The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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:
2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
3 Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
4 Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.
5 And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were
seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
6 After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that
generation,
7 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into
multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the
land.
8 In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that
knew not Joseph:
9 And he said to his people: Behold the people of the
children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
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.
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.
12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they were
multiplied, and increased:
13 And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and
afflicted them and mocked them:
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.
15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the
Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
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.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of
Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
18 And the king called for them and said: What is that you
meant to do, that you would save the men children ?
19 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian
women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of
a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 2
1 After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took
a wife of his own kindred.
2 And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly
child hid him three months.
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,
4 His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would
be done.
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,
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.
7 And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to
thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe ?
8 She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
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.
10 And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses,
saying: Because I took him out of the water.
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.
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.
13 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarreling:
and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou
thy neighbour?
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 ?
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.
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.
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses
arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.
18 And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to
them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?
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.
20 But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go?
call him that he may eat bread.
21 And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took
Sephora his daughter to wife:
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.
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.
24 And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant
which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he
knew them.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 And Moses said: I will go and see this great sight, why
the bush is not burnt.
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.
5 And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from
thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy
ground.
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.
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:
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.
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.
10 But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst
bring forth my people, the children of Israel out of
Egypt.
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?
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.
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 should say to me: What is his name?
what shall I say to them?
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.
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.
16 Go, 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.
17 And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the
affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, the
Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and
Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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.
19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but
by a mighty hand.
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.
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:
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy
hand? He answered: A rod.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
12 Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach
thee what thou shalt speak.
13 But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt
send.
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.
15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be
in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you
must do.
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.
17 And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the
signs.
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.
19 And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into
Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.
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.
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.
22 And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is
my son, my firstborn.
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.
24 And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met
him, and would have killed him.
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.
26 And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art
thou to me, because of the circumcision.
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.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which
he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.
29 And they came together, and they assembled all the
ancients of the children of Israel.
30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to
Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people,
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
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.
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 And Pharao said: The people of the land is numerous: you
see that the multitude is increased: how much more if you
give them rest from their works?
6 Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the
works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:
7 You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick,
as before: but let them go and gather straw.
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.
9 Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill
them: that they may not regard lying words.
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:
11 Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any
thing of your work be diminished.
12 And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt
to gather straw.
13 And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying:
Fulfill your work every day as before you were wont to do
when straw was given you.
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?
15 And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried
out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy
servants?
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.
17 And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us
go and sacrifice to the Lord.
18 Go therefore, and work: straw shall not be given you, and
you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.
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.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them
as they came out from Pharao:
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.
22 And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast
thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord,
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.
4 And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of
Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were
strangers.
5 I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have
remembered my covenant.
6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: 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.
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.
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.
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.
10 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying
11 Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
12 Moses answered before the Lord Behold the children of
Israel do no hearken to me; and how will Pharao hear me,
especially as I am of uncircumcised lips?
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.
14 These are the heads of their house by their families. The
sons of Rubel the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu,
Hesron and Charmi.
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.
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.
17 The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their kindreds.
18 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and EIebron, and
Oziel. And the years of Caath's life were a hundred and
thirty-three.
19 The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the
kindreds of Levi by their families.
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.
21 The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and Zechri.
22 The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and Sethri.
23 And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab,
sister of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and
Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph.
These are the kindreds of the Corites.
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.
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.
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,
28 In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of
Egypt.
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.
30 And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised
lips, how will Pharao hear me?
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs
and wonders in the land of Egypt,
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.
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.
6 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: so did
they.
7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three,
when they spoke to Pharao.
8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
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.
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.
11 And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians: and they
also by Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets did in
like manner.
12 And they every one cast down their rods, and they were
turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.
13 And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to
them, as the Lord had commanded.
14 And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened, he
will not let the people go.
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.
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.
17 Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know
that I am the Lord: behold I will strike with the rods
that is in my hand, the water of the river, and it shall
be turned into blood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
23 And he turned himself away and went into his house,
neither did he set his heart to it this time also.
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.
25 And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord
struck the river.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 But if thou wilt not let them go behold I will strike all
thy coasts with frogs.
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 in the houses of thy
servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into
the remains of thy meats;
4 And the frogs shall come in to thee and to thy people, and
to all thy servants.
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.
6 And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of
Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of
Egypt.
7 And the magicians also by their enchantments did in like
manner, and the brought forth frogs upon all the land of
Egypt
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.
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.
10 And he answered: Tomorrow. But he said: I will do
according to thy word; that thou mayst know that there is
none like to the Lord our God.
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.
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.
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:
14 And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and
the land was corrupted.
15 And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own
heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.
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.
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.
18 And the magicians with their enchantments practiced in
like manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not:
and there were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts.
19 And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of
God. And Pharao heart was hardened, and he hearkened not
unto them, as the Lord had commanded.
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.
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.
22 And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is,
wonderful in that lay, so that flies shall not be there:
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the
earth.
23 And I will put a division between my people and thy
people: tomorrow shall this sign be.
24 And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm
of flies into he houses of Pharao and of his servants, and
into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by
this kind of flies.
25 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go,
and sacrifice to your God in this land.
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.
27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness: and we
will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded
us.
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.
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 tomorrow: but do not
deceive any more, in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to the Lord.
30 So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.
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.
32 And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this time
would he let the people go.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
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.
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.
5 And the Lord appointed a time, saying: Tomorrow will the
Lord do this thing in the land.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
11 Neither could the magicians stand before Moses for the
boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.
12 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not
unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
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.
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 there is none like me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy
people with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the
earth.
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.
17 Dost thou yet hold back my people: and wilt thou not let
them go?
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.
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.
20 He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's
servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into
houses:
21 But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his
servants and his cattle in the fields:
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.
23 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the
Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning running along
the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of
Egypt.
24 And the hail and fire mixed 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.
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.
26 Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel
were, the hail fell not.
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.
28 Pray ye to the Lord, that the thunderings of God and the
hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that you may
stay here no longer.
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.
30 But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear
the Lord God.
31 The flax therefore and the barley were hurt, because the
barley was green, and the flax was now boiled:
32 But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt,
because they were lateward.
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.
34 And Pharao seeing that the rain and the hail, and the
thunders were ceased, increased his sin.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 And thou mayest tell in the ears of thy sons, and of they
grandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and
wrought my signs amongst them: and you may know that I am
the Lord:
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.
4 But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I
will bring in to morrow the locust into thy coasts:
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.
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.
7 And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we
endure this scandal? let the men go to sacrifice to the
Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone?
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?
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 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?
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.
12 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon
the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it may come upon
it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail.
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:
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.
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.
16 Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said
to them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and
against you.
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.
18 And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed
to the Lord.
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.
20 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let
the children of Israel go.
21 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out they hand towards
heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt,
so thick that it may be felt.
22 And Moses stretch forth his hand towards heaven: and there
came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three
days.
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.
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.
25 Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt
offerings, to the Lord our God.
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.
27 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he would not let
them go.
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.
29 Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will
not see thy face any more.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
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.
4 And he said: Thus said the Lord: At midnight I will enter
into Egypt.
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 first born of the handmaid that is at
the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt,
such as neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.
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.
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.
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.
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 Book of Exodus, Chapter 12
1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it
shall be the first in the months of the year.
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.
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.
5 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one
year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
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.
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.
8 And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the
fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.
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.
10 Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning.
If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your
habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
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.
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.
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.
24 Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy
children for ever.
25 And when you have entered into the land which the Lord
will give you as he hath promised, you shall observe these
ceremonies.
26 And when your children shall say to you: What is the
meaning of this service?
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.
28 And the children of Israel going forth did as the Lord had
commanded Moses and Aaron.
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.
30 And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and
all Egypt: for there was not a house wherein there lay not
one dead.
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.
32 Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded,
and departing, bless me.
33 And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of
the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.
34 The people therefore took dough before it was leavened:
and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.
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.
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.
37 And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to
Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot,
beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude without number went up also with
them, sheep and herds and beasts of divers kinds,
exceeding many.
39 And they baked the meal, which a little before they had
brought out of Egypt, in dough: and they made earth 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.
40 And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in
Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord
went forth out of the land of Egypt.
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.
43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service
of the Phase: No foreigner shall eat of it.
44 But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so
shall eat.
45 The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.
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.
47 All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.
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.
49 The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and
to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.
50 And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had
commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 13
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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.
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.
4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn.
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.
6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the
seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord.
7 Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not
be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy
coasts.
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.
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.
10 Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days
to days.
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:
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 And marching from Socoth they encamped in Etham in the
utmost coasts of the wilderness.
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.
22 There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the
pillar of fire by night, before the people.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 14
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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.
3 And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are
straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.
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.
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?
6 So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with
him.
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots that were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole
army.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your
peace.
15 And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak
to the children of Israel to go forward.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
23 And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all
Pharao's horses, his chariots and horsemen through the
midst of the sea,
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.
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.
26 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth they hand over
the sea, that the waters may come again upon the
Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen.
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.
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.
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:
30 And the Lord delivered Israel on that day out of the hands
of the Egyptians.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.
4 Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea:
his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.
5 The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom
like a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy
right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.
7 And in the multitude of they glory thou hast put down thy
adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured
them like stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered
together: the flowing water stood, the depth were gathered
together in the midst of the sea.
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.
10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead
in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like
to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praiseworthy,
doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed
them.
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.
14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the
inhabitants of Philisthiim.
15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized
on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan
became stiff.
16 Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy
arm: let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy
people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by,
which thou hast possessed.
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.
18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall
we drink?
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,
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.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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 flesh pots, and ate bread to the
full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you
might destroy all the multitude with famine?
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.
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.
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:
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?
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.
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.
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.
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
17 And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one
more, another less.
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.
19 And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the
morning.
20 And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until
the morning, and it began to be full of worms, an it
putrefied, and Moses was angry with them.
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.
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.
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.
24 And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not
putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.
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.
26 Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath
of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
27 And the seventh day came: and some of the people going
forth to gather, found none.
28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to
keep my commandments, and my law?
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.
30 And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
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.
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.
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,
34 As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the
tabernacle to be kept.
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.
36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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?
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?
4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to
this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5 And the Lord said to Moses: God 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.
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:
7 And he called the name of that place Temptation, because
the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they
tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
8 And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.
9 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men: and go out and
fight against Amalec: to morrow I will stand on the top of
the hill having the rod of God in my hand.
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.
11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but
if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.
12 And Moses' 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.
13 And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge
of the sword.
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.
15 And Moses built an altar: and called the name thereof, The
Lord my exaltation, saying:
16 Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of
the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to
generation.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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,
2 He took Sephora the wife of Moses whom he had sent back:
3 And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam, his
father saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign
country.
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.
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.
6 And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro thy kinsman
come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.
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,
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.
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.
10 And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered you
out of the hand of Pharao, and out of the hand of the
Egyptians, who hath delivered his people out of the hand
of Egypt.
11 Now I know that the Lord is great above all gods: because
they dealt proudly against them.
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 them before God.
13 And the next day Moses sat, to judge the people, who stood
by Moses from morning until night.
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.
15 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the
judgment of God.
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.
17 But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.
18 Thou are 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
24 And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had
suggested unto him.
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.
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.
27 And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went
into his own country.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
6 And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy
nation. Those are the words thou shalt speak to the
children of Israel.
7 Moses came, and calling together the elders of the people,
he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.
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,
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.
10 And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to
day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.
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.
12 And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round
about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up
into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof:
every one that toucheth the mount dying he shall die.
13 No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death,
or 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.
14 And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and
sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,
15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come
not near your wives.
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.
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.
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 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.
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,
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.
22 The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be
sanctified, lest he strike them.
23 And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to
mount Sinai: for thou did charge, and command, saying: Set
limits about the mount, and sanctify it.
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.
25 And Moses went down to the people and told them all.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 20
1 And the Lord spoke all these words:
2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
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.
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:
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
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.
8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
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.
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.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be
longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give
thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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.
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,
19 Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let
not the Lord speak to us, lest we die.
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.
21 And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark
cloud wherein God was.
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.
23 You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to
yourselves gods of gold.
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.
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.
26 Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy
nakedness be discovered.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 21
1 These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve
thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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.
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.
5 And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife
and children, I will not go out free:
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.
7 If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall
not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
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.
9 But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal
with her after the manner of daughters.
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.
11 If he do not these three things, she shall go out free
without money.
12 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be
put to death.
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.
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.
15 He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to
death.
16 He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted
of guilt, shall be put to death.
17 He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the
death.
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:
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.
20 He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and
they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.
21 But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not
be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.
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.
23 But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for
life.
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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.
27 Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or
maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.
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.
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, an his owner also shall be put to
death.
30 And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his
life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under
the like sentence.
32 If he assault a bondman or a bond woman, he shall give
thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall
be stoned.
33 If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an
ox or an ass fall into it,
34 The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts:
and that which is dead shall be his own.
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:
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
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.
4 If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either
ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.
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.
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.
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:
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,
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.
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:
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.
12 But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the
loss good to the owner.
13 If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that
which was slain, and he shall not make restitution.
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.
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.
16 If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with
her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.
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.
18 Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.
19 Whosoever copulateth with a beast shall be put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save
only to the Lord.
21 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for
yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22 You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.
23 If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear
their cry:
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.
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.
26 If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou
shalt give it him again before sunset.
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.
28 Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of
thy people thou shalt not curse.
29 Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy
firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to
me.
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.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.
4 If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it
back to him.
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.
6 Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.
7 Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou
shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
8 Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise,
and pervert the words of the just.
9 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts
of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of
Egypt.
10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the
corn thereof.
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.
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.
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.
14 Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.
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.
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.
17 Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord
thy God.
18 Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon
leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until
the morning.
19 Thou shalt carry the firstfruits 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.
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.
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.
22 But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak,
I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them
that afflict thee.
23 And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in
unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite,
and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom
I will destroy.
24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou
shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and
break their statues.
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.
26 There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land:
I will fill the number of thy days.
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.
28 Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the
Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou
come in.
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.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before
thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.
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.
32 Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their
gods.
33 Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps thy make thee
sin against me, if thou serve their god: which undoubtedly
will be a scandal to thee.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall
not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.
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.
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.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they
offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of
calves to the Lord.
6 Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls:
and the rest he poured upon the altar.
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.
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.
9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the
ancients of Israel went up:
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.
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.
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 mayst teach them.
13 Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up
into the mount of God,
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.
15 And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.
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.
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.
18 And Moses, entering into the midst of the cloud, went up
into the mountain: and he was there forty days, and forty
nights.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 25
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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.
3 And these are the things you must take: gold, and silver,
and brass,
4 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen,
and goats' hair,
5 And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim
wood:
6 Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for
sweetsmelling incense:
7 Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and
the rational.
8 And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in
the midst of them:
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:
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.
11 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold within and
without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round
about:
12 And four golden rings, which thou shall put at the four
corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and
two on the other.
13 Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay
them with gold.
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.
15 And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they
at any time be drawn out of them.
16 And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will
give thee.
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.
18 Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the
two sides of the oracle.
19 Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the
other.
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 be covered.
21 In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give
thee.
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.
23 Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits
in length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and half in
height.
24 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou
shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.
25 And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches
high: and over the same another little golden crown.
26 Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put
them in the four corners of the same table over each foot.
27 Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars
may be put through them, and the table may be carried.
28 The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood,
and shalt overlay them with gold to bear up the table.
29 Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and
cups, wherein the libations are to be offered of the
purest gold.
30 And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in
my sight always.
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.
32 Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of the
one side, and three out of the other.
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:
34 And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the
manner of a nut, and at every one, bowls and lilies.
35 Bowls under two branches in three places, which together
make six coming forth out of one shaft.
36 And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same
beaten work of the purest gold.
37 Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon
the candlestick, to give light over against.
38 The snuffers also and where the snuffings shall be put
out, shall be made of the purest gold.
39 The whole weight of the candlestick with all the furniture
thereof shall be a talent of the purest gold.
40 Look and make it according to the pattern, that was shewn
thee in the mount.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the
other five shall be coupled together in like manner.
4 Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of
the curtains, that they may be joined one to another.
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.
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.
7 Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to
cover the top of the tabernacle.
8 The length of one hair curtain shall be thirty cubits: and
the breadth four: the measure of all the curtains shall be
equal.
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.
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.
11 Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the
loops may be joined, that of all there may be made one
covering.
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.
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.
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.
15 Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing
upright of setim wood.
16 Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in
breadth on cubit and a half.
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.
18 Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.
19 For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that
under every board may be put two sockets at the two
corners.
20 In the second side also the tabernacle that looketh to the
north, there shall be twenty boards,
21 Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put
under each board.
22 But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six
boards.
23 And again other two which shall be erected in the corners
at the back of the tabernacle.
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.
25 And they shall be in all eight boards, and their silver
sockets sixteen, reckoning two sockets for each board.
26 Thou shalt make also five bars of setim wood, to hold
together the boards on one side of the tabernacle.
27 And five others on the other side, and as many at the west
side:
28 And they shall be put along by the midst of the boards
from one end to the other.
29 The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold,
and shall cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for
places for the bars to hold together boardwork: which bars
thou shalt cover with plates of gold.
30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the
pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.
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:
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.
33 And the veils shall be hanged on with rings, and within it
thou shalt put the ark of the testimony, and the
sanctuary, and the holy of holies shall be divided with
it.
34 And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the
testimony in the holy of holies.
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.
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.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 27
1 Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall
be five cubits long and as many broad, that is,
foursquare, and three cubits high.
2 And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same:
and thou shalt cover it with brass.
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.
4 And a grate of brass in manner of a net: at the four
corners of which shall be four rings of brass,
5 Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and
the grate shall be even to the midst of the altar.
6 Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar of setim wood,
which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:
7 And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be
on both sides of the altar to carry it.
8 Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the
inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.
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.
10 And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the
heads of which with their engraving of silver.
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.
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.
13 In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the
east, there shall be fifty cubits.
14 In which there shall be for one side hangings of fifteen
cubits, and three pillars and as many sockets.
15 And in the other side there shall be hangings of fifteen
cubits, with three pillars and as many sockets.
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.
17 All the pillars of the court round about shall be
garnished with plates of silver, silver heads and sockets
of brass.
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.
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.
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,
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron thy brother
for glory and for beauty.
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.
4 And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A
rational and an ephod, a tunick 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.
5 And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and
scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen.
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.
7 It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both
sides, that they may be closed together.
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.
9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on
them the names of the children of Israel:
10 Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other,
according to the order of their birth.
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:
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.
13 Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.
14 And two little chains of the purest gold linked one to
another, which thou shalt put into the hooks.
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.
16 It shall be foursquare and doubled: it shall be the
measure of a span both in length and in breadth.
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:
18 In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire and a jasper.
19 In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:
20 In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They
shall be set in gold by their rows.
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.
22 And thou shalt make on the rational chains linked one to
another of the purest gold:
23 And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two
ends at the top of the rational.
24 And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that
are in the ends thereof:
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.
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.
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 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.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel
in the rational of judgement upon his breast, when he
shall enter into the sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord
for ever.
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.
31 And thou shalt make the tunick of the ephod all of violet,
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.
33 And beneath at the feet of the same tunick round about,
thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and
purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set
between:
34 So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate,
and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.
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.
36 Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein
thou shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.
37 And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall
be upon the mitre,
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.
39 And thou shalt gird the tunick with fine linen, and thou
shalt make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered
work.
40 Moreover for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen
tunicks, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty:
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.
42 Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of
their nakedness from the reins to the thighs:
43 And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go
in to the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they
approach 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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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,
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.
3 And thou shalt put them in a basket and offer them: and
the calf and the two rams.
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,
5 Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with
the linen garment and the tunick, and the ephod and the
rational, which thou shalt gird with the girdle.
6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy
plate upon the mitre,
7 And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and
by this rite shall he be consecrated.
8 Thou shalt bring his sons also and shalt put on them the
linen tunicks, and gird them with a girdle:
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,
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,
11 And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside
the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
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.
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 burnt
offering upon the altar:
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.
15 Thou shalt take also one ram upon the head whereof Aaron
and his sons shall lay their hands.
16 And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the
blood thereof, and pour round about the altar:
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.
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.
19 Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron
and his sons shall lay their hands.
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.
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,
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.
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.
24 And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his
sons, and shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord.
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.
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.
27 And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and
the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,
28 Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they
shall fall to Aarons 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 And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons
shall have after him, that they may be anointed, and their
hands consecrated to it.
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.
31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt
boil the flesh thereof in the holy place:
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,
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.
34 And if there remain of the consecrated flash, or of the
bread till the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with
fire: they shall not be eaten, because they are
sanctified.
35 All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron
and his sons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their
hands:
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.
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.
38 This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two
lambs of a year old every day continually.
39 One lamb in the morning and another in the evening.
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.
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:
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.
43 And there will I command the children of Israel, and the
altar shall be sanctified by my glory.
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.
45 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel,
and will be their God:
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 30
1 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim
wood.
2 It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth,
that is, foursquare, and two in height. Horns shall go out
of the same.
3 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well as
the grate thereof, as the walls round about and the horns.
And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
4 And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that
the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
5 And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt
overlay them with gold.
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.
7 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the
morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
8 And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn
an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your
generations.
9 You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition
nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer
libations.
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.
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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.
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.
14 He that is counted in the number from twenty years and
upwards, shall give the price.
15 The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor
man shall diminish nothing.
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.
17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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,
19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:
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,
21 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to
him, and to his seed by successions.
22 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
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.
24 And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the
sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:
25 And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment
compounded after the art of the perfumer,
26 And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the
testimony, and the ark of the testament,
27 And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick
and furniture thereof, the altars of incense,
28 And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to
the service of them.
29 And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy:
he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.
30 Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify
them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
31 And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of
unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.
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.
33 What man soever shall compound such, and shall give
thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his
people.
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.
35 And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the
perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most
worthy of sanctification.
36 And when thou has 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 to you.
37 You shall not make such a composition for your own uses,
because it is holy to the Lord.
38 What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell
thereof, he shall perish out of his people.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 31
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the
son of Hur of the tribe of Juda,
3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom
and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work.
4 To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and
silver, and brass,
5 Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.
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,
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,
8 And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure
candlestick with the vessels thereof, and the altars of
incense,
9 And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with
its foot,
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:
11 The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the
sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall
they make.
12 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
13 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to
them: See that thou 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.
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
my work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of
his people.
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.
16 Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate
it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant
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.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the
earrings to Aaron.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 And again the Lord said to Moses: See that this people is
stiffnecked:
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.
11 But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord,
is thy indignation kindled against thy people, whom thou
hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power,
and with a mighty hand?
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.
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 you seed, and you shall
possess it for ever.
14 And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had
spoken against his people.
15 And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables
of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,
16 And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was
graven in the tables.
17 And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said
to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.
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.
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:
20 And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt
it, and beat it to powder, which he strowed into water,
and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.
21 And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee,
that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?
22 And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou
knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.
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.
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.
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,)
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou
hast written.
33 And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me,
him will I strike out of my book:
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.
35 The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt on
occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 33
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: God, get thee up from
this place, thou and thy people which thou has 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.
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.
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.
4 And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned:
and no man put on his ornaments according to custom.
5 And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel:
Thou are 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 with thee.
6 So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by
mount Horeb.
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.
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.
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.
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 tents.
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.
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.
13 If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, show me thy
face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy
eyes: look upon thy people this nation.
14 And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I
will give thee rest.
15 And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring
us not out of this place.
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?
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.
18 And he said: Shew me thy glory.
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.
20 And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man
shall not see me and live.
21 And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and
thou shalt stand upon the rock.
22 And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of
the rock, and protect thee with my right hand, till I
pass:
23 And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back
parts: but my face thou canst not see.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
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.
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.
5 And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood
with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.
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,
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.
8 And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the
earth, and adoring,
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.
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 nation: that this people, in the midst
of whom thou art, may see the terrible work of the Lord
which I will do.
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.
12 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants
of that land, which may be thy ruin:
13 But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut
down their groves:
14 Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is Jealous,
he is a jealous God.
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.
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.
17 Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.
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 springtime thou camest out from Egypt.
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.
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.
21 Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease
to plough, and to reap.
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.
23 Three times in a year all thy males shall appear in the
sight of the Almighty Lord the God of Israel.
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.
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 Lord.
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.
27 And the Lord said to Moses: Write these words by which I
have made a covenant both with thee and with Israel.
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.
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.
30 And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of
Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
31 And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the
rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to
them.
32 And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave
them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord in
mount Sinai.
33 And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.
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.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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.
3 You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the
sabbath day.
4 And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of
Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:
5 Set aside with you firstfuits to the Lord. Let every one
that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the
Lord: gold, and silver, and brass,
6 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen,
goats' hair,
7 And rams' skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim
wood,
8 And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most
sweet incense.
9 Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the
ephod and the rational.
10 Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that
which the Lord hath commanded:
11 To wit, the tabernacle and the roof thereof, and the
cover, the rings, and the board work with the oars, the
pillars, and the sockets:
12 The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil
that is drawn before it:
13 The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of
proposition:
14 The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof
and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:
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:
16 The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the
bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:
17 The curtains of the court with the pillars and the
sockets, the hanging in the doors of the entry,
18 The pins of the tabernacle and of the court with their
little cords:
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.
20 And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out
from the presence of Moses,
21 Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and
devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the
testimony. Whatsoever was necessary to the service, and to
the holy vestments,
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.
23 If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed,
fine linen and goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and
violet coloured skins,
24 Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord,
and setim wood for divers uses.
25 The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun,
violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
26 And goats' hair, giving all of their own accord.
27 But the princes offered onyx stone, and precious stones,
for the ephod and the rational,
28 And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing
of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.
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.
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.
31 And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom
and understanding and knowledge and all learning.
32 To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,
33 And in engraving stones, and in carpenters' work.
Whatsoever can be devised artificially,
34 He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also the son of
Achisamech of the tribe of Dan:
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
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,
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.
4 Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,
5 Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.
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,
7 Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were
too much.
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:
9 The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the
breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.
10 And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other
five he coupled one to another.
11 He made also loops of violet in the edge of the curtain on
both sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like
manner,
12 That the loops might meet on against another, and might be
joined each with the other.
13 Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might
catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made
one tabernacle.
14 He made also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the
roof of the tabernacle:
15 One curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits broad:
all the curtains were of one measure.
16 Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.
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.
18 And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be
knit together, that of all the curtains there might be
made one covering.
19 He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins
dyed red: and another cover over that of violet skins.
20 He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood
standing.
21 The length of one board was ten cubits: and the breadth
was one cubit and a half.
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.
23 Of which twenty were at the south side southward,
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.
25 At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh toward
the north, he made twenty boards.
26 With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.
27 But against the west, to wit, at that side of the
tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,
28 And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:
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:
30 So there were in all eight boards and they had sixteen
sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.
31 He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the
boards of one side of the tabernacle,
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.
33 He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of
the boards from corner to corner.
34 And the board works 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.
35 He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet, and
fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with
embroidery:
36 And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads be
overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.
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.
38 And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with
gold, and their sockets he cast of brass.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 And he made to it a crown of gold round about,
3 Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof:
two rings in one side, and two in the other.
4 And he made bars of setim wood, which he overlaid with
gold,
5 And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of
the ark to carry it.
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.
7 Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two
sides of the propitiatory:
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,
9 Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and
looking one towards the other, and towards it.
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.
11 And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it
a golden ledge round about.
12 And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold,
of four fingers' breadth, and upon the same another golden
crown.
13 And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four
corners at each foot of the table,
14 Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them,
that the table might be carried.
15 And the bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and
overlaid them with gold,
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.
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:
18 Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and
three on the other.
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.
20 And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of
a nut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:
21 And bowls under two branches in three places, which
together make six branches going out from one shaft.
22 So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all
beaten work of the purest gold.
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.
24 The candlestick with all the vessels thereof weighed a
talent of gold.
25 He made also the altar 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.
26 And he overlaid it with the purest gold, with its grate
and the sides, and the horns.
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.
28 And the bars themselves he made also of setim wood, and
overlaid them with plates of gold.
29 He compounded also the oil for the ointment of
sanctification, and incense of the purest spices,
according to the work of a perfumer.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 38
1 He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five
cubits square, and three in height:
2 The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he
overlaid it with plates of brass.
3 And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of
brass, cauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks, and
firepans.
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,
5 Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top,
to put in bars to carry it.
6 And he made the bars of setim wood, and overlaid them with
plates of brass:
7 And he drew them through the rings that stood out in the
sides of the altar. And the altar itself was not solid,
but hollow, of boards, and empty within.
8 He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of
the mirrors of the women that watch at the door of the
tabernacle.
9 He made also the court, in the south side whereof were
hangings of fine twisted linen, of a hundred cubits,
10 Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets, the heads of
the pillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver.
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.
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.
13 Moreover towards the east he prepared hangings of fifty
cubits:
14 Fifteen cubits of which were on one side with three
pillars, and their sockets:
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.
16 All the hangings of the court were woven with twisted
linen.
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.
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
measure of all the hangings of the court.
19 And the pillars in the entry were four with sockets of
brass, and their heads and gravings of silver.
20 The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round
about he made of brass.
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:
22 Which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe
of Juda had made as the Lord commanded by Moses,
23 Having for his companion Ooliab the son of Achisamech of
the tribe of Dan: who also was an excellent artificer in
wood, and worker in tapestry and embroidery in violet,
purple, scarlet, and fine linen.
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.
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.
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.
27 A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one
talent being reckoned for every socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made
the heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with
silver.
29 And there were offered of brass also seventy-two thousand
talents, and four hundred sicles besides.
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 all the vessels that belong to the
use thereof.
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.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 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.
2 So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and
scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.
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 aforesaid colours,
4 And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on
either side,
5 And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
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:
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.
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,
9 Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.
10 And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the
first row was a sardius, a topaz, and emerald.
11 In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
12 In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.
13 In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and
enclosed in gold by their rows.
14 And the twelve stones were engraved with the names of the
twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.
15 They made also in the rational little chains linked one to
another of the purest gold,
16 And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the
rings on either side of the rational,
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.
18 These both before and behind so answered one another, that
the ephod and the rational were bound together,
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.
20 They made also the tunick of the ephod all of violet,
21 And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle,
and a woven border round about the hole:
22 And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple,
scarlet, and fine twisted linen:
23 And little bells of the purest gold, which they put
between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunick round
about:
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.
25 They made also fine linen tunicks with woven work for
Aaron and his sons:
26 And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:
27 And linen breeches of fine linen:
28 And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and
scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
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:
30 And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as
the Lord had commanded Moses.
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.
32 And they offered the tabernacle and the roof and the whole
furniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars,
and their sockets,
33 The cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the other cover of
violet skins,
34 The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,
35 The table, with the vessels thereof, and the loaves of
proposition:
36 The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them with
the oil:
37 The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of
spices:
38 And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:
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:
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.
41 The vestments also, which the priests, to wit, Aaron and
his sons, used in the sanctuary,
42 The children of Israel offered as the Lord had commanded.
43 And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them.
The Book of Exodus, Chapter 40
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt
set up the tabernacle of the testimony,
3 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil
before it:
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,
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,
6 And before it the altar of holocaust:
7 The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou
shalt fill it with water.
8 And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the
entry thereof.
9 And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the
tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified:
10 The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:
11 The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with
the oil of unction, that they may be most holy.
12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the
tabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with
water,
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.
14 And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.
15 So in the first month of the second year, the first day of
the month, the tabernacle was set up.
16 And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the
sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars,
17 And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it
a cover, as the Lord had commanded.
18 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars
underneath, and the oracle above.
19 And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he
drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the
Lord.
20 And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony at
the north side without the veil,
21 Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
22 He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the
testimony over against the table on the south side,
23 Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of
the Lord.
24 He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the
testimony over against the veil,
25 And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
26 And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle
of the testimony,
27 And the altar of holocaust of the entry of the testimony,
offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the
Lord had commanded.
28 And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the
testimony and the altar, filling it with water.
29 And Moses and Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and
feet,
30 When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and
went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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,
32 The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the
glory of the Lord filled it.
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.
34 If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the
children of Israel went forward by their troops:
35 If it hung over, they remained in the same place.
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.
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