athict 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. 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 olive yard. 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 hand-maid 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 ce 26 If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sun-set. 27 For that same is the only thing where-lebrate feasts to me. with 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 first-fruits: $ thou shalt give the first-born of thy sons 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 first fruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end 30 Thou shalt do the same with the first-of the year, when thou hast gathered in all born of thy oxen also and sheep: seven days thy corn out of the field. 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. CHAP. XXIII. Laws for judges; the rest of the seventh year, and day: three principal feasts to be solemnized every year: the promise of an angel, to conduct and protect them: idols are to be destroyed. 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 first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. ‡‡‡ Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam. 20 Behold I will send my Angel, who THOU HOU shalt not receive the voice of a lie:shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear journey, and bring thee into the place that I false witness for a wicked person. have prepared. 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: 1 for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. Zac. 7. 10.-+ Deut. 24. 13.- Acts, 23. 5.Supra, 13. 2. and 12. Infra, 34. 19. Ezeck. 44. 30. Lev. 22. 8.- Deut. 22. 1.-** Dan. 13. 53.Deut. 16. 19. Eccli. 20. 31.-‡‡ Gen. 46. 6.3 Levit, 25, 4.- Supra, 13. 3. and 4. Infra, 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 Jebuzite, 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 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and destroy all the people to whom thou shalt under his feet as it were a work of sapphire come: and will turn the backs of all thy stone, and as the heaven, when clear. enemies before thee. 11 Neither did he lay his hand upon those 28 Sending out hornets before, that of the children of Israel, that retired afar shall drive away the Hevite, and the Cha-off, and they saw God, and they did eat and naanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in. drink. 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 they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee. CHAP. XXIV. : Moses writeth his law; and after offering sacrifices, sprinkleth the blood of the testament upon the people then goeth up the mountain which God covereth with a fiery cloud. 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 AND he said to Moses: Come up to the he was there forty days, and forty nights. 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. 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. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up: * Deat. 7. 20.—† Infra, 34. 15. Deut. 7. 2.- Heb. CHAP. XXIV. Ver. 4. Titles. That is, pillars. Ter. 5. Holocausts, whole burnt offerings: in which the whole sacrifice was consumed with fire up the altar. CHAP. XXV. Offerings prescribed for making the tabernacle, the ark, the candlestick, &c. ND the Lord spoke to Moses, sayAng: 2 Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring first-fruits 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 sweet-smelling 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 9. 20.- Deut. 9. 9.—|| Infra, 35. 5.—¶ Heb. 9. 2. Ver. 5. Setim-wood. The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which is said to be incorruptible. Ver. 7. The ephod and the rational. The ephod was the high priest's upper vestment; and the ru CHAP. XXV. Ver. 2. First-fruits: offerings, tional his breast-plate, in which were twelve gems, of some of the best and choicest of their goods. &c. purest gold within and without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about: 12 And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other. 13 Thou shalt make bars also of setimwood, 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. 30 And thou shalt set upon thy table loaves of proposition in my sight always. 81 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 16 And thou shalt put in the ark the testi-lily. Such shall be the work of the six mony 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, aud 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 a 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. Heb. 8. 5. Ver. 17. A propitiatory: a covering for the ark; called a propitiatory, or mercy-seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence shewed mercy. It is also called the oracle, ver. 18. and 20; because from thence God gave his orders and his answers. Ver. 23. A table: on which were to be placed the twelve loaves of proposition: or, as they are called in the Hebrew, the face bread, because they werel 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 shall 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. CHAP. XXVI. The form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances. 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 Acıs, 7. 44. always to stand before the face of the Lord in his temple: as a figure of the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, in the church of Christ. Ver. 29. Libutions. That is, drink-offerings Ver. 31. A candlestick. This candlestick, with its seven lamps, which was always to give light in the house of God, was a figure of the light of the Holy Ghost, and his sevenfold grace, in the sanctuary of the church of Christ. 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 one 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. 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 the board-work: 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 hang18 Of which twenty shall be in the southing shall be drawn: their heads shall be of side southward. gold, and the sockets of brass. 19 For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners. 20 Ir. 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 * Supra, 25. 40. CHAP. XXVII. The altar; and the court of the tabernacle with its hangings and pillars. Provision of oil for lamps. HOU shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long and as many broad, that is, four square, and three cubits high.t 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 flesh hooks, and fire-pans: 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 + Infra, 38. 6. CHAP. XXVI. Ver. 33 The sanctuary, &c. That within the veil, into which no one but the high priest part of the tabernacle, which was without the veil, ever went, and he but once a year, is called the holy into which the priests daily entered, is here called of holies, (literally, the sanctuary of the sanctuaries,) the sanctuary, or holy place; that part which was las being the most holy of all holy places. 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 shall be 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 bel 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. CHAP. XXVIII. The holy vestments for Aaron and his sons. TA 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. 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. 15 And thou shalt make the rational of 21 In the tabernacle of the testimony, judgment with embroidered work of divers without the veil that hangs before the testi-colours, according to the workmanship of the mony. And Aaron and his sons shall order ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarit, that it may give light before the Lord let twice dyed, and fine twisted linen. until the morning. It shall be a perpetual 16 It shall be four square and doubled: observance throughout their successions it shall be the measure of a span both in among the children of Israel. length and in breadth. Supra, 20. 24 CHAP. XXVIII. Ver. 15. The rational of judg-their tribes in his presence; and by the Urim and ment. This part of the priest's attire, which he wore Thummim, that is, "doctrine and truth, which were at his breast, was called the rational of judgment: written upon it; and partly because it gave divine partly, because it admonished both priest and people answers and oracles, as if it were rational and enf their duty to God, by carrying the names of all dowed with judgment. |