put it on the House and on all the things in it, to make them holy. 8:11Seven times he put oil on the altar and on all its vessels, and on the washing-basin and its base, to make them holy. 8:12And some of the oil he put on Aaron's head, to make him holy. 8:13Then he took Aaron's sons, clothing them with the coats, and putting the bands round them, and the head-dresses on their heads, as the Lord had given him orders. 8:14And he took the ox of the sin-offering: and Aaron and his sons put their hands on the head of the ox, 8:15And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean. 8:16And he took all the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, to be burned on the altar; 8:17But the ox, with its skin and its flesh and its waste, was burned with fire outside the tent-circle, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 8:18And he put the male sheep of the burned offering before the Lord, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head, 8:19And he put it to death; and Moses put some of the blood on and round the altar. 8:20And when the sheep had been cut into parts, the head and the parts and the fat were burned by Moses. 8:21And the inside parts and the legs were washed with water and all the sheep was burned by Moses on the altar; it was a burned offering for a sweet smell: it was an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 8:22And he put the other sheep before the Lord, the sheep with which they were made priests; and Aaron and his sons put their hands on the head of the sheep, 8:23And he put it to death; and Moses took some of the blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot. 8:24Then he took Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the point of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet: and Moses put the blood on and round the altar. 8:25And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right leg; 8:26And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil on it, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right leg: 8:27And he put them all on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord. 8:28And Moses took them from their hands, and they were burned on the altar on the burned offering, as a priest's offering for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 8:29And Moses took the breast, waving it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses' part of the sheep of the priest's offering, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 8:30And Moses took some of the holy oil and of the blood which was on the altar and put it on Aaron and on his robes, and on his sons and on his sons' robes; and made Aaron holy, and his robes and his sons and his sons' robes with him. 8:31And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons. 8:32And that which is over of the flesh and of the bread is to be burned with fire. 8:33And you are not to go out from the door of the Tent of meeting for seven days, till the days for making you priest are ended; for this will be the work of seven days. 8:34What has been done this day, has been ordered by the Lord to take away your sin. 8:35And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders. 8:36And Aaron and his sons did all the things about which the Lord had given orders through Moses.

9:1And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel; 9:2And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord. 9:3And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering; 9:4And an ox and a male sheep for peace-offerings, to be put to death before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for this day you are to see the Lord. 9:5And they took the things ordered by Moses, before the Tent of meeting, and all the people came near, waiting before the Lord. 9:6And Moses said, This is what the Lord has said you are to do; and you will see the glory of the Lord. 9:7And Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and make your sin-offering and your burned offering to take away your sin and the sin of the people, and make the people's offering to take away their sin; as the Lord has given orders. 9:8So Aaron came near to the altar and put to death the ox for the sin-offering for himself; 9:9And the sons of Aaron gave him the blood and he put his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; 9:10But the fat and the kidneys and the fat on the liver of the sin-offering were burned by him on the altar as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 9:11And the flesh and the skin were burned with fire outside the tent-circle; 9:12And he put to death the burned offering; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar; 9:13And they gave him the parts of the burned offering, in their order, and the head, to be burned on the altar. 9:14And the inside parts and the legs, when they had been washed with water, were burned on the burned offering on the altar. 9:15And he made an offering for the people and took the goat of the sin-offering for the people and put it to death, offering it for sin, in the same way as the first. 9:16And he took the burned offering, offering it in the ordered way; 9:17And he put the meal offering before the Lord, and taking some of it in his hand he had it burned on the altar, separately from the burned offering of the morning. 9:18And he put to death the ox and the sheep, which were the peace-offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar; 9:19And as for the fat of the ox and the fat tail of the sheep and the fat covering the inside parts and the kidneys and the fat on the liver; 9:20They put the fat on the breasts, and the fat was burned on the altar. 9:21And Aaron took the breasts and the right leg, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses gave orders. 9:22And Aaron, lifting up his hands to the people, gave them a blessing; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burned offering, and the peace-offerings. 9:23And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of meeting, and came out and gave the people a blessing, and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people. 9:24And fire came out from before the Lord, burning up the offering on the altar and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they gave a loud cry, falling down on their faces.

10:1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. 10:2And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord. 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing. 10:4And Moses sent for Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the brother of Aaron's father, and said to them, Come near and take your brothers away from before the holy place, outside the tent-circle. 10:5So they came and took them, in their coats, outside the tent-circle, as Moses had said. 10:6And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire. 10:7And do not go out from the door of the Tent of meeting, or death will come to you; for the holy oil of the Lord is on you. And they did as Moses said. 10:8And the Lord said to Aaron: 10:9Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations. 10:10And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 10:11Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses. 10:12And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy. 10:13It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered. 10:14And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel. 10:15Let them take the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, with the fat of the burned offering, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord; and this will be for you and for your sons with you, for a right for ever, as the Lord has given orders. 10:16And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying, 10:17Why did you not make a meal of the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is most holy and he has given it to you, so that the sin of the people may be put on it, to take away their sin before the Lord. 10:18See, its blood was not taken into the holy place: certainly it was right for you to have taken it as food in the holy place, as I gave orders. 10:19And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord? 10:20And after hearing this, Moses was no longer angry.