r ■ ■ <■ m . ; . V- '’ • V V, X y. / V • < ■/i V* ' 4 >, : \ .'•vl r' -'I I ■ ■'’•■ t THE HOLY BIBLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE ^ DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES Ube ©lb Testament FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH COLLEGE AT DOUAY", A.D. 1609 AND Ubc IRew Uestament FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH COLLEGE AT RHEIMS, A.D. 1582 WITH ANHOTATIOiVS, REFERENCES AND AN HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX THE WHOLE REVISED AND DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE LATIN VULGATE PUBLISHED BY THE APPROBATION OF THE MOST EEV. DK. DENVIK LATE BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, AND CHICAGO: BENZIGER BROTHERS Iprintevs to tbe flool? Bpostolic Sec DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARY CHESTNUT HILL, MASS, 18 o TO THIS EDITION OF THE DOUAY BIBLE after being carefully collated with the most approved versions in the English language, I feel happy in giving my sanction and approbation ^ C. DENVm GIVEN AT BELFAST this 18th day of March, 1846 ) 137961 I i i i f J The following Letter of his Holiness PIUS THE SIXTHy to the MostBev. ANTHONYMABTlNIy Archbishop of Florenccy on his translation of the Holy Bible into Italian^ shews the benefit which the faithful may reap from their having the Holy Scrip¬ tures in the Vulgar Tongue* POPE PIUS THE SIXTH. B eloved son, Health and Apostolical Benediction! At a time that a vast number of bad books, which grossly attack the Catholic religion, are circulated even among the unlearned, to the great destruction of souls, you judge exceedingly well, that the faithful should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures ; for these are the most abundant sources, which ought to be left open to every one, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, to eradicate the errors which are so widely dissemi¬ nated in those corrupt times : This you have seasonably effected, as you declare, by publishing the Sacred Writings in the language of your country, suitable to every one’s capacity ; especially when you shew and set forth, that you have added explanatory notes, which, being extracted from the Holy Fathers, preclude every possible danger of abuse. Thus you have not swerved either from the laws cf the Congregation of the Index, or from the Constitution published on this subject by BENEDICT XIV, that immortal Pope, our predecessor in the Pontificate, and formerly, when We held a place near his person, our excellent Master in ecclesi¬ astical learning;—circumstances which we mention as honourable to Us. We therefore applaud your eminent learning, joined with your extra¬ ordinary piety, and We return you our due acknowledgments for the books which you have transmitted to Us, and which, when convenient, We will read over. In the mean time, as a token of our Pontifical benevo¬ lence, receive our Apostohcal Benediction, which to you, beloved Son, We very affectionately impart. Given at Borne, on the Calends of April, 1778, the fourth year of our Pontificate. PHILIP BUONAMICl, at Turin. - } . . . Latin Secretary. (A Translation from the Latin Original.) To our beloved Son, Anthony Martini, PUBLISHEKS’ NOTICE. 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I N the beginning God created heaven, and earth. “ 2 * And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. 3 And God said: ®Be light made. And light was made. 4 And God saw the light that it was good ; and he divided the light from the darkness. 5 And he called the light Hay, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day. 6 And God said: Let there be a firma¬ ment made amidst the waters : and let it di¬ vide the waters from the waters. 7 And ^ God made a firmament, and di¬ vided the waters that were under the firma¬ ment, from those that were above the fir¬ mament, and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evenmg and morning were the se¬ cond day. 9 God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. 10 And God called the dry land,‘Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. A nd God saw that it was good. 11 And he said: Let the eai'th bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. 12 And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, hav¬ ing seed each one accordihg to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning w ere the third day. 14 And God said; Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15 To sliine in the firmament of heaven, a A. M. 1; Ante C. 4001.— 6 Acts, 14, 14. and 17, 24 ; Psalm, 32, 6, and 135, 5 ; Eccli, 18, 1 .— c Heb. U, 3.— d Psalm, 185,5,and 143,4; Jer. 10,12, and 51,15.—e Job _ 88, 4 ; Psalm, S2, 7. and 88,12, and 135,7. Chap. L Ver. 8 . A firmament. By this name is here understood the whole space between the earth, and the highest stars. The lower part of which divideth the waters that are upon the earth, from those that are above in the clouds. Ver. 16. Tuio great lights. God created on the first day, light, which being moved from east to west, by its. rising and setting, made morning and even¬ mg. -But on the fourth day he ordered and dis- triDutcd,this light, and made, the sun, moon, and stars. The moon, though much less than the stars, is here called a great light, from its giving a tar greater and to give light upon the earth. And it was so done. 16 And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars. 17 And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth. 18 And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and morning were the fourth day. 20 God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowd that may fly over the earth imder the firmament of heaven. 21 And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every wdnged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the bii’ds be multiplied upon the earth. 23 And the evening and morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was sc done. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thmg that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 And he said: ' Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have do¬ minion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. 27 And God created man to his own im¬ age : * to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.' 28 And God blessed them, saying: •^In¬ crease and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living crea¬ tures that move upon the earth. /Psalm, 135, 7.—g Infra, 6,1, and 9, 6 : 1 Cor. 11, 7 ! Col. 3, 10.—A Wis. 2, 23; Eccli. 17,1—I Matt. 19,4.—i Infra, 8, 17, and 9,1. light to the earth than any of them. Ver. 26. Let us make man to our image. This tmage of God in man, is not in the body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued ivith under¬ standing and free-will, God speaketh here in the plural number, to insinuate the pluiality of persons in the Deity. Ver. 28. Increase and multiply. This is not a pre¬ cept, as some protestant controvertists would have it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful; for God . had said the same words to the fishes, and birds, (ver. 1 22.) who were incapable of receiving a precept. 5 Chap. II. 29 And God said: Behold I have given jOii every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: * 30 And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, thnt they may have to feed upon. And it was so done. . 31 ‘ And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day. CHAP. II. God resfefh on the seventh day and blesseth it. The earthly paradise, in which God placeth man. lie commandeth him not to eat of the tree of knowledge. And formelh a woman of his rib. S O the heavens and the earth were finish¬ ed, and all the furniture of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work whiih he had made: “and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which lie had done. 3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctifiec. it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth: 5 And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God nad not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth. G But a spring rose out of the earth, wa¬ tering all the surface of the earth. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul." 8 And the Lord God had planted a par^ dise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed. 9 And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 Ana a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from ihence is divided into four heads. 11 ® The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevi- lath, where gold groweth. 12 And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Ti¬ gris: the same passeth along the Assy¬ rians. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15 And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, a nd to keep it. _ k Infra. 9, Z.—l Ecoli. 89, 21; Mark, 7, S7.—m Exod, SO, U, and 81,17 : Deut. 6 . 14 ; Heb. 4, 4.—w 1 Cor. 16, 46 .— o Eccli. 24,85.—p PsaL 148, i.—g 1 Cor, ll, 9; Eph. Chap. IL Ver. 2. He rested, Ac. That is, he ceased to make or create any new kinds of things. Though, as our Lord tells us, John v. 17. He still vorketh, viz., by conserving and governing all things, and creating souls. Ver. 9. The tree of life. So called because it had that quality, that by eating of the fruit of it, man would have been preserved in a constant state of health, vigour, and strength, and would not have Chap. III. 16 And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat: 17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For m what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die j the death. , j ! 18 And the Lord God said. It is not good | for man to be alone: let us make liim a | help like unto himself. ^ i 19 And the Lord God having formed out [ of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and j all the fowls of the air, brought them to | Adam to see what he would call them; for | whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. 20 And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself. 21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, lie took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. 22 And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. 23 And Adam said: « This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 24 'Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: * and they shall be two in one flesh. 25 And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not ashamed. CHAP. III. The serpent's craft. The fall of our first parents. Their punishment. The promise of a Redeemer. ■\r OW the serpent was more subtle than of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of para¬ dise? 2 And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman: ‘ No, you shall not die the death. , 5 For God doth know that in what d£^ soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, know¬ ing good and evil. 6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delight¬ ful to behold: “ and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig-leaves, and m ade themselves aprons. _ 6, 81_rAlatt. 19, 6; Mark, 10, 7.—el Cor. 6, 16.—^2 Cor. 11, 8.—wEccU. _ 25,33; iTim. 2.14. _ ' died at aU. The tree of knowledge. To which the deceitfxil serpent falsely attributed the power of im- parting a superior kind of knowledge, beyond that ’ which God was pleased to give. Chap. III. Ver. 7. And the eyes, Ac. Not that they were blind before, (for the woman saw that the tree was fair to the eyes, ver, 6.) nor yet that their eyes were opened to any more perfect knowledge of good : but only to the unhappy experience of having 6 ' ! GENESIS. Chap. III. GENESIS. Chap. IV. 8 And when thejr heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the after¬ noon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise. 9 And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou ? 10 And he said: I heard thy voice in para¬ dise ; and 1 was afraid, because 1 was naked, and I hid myself. 11 And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou iiast eaten of the tree whereof 1 commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat ? 12 And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and 1 did eat. 14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go,' and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." 16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee. 17 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof 1 commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. 18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth CO thee; and thou slialt eat the herbs of the earth. 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.* * 20 ^ And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. 21 And the Lord God made for Adam ind his wife, garments of skins, and clothed .hem. 22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and Uv.efor ever. 23 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of leasure, to till the earth from which he was taaen. 24 And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of tiie tree of life. CHAP. IV. The history of Cain and AbeL \ ND Adam knew Eve his wife; who con- xA ceived and brought forth *Cain, say¬ ing ; 1 have gotten a man through God. 2 And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman. 3 And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the fruits of the eaith, gifts to the Lord. 4 "Abel also offered of the firstlings of his floclc, and of their fat: and the Lord had re¬ spect to Aoel, and to his offerings. 6 But to Cain and his ott'erings he had no respect; and Cain was exceedingly angry, and his countenance fell. 6 And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? 7 If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door ? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it. 8 * And Cain caid to Abel his brother; Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him. ® 9 And the Lord caid to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered, I know not: am 1 my brother’s keeper ? 10 And he said to him: What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the earth. 11 Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and i*eceived the blood of thy brother at thy hand. 12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a va¬ gabond shalt thou be upon the earth. 13 And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that 1 may deserve pardon. 14 Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and 1 shall be hidden from thy face, and 1 shall be a vaga¬ bond and a fugitive on the earth: every one, therefore, that findeth me, shall kill me. 15 And the Lord said to him: No. it shall not be so: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished seven-fold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him. 16 And Cain went out from the face ot the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth, at the east side of Eden. i> Isa. 66,36; Mich. 7, 17; Isa. 49, 23; Psal. 72.9. *p Apoc. 12 ; Inlra, 49,17: 1 Cor. 14, 84. X Infra, 18, 27.-1/ Psal. 102,14, and 22,6; EccU. 7,12.—* A. M. 2. Ante C. 4002.—a Heb. 11,4. b A. M. 18. Ante C. 3876. c Wis. 10, Matt. 23,85; 1J ohn, 3,12; Jude, U. lost the good of original nace and innocence, and in¬ curred the dreadful evil of sin. From whence fol¬ lowed a shame of their being naked; which they minded not before > because being now stript of original grace, they Quicidy began to be subject to the shamefui rebellions of the nesh. Ver. 16. She shall crush. Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin : others read it iv*um, viz., the seed. The sense is the same: for it is ny her seed. Jesus Christ, that the woman crusnes the serpent's head. Ver. 22. Behold Adam, &c. This was spoken by way of reproaching him with his pride, in ad'ectiug b knowle^e that might make him like to God. Ohap. IV. Ver. 4. Had respect. That is, shewed Lis acceptance of his sacrifice (as coming from a heart full of devotion): and that, as we may suppose, by some visible token, such as sending fire from heaven npon his ofieriugs. Ver. 14. Every one that findeth me shall kill me. His guilty conscience made him fear his own bro¬ thers and nephews: of whom, by this time, there might be a good number upon the earth; which had ;iow endured near ISO years; as may be gathered from Gen. v. 8, compared with Chap. iv. 25 , though in the compendious account given in the scriptures, only Cain and Abel are mentioned. Ver. 16. Set a mark, See. The more common opi¬ nion of the interpreters of holy writ supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a horror and consternation in his countenance. 7 Chap. V. 17 And Cain knew his wife, and she con¬ ceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch. 18 And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad be¬ got MaviaeU and Maviael begot Mathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech: 19 Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella. 20 And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs. 22 Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema. 23 And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech; for 1 have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising. 24 Seven-fold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times seven-fold.** 25 Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name • Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed, for Abel whom Cain slew. 26 But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord. CHAP. V. The genealogy, aqe, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Isoe. The translation of Henoch. T his is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man.-^he made him to the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 " And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth. 4 And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters. 5 And all the time that Adam lived carne to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. 6 Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and Segot Enos. * 7 And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan. 10 After whose birth he lived eight hun¬ dred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. GENESIS. Chap. VI. 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. 12 And Cainan lived seventy years, ana begot Malaleel. . nr i 13 And Cainan lived after he begot leek eight hundred and forty years, and be¬ got sons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Cainan were nme hundred and ten years, and he died. 15 And Malaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared. , „ . . ^ , 16 And Malaleel lived after he beget Ja¬ red, eight hundred and thirty years, and be¬ got sons and daughters. , 17 And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. 18 And Jared lived a hundred and sixty- two years, and begot Henoch. 19 And Jared lived after he begot He¬ noch, eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. ^ 21 And Henoch lived sixty-five years, ana begot Mathusala. 22 And Henoch walked with God; and lived after he begofTVIathusala, three hun¬ dred years, and begot sons and daughters. 23 And all the d^s of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-nve years. 24 And he walked with God. and was seen no more: because God took him.* 25 And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech. 26 And Mathusala lived after he begot ! Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters. 27 And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and be died. 28 And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son. 29 And he called his name -^Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, wliich the Lord hath cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters. 31 And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hun¬ dred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Ja- pheth. CHAP. VI. Noe is com- d Matt. 18, 22.—e A. M. ISO. Ante C. 8874. / Wis. 2, 23 ; Eccli. 17,1; Infra, 9, 6. Ver. 17, His wife. She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain’s own sister: God dispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated. He built a city, viz.. In process of time, when his race was multmlied, so as to be numerous enough to people it. For in the many hundred years he lived, his race might bo multiplied even to millions. Ver. 23. I have slain a man, &c. It is the tradi¬ tion of the Hebrews, that Lamech in hunting slew Cain, mistaking him for a wild beast; and that hav¬ ing discovered what ho had done, ho beat so unmer¬ cifully the youth, by whom he was led into that mis¬ take, that he died of the blows. Ver. 28. Began to call upon, Supra, l, 29. X Lev. 17,14 ; Acts, 16, 29.—y Alat. 26,62. z Apoc. 13,19.—g bnpra, 1 . 28. and 8, 17 . the whole victim was consumed by fire udod O od s altar, and no part was reserved for the use ot priest or people. noTnf; , A figurative expression.de- 10 CiiAr. IX. GENESIS. Chap. X. 9 Behold I will establish my covenant 'rith you, and with your seed after you: 10 And with every living soul that is with vou, as well in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth. 11 ‘ I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth. 12 And God said : This is the sign of the covenant which 1 give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. 13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth. 14 'And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds: 16 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth. 17 And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have estab¬ lished between me and all flesh upon the earth. 18 And the sons of Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan. 19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth. 20 And Noe, a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard. 21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. 22 Which when Cham the father of Cha¬ naan had seen, to wit, that his father’s na¬ kedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. 23 But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, cover¬ ed the nakedness of their father : and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. , 24 And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him. 25 lie said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants slrall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant. 28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years ;_ b Isa. 54, 2. c Eccli. 43,12. Chap. IX. Ver. 21 . Drunk. Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in being over¬ come by wine: because he knew not the strength of it. Ver. 23. Covered the nakedness. Thus, as St. Gregory takes notice L. 85. Moral, c. 22., we ought to cover the nakedness, that is, the sins, of our spiritual parents and superiors. \'er. 25. Cursed be Chanaan. The cMr^ej. as well as the blessings, of the patriarchs, were prophetical: And this in particular is here recorded by Moses, for the children of Israel, who were to possess the land of Chanaan. But why should Clianaan be cursed for his father’s faults ? The Hebrews answer, that he 29 And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. CHAP. X. T/ie genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled after the flood. T hese are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood. ** 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer,and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma. 4 And the _ sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim. 5 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations. 6 And the sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan. 7 And the sons of Chus: Saba, and He- vila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sa- batacha. The sons of Regma: Saba and Dadan. 8 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth. 9 And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. 11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale. 12 Resen also between Ninive and Chale this is the great city. 13 And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Ana mim, and Laabim, Nepthuim, 14 And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim. 15 And Chanaan begot Sidon, his first born, the Hethite. 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite. 17 The Heviteand the Aracite: theSinite, 18 And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad. 19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa. 20 These are the children of Cham in their kindreds, and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations. 21 Of Sem also the father of all the chil¬ dren of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born. 22 The sons of Sem: ‘Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. _ d 1 Par. 3, 5. e 1 Par. 1,17. being then a boy, was tlie first that saw his grandfa ther^ nakedness, and told his father Cham of it; and joined with him in laughing at it: which drew upon him, rather than upon the rest of the children of Cham^^this prophetical curse. Chap. X. ''^er. 6 . The islands.^ So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to which they went by ships from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, Ac. Ver. 9. A stout hunter. Not of beasts but of men j whom by ^■iolence and tyranny he brought undeur his dominion.. And such ne was, not only in the opi¬ nion of men, but before the Lord, that is, in his sight who cannot be deceived. 11 Chap. XI. 23 The sons of Aram: <3ether: and Mess. 24 But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber. 25 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided; and his brother s name Jectan. , , , , 26 Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare. 27 And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla, 28 And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba, 29 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan. 30 And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the 69rSt/ 3l’ These are the children of Sem accord¬ ing to their kindreds and tongues, and coun¬ tries in their nations. 32 These are the families of Noe, accord¬ ing to their peoples and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood. CHAP. XI. The tower of Babel. The confusion of tongues. The genealogy of Sem down to Abram. A nd the earth was of one tongue, -^and of the same speech. 2 And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. 3 And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar. 4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building. 6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have be¬ gun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. 7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.*' 9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries. 10 These are the generations of Sem:* Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. 11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphax¬ ad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale. 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters. 14 Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber. 15 And Sale lived after he b egot Heber, / Wis. 10, &.~g A. M. circiter 1800, and A. C. 2204. h 1 Far. 1, Vj.—i 1 Par. 1,19.—j 1 Par. 1,26. k Jo3. 24, 2 : Nell, 9, 7. GENESIS. Us and Hull, and i four hundred and three Chap. XII. years; and begot CuAP, XL Ver. 0. Babel, sons and daughters. 16 And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg. , 17 And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters. 18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and be¬ got Reu. 19 ‘ And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived thii’ty-two years, and begot Sarug. 21 And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot soiis and daughters. 22 And Sai’ug lived thirty years, and begot 23 And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor. two hundred years: and begot sons and daughters. 24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare. 25 -^And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years: and begot sons and daughters. 26 *And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran. 27 And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot. 28 And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chal¬ dees. 29 And Abram and Nachor married wives, the name of Abram’s wife vvas Sarai: and the name of Naehor’s wife, Melsha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melsha, and fa¬ ther of Jescha. ^ 30 And Sarai was barren, and had no chil¬ dren. 31 ‘ And Thare took Abram, his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chal¬ dees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Thare were two hun¬ dred and five years, and he died in Haran. CHAP. XII. The call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in Chanaan, and then by occasion of a famine, goeth down to Egypt. A ND the Lord said to Abram: *" Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kin¬ dred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land wdiich I shall shew thee. C 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shaft be blessed^ 3 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, andv^iN thee shall ail the kindred of the earth be blessed Vi 4 So Abrana went out as the Lord had* commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five yeai's old when he went forth from Haran.® 5 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran ; a nd they went out to l Judith, 5, 6 ; Acts, 7, 2.—m Acts, 7 , 3 . « hifra, 18.18, and 22,18, and 26, 4 ; GaL 3,8 j Heb-11, 8.—0 A. M. 2088. A. C. 1921. That is, confusion. 12 Chap. XIII. GENESIS. Chap. XIV. Ro into the land of Chanaon. A.nd when they were come into it, (> Abram passed through the country into tlie place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: ^To thy seed ivill I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 And passing on from thence to a moun¬ tain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he .here pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there Uso an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name. 9 And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south. 10 And there came a famine in the coun tr;^; ® and Abram went down into Egypt,_to sojourn there : for the famine was very grie¬ vous in the land. 11 And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: Iknow that thou art a beautiful woman: 12 And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee. 13 *■ Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that 1 may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake. 14 And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful. 15 And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao. 16 And they used Abram w'ell for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. 17 But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 For what cause didst thou say, she w'as thy sister, that 1 might take her to my wife ? Now, therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharao gave his men orders con¬ cerning Abram : and they led him away, and nis wife, and all that he had. CHAP. XIII. Abram arid Lot part from each other. God’s promise to Abram, A nd Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 2 And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver. 3 And he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai: 4 * In the place of the altar which he had made before: and there he called upon the name of the Lord. 6 But Lot also, wdio w^as with Abram, had p Gal. S, 17 : Infra, 13, 14, and 15, 18, and 26, 2 ; Deut, 34, 4 .— (7 A. M. 2084. A. C. 1020.—r Infra, 20,11. _ s iSupra, 12, 7. flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents. 6 Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together; ‘ for their sub¬ stance was great, and they could not dwell together. 7 Whereupon also there arose a strife be¬ tween the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezrte dwelled in that country. 8 Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, 1 beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren. 9 Behold the whole land is before thee i depart from me I pray thee: if thou wiic gc to the left hand. I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left. 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was water¬ ed throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor. 11 And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot abode in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom. 13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure. 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: “Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. 15 All the land which thou seest, 1 will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also. 17 Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for 1 will give it to thee. 18 So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in He¬ bron : and he built there an altar to the Lord. Chap. XII. Ver. is. My sister. This was no lie; because she was his niece, being daughter to his bro¬ ther Aran, and therefore, in the style of the He- CHAP. XIV. The expedition of the four kings: the vtefory Abram; he is blessed by Melchisedech. of \ ND it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel king of Seunaar, and Arioch king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal IGng of nations, 2 Made war against Bara king of Sodom, and against Bersa king of Gomorrha, and against Sennaab king of Adama, and against Semeber king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor. 3 All these came together into the wood¬ land vale, which now is the salt sea.* 4 For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him. 5 And in the fourteenth year ** came Cho¬ dorlahomor, and the kings that were with hi m : and they smote the H aphaim in Asta- 7 Infra, 88,7.—« Supra, 12. 7 : Infra, 16,18, and 23, 4 j Deut. 84. 4.—V Infra, 19, 24. _ tP A. M. 2002. A. C. 1912. brews, she might truly be called his sister, as Lot i* called Abram’s brother, Qen. xiv. 14. See Qen. xx, 12 . 13 Chap. XIV. GENESIS. Chap. XV. rothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with them, and the Eniim in Save of Cariathatm. G And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seip, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness. ... 7 And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar. 8 And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, ana the king of Adama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which 13 Segor, went out: and they set themselves against them in battle array m the woodland vale: ,. 9 To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal King of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Anoch king of Pontus: four kings against five. _ 10 Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs and were overthrown there: and they that re¬ mained fled to the mountain. 11 And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way: 12 And Lot alsOj the son of Abram’s bro¬ ther, who dwelt in Sodom, and his sub¬ stance. 13 And Dehold one that had escaped told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made league with Abram. 14 Which when Abram had heard, to wii, that his brother Lot was taken, he number¬ ed of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen well appointed : and pursued them to Dan. 15 And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night: ana defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale of Save, which is the king’s vale. 18 ' But Melchisedech the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God, 19 Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created neaven and earth. 20 And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave nim the tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram : Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself. 22 And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth. 23 That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, 1 will not take of any things that are thine, lest thou say 1 have enriched Abram: 24 Except such things as the young men X lleb. 7, L— 1 / .A AL 2093. A C. 1012. z Uom. 4,18. _g Korn. 4, 3 ; Gal 3, 6 ; James, 2, 23. _ CuAP. XIV. Ver. 10. Of slime. Bituminis. This •m a kind of pitch, which served for mortar in the have eaten, and the shares of the men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take their shares. CHAP. XV. God promiseth seed to Abram. His faith, sacrifict and vision. N OW when these things were done, •'the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, 1 am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. 2 And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me ? I shall go without children : and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer. 3 And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir. 4 And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: • Look up to heaven and num¬ ber the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be. 6 “Abram beheved God, and it was re¬ puted to him unto justice. 7 And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from ITr of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it. 8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may 1 know that 1 shall possess it ? 9 And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon. 10 *And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not. 11 And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him. 13 And it was said unto him: 'Know ■thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years. 14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fom’th generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this pre^ sent time. 17 And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions. 18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying : To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates. 19 The Cineans and Cenezites, the Ced. monites, 20 And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim a lso, b Jer. 84,18.—c Acts, 7, O.—d Suprtu 12,7, and 13,15 ; Infra, 28, 4 ; Dent. 34. 4 ; 2 Par. 9,20 ; _ 1 Kings, 4, 20, and 3 Kings, 4, 21. buildhig of Babel, Gen. xi. 3, and was used by Noe la pitching the ark, 14 Chap. XVn. GENESIS. Chap. XVII.* 21 And the Amorrnites, and the Chanaan- ites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites. CHAP. XVI. Abram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael. N OW Sarai the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, 2 She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request, 3 She took Agar the Egyptian her hand¬ maid, • ten years after they farst dwelt in the land of (Jhanaan, and gave her to her hus¬ band to wife. 4 And he went in to her. But she per¬ ceiving that she was w'th child, despised her mistress. 6 And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me : I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee. 6 And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away. 7 And the Angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water.in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert, 8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou ? And she answered; I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress. 9 And the angel of the Lord said to her: lleturn to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand. 10 And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be number¬ ed for multitude. 11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son : and thou snalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy afiiiction. 12 He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men’s hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren. 13 And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.-'' 14 Therefore she called that vv^elL the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad. 15 And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael. 16 Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael. CHAP. XVII. The Covenant of circumcision. A ND after he began to be ninety and Dine years old, the Lord appeared to him : and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect. 2 And 1 will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee ex¬ ceedingly. 3 Abram fell flat on his face. 4 And God said to him: I am. and mj covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abra^ ham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. 6 And I will make thee increase, exceed¬ ingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish my covenant be¬ tween me and thee, and between thy seed af¬ ter thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed the land of thy sojournment, all the land oi Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and 1 will be their God. 9 Again God said to Abraham: ‘'And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee : All the male kind of you shall be circumcised: 11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a * sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 An infant of eight days old shall be cir¬ cumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be cir¬ cumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock: 13 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant. 14 The male, whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people : because he hath broken my covenant. 15 God said also to Abraham : Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara. 16 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom 1 will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings oi people shall spring from him. 17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son. thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old ? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth ? 18 And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee. 19 And God said to Abraham: ‘Sarathy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year. 22 And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham. e A. M. 2093. A. C. 1911. f Exod. 33, 20. and 23. Infra, 24. 62. a Acts, 7, 8.—A Horn. 4, U ; Lev. 12, S ; Luke, 2, 21.—I Infra, 18,10, and 21, 2. Chap. XVI. Ver. 3. To wj/e. Plurality of wives, tliough contrary totheprimitiveinstitutionofmar- riage, Gen. iL 21, was by divinedispensationallowed to the patriarch's: which allowance seems to have continued duiing the time of the law of "Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced marriage to its primitive institution. St. Matthew, xix. Chap. XVII. Ver. 6 . Abram, in the Hebrew, sig- nities a high father : but Abraham, the father of tht multitude ; Sarai siguihes mg Laag, but Sara abso¬ lutely Lady, 15 Chap. XVIIL GENESIS. Chap. XIX. 23 And Abraham took Ismael his son, and All that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him. ^ 24 Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his fore- 25 And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision. _ 26 The self same day was Abraham cir¬ cumcised and Ismael his son. 27 And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circum¬ cised with him. CHAP. XVIII. Angels are entertained by y traham. They forete^ the birth of Isaac. Abratiam's prayer fot the men of Sodom. ND^the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day. 2 And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near him: and as soon as he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground. 3 And he said: Lord, if I have found fa¬ vour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant; 4 But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree. 6 And 1 will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on; for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken. 6 Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man; who made haste and boiled it. 8 He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before .hem; but he stood by them under the tree. 9 And when they had eaten, they said to him : W here is Sara thy wife ? He answered: Lo, she is in the tent. ^ 10 And he said to him: * I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara thy wife shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. 11 Now tliey were both old, and far ad¬ vanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women. 12 And she laughed secretly, saying; Af¬ ter I am grown old ‘ and my lord is an old man, shall 1 give myself to pleasure? 13 And the lord said to Abraham ; Wby did Sara laugh, saying: Shall 1 who am an old woman bear a child indeed? 14 Is there any thing hard to God? ac¬ cording to appointment 1 will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son. 16 Sara denied, saying: 1 did not laugh: i A. M. 2107. Ante C. 1897 : Heb. 13, 2. _A Supra, 17,19 ; loira, 21,1; Roni. 8. 9._ CHiap. XVIIL Ver. 21. / loi/l go down, Ac. The liord here accommodates his discourse to the way of speaking and actuig amongst men j for he know- eth all things, and needeth not to so any where for for she was afraid. But the Lord said. Nay: but thou didst laugh: 16 And when the men rose up front thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way. 17 And the Lord said; Can 1 hide from Abraham what I am about to do: 18 " Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed ? 19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice; that for Abraham’s sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him. 20 And the Lord said; The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. 21 I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that 1 may know. 22 And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom; but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord. 23 And drawing nigh he said; Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked ? 24 If there be fifty lust men in the city, shall they perish w itnal ? and wilt thou not spare that place tor the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein ? 25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee; thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment. 26 And the Lord said to him ; If 1 find in Sodom fifty just within the city, 1 will spare the whole place for their sake. 27 And Abraham answered, and said; Seeing 1 have once begun, 1 will speak to my Lord, whereas 1 am dust and ashes. 28 What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said; I will not destroy it, if 1 find five and forty. 29 And again he said to him; But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said; 1 will not destroy it for the sake of forty. 30 Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak; What if thirty shall be found there? He answered; 1 will not do it. if 1 find thirty there. 31 Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to mv Lord. What if twenty be found there? He said; I will not destroy i^ for the sake of twenty. 32 1 beseech thee, eaith he, be not angry. Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten should be found there ? And he said; 1 will not destroy it for the sake of ten. 33 And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham; and Abraham re¬ turned to his place. CHAP. XIX. Lot, entertaining Angels in his house, is delivered from Sodom, which is destroyed: his wife for looking back is turned into a statue of salt, ND ” the two angels came to Sodom m the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose 1 1 Peter, 3, 6.—m Supra, 12. 3 ; Infra, 22, la _ n A. M. 2107. Ante C. 18 97; Heb. 13, 2. information. Note here, that two of the throe an. gels went a*way immediately for Sodom; whilst the tliird, who represented the Lord, remained with Alwaham. 16 Chap. XIX GENESIS. Chap. XIX, up and went to meet tnem; and worsliipped prostrate to the ground, 2 And said: I oeseecn you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street. 3 He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come in to his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread and they ate: 4 But bef I’e they went to bed, the men of' the city beset the house both young and old, ill the people together. 5 And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither that we may know them: 6 Lot went out to them, and shat the door after him, and said: 7 Do not so, 1 beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil. 8 I have two daughters who as yet have not known man: 1 will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, be¬ cause they are come in under the shadow of my roof. 9 But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou earnest in, said they, as a stranger, w'as it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. * And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors. 10 And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door: 11 And them that were without, ^they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door. 12 And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine ? son-in-law, or sons, or daugh¬ ters, all that are thine bring them out of this city: 13 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them. 14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons- in-law that W'ere to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, be¬ cause the Lord will destroy this city. And be seemed to them to speak as it were in jest. 15 And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city. 16 And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him. 17 ® And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed. 18 And Lot said to them: 1 beseech thee my Lord, 19 Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy r-^—^———- ■■■ . , - - ■ p Wis. 19,16 ; 2 ^ings. 18, 6. q Wi3.10, 6. _ r Wis. 10, 6._ Chap. XIX. Ver. 22. Segor. That is, a little 07ie. Vai'. 26. And hij wife. As a staudiug memorial B niercy, wnich thou hast shewn to me, in sav¬ ing my life, and I cannot escape to the moun¬ tain, lest some evil seize me, and I die. 20 There is this city here at hand, to Avhich I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it; is it not a little one, and my soul shall live ? 21 And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have hea^d thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken. 22 ''Make haste and be saved there, be¬ cause I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor. 24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomovrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth. 26 ‘And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt. 27 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord,“ 28 He looked towards Sodom and Go- m.orrha, and the whole land of that country : and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace. 29 Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he de¬ livered Lot out of the destruction of the ci¬ ties wherein he-had dwelt. 30 And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daugh¬ ters with him, (for he was afraid to stay in Segor,) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him. 31 And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth. 82 Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father dritdc wine that night: and the elder went in and lay with her father ; but he perceived not nei¬ ther when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up. 34 And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold 1 lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to¬ night, and thou shalt lie with him, that w'e may save seed of our father. 35 They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up. 36 So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37 And the elder bore a son, and she cal¬ led his name Moab : he is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 38 The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon, that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammon¬ ites unto this day. s Deut. 29, 23 ; Isai. 13, 19 ; Jer. 60, 40 ; Ezek. 16, 40: Osee, ll, 8 ; Amos, 4.11; Luke, 17 , 29 ; Jude, l, 7. t Luke, 17, 32.—M Supra, 18.1. to the servants of God to proceed in virtue, and uoi to look back to vice or its allurenieut«, 1 ? CiiAT>. XX. GENESIS. Chap. XXI. CHAP. XX. Abraham tojourned in Gerara : Sara is taken tnto kiitg Abimelech’s house, but by God's commandment is restored untouched. A BRAHAM "removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara. 2 And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her. 3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou slialt die for the woman thou hast taken: for she hath a husband. 4 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation, that is ignorant and just ? o Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say. He is my brother? in the sim- licity of my heart, and cleanness of my ands have I done this. 6 And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and there¬ fore I withheld thee from sinning agmhst me, and I suffered thee not to touch her. _ 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine. 8 And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke aU these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid. 9 And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin ? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do. 10 And again he expostulated with him, and said. What sawest thou, that thou hast done this ? 11 Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife: ^ 12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. 13 And after God brought me out of my father’s house, 1 said to her: 'Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother. 14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara, his wife. lo And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee. 16 And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all tliat are with thee, and whither¬ soever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken. 17 And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children : 15 Tor the Lord had closed up every e A. M. 2107 ! U) Supr?. 12.13, and It, 20.—x Infra, 21.23. y Supra, 17, 19. and 18,10. _ z Gal. 4, 23 : Ileb. Il, ii. CUAP. X'il. Ver.3, Isaac? lUds womb of the house of Abimelech on account of Sara, Abraham’s wife. CHAP. XXL Isaac is bom. Agar and Ismael are cast forth. ND the Lord visited *' Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken. 2 'And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had fore¬ told her. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac. “ 4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, ‘ as God had commanded him, 5 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father was Isaac born. 6 And Sara said: God hath made a laugh¬ ter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me. 7 And again she said; Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age. 8 And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning. 9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham: 10 Cast out this bond-woman, and her son: for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac. 11 Abraham took this grievously for his son. 12 And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bond-woman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: ® for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13 But I will make the son also of the bond-woman a great nation, because he is thy seed. 14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away.** And she departed, ana wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee. 15 And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there. 16 And she went her way, and sat over- against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over-against, she lifted up her voice and wept. 17 And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: 'What art thou doing. Agar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is. 18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for 1 will make him a great nation. 19 And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink. 20 And (Jod was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man an archer. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for hi)n out of the land of Egypt. a A. AL 2108. Ante C. 1896. b Supra, 17,10 ; Matt, 1 . 2 . c Rom. 0 , 7 ; Heb. 11 .13. d A. iM. 21 13. Ante O. 1891. word aiifnities laughter. 18 Chap. XXII. GENESIS. Chap. XXIII. 32 At the same time Abimelech, and Pliicol the general of his army said to Abra¬ ham; God is with thee in all that thou dost. 23 Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock : I'ut according to the kindness ‘that 1 have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the (and wherein thou hast lived a stranger. 24 And Abraham said: I will swear. 25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away hy force. 26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing : and thou didst not tell me, and 1 heard not of it till to-day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a league. 28 And Abraham set apart seven ewe- lambs of the flock. 29 And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set apart ? 30 But he said; Thou shalt take seven ewe-lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well* 31 Therefore that place was called Bersa - bee: because there both of them did swear. 32 And they made a league for the well of oath. 33 And Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal. 34 And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days. CHAP. XXII. The faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in Jus readiness to sacrifice Jus son Isaac. He is stayed from the act by an angel. Former promises are re¬ newed to him. His brother Nachof s issue. A FTER these things, f God tempted Abra- fSl. ham, and said to him: Abraham, Abra¬ ham. And he answered: Here 1 am. 2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision : and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which 1 will shew thee. 3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two oung men, and Isaac his son : and when he lad cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded' him. 4 And on the third daj^, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar oft. 5 And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass : I and tlie boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you. G And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and he him¬ self carried in his hands and a sword. And as they two went on together, 7 Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son?_ Be- nolcl, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust? 8 A nd Abraham s aid; God will provide e Supra, 20,13.—/Judith, 8, 22 ; Heb. 11, 17. g A. M. 2135. Ante C. 1869.—A James, 2, 21. i Ps. 104, 0 ; Eccli. 44, 21; 1 Macab. 2,62 : himself a victim for an holocaust, my son So they went on together. 9 And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood. 10 * And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son. 11 And behold an Angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. 12 And he said to him : Lay not thy liand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him; now 1 know thattliou fearest God,and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake. 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw be- liind his back a ram amongst the briers stick¬ ing fast by the horns, which he took and of¬ fered for a holocaust instead of his son. 14 And he called the name of that place. The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see. 15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, say¬ ing; 16 ‘By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lora: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake: 17 I will bless thee, and 1 will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. 18 •' And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth he blessed, because thou hast obey¬ ed my voice, 19 Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and ht dwelt there. 20 After these things, it was told Abra¬ ham that Melcha also had borne children to Kachor his brother. 21 Hus the first-born, and Buz his bro¬ ther, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, 22 And Cased, and Azau. and Pheldas, and Jedlaph, 23 And Bathuel, of whom was born Re¬ becca : These eight did Melcha bear to Na- chor Abraham’s brother. 24 And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee. and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha. CHAP. XXIII. Sara’s death and burial in the field bought of Epliron. \ ND Sara lived a hundred and twenty- ( seven years. 2 And she died ‘in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan : and Ab¬ raham came to mourn and weep for her. 3 And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying: . 4 I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that 1 may bury my dead. 5 The children of Heth answered, saying ; 6 My Lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our princi¬ pal sepulchres: and no man shall have power Luke, 1, 73 ; Heb. 6. 13, and 17.—i Supra, 12, 3, and 18, 18 ; Infra, 26, 4 ; Eccli. 44, 25 : Acts, 3, 25, k A. M. 2145. Ante C. 1859. Ver. 31. Itersabee. That is, the well of oath. CiiAi‘. XXll. Ver. l. God tempted, Chap. XXVI. Ver. 19. Torrent. That is, a clian- Ml where sometimea • torrent, or violent atreoni 3 lufra, 27, 46.—A A. M, 2246. Ante C. 1759. nan run. Ver. 22. Latitude. That is, -wideness, or roooa. CsAr. XXVII. GENESIS. Chap. XXVIII. 14 He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked. 15 And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her: IG And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck. 17 And she §ave him the savouiw meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked. 18 Which when he had carried in, he said: My father ? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son? 19 And Jacob said: I am Esau thy first¬ born : 1 have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. 20 And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answer¬ ed : It was the will of God that what I sought came quickly in my way. 21 And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whe¬ ther thou be my son Esau, or not. 22 He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice in¬ deed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau. 23 And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him, 24 lie said: Art thou my son Esau ? He answered: I am. 25 Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he oftered him wine also, which after he had drunk, 26 He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son. 27 He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said : Be¬ hold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed. 28 God give thee the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine. 29 And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee : be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother’s children bow down be¬ fore thee. Cui’sed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be tilled with blessings. 30 Isaac had scarce ended his words, when Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came, 31 And brought in to his father meats made of what he had taken in hunting, say¬ ing : Arise, my father, and eat of thy son’s venison; that thy soul may bless me. 32 And Isaac said to him: Why ! who art thou? He answered; 1 am thy first-born son Esau. 33 Isaac was struck with fear, and asto¬ nished exceedingly; and wondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou earnest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed. l Supra, 25, 31. _ m ileb. 11 , 20, Chap. XXVII. Ver. 19. I am Esau thy first-born. St. Augustine (L. Contra mendacium, c. 10.) treating at largo upon tnis place, eicuseth Jacob from a lie, because this whole passage was mysterious, as re¬ lating to the preference which was afterwards to be given to the Ceutiias before the carnal Jews, which 34 Esau having heard his father’s words, roared out with a great cry ; and being in a great consternation, said: Bless me also, my father. 35 And he said: Thy brother came deceit¬ fully and got thy blessing 36 But Tie said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: ' my first birth-right he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father; Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing? 37 Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son? 38 And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,*" 39 Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above, 40 Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword and shmt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake oflF and loose his yoke from thy neck. 41 Esau therefore always hated Jacob for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him: and he said in his heart: " The days will come of the mourning of my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob. 42 These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent ana called Jacob her son, and said to him: Behold Esau thy brother threat- eneth to kill thee. 43 Now therefore, my son, hear my voice: arise and flee to Laban my brother to Haran: 44 And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be as¬ suaged, 45 And his indignation cease, and he for¬ get the things thou hast done to him: after¬ wards 1 will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day ? 4^3 And Rebecca said to Isaac: *1 am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live. CHAP. XXVIII. Jacob’s journey to Mesopotamia; his vision andvow. ND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan -.f 2 But go, and take a journey to Mesopo¬ tamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel thy mother’s father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy uncle. 3 And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase, and multiply thee: that thou mayest be a multitude of people. 4 And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather. t 'And when Isaac had sent him away, n Abd. 1,10.—o Supra, 26, 36. _ P A. M. 2245.—g Osee, 12, 12. Jacob by prophetic light might understand. So far 18 certain, that the first birth-right, both by divine election, and by Esau’s free cession belonged to Ja- cob : so that if there were any lie in the case, it could ly^ »o more t^n an officious and venial one. \ 6r. 3^ Jacob, suppla 7 itcr, 24 Chap. XXIX. GENESIS. Chap. XXIX. he took his journey and went to fllesopo- lamia of Syria to Laban the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother. 6 And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Meso¬ potamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying : Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan ; 7 And that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria: 8 Experiencing also that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Cha¬ naan : 9 He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nabajoth. 10 But Jacob being departed from Bersa- oee, went on to Haran. 11 And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place. 12 And he saw in his sleep a ladder stand¬ ing upon the earth, and the top thereof touch¬ ing heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it. 13 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: ’‘I am the Lord God oi Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed. 14 And thv seed shall be as the dust of the earth: * thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south : and in thee and thy seed all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed. 15 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will 1 leave thee, till 1 shall have accomplished all that 1 have said. 16 And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. 17^ And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it. ‘ 19 And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza. 20 And he made a vow. saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 And I shall return prosperously to my fathers house: the Lord shall be my God: 22 And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thoa shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee. CHAP. XXIX. Jacob served Laban seven years for Rachel: but is deceived with Lia: he afterwards marrieth Rachel. Lia bears him four sons. 'T^HEN Jacob went on in his journey, and -t- came into the east country. “ 2 And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it : for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth there- o f was Closed with a great stone. r Infra, K, 1, and 48, S. __ * Pent. 12, 20, and 19, 8 ; 8i.pia, 26 , 4. CuaP. HI. Ver. la. Bethel. This name sig- 3 And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again. 4 And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you ? They answered: Of Haran. 5 And he asked them, saying : Know you Laban the son of Nachor? They said : We know him. 6 He said: Is he in health ? He is in health, say they: and behold Rachel his daughter cometh with his flock. 7 And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it time to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep drink, and so lead them back to feed. 8 They answered : We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together, and we remove the stone from the well’s mouth, that we may water the flocks. 9 They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her fathers sheep: for she fed the flock. 10 And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin-german, and that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he re- mov^,d the stone wherewith the well was closed. 11 And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice, wept. 12 And he told her tnat he was her fa¬ thers brother, and the son of Rebecca : but she went in haste and told her father. 13 Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister’s son was come, ran forth to meet him and embracing him, and heartily kissing him brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey, 14 He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired, 15 He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have. 16 Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia: and the yomiger was called Rachel. 17 But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful counte¬ nance. 18 And Jacob being in love with her, said: 1 will serve thee seven years for Ra¬ chel thy younger daughter. 19 Laban answered: It is better that 1 give her to thee than to another man; stay with me. 20 So Jacob served seven years for Ra¬ chel : and they seemed hut a few days, be¬ cause of the greatness of his love. ^ 21 And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. 22 And he, having invited a great num¬ ber of his friends to the feast, made the marriage. 23 And at night he brought in Lia his daughter to him, 24 Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Ida: 25 And he said to his father-in-law : AVhat is it that thou didst mean to do? did not 1 serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou de- c eived me ? t Infra, 31. 13.—u A. W. 2246. _ V A. M. 2252. Ante G. 1752. niiies tlxo house of God. 25 Chap. XXX. 2() Labati ansvverea : It is not the custom .n this place, to give the younger in marriage in't^t. n y o * 27 Make up the week of days of this match : and I will give thee her also, for the gervice that thou shalt render me other seven 28 He yielded to his pleasure: and alter the week was past, he married Kachel: 29 To whom her father gave Bala tor her servant. . , , . , ,, 30 And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years. 31 And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister re¬ mained barren. 32 And she conceived and bore a son. and called his name Ruben, saying: Lhe Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me. 33 And again she conceived and bore a son, * and saich: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon. 34 And she conceived the third time, and bore another son: "and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. 35 The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: now will I praise the Lord: and fflr this she called him Juda.* And she left bearing. CHAP. XXX. Rachel being barren, deliverelh her handmaid to Jacob; she beareth two so7is. Lia ceasing to bear, giveth also her handmaid, and she beareth two more. Then Lia beareth other two sons and one daughter. Rachel beareth Joseph. Jacob desirous to return home, is hired to stay for a certainpart of the flock’s increase, whereby he becometh exceeding rich. A nd Rachel, seeing herself without chil¬ dren, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise 1 shall die. 2 And Jacob being angry with her, an¬ swered : Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb ? 3 But she said: I have here my servant Bala: Go in u.ito her, that she may bear up¬ on my knees, and I may have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bala in marriage: who, 5 When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son. 6 And Rachel said : The Lord hath judg¬ ed for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name Dan. 7 And again Bala conceived and another, 8 Eor whom Rachel said: God hath com¬ pared me with my sister, and 1 have pre¬ vailed: and she called him Nephtali. 9 Lia, perceiving that she had left off bear¬ ing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her hus- band. 10 And when she had conceived and brought forth a son, 11 She said: Happily. And therefore railed his name Gad. 12 Zelpha also bore another. 13 A.nd Lia said: This is for my happiness i Chap. XXX. for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser. 14 And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found man¬ drakes : which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said : Give me part of thy son’s mandrakes. 15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my hus¬ band from me, unless thou take also my son’s mandrakes ? Rachael said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son’s mandrakes. 16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, be¬ cause 1 have hired thee for my son’s man¬ drakes. And he slept with her that night. 17 And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore the fiftn son. 18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because 1 gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. 19 And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son, 20 And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: This turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons; and therefore she called his name Zabulon. 21 After whom she bore a daughter, nam¬ ed Dina. 22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived, and bore a son, ■ saying: God hath taken away my reproach. 24 And she called his name Joseph: say¬ ing : The Lord give me also another son. 25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land. 26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that 1 have ren¬ dered thee. 27 Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: 1 have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake: 28 Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.- 29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy pos¬ session hath been in my hands. 30 Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable therefore that I should now provide also for my own house. 31 And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said : I require nothing : but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed, and keep thy sheep again. * 32 Go round through all thy flocks, and bore separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled: and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as w^ell among the sheep, as among the goats, shall be my w^ages. 33 And my justice shall answer for me to¬ morrow before thee wdien the time of the bargain shall come: and all that is not ol divers colours, and .spotted, and brow'n, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft. 34 And Laban said: 1 like well what thou demandest. 3.0 And he separated the same day the she- goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, GENESIS, w A. M. 22.»3. Ante C. 175L r .4.. M. ?201.—1/ A. M. 22.')6. z Matt. l2. a A. M. 2259. Ante C. 174«. 26 Chap. XXXI. GENESIS. Ciiai-. XXXI. and the rams of divers colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is, of •qvhite and black fleece, he delivered into the ^ands of his sons. 36 And he set the space of three days’ ourney betwixt himself and his son-in-law, tvho fed the rest of his flock. 37 And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there ap¬ peared whiteness: but the parts that were whole, remained green: ana by this means the colour was divers. 38 And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive. 39 And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers co¬ lours, and speckled. 40 And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were Laban’s: and the rest were Jacob’s, when the flocks were separated one from the other. 41 So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them: 42 But when the latter coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Jia- ban’s: and they of the first time, Jacob’s. 43 And the man was enriched exceedingly, imd he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses. CHAP. XXXI. Jacob's departw'e : he is pursued and overtaken by Laban. They make a covenant, UT after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and be¬ ing enriched by his substance is become great: 2 And perceiving also that Laban’s coun¬ tenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day, 3 Especially the Lord saying to him : Re¬ turn into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. 4 He sent, * and called Rachel and Lia in¬ to the field, where he fed the flocks, 6 And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day ; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6 And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power. 7 Yea, your father also hath over-reached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me. 8 If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the con¬ trary : Thou shalt take all the white ones for ihy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones. 9 And God hath taken your father’s sub- ■tance, and g iven it to me. _ 6 A. M. 2265. Ante C. 1789. Chap. XXXI. Ver. 19. Her father's idols. By this it appears, that Laban was an idolater : and some of the fathers are of opinion, that liaehel stole 10 For after that time came of the ew^ conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spot¬ ted, and speckled. 11 And the angel of God said to me in my sleep : Jacob ? And I answered: Here I am. 12 And he said : Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee. 13 I am the God of Bethel, «where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country. 14 And Rachel and Lia answered : Have we any thing left among the goods and in¬ heritance of our father’s house? 15 Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us ? 16 But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our chil¬ dren : wherefore do all that God hath com¬ manded thee. 17 Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way. 18 And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten iu Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan. ,19 At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols. 20 And Jacob would not confess to hj.s father-in-law that he was flying away. 21 And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Ga- laad, 22 It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled. 23 And he took his brethren with him, and ursued after him seven days; and overtook im in the mount of Galaad. 24 And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob. 25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad. 26 And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my know¬ ledge, my daughters, as captives taken with the swmrd. 27 Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might h.-xve brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps 7 28 Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my tJonB and daughters: thou hast done foolish¬ ly : and now, indeed, 29 It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God of your father said to me yester¬ day : ^ Take heed thou speak not any thmg harshly against Jacob. 30 Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou., stolen away my gods ? 31 Jacob answ ered: That I departed un- _ c Supra, 28, 18.—l ufra, 48,16. away these idols to withdraw him from idolatry removins the occasiou of his sin. 27 Chap. XXXI. GENESIS. Chap. XXXIL known to thee, it w' Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being hut a boy : and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father’s wives; and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph above aU his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. 4 And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him. 5 Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. 6 And he said to them: Hear my dream which 1 dreamed. 7 1 thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf. 8 His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king ? or shall we be subject to thy do¬ minion ? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred. 9 He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me. , 10 And when he had told this to his father 1 and brethren, his father rebuked him, and i said : What meaneth this dream that thou i hast dreamed? shall 1 and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth ? 11 His brethren therefore envieci him: but his father considered the thing with himself 12 And when his brethren abode in Sicheu. feeding their father’s flocks, 13 Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered: > 14 I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again I what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem: 15 And a man found bim there wandering i in the field, and asked what he sought. 16 But he answered : I seek my brethren tell me were they feed the flocks. i 17 And the man said to him: They are | departed from this place: for 1 heard there i say: Let us go to Dotbain. And Joseph j went forward after his brethren, and found ; them in Dothain. 18 And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him. 19 And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh. 20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him : and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him: 21 * And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said: 22 Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness^ and keep your hands harmless now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father. 23 And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours: 24 And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water. 25 And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. 26 And Juda said to his brethren: what will it profit us to kill our brother, and con¬ ceal his blood ? 27 It is better that he be sold to the Ismael¬ ites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words. 28 “ And when the Madiaiiite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to tlie Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver:, and they led him into Egypt.* 29 And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy: X A. M. 2276. Ante C. 1728. y Supra, 85, 25, and 20. z Infra, 42, 22.—a Wis. 10,13. b A. M. 2276 . Ante C. 1723. CuAP. XXXVIl. Ver. 5. A dream. These dreams of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God ; as were also those which he interpreted, Gen. xl. and xli.: otherwise generally speaking, the observing of dreams is condemned in the Scripture, as super¬ stitious and sinful. Sea Dcui. xviii, 10. Eccles. xxxiv. 2, 8. _ Ver. 10. Worship. This word is not used here to signify divine worship, but an inferior veneration, ;expressed by the bowing of the body, and that, ac¬ cording to tlie manner of the eastern nations, down to the ground. 32 CuAP. XXXVIIl. GENESIS. Chap. XXXIX. iiO And rending his garments he went to his brethren, andf said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall 1 go ? 31 And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed: 32 Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found; see whether it be thy son’s coat, or not. 33 And the father acknowledging it, said : It is my son’s coat, an evil wild beast bath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph. 34 And tearing his garuients, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time. W And all his children being gathered to- ether to comfort their father in his sorrow, e would not receive comfort, but said: 1 will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping, 36 The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers. CHAP. XXXVIIl. The sons of Juda ; The death of Her and Onan : the birth of Phares and Zara. A t that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras. 2 'And he saw there the daugliter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he went in unto her. 3 And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her. 4 And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan. 5 She bore also a third; whom she called Sela. After whose birth, she ceased to bear any more. 6 And Juda took a wife for Her his first¬ born, whose name was Thainar. 7 ' And Her the first-born of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and was slain by him. 8 Juda therefore said to Onan his son : Go in to thy brother’s wife and marry her, that thou mayest raise seed to thy brother. 9 He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother’s wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest chil¬ dren should be born in his brother’s name. 10 And therefore the Lord slew him, be¬ cause he did a detestable thing. 11 Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father’s house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way and dwelt in her fathers house. 12 And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of Juda died : and ^^hen he had taken comfort after his mourn¬ ing, be went up to Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite the shepherd of his flock. 13 And it was told Thamar that her father- in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep. 14 And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth c l Par. 2, i.—d Num. 26,19.—e Num. 26,10. Ver. S5. Into hell. That is, into limbo, the place where the souls of the just were received before the death of our Redeemer. For allowing that the word hell sometimes is taken for the grave, it cannot bo eo taken in this place ; since Jacob did not believe his sou to be in the grave, (whom he supposed to be devoured by a wild beast) and therefore could not mear to so dowu to him thither: but certainly c to Thamnas; because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him. 15 When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known. _ 16 .And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered : Wbat wilt thou give me to enjoy my company ? 17 He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she said again: 1 will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give a pledge, till thou send what thou promisest. 18 Juda said : What wilt thou have for a pledge: She answered: Thy ring and brace¬ let, and the staff which thou boldest in thy hand. The woman therefore at one copula¬ tion conceived. 19 And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood. 20 And Juda sent a kid by bis shepherd, the Odollamite, that he might receive the pledge again, which he had given to the wo¬ man : but he, not finding her, 21 Asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the cross way ? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this place, 22 He returned to Juda, and said to iiim : I have not found her, moreover the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a harlot there. 23 Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surelj? she cannot charge us with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find her. 24 And behold after three months they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter- in-law hath played the harlot, and she ap- peareth to have a big belly. And Juda said. Rring her out that she may be burnt. 25 But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father-in-law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, 1 am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is? 26 But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is jlister than I: because I did not give her to Sela my son. However, he knew her no more. 27 -^And when she was re^dy to be brought to bed, there appeared twins in her womb : and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying : 28 This shall come forth the first. 29 But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee ? and therefore called his name Phares. 30 o Afterwards his brother came out, on w'hose hand was the scarlet thread: and she called him Zara. CHAP. XXXIX. Joseph hath charge of his master’s house : rcjecteth his mistress’s solicitatiotis : ts falsely accused by her, and cast into prison, where he hath the chargs of all the prisoners. /Mat. 1 ,g.—a 1 Far. 2, 4._ meant the place of rest, where he believed his soui to be. ... Ver. 36. An eunuch. This word solnetimcs .sifr- nifies a cf.amberlain, courtier, or officer of the king't and so it is taken in this place. Chap. XXX^'ilI. Ver. 29. Phares. That tz, a breach or division. 33 Chap. XXXIX. GENESIS. Chap. XL . A nd Joseph wiw brought into Egypt, and Putiphar an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brouglit. 2 And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master’s house, 3 \Vlio knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to pros¬ per in his hand. 4 And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered to him : and be¬ ing set over all by him, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered to him: 5 And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph’s sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home, and in the fields. 6 Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to be¬ hold. 7 * And after many days his mistress cast her eves on Joseph, and said: Lie with me. 8 But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act, said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house : 9 Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, oi‘ that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife: how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God? 10 With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery. 11 Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house, and was doing some business without any man with him: 12 And she catching the skirt of his gar¬ ment, said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out. 13 And when the woman saw the gar¬ ment in her hands, and herself disregarded, 14 She called to her the men of her house, and said to them : See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me: and when I cried out, 15 And he heard my voice, he left the gar¬ ment that ] heldyand got him out. 16 For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home: 17 And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me to abuse me. 18 And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and fled out. 19 His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife’s words, was very angry. 20 'And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king’s prisoners weye kept, and he was there shut up. 21 But the Lord ^i^as with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him favour in yie sight of the chief keeper of the prison : 22 Who delivered into his hand aU the h A. M. circiter 2286. Ante C. 1718. prisoners that v. ere kept in custody: and whatsoever was done was under him. 23 Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all things to him : for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper. CHAP. XL. Joseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Phaiao s set. vants in prison ; the event declareth the interpret* tions to be true, but Joseph isforgotten. A fter this, it came to pass, that twc eunuchs, the butler and the baker ot the king of Egypt, offended their lord.-' 2 And Pharao being angry with them (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker) 3 He sent them to the prison of the com¬ mander of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner, 4 But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in cus¬ tody. 5 And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves: 6 And when Joseph was come in to them in the morning, and saw them sad, 7 He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder to-day than usual? 8 They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them : Doth not in¬ terpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed ? 9 The chief butler first told his dream: 1 saw before me a vine, 10 On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes: 11 And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into the cup which 1 held, and 1 gave the cup to Pharao. 12 Joseph answered: This is the interpre¬ tation of the dream; The three brancnes, are yet three days: 13 After which Pharao wiU remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place : and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou wast wont to do. 14 Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of thi.s prison: 15 For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon. 16 The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a dream. That 1 had three baskets of meal upon my head: 17 And that in one basket which was up- ermost, I carried all meats that are made y the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it. 18 Joseph answered: T his is the inter- t Ps. 104, 18 .—J A. M. 2287. Ante C. 1717^ Chap. XXXIX. Ver. 10. A proof of her fidelity, ov an argument to gam credit, argumentum fidei. Chap. XL.' Ver. 8. Doth no*. interp''-etation be¬ long to God 7 Wlien dreams are from God, as these were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God. But tlie generality of dreams are .not of this sort; but sitlier proceed from the natural complexions and dispositions of persons, or-the roving of their imaginations in the day on such objects as they are much affected with, or from their mind being dis- turbed with cares and troubles, and oppressed uith bodily infirmities: or they are suggested by evil spirits, to flatter, or to terrify weak minds ; in order to ^aiu belief, and so draw them into error or super¬ stition : or at least to trouble them in their sleep, whom they cannot move when they are awake : so that the general rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe them, nor to give any credit to them. 34 Chap. XLI. GENESIS. Chap. XLI. pretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days : 19 After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on a cross, smd the birds shall tear thy flesh. 20 The third day after this v/as the birth¬ day of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banouet remea- bered the chief butler, and the chief baker 21 And he restored the one to his place to present him the cup : 22 The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn. 23 But the chief butler, when things pros¬ pered with him, forgot his interpreter. CHAP. XLI. Joseph interpreteth the two dreams of Pharao: he is made ruler over all Egypt, FTER two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river, * 2 Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy plaees. 3 Other seven also eame up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places: 4 And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke. 5 He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair: 6 Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted, 7 And devoured all the beauty of the for¬ mer. Pharao awaked after his rest: 8 And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpre¬ ters of Egypt, and to all the wise men : and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could inter¬ pret it. 9/rhen at length the chief butler remem¬ bering, said: I confess my sin : 10 The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers: 11 Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come. 12 There was there a young man a He¬ brew, servant to the same captain of the sol¬ diers : to whom we told our dreams, 13 And we heard Avhat afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hang¬ ed upon a gibbet. 14 Forthwith at the king’s command, Jo¬ seph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him, and changing his apparel, brought him in to him. 15 And he said to him; I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can ex¬ pound them: now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them. IG Joseph answered: Without me, * God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer. 17 So Pharao tola what he had dreamed : MethoughtI stood upon the bank of the rivei’, 18 And seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full of flesh : and they grazed on green places in a marshy I osture. 19 And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill-favoured and^ lean, that 1 never saw the like in the land of Egypt 20 And they devoured and consumed the former, 21 And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again, 22 And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, full and very fair. 23 Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock: 24 And they devoured the beauty of tlie former: 1 told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it. 25 Joseph answered: The king’s dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do. 26 The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream. 27 And the seven lean and thin nine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the ourning wind, are seven years of famine to come • 28 Which shall be fulfilled in this order: 29 Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt: 30 After which shall follow otlier seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abun¬ dance before shall be forgotten , for the fa¬ mine shall consume all the land, 31 And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty. 32 And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fidfilled speedily. 33 Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt: 34 That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years, 35 That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up under Pharao’s hands, and be reserved in the cities. 36 And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity. 37 The counsel pleased Pharao and all his servants. 38 And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God? 39 He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee? 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth all the peo¬ ple shall obey: only in the kingly throne will i be above thee. 41 And again Pharao said to Joseph: Be¬ hold, 1 have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt. 42 And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand : and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain ol gold about his neck. 43 And he made him go up into his se¬ cond chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and tliat they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt. 44 And the king said to Joseph: I am k A. il. 2230. Ante C. 1716 —I Mat. 10, 20. m PsaL 10!. 21; 1 Mac. 2, 53 ; Acte, 7.1(X 36 Chap. XLII. GENESIS. Chap. XLTI. Pharao; without thy commandrnciit no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. 45^ And he turned his name, and called him in tha Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world. Aucf he gave him to wife Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Helio¬ polis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt: 40 (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao) and he went round all the countries of Egypt. 47 And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into slieaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt. 48 And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city. 49 And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure. 50 “ And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis bore unto him. 51 And he called the name of the first¬ born Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labom’S, and ray father’s house 52 And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of ray poverty. 53 Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past: 54 ®The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretoldj began to come: and the famine prevailed m the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt. 55 And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you. 5G And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also. 57 And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief ot their want. CHAP. XLII. Jacob sendeth his ten softs to buy corn in Egypt. 7’heir treatment by Joseph. A nd Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to nis sons: Why are ye cai’eless ? ^ 2 I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: lo ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we iay live, and not be consumed with want. 3 So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt: 4 Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest per¬ haps he talce any harm in the journey. 5 And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. Eor the fa¬ mine was in the land of Chanaan. G And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him, n Infra, 46, 20, and 48, 20. _ 0 A. M. 2206. Ante eaiit 6a^m. vai-ee 86. Chap. XLIV. GENESIS. Chap. XLIY. asked them, saying: Is the old man vour father in health, of whom you told me ? Is he yet living ? 28 And they answered: Thy servant our father is in health, he is yet living. And bowing themselves they made obeisance to him. 29 And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin his brother, by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son. 30 And he made haste because his heart was moved upon his brother, and teai's gush¬ ed out: and going into his cnamber he wept. 31 And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained himself, and said: Set bread on the table. 32 And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him, apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane:) 33 They sat before him, the first-born ac¬ cording to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much: 34 Taking the messes which they received of liim : anof the greater mess came to Ben¬ jamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him. CHAP. XLIV. Joseph’s contrivance to stop his brethren. The humble supplication of Juda. A nd Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying : FUl their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack. 2 And in the mouth of the younger’s sack put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done. 3 And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses. 4 And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way; Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said; Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good? 5 The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil tiling. 6 He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words. 7 And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had com¬ mitted so heinous a fact ? 8 The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan : how then should it be that we should steal out of thy lord’s house, gold or silver ? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him (fie, and we will be the bondmen of my lord. 10 And he said to them: Let it be accord¬ ing to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be blameless._ _ w .Supra, 42,13.—a; Sup rfv. 43, 3, and 6. Chap. XLIV. Ver. 16. The science of divining. lie speaks of Limself according to wliat he was ea- leemed in tliat kin;,'(loin. Ana inOeed, he beni'j rruiv a prophet, knew more without comparison than any 11 Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack. 12 Which when he had searched, begin¬ ning at the eldest and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin’s sack. 13 Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town. 14 And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they altogether fell down before him on the ground. 15 And he said to them: Why would you do so ? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining. 16 And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord ? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants : behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom tlie cup was found. 17 Joseph answered: God forbid that I should do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father. 18 Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art, 19 My lord. "'Thou didst ask thy ser¬ vants the first time: Have you a father or a brother ? 20 And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead: and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him ten¬ derly. 21 And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to im, and I will set my eyes on him. 22 We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father; for if he leave him, he will die. 23 "And thou saidst to thy servants: Ex¬ cept your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face no more. 24 Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all tliat my lord had said. 25 And our father said; Go again, and buy us a little wheat. 26 And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, w« will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man’s face. 27 Whereunto he answered: You know that nw wife bore me two. 28 One went out, and you said: »'A beast devoured him: and hitherto he appeareth not. 29 If you take this also, and any thing be¬ fall him in the way, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow imto hell. 30 Therefore if I shall go to thy servant our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of nun), 31 And he shall see that he is not with u^ he will (he, and thy servants shall bring down his gray hairs with sorrow unto hell. 32 Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: • If _ V Supra, 37, 30, and 33.—z Supra, 43,0. of the Egyptian sorcerers. Ver. 31. His gray hairs. That is, his person, now far advanced in years.— With sorrow unto hell tlie Hebrew word for hell is here sheol, the Greek hades 33 Chap, XLV. GENESIS. Chap. XLVI. I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever. 33 Therefore I thy servant will stay in¬ stead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren. 34 For I cannot return to my father with¬ out the boy, lest 1 be a witness of the cala¬ mity that will oppress my father. CHAP. XLV. Joseph maketh himself known to brethren : and sendeth for his father. J OSEPH could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by: whereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be present at their knowing one another. 2 And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians and all the house of Pharao heard. 3 And he said to his brethren : I am Jo¬ seph : is my father yet living ? His brethren could not answer him, being struck with ex¬ ceeding great fear. 4 And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: “lam Joseph, your bro¬ ther ,whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Be not mraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: * for God sent me before you in¬ to E^ypt for your preservation. 6 For it is two years since the famine be¬ gan to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither plough¬ ing nor reaping. 7 And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live. 8 Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God : who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt. 9 Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph ; God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt: come down to me, linger not. 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons’ sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou hast. 11 And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining), lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast. 12 Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth that speaketh to you. 13 You shall tell my father of all my^glory, and all things that you have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me. 14 And falling upon the neck of his bro¬ ther Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck. 16 And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to speak to him. lo And it was heard, and the fame was abroad in the king’s court: The brethren of Joseph are come: and Pharao with all his family was glad _ a Act^ 7,13.—6 Infra, 60,20. _c A. Ivl. 2298. Ante C. 1706._ it is not taken for the hell of the damned ; but for that place of souls below where the servants of God were kept before the coming of Christ. Which place, 17 And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts, anrfgointo the land of Chanaan. 18 And bring away from thence your fa¬ ther and kindred, and come to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land. 19 Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives: and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed: 20 And leave nothing of your household- stuff: for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours. 21 And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. ^ And Joseph gave them wagons ac¬ cording to Pharao’s commandment: and provisions for the way. 22 He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benja¬ min he gave three hundred pieces of silver with five robes of the best: 23 Sending to his father as much money and rainient, adding besides ten he-asses to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey. 24 So he sent away his brethren, and at their depai’ting said to them: Be not angry in the way. 25 Ana they went up out of Egypt^ and came into the land of Chanaan to their fa¬ ther Jacob. 26 And they told him, saying: Joseph thy son is living: and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them. 27 They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons and all that he had sent, his spirit revived, 28 And he said: It is enough for me, if Joseph my son be yet living: 1 will go and see him before 1 die. CHAP. XLVI. Israel, warranted by a vision from God, goeth down into Egypt with all his family, A ND Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,* 2 He heal'd him by a vision in the night calling him, and saying to him : Jacob, Ja¬ cob. And he answered him: Lo, here 1 am. 3 God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father : fear not, go down into Egypt, for I win make a great nation of thee there. 4 I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Jov seph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath; “^and his sons took him up, with their children and wives m the wagons, w'hicl Pharao had sent to carrjr the old man, 6 And all that he had in the land of Cha naan, and he came into Egypt with all his seed:* 7 His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring together. _e Jo8. 21, 4 ; Ps. 101,’23 ; Isai. 52,4._ both in the Scripture and in the creed, is named hell. Chap, XtiVI, Ver. 1. The well of ihe oath, Bersabee 39 Chat*. XLVI. GENESIS. Chap. XLVIL 8 And tliese are the names of the children of Israel, that entei-ed into Egypt, he and his diildren, His first born lluben, 9 The sons of Iluben: Henoch and Phallu, And Hesron and Charmi. 10 ^ The sons of Simeon; Jamuel and Ja- min and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar, and Saul the son of a woman of Chanaan. 11 * The sons of Levi; Gerson and Caath and Merari. 12 ‘ The sons of Juda; Her and Onan and Sela and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Ha- mul. 13 •'The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua and Job and Semron. 14 The sons of Zabulon : Sared and Elon and Jahelel. 15 These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria with Hina his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three. 16 The sons of Gad: Sephian and Haggi and Suni and Esebon and Heri and Ai’odi ind Areli. 17 * The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua and Jessiu'i and Beria, and Sara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia his daughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Jo¬ seph and Benjamin. 20 ' And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth the daughter of Piitiphare priest of Heliopolis bore him: Manasses and Ephraim. H The sons ot Bemamin; ” Bela and Be- cnor and Asbel and Gera and Naaman and Echi and Ros and Mophira and Ophim and Ared. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob; all the souls, fourteen. 23 The sons of Han: Husim. 24 The sons of Nephtali: JazielandGuni and Jeser and Sallem. 25 These are the sons of Bala, whom La¬ ban gave to Rachel his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob; all the souls, seven. 26 All the souls that went with Jacob in¬ to Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, be¬ sides his sons* wives, sixty-six. 27 And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls." All the souls of the house of Jacob, that en¬ tered into Egypt, were seventy. 28 And he sent Juda before him to Jo¬ seph, to tell him; and that he should meet him in Gessen. 29 And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chai’iot, and went up to meet his father, in the same place: and seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and embracing him wept. 30 And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because 1 have seen thy face, and leave thee alive. 31 And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father’s house: I will go up, and vvUl tell Pharao, and will say to him; My f£xod. 1,2, and 6,14 ; Numb. 26, 0 ; l Tar. 6, 1 , and 3. a Exod. 6,15; 1 Par. 4, 24. h 1 Par. 6, 1 . i 1 Par. 2. 3, and 4, 21. Chap. XLVII, Ver. 2. The last. Extremos. Some interpret this word of the chiefest, and most rightly : but Joseph seems rather to have chosen out brethren and my father’s house, that were in the land of Clianaan, ai-e come to me: 32 And the men are sliepherds, and their occupation is to feed cattle: them flocks and herds, and all they have, they have brought with them. 33 And when he shall call you, and shall say : What is your occupation ? 34 Tou shall answer: We thy servants are shepherds, from our infancy until now. both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Ges¬ sen. because the Egyptians have all shep¬ herds in abomination. CHAP. XLVII. Jacob and his sons are presented before Pharao : he giveth them the land of Gessen. The famine fore- eth the Egyptians to sell all their possessions to the king. ^^HEN Joseph went in and told Pharao, X saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they pos¬ sess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen. 2 Eive men also the last of his brethi'en, he presented before the king; 3 And he asked them: What is your oc¬ cupation? They answered: We thy ser¬ vants are shepherds,both we,and ourfathers. 4 We are come to sojourn in thy land, be¬ cause there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen. 5 The king therefore said to Joseph : Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee. 6 The land of Egypt is before thee: make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle. 7 After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and presented him before him and he blessed him. 8 And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life ? 9 He answered: The days of my pilgri¬ mage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers. 10 And blessing the king, he went out. 11 But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded. 12 And he nourished them, and all his fa¬ ther’s house, allowing food to every one. 13 For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan. 14 Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which they bought, and brought it into the king’s treasure. 15 And when the buyers wanted money all Egypt came to Joseph, saying; ® Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money. 16 And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money. j 1 Par. 7, l.—k l Par. 7, SO. I Supra, 41, 60. m 1 Par. 7, 6, and 8,1.—n Dent. 10, 22. _ 0 A. M. 2S00. Ante C. 1704. such as had the meanest appearance, that Pharao might not think of employing them at court, with danger of tlieir morals and religion. 40 CnAr. XLVIII. GENESIS. Chap. XLVIII. 1 'i And when they had Drought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle. 18 And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands. 19 Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands; buy us to be the king’s servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness. 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, be¬ cause of the ^eatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao’s hands: 21 And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof, 22 Excei)t the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions. 23 Then Joseph smd to the people: Be¬ hold as you see, both you and your lands be¬ long to Pharao: take seed and sow the fields, 24 That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king: the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children. 25 And they answered: Our life is in thy hand: only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king. 26 From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is paid to the king, and it is become as a law, except the land of the priests, which was free from this covenant. 27 So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the tand of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly. 28 And he hved in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundi'ed and forty-seven years. 29 And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, ®put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt show me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt: 30 But I will sleep with mv fathers, and thou slialt take me away out ox this land, and bury nee in the burying place of my ances¬ tors. ’’And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded. 31 And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel adored God, tui'ning to the bed’s head. CHAP. XLVIII. Joseph visiteth his father in his sickness, who adopteth his two sons Manasses and Ephraim, and blmseth them, preferring the younger before the elder, A fter these things, it was told Joseph that his father wa s sick; and he set out p A. ^L 2315. Ante C. 1689.—a Supra, 24, 2. r Supra. 23, 17.—J A. M. 2315.—< Supra, 28,13 ._ Ver. 81. To the bed’s head. St. Paul, Heh. xi. 21., following the Greek translation of tlie Septuagint, reads adored the top of his rod. Where note, that the same word in the Hebrew, according to the dif¬ ferent pointing of it, signifieaboth a bed and a rod. And to verify both these sentences, we must under¬ stand that Jacob leaning on Joseph’s rod adorc Jos. 13, 7. and 29.—tc Supra, 35, 10 .- *'. Heb. 11, 21 .- 1 / Supra, 31,29, and 32. turning tosvards tlie head of his bed : wliich adora¬ tion, inasmuch as it was referred to God, was an ab solute and sovereign worship : but inasmuch m it was referred to the rod of Joseph, as a figui'e of the sceptre, that is, of the royal dignity of Christ, was only an inferior and relative honour. 41 Chap. XLIX. GENESIS. Chap. XLIX. I know: and this also shall become peo¬ ples, and sl)all be multiplied; but this younger bro'.her shall be greater than he: and his seed shall crow into nations. 20 And he blessed them at tout time, say¬ ing : In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses. 21 And he said to Joseph his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will Dring you back into the land of your fathers. 22*1 give thee a portion above thy bre¬ thren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite “ with my sword and bow. CHAP. XLIX. Jacob's prophetical blessings of his twelve sons : his death. A nd Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, O yesonsof Jacob,hearken to Israel yourfather: 3 Buben, my first-born, thou art rny strength, and the beginning of my sorrow : excelling in gifts, greater in command. 4 Thou ai’t poured out as water, grow thou not: * because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed, and didst defile his couch. 5 Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war. 6 Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: * because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall. 7 Cm’sed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel; ‘*1 will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. 8 J uda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hands shall be on the necks of thy enemies : the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee. 9 ‘Juda is a lion’s whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him ? X Mat. 18,10.—a Jos. 16,1, and 15, 7. 6 Jos. 2i, 8 ; Deut. 18, 6.—c Supra, 34, 26. Chap. XLIX. Ver. S. My strength, &c. He calls him his strength, as being born whUst his father was in his full strength and vigour : he calls him the be¬ ginning of his sorrow, because cares and sorrows usually come on with the birth of children. Excel¬ ling in gifts, &c., because the lirst-born had a title to a double portion, and to have the command over his brethren, which Ruben forfeited by his sin; being poured out as water, that is, spilt and lost. Ver. 4. Grow thou not This was not meant by way of a curse or imprecation ; but by way of a pro¬ phecy foretelling that the tribe of Ruben should not uiherit the pre-eminences usually aimexed to the first birthright, via,, the double portion, the being prince or lord over the other brethren, and the priesthood : of which the double portion was given to Joseph, the princely office to Juda, and the priest¬ hood to ].(evi. Ver. 6. Slew a man, viz., Sichem the son of He- nior, with aU his people, Gen. xxxiv., mystically and prophetically it alludes to Chifist, whom their pos¬ terity, viz., the priests and the scribes put to death. Ver. 9. A lion’s xfhelp, &c. This blessing of Juda foretelleth the strength of his tribe, the fertility of his inheritance; and principally that the sceptre and legislative power should not be utterly t^en ssway from his race till about the time of the coming of Christ: as in effect it never was : which is a de¬ monstration against the modem Jews, that the Mes¬ siah is long smce come; for the sceptre has long since been utterly taken away from Juda. N'er. 16 . Dan shall Judge, &c. This was verified in Samson, who was oi the tribe of Dan, and began to deliver Israel. Judges, xiii. 6. But as this deliver- 10 ■''The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, tifl lie come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations. 11 Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my eon to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape. 12 His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. 13 Zabulon shall dwell on the sea-shore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon. 14 Issachar shall be a strong ass lyisg down between the borders. 15 He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute. 16 Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel. 17 Let Dan be a snake in the way, a ser¬ pent in the path, that biteth the horse’s heels that his rider may fall backward. 18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord. 19 Gad, being girded, shall light before him: and he himself shall be girdedbackward. 20 Aser. his bread shall be fat, and ht shall yield dainties to kings. 21 Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty. 22 Joseph IS a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold; the daughters run - to and fro upon the wall. iJCV 23 But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him. ^ 24 His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the flfriTiA TctqaI 25 The God of thy father shaU be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the bless¬ ings of the deep that lietb beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb. 26 The blessings of thy father are strength¬ ened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come; d Jos. 19,1.—e 1 Par. 6, 2. _ /Mat. 2, 6 ; John, 8, 45.—g 1 Par. 6, l. ance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy patriarch (ver. 18.) aspires after another kind of de¬ liverer," saying: I will look for thy salvation, O Lord. Ver. 19. Gad being girded, Ac. It seems to allude to the tribe of Gad ; when a'^’ier they had received for their lot the land of Galaad, they marched in oi'ms before the rest of the Israelites, to the con- queet of the land of Chanaan : from whence they afterwards returned loaded with spoils. See Jos. iv. and ziL Ver. 22. Run to and fro, &(j. To behold his beauty; whilst Ills envious brethren turned their darts against him, Ac. Ver. 24. His bow rested upon the strong, Ac. That is, upon God, who was his strength : who also loosed hts ba7ids, and brought him out of prison to be the pastor, that is, the feeder and ruler of Egypt, and the stone, that is, the rock and support of Israel, Ver. 26. The blessifigs of thy father, Ac. That is, thy father’s blessings are made more prevalent ana effectual in thy regard, by the additional streairtb they receive from his inheriting the blessings of his progenitors Abraham and Isaac. The desire of the everlasting hills, &o. These blessings all lookea for¬ ward towards Christ, called the desire of the ever¬ lasting hills, as being longed for, as it were, by the whole creation. Mystically, the patriarchs and pro¬ phets are called the everlastina htllt, by reason of the eminence of their wisdom and holiness. The Naza- rite. This word signifies one separated: and agrees to Joseph, as being separated from, and more cua- nent than, his brethren. As the ancient Hazar-t.'os were so called from their being set aside for God. and vowed to turn Ir' ^2 Chap. L. GENESIS. Chap. L. may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazariie among his brethren. 27 Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the n.orn ing shall eat the prey, and in the evenmg shall divide the spoil. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings. 29 And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury _me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite, 80 Over-against Mambre in the land of Chanaan, * which Abraham bought together with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in. 31 There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife : there also Lia doth lie buried. 32 And when he had ended the command¬ ments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gatherea to his people.' CHAP. L. The mourning for Jacob, and his interment, Joseph’s kindness towards hu brethren. His death, A ND when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his ■LX. father’s face weeping and kissing him. 2 And he commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father. 3 And while they were fulfilling his com¬ mands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days. 4 And the time of the mourning being ex¬ pired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: if 1 have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao: 5 For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So 1 will go up and bury my father, and return. 6 And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And the house of Joseph with his bre¬ thren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen. 9 He had also in his train chariots and liorsemen: and it was a great company. 10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jor- dan : where celebrating the exequies with a h Supra, 23,17. lA. M. 2315. Ante C. 1689. 3 Supra, 47. 29. k Acts, 7. 10 ; Supra, 23, 17._ _ Ver. 29. To be gathered to my people. That is, 1 am eoing to die, and so to follow my ancestors that great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. 11 A.nd when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, th^ said : This is a great mourn mg to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called. The mourn¬ ing of Egypt. 12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. 13 And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, *they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hethite over-against Mambre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his com¬ pany, after he had buried his father. 15 Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. iG^And they sent a message to him, say¬ ing : Thy father commanded us before he died, 17 That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. 18 And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: \Ve are thy servants. 19 And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God? 20 ' You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people. 21 *” Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly. 22 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his fa¬ ther’s house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. " The children also of Machir the son of Manasses were born on Joseph’s knees. 23 After which he told his brethren: ^ God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 24 And he made them swear to him, say¬ ing : God will visit you, ^ carry my bones with you out of this place: 25 » And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt. _ l Supra, 45, b.—m Supra, 47,12. n Num. 32, 39.—o lieb. 11, 22. p Exod. 13, 19 ; J 03. 24, 32. _ q A. M. 2369. Ante C. 1635. _ are gone before lUe, and to join their company la another world. 43 THE BOOK OF EXODUS. The Second i^ooA 0/Moses is called Exoi>us,//-om the Greek loord Exouos, rckich nifies going out: because it contains the history of the going out of the children of Is¬ rael out of Egypt. The Jiebreivs,from the words with which it begins, call it Veellb Semoth : These are the names. It contains transactions for 145 years ; that is, frf>m the death of Joseph to the erecting of the tabernacle. CHAP. 1. The Israelites are multiplied in Egypt. They are oppressed by a new king, who commandeth all their male children to be killed, T hese are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Ja¬ cob : they went in, every man with his house¬ hold : *■ 2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, 3 Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser. 5 And ail the souls that came out of Ja¬ cob’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 ex¬ ceedingly 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 nume¬ rous 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 hav¬ ing overcome us, depart aut of the land. 11 Therefore he set over them mastei’s of uhe works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Kamesses. 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. 16 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 vvomen, 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 r Geu. 46, 8.—f Geu, 46, 27. t Acts, 1, 17.—w In fra, 0,20.—« lieb. It, 23 . Chap. I. Vcr. ll. O/Zaitfrwac/tff, or of storehouses. Ver. 21. Because the midwives feared God, Ac. The midwives were rewarded, not for their lie, wliich was a veniaPsin; but for their fear oi God, and their humanity : but this reward was ouly tem- are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a mid¬ wife ; 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: what¬ soever of the female, ye shall save alive. CHAP. II. Moses ts bom and exposed on the bank of the rivers where he is taken up by the daughter of Pharao, and adopted for her son. He killeth an Egyptian, and Jleeth into Madian; where he niarrieth a wife. A ETER this there went a man of the xjL 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 I’iver’s brink, 4 His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done. 6 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 1 took him out of the water. 11 “ in those days after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw w A. M. 248S. Ante C. 1671. jc A. M. 247S. Ante C. 1531.-1/ Heb, 11, 24. poral, in buildmg them houses, that is, in cstabUsh- ing anti enriching their families. Chap. II. Ver. 10. or Moj/ref,in the Egyp¬ tian tongue, signifies one taken or saved out of the water. 44 Chap. III. EXODUS. Chap. III. 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 tliere, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour ? 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 De known ? 15 And Eharao 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 de¬ livered 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 tliat he would dwell with him. ‘ And he took Sephora his daugh¬ ter 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 Phtirao. 23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groan¬ ing, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God fi'om the works. 24 And ne heard their groaning, and re¬ membered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them. CHAP. III. God appeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel. N OW 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, Horen." 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 wont forward to see, he called to him out of tJie 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 fa¬ ther, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Mose^ 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 w'orks: 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 afflic¬ tion, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians. 10 But come, and I will send thee to Pha- rao, that thou mayst bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said to God: who am 1 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 1 have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people Jut of Egypt, thou shclt offer sacrifice to G<.'d 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 aji who Air. 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 Abra¬ ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja¬ cob, 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 Is¬ rael, 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 vi¬ sited you: and 1 have seen all that hath be¬ fallen you in Egypt. 17 And 1 have said the word to bring you z Infra, 18, 2, and 3 ; 1 Par. 23,13. a A. M 2513. Ante C. 1491. ' t-ayi s - oarticular inspiration of God; as a prelude tonis ueliverinK the people from their oppression and bon¬ dage. lie thought, says St. Stephen, Acts, \i\. 2.5, that his brethren understood that God by his hand tcoind save them. But such particular and extraoi*- dinary examples are not to be imitated. Ver. 15. Madian. A city and country of Arabia, which took its name from Aladian the son of Abra- tkim, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity. Ver. 18. Ragtiei. lie had two names, being also called Jethro, as appears from the first verse of the fulloaing chapter t 7 S0» c Mat. 22, 32 : Mark, 12, 26 ; Luke, 20, 37. _ Ver. 22. Gersam, or Gershom. This name signi¬ fies a stranger there: as Eliezer signifies the help of God. Ver. 25. Knew them ; that is, ho had respect to them, Ixe cast a merciful eye upon them. Chap. 111. Ver. 2. The Lord appeared. Thatis, an angel representing God, and speaking in his name. Ver. 14. I am who am. That is, I am being^tselt, eternal, self-existent, uulepeinient, infinite ; without beginning, end, or change ; and the source of all other beings. 45 Chap. IV. EXODUS. Chap. IV. forth out of the afflict,ion of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, the Hethite, and the Ainorrhite, 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 Is¬ rael, 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 in¬ to the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God. 19 But I know that the king of Egypt PV'ill not let you go, but by a mighty hand. 20 For 1 will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all my wonders which 1 will do in the midst of them; after these he will let you go. 21 And 1 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 daughtei’s, and shall spoil Egypt. CHAP. IV. Moses is empowered to confirm his mission with mi- t acles : his brother Aaron is appointed to assist him. M oses 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 boldest 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 Abra¬ ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja¬ cob, hath appeared to thee. 6 And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it •nto 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 tlie 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 be¬ fore : and since thou hast spoken to thy ser¬ vant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. 11 The Lord said to him: Who made d Infra, 11, 2, and 12, 35. Ver. 22. Shall spoil, &c. That is, you shall strip, and take away the goods of the Egyptians. This was not authorizing theft or injustice; but was a just disposal made by Him, who is the great lord and master of all things, in order to pay the children of Israel some part of what was duo to them from the Egyptians for their labours. Chap. IV. V’^er. 21. / shall harden, &c. Not by being the elScient cause of his sin ; but by withdraw- man’s mouth? or who made the dumb aiid the deaf, the seeing and the blind ? did not 1. 12 Go therefore,* and 1 will be in thy mouth: and 1 will teach thee what thou sh^lti sp0 15 And the officers of the children of Is¬ rael 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 ser¬ vants are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal. 17 And he said: You are idle, and there¬ fore you say; Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. 18 Go therefore, and work; straw shall _g A. M. 2513. Ante 1191._ Ohaf. V^I. Ver. 3. My name Adonai. The name, aiiich is in the Hebrew text, is that most proper name of God, which signifieth his eternal, self-exist¬ ent being, Exodus, iii. 14, which the Jews out of re¬ verence never pronounce ; but, instead of it, when¬ ever it occurs in the Bible, they read Adonai, which lignihes the Lord: and, therefore, they put the points ur vov'cls, which belong to the name Adonai, to the not be given you, and you snail deliver the accustomed number of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Is¬ rael saw that they were in evil case, because it was saM to them • Tliere 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 niade our sa~ vcurto 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 peo¬ ple ? wherefore hast thou sent me ? 23 For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflict¬ ed thy people: and thou hast not delivered them. CHAP. VI. God reneweth his promise. The genealogies of Ru. ben, Simeon ana Levi, down to Moses and Aaron, A ND 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: 1 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 nave heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have op¬ pressed 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, con¬ cerning which 1 lifted up my hand to give it t 9 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: Be¬ hold the children of Israel do not hearken to me; and how will Pharao hear me, especi¬ ally 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 E gypt, that they should bring forth _ h A. M. 2513. _ four letters of that other inefl'able name Jod, He, Vau, He. Hence some moderns have framed the name Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians; for the true pronunciation of the name, which is ia the Hebrew text, by long dis¬ use, is now qiiite lost. Ver. 12. Uncircumcised lips. So he calls the de¬ flect he had in his words, or utterance. 47 CiiAr. VII. EXODUS. Chap. Vlt. the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 14 ‘These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons of Ruben the first-born of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesronand 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 fa¬ milies of Simeon. 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi l^ their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years or the life oi Levi were a hundred ana thirty-seven. 17 * The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Se- mei, by their kindreds. 18 ‘ The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel. And the years of Caath’s life were a hundred and thirty-three. 19 The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi by their fa¬ milies. 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 Am- ram’s life wei’e a hundred and thirty-seven. 21 The sons also of Isaar; Core, and Neph^, 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 kin¬ dreds 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 •f Egypt all that I say to thee. 30 And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircurncised lips, how will Pharao hear me ? CHAP. VII. Moses and Aaron go in to Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and the waters of Egypt into blood, tvhich was the first plague. The magicia7is do the tike, and Pharao's heart is hardened. A nd the Lord said to Moses: Behold I have appointed thee the God of Pharao: »nd Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.”* 2 "Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall speak to Pharao. V that he let the children of Israel go out or \ tiis 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 Is¬ rael out of the land of Egypt, by very gi-eat judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lor A 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 d'd as the Lord had commanded; so did they. 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, wnen 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 maimer. 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, say¬ ing: 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 1 am the Lord: beliold I will strike with the rod, 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 the^ may be tiu’ned 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: r 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 Egyp¬ tians could not drink the water of the river. i Geii, 46, 0; Num. 26,5 ; 1 Par. 5,1. j 1 Par. 4. .24. k 1 Par. 6,1, and 23,6. i Num. 3,19, and 26, 67, £8 ; 1 Par. 6, 2. and 23,12. m A. M. 2513.—n Supra, 4 . 16.— o 2 Tim. 3,8. p Infra, 17,5 ; Ps. 77, 44. Chap. VII. Ver. l. 7'he God of Pharao, viz., to be h\% judge; and to exercise a divine power,as God’s instrument, over him and his people. Ver. 3. I shall harden, 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 first- borii in the land of Egypt both man and a Levit. 7,16. —6 Lev it . 23, 5 ; Num. 28,16. Chap. XL Vor.lO. The Lord hardened, &q. See Ihe annotations above, chap. iv. 21, and chap. vii. 8. Chap. Xll. Ver. 6. Aktd. The oAase might be performed, either with a lamb or witn a kid : and all the same rites and ceremonies were to be used witli one as with the other. Ver. 18. Unleavened bread. By this it appears, that our Saviour made use of unleavened bread, in the institution of the blessed sacrament, which was Chap. XII. 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 1 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 everlast¬ ing 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 twenti¬ eth 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 unlea¬ vened 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 ceremo¬ nies. 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 savin? our houses. And the people bowing them selves, adored. c Heb. 11, 28^ " oa the evening of the paschal solemnity, at which time there was no leavened bread to be found in Is¬ rael. Ver. 22 . Sprinkle, &o. This sprinkling the doora of the Israelites with the blood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the sword oi the destroying angel, was a lively figure oi our re¬ demption by the blood of Christ. 62 EXODUS. Chap. XII. EXODUS. Chap. XIII. 28 And the children ol Israel going forth did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 29 And it came x,o pass at midnight, the Lord slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharao, who sat on his throne, • imto the first-born of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the first-born of cattle. 30 And Pharao arose in tile night, and all ms servants, and all Egypt; and there arose a great cry in 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 childi'en 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 ot the land speedily, saying: We shall all die. 34 The people therefore took dou^h before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders. 35 -^And the children of Israel did as Mo¬ ses 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 m the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyp¬ tians. 37 ' And the children of Israel set for- vyard from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six.hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. 38 And a mixed multitude without num¬ ber 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 unlea¬ vened; for it could not be leavened, the E^ptians-pressing them to depart, ana not suitering them to make any stay: neither did they ^nk 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 cir¬ cumcised, 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 cai’ry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a lone thereof. 47 All the assembly of the children of Is¬ rael shall keep it. 48 And if any stranger be willing to dwell d Supra, ll, 6.—« Wis. IS, 6. i Supra, 3, 22, and 11, 2. M. 2513. Ante C. 1491, Chap. XHL Ver. 2. Sanctify unto me every first¬ born, Sanctification in this place means that the first bom males of the Hebi ews should he deputed I among you, and to keep the Phase of thf I 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 uncir¬ cumcised, he shall not eat thereof. 49 The same law shall he 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. CHAP. XIII. The paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the first, born are to be consecrated to God. The people are conducted through the desert by a pillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing : 2 • Sanctify unto me every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as ot beasts: for they are all mine. 3 And Moses said to the people: Remem ¬ ber 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 slialt 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 bx’ought 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 conse¬ crate to the Lord. 13 The first-born of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep : and if thou do not re¬ deem it, thou shalt kill it. And every first¬ born of men thou shalt redeem with a price, 14 And \rhen thy son shall ask thee to- morrow, saying; What is this ? Thou shalt A Num. 9,12 : John, 19, 86.—t Infra, 84,19 ; Levit. 27, 20 : Num. 8,10 ; Luke, 2, 23, _ j Infra, 22, 29, and .34,19 ; Ezec. 44, 30. to the ministry in the divine worship ; and the first¬ born of beasts to be given for a sacrifice. 63 Chap. XIV. EXODUS. Chap. XIV. 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 first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first¬ born of man to the first-born of beasts: there¬ fore 1 sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb of the male sex, and all the first¬ born 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 thev should see wars arise against them, ana 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 en¬ camped 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. CHAP. XIV. Pharao pursueth the children of Israel. They n}ur. mur against Moses, but are encouraged by him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao and his army following them are drowned, A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing: 2 Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phiha- hiroth v.’hich 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 i 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 Egyp¬ tians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so. _ 5 And it was told the king of the Egyp¬ tians that the people was fied: 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. _ k Deut. c, 8. I Gen. 60, 24.—m Nuin. 14,14 ; _ 2 Esdr. 9,12, and 19; 1 Cor. 10,1. Chap. XIV. Ver. 20. A dark cloud, and enlight- tuing the night. It was a dark cloud to the Egyp- 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 di'ew near, the chil* dren of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them; and they reared ex¬ ceedingly, 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 1 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 J am the Lord, when I shall be glorified in Pharao, aud in his chariots and in his horse¬ men. 19 And the angel of God, who went be¬ fore the camp of Israel, removing, went be¬ hind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the fore-part, 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: aud the water was divided. 22 And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up : for the w ater 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 cha¬ riots 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 cha¬ riots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said; Let us flee from Israel: for the Lox’d fighteth for thenc against us. 26 And the Lord said t o Moses: Stretch n Jos. 24, 6 ; 1 Mac. 4 , 0. 0 Ps. 77, IS, and 104. S7. aud llS, 3.: Heb. 1’, -29. _ p Wis. IS, 15. _ tians; but enllG^htened the night to the Israelites, by givinfi them a great light. 54 Chap. XV. EXODUS. Chap. XVI. forth thy band over the sea, that the watei-s 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 wa¬ ters 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 tlie 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 serYa,nt, CHAP, XV. The canticle of Moses. The biller waters of Mara are made sweet. ''pHEN ® Moses and the children of Israel . 1 - sung this canticle to the Lord: and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider Ire 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 .ather, 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 thy 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 wa¬ ters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered to¬ gether in the midst of the sea. 9 The enemy said: I will pursue and over¬ take, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall Aave 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 v/a- ters. 11 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, gloi’ious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders ? 12 Thou stretchodst 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 }n thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation. 14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sor¬ q Wis. la 2o. r Ps. 117,14: Isai. 12, 2. $ J udith, 6.15 : EocIL 3S. 5. rows took hold on the inhabitants of Phi- listhiim. 15 Then were the princes of Edom trou¬ bled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan be¬ came 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 wa¬ ters 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 tim¬ brels and with dances: 21 And she began the song to them, say¬ ing : Let us sing to the Lord, for he is glo¬ riously 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 Avil- derness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wildernesSj 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 JMara, that is, bitterness. 24 And the people murmured against Mo¬ ses, saying : What shall we drink? 25 But he cried to the Lord, and he shew¬ ed bim 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 be¬ fore him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that 1 laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for 1 am the Lord thy healer. 27 ‘And the children of Israel came into Elim, where t^iere were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they en- camped by the waters. CHAP. XVI. The people murmur for leant of meat: God giveth them quails and manna. A nd 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 se¬ cond 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 ox'^er the flesh-pots, and ate bread to the ‘’all why have you brought us into this desert / JNum. SS, 9. ti Wis. 11, 2. A. M. 2615. Chap. XVI. EXODttS. Chap. XVII. that you might destroy all the multitude ^vith 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 tor every day • that I may prove them whe¬ ther they will walk in my law, or no. 6 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 chil¬ dren 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 mur¬ mured 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 as¬ sembly 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 1 have heard the murmuring ot the children of Israel; say to them: In the Even¬ ing you shall eat flesh, and in tlie 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 imto the hoar-frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhul 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 ga¬ thered 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, and it putrified, 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 to EcclL i6, 8.—a; Num. U, 81. V Snpr.'i, 10, 20 : Nttm. ll, 7 : Ps. 77, 21 ; John, 0,81. z 1 Cor. lU, 3. 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 com¬ manded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it. 25 And Moses said: Eat it to-day, be¬ cause 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 command¬ ments, 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 cori¬ ander 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 go¬ mor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter, that they may know the bread, wherewith 1 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 £ omor 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. CHAP. XVIL The people murmur again for want of drink, the Lord giveth them water out of a rock. Moses lifting up his hand in prayer, Amalec is overcome. ^ PHEN all the multitude of the children of -I- 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; a 2 Cor. 8,15. b 2 Esdr. 0, 21; Judith, 5, u. c A. 2ii. 2518.—(i r^um. 20, iU 56 Chap. XVIII. EXODUS. ^ Chap. XVIIl. What shall £ do to this people ? Yet a little more and they will stone me. 5 And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod where¬ with thou didst strike the river, • and go. 6 Behold I will stand there before thee, iipon tne rock Iloreb: and thou shalt strike tlie rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients or Israel: 7 And he called the name of that place Temptation,because of the chiding of the chil¬ dren 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 iiill 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 hUl. 11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame. 12 And Moses’s hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass that his hands were not weary until sunset. 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 aii 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 genera¬ tion. CHAP. XVIII. Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His counsel. \ ND when Jethro ‘'the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, nad 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: *1 have been a stranger in a foreign country. 4 And the other Ehezer : For the God of my father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pliarao. 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 moun¬ tain of God. e 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 e Supra, 14,31; Pa. 77,16; 1 Cor. 10,4. /Deut. 25,17 : Judith, 4, IS ; Wis, 11, S. 0 A. M. 2614. A. C. 1400. 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 tlie Lord had delivered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, be¬ cause he had delivered them out of the hand 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 morn¬ ing until night. 14 And when his kinsman had seen _alV 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 be¬ tween them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws. 17 But he said: The thing thou dost is not good. 18 Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou and this people that is with thee: the business is above thy strength, -^thou alone canst not bear it. 19 But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the peo- le in those things that pertain to God, to ring 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 trutn, 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 aU times: and whatsoever was of greater diffi¬ culty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only. 2'^ And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country * h Supra, 2, 22. I Supra, 1,14, and 6, 7. and 10,10, and 14,8. /Deut. 1,12.—& Nuin. 20 i», 57 Chap. XIX. EXODUS. Chap. XX. CHAP. XIX They oome to Sinai: the people are commanded to be sanctified. The Lord, coming \n thunder and lightning,speaketh with Closes. J N 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 eoniing 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. 6 If therefore you will hear my voice, ana 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. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. 7 Moses came and calling together the el¬ ders 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 JMoses 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 bor¬ ders 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. M hen 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 tliird 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 fiash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, I Nura. S3, 15.—m Acts, 7.38. n i)eut. 29,2. o Ps. 23, l.—p 1 Pet. 2, 9. g Heb. 12,18.—y U eut. 4,11. Chap. XIX. Ver. 3. And Moses went up to God. Moses went up to mount iSiuai, where God spoke to him. Chap. XX. Ver. 4. A graven thing, nor the like- ness of any thing, Ac. All such images, or likeness¬ es, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be pdored and served; according to that which immediately follows, thou shalt not adore them, nor and the noise of the trumpet sounded ex¬ ceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared. 17 And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God from the j^lace of the camp they stood at the bottom ot 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 peo¬ ple cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying : Set li¬ mits 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 w'ent down to the people and told them all. CHAP. XX. The ten commandments. A ND the Lord spoke all these words: • 2 1 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 be¬ fore me. 4 * Thou shalt not make to thyself a grav¬ en 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 w'aters under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor servo them: lam the Lord thy God, mighty, jea¬ lous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and foui’th gene¬ ration of them that hate me: 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my command¬ ments. 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 Godin vain. 8 * Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy w'orks. 10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no w ork s A. M. 2513 ; Deut. 5, 6 ; Ts. 80,11. t Lev. 26 ,1 ; Deut. i, 15 ; Jos. 24.14; Ds. 96,7. u Lev. 19,12 ; Deut. 5, 11; Atut. 5, S3. V Infra, 31,13 ; Deut. 5,14 ; Ezec. 20,12. serve them. That is, all such as are designed for idols or image-gods, or are worshipped with divine honour. But otherwise images, pictm'es, or representations, even in the house of God, and in the very s^mctuary so far from being forbidden, are expressly autho¬ rised by the word of God, See Exodus, xxv. 15, dc. chap, xxxviii. 7; Num. xxi. 8, 9; 1 Chron. xxviii. 18. 19: 2 Chron. iii.' 10, 58 Chap. XXL EXODUS. Chap. XXL on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor tliy beast, nor tlie'stranger that is within thy gates. 11 “For in sLx days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all tlxings 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 long-lived upon the land which the Lord thy God will giv e 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 hand-maid, 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 chall offer upon it your ho¬ locausts and peace-offerings, yom* sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name sliall be: 1 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 stories: 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 mscovered. CHAP. XXL Laws relating to Justice. ^PHESE are the judgments which thou -L shiklt 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 lie came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out wfith him. 4 But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters : the wo¬ man 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 mtister and my wife and childi’en, 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. to Gen. 2, 2.—X Dent. 6,16 ; Mat. 15, 4 ; Eph. 6, 2. V Mat. 6, 21,—* Rom. 7.7, and 13, 9. a Ueut. lb, 16; Heb. 12,18.—6 Infra, 27, -8, and S8,7. _ c Dent. 27, 6 j Jos. 8,81. _ Chap. XXL Ver. ei Tv Eloliim. That 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 ser¬ vant, she shall not go out as bond-women 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 oi 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 pur¬ pose 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 the 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 bond-man or bond- woman 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 punish¬ ment, because it is his money. 22 If men quarrel, and one strike a wo¬ man 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 bmming, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 If any man strike the eye of his man¬ servant or maid-servant, 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 man¬ servant or maid-servant, 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 he 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: d Deut. 16,12 : Jer. 84,14. e Lev. 24,17.—/ Deut. 19, 2. g Lev. 20, 9 ; Prov. 20,20; Mat. 15. 4 ; Mark, 7.10. h Lev. 24,20; Deut. 19, 21; Mat. 5, S8. is, to the judges, or magistrates, authorised by Cod 59 Chap. XXII. EXODUS. Chap. XXIII. then the ox shall oe stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 And if they set a price ui)on 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 bond-man or a bond- woman, he shall give thirty sides 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 tnat 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. CHAP. XXII. The punishment of theft, and other trespasses. The law of lendmg without usury,of taking fledges of reverences to superiors, and of paying tithes. I F any man steal an ox ora 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 restitu¬ tion 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 re¬ store double. 5 If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that winch 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 throns, 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 thiei 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 : audit 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 ac¬ cept of the oath; and he shall not be com¬ pelled to make restitution. 12 ■' But if it were taken awav 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 w’hich 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 shad 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 es- E oused, and lie with her: he shall endow er, 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 stran¬ gers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not nurt a widow or an or¬ phan. 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 1 will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fa¬ therless. 25 If thou lend money to any of my peo¬ ple that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extor¬ tioner, nor oppress them with usuries. 26 " If thou take of thy neighbour a gar¬ ment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again befoi’e sun-set. 27 For that same is the only thing where¬ 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 shiilt give the first-born of thy sons to me. 30 Thou shalt ao the same with the first¬ born 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 hare tasted of before, you shall not eat. but shall cast it to the dogs. CHAP. XXIII. Laws forjudges ; the rest of the seventh gear, and day: three principal feasts to be solemnized every year : the promise of an angel, to conduct and pro¬ tect them : idols are to be destroyed. 'T^HOU shalt not receive the voice of a lie: X 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 trutn. 3 Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment. 4 '■ If thou meet thy enemy’s ox or ass go¬ ing 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. 0 Acts, 28, b.—p Supra, 13,3, and 12; Infra, M, lO; Kzcck, 4t, 80.—Lev. 22, 8.—r Deut 23, L GO 1 3 Kings, 13, 9 .—3 Gen. 31,39.—Ar Deut. 22,28. I Levit. 19, i.—m Zac. 7,10.—n Deut. 24.18. Chap. XXIIl. EXODUS. Chap. XXIV. G Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man’s judgment. 7 Thou shalt fly lying. • The innocent and vst person thou shalt not put to death: be¬ cause 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 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 cele¬ brate feasts to me. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. “"Seven days shalt thou eat un¬ leavened bread, as 1 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 worl^ 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 ap¬ pear 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 • I’hou 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 1 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 1 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 Jebu- site, whom 1 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 sta¬ tues. 25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, that 1 may bless your bread and your wa ■ $ Dan. 13, 63.—/ Dent, la, 19 ; Eccli. 20, 31. u Gen. 46, 6 .—v Levit. 25, 4. xo Supra, IS, 3, and 4 ; Infra, 34, 22. _ K Deut, 18. 16 : Eccli. 35, 6.—p Infra, 34,'23 ; Chap. iXtV. T er. i. Titles. That is, pillars. Ver. 6. HolocaxuU, whole burnt offeringB, In ters, 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 tmm the backs of all thy ene¬ mies before thee. 28 ^ Sending out hornets before, that shah 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 inhabi¬ tants 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 iu 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 wrifeth his law ; and after offering sacriflcet, sprinkleth the blood of the testament upon the peo¬ ple : then goeth up the mountain which God cover. eth with affiery cloud. A nd 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 judg¬ ments : 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 aU 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 Is¬ rael. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and tliey offered holocausts, and sa¬ crificed 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 Deut. 10,16.—« Infra, 34, 26.—a Deut. 14. 2L b Deut. 7.11.—c Infra, 33, 2 ; Jos. 24.11; Deut. 7, 22.—d Deut. 7, 20. e Infra, 34,15 ; Deut. 7, 2.—/ Ile b. 9, W, _ whioli the whole sacrifice waa consumed with fire upon the altar. 61 Chap. XXV. EXODUS. Chap. XXV. 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 writ¬ ten : that thou mayst teach them. 13 Moses rose up, and his minister Josne: 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 Is¬ rael. 18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: ^And he was there forty days, and forty nights. CHAP. XXV. Offerings prescribed for making the tabernacle, the ark, the candlestick, ^c. ND the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing: 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 died, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, 5 And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setira-wood: 6 ()il 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 ta¬ bernacle which I will shew thee, and of ail the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it: 10 Prame 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 pur¬ est 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 _ 0 Deut. 9, 9.—A I nfra, 35, 6. Chap. XXV. Ver. 2. First frui's: offerings of some of the best and choicest of their goods. Ver. 6, Setim-teood. 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 ra¬ tional his breast-plate, m which were twelve gems, dec. Ver. 17, A propitiatory; a covering for the ark ; cajXen&p'^sviltatory, or mercy-seat, because the Lord, K^o wjw supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, frorri thence shewed mercy. It is also called the oracle, rex. la, and 20 ; because from thence God gave his 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 tes¬ timony which I will give thee. 17 Thou shalt make also a propitiatory ol the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cu¬ bit and a half. 18 Thou shalt make also two cherubims ol 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 pro¬ pitiatory, spreading their wings, and covei - ing the oracle, and let them look one to¬ wards 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, wnich 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 theledge 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 cor¬ ners 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 liba¬ tions 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 t Heb. 0, 2. 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 were al¬ ways to stand before the/aceof the Lord in his tem¬ ple : Hs a figure of the eucharistic sacrifice and sa¬ crament, in the church of Christ. _ Ver. 20. Libations. That is, drink-offerings. Ver. 31. A candlestick. This candlestick, with ita 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 ol the church of Christ. 62 Chap. XXVI. branch, and a bowl withal, ana 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 slvxll set them upon the candlestick, to give light over-against. 38 The snutfers also and where the snuff- ings 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 ta¬ lent 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. A nd thou shalt make the tabernacle in this mariner : Thou shalt make ten cur¬ tains 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. j 3 Five ciu’tains shall be joined one to ano- | ther, and the other five shall be coupled to- j gether 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 goat’s 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 1 y them¬ selves, 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. J Heb. 8, 5 ; Acts, 7, 4-1;. Chap. XXVI. Ver. 83. The sanctuary, 0 manner of a net: at the four corners of which shall be four rin^s of brass, 5 Which thou shalt put u»ider 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 setimrwood, 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 south¬ ward 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 pillai’s, 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 nangmgs 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 tine twisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillai’s 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 shail be of five cubits, and it shall be made I Infra, 38, 6. Chap. XXVm. Ver. 15. The rational of judgment. This part of the priest's attire, which he wore at his breast, was called the rational of judgment ; pATily because it admonished both priest and people of their duty to Qod, by carrying the names of alltheir of tine twisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass. 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies, and the pine 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 tne tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testi¬ mony. 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. CHAP. XXVill. The holg vestments for Aaron and his sons. T ake 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, Eieazar, and Ithamar. 2 And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. 3 And thou shalt ^eak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s vest¬ ments, 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 priest¬ hood 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 diver? TO Supra, 20, 24. tribes in his presence; and by the Urim and Thunu mim, that is, doctrine and truth, which were written upon it; and partly because it gave divine answeri and oracles, as 11 it were rational and endowed with judgment. 64 Chap. XXVIII colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scar¬ let twice dyed, and fine twisted linen. 16 It shall be four square 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 sappliire 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 M'ith 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 judgment 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 be¬ fore the Lord: and he shall bear the judg¬ ment 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 tobe made hi the outmost arts of garments, that it may not easily be( roken. 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 be¬ tween : 34 So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate. _ n Eccli. 45, 11. Ver. 80. Docirine and truth. Hebrew, Urim and Thummim: iUuminaticnt and perfeoHoiu. These words, written on the rational, seem to elfpiilv *110 H Chap. XXIX. 35 " And Aaron shall be vested with it ic 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 to the altar to minister in the sanctuary, lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him. CHAP. XXIX. The manner of consecrating Aaron and other priests, the institution of the daily sacrifice of two lambs, one in the morning, the other at evening, A ND thou shalt also do this, that they -tA. 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 with¬ out 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 testi¬ mony. And when thou hast washed the fa¬ ther and his sons with water, 5 Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vest¬ ments, 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 ordi¬ nance. After thou shalt have consecrated their hands, _ _ _ o Lev, 9 , 2 . __ li&bt of doctrine and the integrity oi life, with Whioh the priests of Ood ought to approach to him. 65 EXODUS. Chap. XXIX. EXODUS. Chap. XXX. 10 1* * Thou shalt present also the calf be¬ fore the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands up¬ on 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-ofifering upon the altar: 14 But the flesh of the calf and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, with¬ out 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 shedt 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 obla¬ tion to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim of the Lord. 19 Thou shalt take also the other ram, up¬ on whose head Aaron and hie 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 unc¬ tion, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his ves¬ ture, his sons and their vestments. And af¬ ter th^ 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 uiDon 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 unlea¬ vened 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 shai’e. 27 And thou shalt sanctify both the con¬ secrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram, 28 AVnerewith Aaron was consecrated and his sous, and they shall fall to Aaron’s share and his sons’ by a perpetual right from the c hildren of Israel; because they are the choic- _p Le v. 1, S.—g Lev. 8,3. _ CiiAS*. XXX.. Ver. 1. An altar to burn incense. Thid burning of Incense was an emblem of prayer, est and the lieginnings of their pcace-vic tims which they offer to the Lord. 29 And the holy vesture, which Aarcn shall use, his sons shall have after him. that they may be anointed, and their hands con¬ secrated in 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 min¬ ister in the sanctuary, shall wear it seven days. 31 And thou shalt take the ram of the con¬ secration, 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 sancti¬ fied. A stranger shall not eat of them, be¬ cause they are holy. 34 And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread till the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall not be eaten, because they are sanctified. 35 All that 1 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 pai’t 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 perpe¬ tual oblation unto your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony be¬ fore the Lord, where I will appouit to speak unto thee. 43 And there will 1 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 Aai’on wuth 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 1 am the Lord fheir God, who have brought them out of the land oi Egypt, that I might abide amoni^ them, I the Lord their God. CHAP. XXX. The altar of incetise: money to be gathered for the use of the tabernacle: the brazen laver; the holy oil of unction, and the composition of the perfume, '^HOU shalt make also an altar to bur; X incense, of setim-wood. 2 It shall be a cubit in length, and anothe r Lev. 8. 81. and 24, 0 ; Mat. 12, ascending to God from an inilained heart. Bet • Psalm, cxL 2 1 Apocalypse, v. B, and viii. 4. GO Chap. XXX. EXODUS. Chap. XXXI. in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. J loi ns shall go out of the same. 3 And thou shalt over-lay it with the purest gold, as well a* 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. 6 And thou shalt make the bars also of setira-wood, and shalt over-lay them with gold. 6 And thou shalt set the altar over-against the veil, that hangeth before the ai'k of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where 1 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 vic¬ tim, neither small 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 pass- eth at the naming, half a side according to the standard of the temple. * A side hath twenty obols. Half a side shall be o^ered 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 side, 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 nands and feet in it: 20 When they are going into the taber¬ nacle of the testimony, and wlien they are to come to the altai’, to offer on it incense to the Lord, 21 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an ev’erlasting 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 sides, and of cin¬ namon half so much, that is, two hundred and fifty sides, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty. _ _ * Nyn. 1,3. _ Vcr. UL Haifa tirlc. A side or shekel of sUvor, (which was ftlao called a stater,) accordintf to the ManiUrd or weight of the tanctuary, which wau the 24 And of cassia five hundred sides by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives tlio 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 sanc¬ tified, 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, ^alba- num of sweet savour, and the clearest trank- incense, all shall be of equal weight. 35 And thou shalt make incense com¬ pounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification. 36 And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I wUl appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto 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. CHAP. XXXI. Beseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to make the tabernacle, and the things belonging there, to. The observation of the sabbath day is ayam commanded. And the Lord delivereth to Moses two tables written with the finger of God. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing : 2 Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hui* 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 heai’t of every skilful man, that they may make all things which 1 have commanded thee, 7 The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory _ t Lev. 37, 25; Num. 8,47; Ezec. i&, 12. most Just and CTnct, was half an ounce of silver, that is, about bail' a crown of ibiglisli money. Tbu J-.ot or gerah, was about three luufpeuco. 67 Chap. XXXII. EXODUS. Chap. XXXII. that is over it, and all tne 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 sa¬ cred 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 be¬ tween me and you in your generations: that you may know that I am the Lord, who sancti^ 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 any worlc 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, luid 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. CHAP. XXXII. The people fall into idolatry. Mosesprayeth for them. He breaketh the tables: aestroyeth the idol: blameth Aaron, and causeth many of the idolaters to be slain. A nd the people seeing that Moses de¬ layed 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 ear-rings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. _ 3 And the people did what he had com¬ manded, bringing the ear-rings 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. 6 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier’s voice, sowing: To-morrow is the so¬ lemnity 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 ifi and sacrificing victims to it, have said: ‘ These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land or Egypt. 9 And again the Lord said to Moses: 'See that this people is stiff-necked: 10 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that 1 may destroy them> and I will make of thee a great na¬ tion. 11 But Moses besought the Lord his G<>d, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12 Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee; He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and de¬ stroy 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 your 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. ■“^5 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 moupt: 20 And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it,/and beat it to pow¬ der, which he strowed into water, and gave tnereot 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 peopl^ that they are prone to evil. 23 They said to me ; Blake 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 M Supra, 20, 8; Eze. 20,12.—v Gon. 1, 31, and 2, 2. u> Deut. 9,10.—a: A. M. 2518; A-cts, 7, 40.-1/ Ps. 105, 18.-g 1 Cor. 10,7.—g Deut, 0, 22. _ OnAT. XXXll. Ver. 26. Naked. Having lost not tiUijr thsir gold, and their honour, but what was b 8Kings, 12,28.—c Infra, 83,3; Deut.9,18. d Num. 14,18; Ps. 106,40.-0 Gen. 12,7, and 15. t, and 4 8,10.—/ Deut. 9,21.—g 1 John, 6, 19 , worst of ail, being"stripned also of the^raee'of Ood, and having lost him.—it’/jr shame of the filth, That m Chap. XXXIII. EXODUS. Chap. XXXIII 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 tlie Lord’s side let him join with me. And all the sons of LctI 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 hei¬ nous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: eitner forgive them this tres¬ pass, 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 1 strike out of my book; 34 But go thou, and lead this people whi¬ ther 1 have told thee: my Angel shall go be¬ fore thee. And 1 in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs. 35 The Lord therefore struck the people for the guill on occasion of the calf which Aarrm had made. CHAP. XXXIII. The people mourn for their sin. Moses pitcheth the tabernacle without the camp. He converseth fami¬ liarly with God. Desireth to see his glory. A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: •tx. Go, get thee up from this place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the ^d of Egypt, into the land concern¬ ing which I swore to Abrahamj Isaac, and Jacob, saying: ‘ To thy seed I wdl 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 Phere- zite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite. 3 That thou mayst enter into the land that tloweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, * because thou art a stiff-necked 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. 6 And the Lord said to Moses : Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiff-necked people ; once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now present ly b Deut. S3,9.—t Gen. 12, 7. j Sup ra, 32, 34. _ Is, of the idol, which they had taken tor their god. It is the usual phrase of the scripture to call idols fiWi and abominations. Chap. XXXIII. Ver. 11. Face to face. That is. In a most familiar manner. 'Ihougn as we learn from this very chapter, Moses could not see the/ace of the Lord. V er, 13. I know thee by name. In the language of the scriptures, God is said to knoto such as ue ap- lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee. 6 So the children of Israel Imd aside their ornaments by mount Horeb. 7 Moses also tailing the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof. The tabernacle of the cove¬ nant. And all the people that had any ques¬ tion, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp., 8 And when Moses went forth to the taber¬ nacle, 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 taber¬ nacle 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 frien^ And when he returned into the camp, hif servant Josue the son of Nun, a young maoj departed not from the tabernacle. 12 And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth thispeople: 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, shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy p^eople this nation. 14 And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and 1 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 fojand grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell up¬ on the earth ? 17 And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will 1 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 1 will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: ” and 1 will have mercy on whom I will, and 1 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, tiU 1 pass: 23 And 1 will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see. k Dt. 7, 22 ; Jo3. 24,11.—/ Sup. 82, 9; Dt. 9, IS. m Rom. 9,16^_ roves and loves: and to know by name, those yrhona e favours in a most singular manner, as he did his servant Moses. Ver. 23. See my back parts. The Lord by hia an¬ gel, usually spoke to Moses in the pillar of the cloud : so that he could not see the glory of him that spoke familiarly with him. In the vision here mentioned he was allowed to see something of him, in an as¬ sumed corporeal form : not in the face, the rays 60 Chap. XXXIV. EXODUS. Chap. XXXI Y. CHAP. XXXIV. The tablet are renexoed : all society with the Cha- naanites is forbid: some precepts concerning the Jirst-bom, the sabbath, and other feasts : After forty days' fast, Moses retumeth to the people with the commandments, and his face appearing horned with rays of light, he covereth it, whensoever he speaketh to the people, ND 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 JBe 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, p and no man of himself is innocent before thee. ®Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grand¬ children, unto the third and fourth genera¬ tion. 8 And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring, 9 Said: If 1 have found grace in thy sight: O Lord, I beseech thee, that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiff-necked 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 nations: 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 be¬ fore thy face the Amorrhite, and the Cha- naanite, 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, wliich may be thy ruin: 13 But destroy their altars, break then’ 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 com¬ mitted 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 daugh¬ ters a wife for thy son, lest after they them¬ selves have committed fornication, they n Deut. 10,1.—o Deut. 6, 10; Jer, 82, la— p Psal. 142, 2.—q Deut. 6, 0 ; Jer. 82,18.—r Deut, 6, 2 ; Jer. 82, 40. 3 Supra, 23,32; Deut. 7, 2.—t S Kings, 11, 2; Deut. 7, _8.—M Supra, 13, 2,12, and 22, 29. _ which were too bright for mortal eye to Lear, but to view him aa it were behind, when ms face was turn ed from him. 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 un¬ leavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn : for in the month of the spring time thou earnest out from Egypt. 19 “All of the male kind, that openeth the womb, shall he mine. Of all beasts, both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be mine. 20 The firstling of an ass thou shalt re¬ deem with a sheen: but if thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The first¬ born 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 first-fruits 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 the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty Lord the God of Israel. 24 For when 1 shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have en¬ larged 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 re¬ main in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase, 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 thee 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 ta¬ bles “ 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 byhim, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congrega¬ tion. 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 tilings that had been command¬ ed him. 35 And they saw that the face of Mosea V Supra, 23,15 .—m> Supra, 23,17 ; Deut. 16,16. X Supra, 23, 18, and 19.— y Supra, 23,19 : Deut. 14, 21. z Supra,, 24,18 ; Deut. 9, 9, and 18. _ a Deut. 4,13.—6 2 Cor. 3,13. _ , Chap. XXXIV. Ver. 29. Homed. Thatis, shia- me:, and sending: forth rays of light hke horna. 70 Chap. XXXV. EXODUS. Chap. XXXVI. when he came out was horned, but he cover¬ ed his face OKain, if at any time he spoke to tliem. CHAP. XXXV. The sabbafh. Offerings for makintj the tabernacle. Beseleel and OoUab are called to the work. A nd 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 tire in any of your habitations on the sabbath-d:^. 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 farstrfruits 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 com¬ manded : 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 propitia¬ tory, and the veil that is drawn before it:” 13 The table with the bars and the vessels, ind 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 pil¬ lars 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 : It) The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high-priest, and ot his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me. 20 And all the multitude of the children 5f Israel going out from the presence of r^Xoscs* 21 Offered first-fruits 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 ear-rings, 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, c A. M. 2515.—Supra, 25, 2. e Supra, 81, ranis’ skins dyed red, and violet-coloured skins, . 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 stones, and precious stones, for the ephod and the ra¬ tional, 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 Is¬ rael : * 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 sil¬ ver and brass, 33 And in engraving stones, and in car¬ penters’ 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 nevi things. CHAP. XXXVI. The offerings are delivered to the workmen, the cur¬ tains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, pillars^ and hanging are made. B eseleel, 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 ac¬ cord had offered themselves to the making of the work, 3 He delivered all the offerings of the chil¬ dren 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 con¬ strained to come, 5 Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary. 6 Moses therefore commanded proclama¬ tion 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 tabernacln made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and .scarlet twice dy ed, /A. M. 2514.—y Supra, 20, 1. h l Par. 21, 2a. 71 Chap. XXXVI. EXODUS. Chap. XXXVII. with varied work, and the art of embroider¬ ing : 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 ano¬ ther, and the other five he coupled one to another. 11 He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner, 12 That the loops might meet one against another, and might be joined each with the other. 13 Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops ot the cur¬ tains, and they might be made one taber¬ nacle. 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 taber¬ nacle 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 soc¬ kets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners. 26 At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh toward the north, he made twenty boards. 36 W ith forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board. 27 But against the west, to wit, at that side ot the thbernacle, 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 taber¬ nacle 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 ana distinguished with embroidery: 36 And four pillars of setim-wood, whict with their heads he overlaid with gold, cast¬ ing 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. CHAP. XXXVII. Beseleel maketh the ark: the propitiatory, and cheru- hints, the table, the candlestick, the lamps, and the altar of incense, and compounaeth the incense. A nd 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 propi¬ tiatory : 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 propi¬ tiatory, 9 Siireading 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 ne 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 pol¬ ished 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 oi 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 branchofl on one side, and three on the other. i A. M. 25 U. A. c. im 72 Chap. XXXYIII. EXO 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 snuf- tings 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 four¬ square, 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 cro^vn 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. CHAP. XXXVIII. He maketh the altar of holocaust. The brazen laver. The court with its pillars and hangings. The sum of what the people offered. H e 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, flesh- hooks, pot-hooks, and fire pans. 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 tliat watched 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 pillar-s were of the same mea¬ sure, and work and metal. 12 But on that side that looketh to the DUS. Chap. XXXIX. west, there were hangings of fifty cubits, ten pill^s 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 ® three pillars, and their sockets: It) 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 piUars were of brass, and their heads with all their gravings oi 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, scar¬ let, and fine twisted linen, that was Wenty 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 ta¬ bernacle of the testimony, which were count¬ ed 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 Ail the gold that was spent i'n the work of the sanctuary, and that was offered in gifts was nine and twenty talents, and seven hun¬ dred and thirty sides according to the stand¬ ard of the sanctuai’y. 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 be 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 hun¬ dred sides 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 th© pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about. CHAP. XXXIX. All the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made And the whole work of the tabernacle is, finished. I Su^m, 27. 8. j A. M. 2511.—/f 2 Par. l. Chap. XXXIX. A ND he made,*" of violet and purple, scar- xL let and line linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in tiie holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses. 2 So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and line 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 colot(i i.i, ClijiP. VIJ, Viir. L Tresuatt. Trespasses, for 4 The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys. 5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt-sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass. 6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat tins flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy. 7 As the saerifice for sin is offered, so is al¬ so that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices: it shall belong to the priest that offereth it. 8 The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof. 9 And every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and whatsoever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the frying-pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it: 10 Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have one as much as_ another. 11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace- offerings that is offered to the Lord. 12 If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer loaves without leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tem¬ pered and mingled with oil: 13 Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks, which is oftered for peace-offerings: 14 Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for first-fruits, and shall be the priest’? that shall pour out the blood of the victim. 15 And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day, neither shall any of it remain until the morning. 16 If any man by vow, or of his own ac¬ cord offer a sacrifice, it shall in like manner be eaten the same day; and if any of it re¬ main until the morrow, it is lawful to eat it: 17 But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire. 18 K any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace-offerings on the third day, the obla¬ tion shall be of no effect, neither shall it pro¬ fit the offerer: yea rather whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression. 19 The flesh that hath touched any un¬ clean thing, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire: he that is clean shall eat ot it. 20 If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be cut off from his people. 21 And he that hath touehed the unclean- ness of man, or of beast, or of any tiling that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people. 22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 Say to the children of Israel: the fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat. 24 The fat of a carcass that hath died of it¬ self, and of a beast that was caught by ano¬ ther beast, you shall have for divers uses. 25 If any man eat the fat that should be oftered for the burnt-sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people. 26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of e A. M. 2514. which these offeriuga were to be made, were lesset offences than those for which tlio siu-ou'ciings woxt npiioiiii i-d. Chap. VIII. LEVITICUS. Chap. V^’". any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts. 27 Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among tlie people. 28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 29 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a victim of peace-offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a sacri¬ fice also, that is, the libations thereof. 30 He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast: and when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest, 31 Who shall burn the fat upon the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and bis sous’. 32 The right shoulder also of the victims of peace-offerings shall fall to the priest for first-fruits. 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that of¬ fereth the blood, and the fat, he shall have the right shoulder also for his portion. 34 For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of tlie children of Israel, from off their victims of peace-offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel. 35 This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the office of priesthood, 36 And the things that the Lord com¬ manded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations. 37 This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for trespass, and for consecration, and the victims or peace-offer¬ ings: 38 Which the Lord appointed to Moses in Mount Sinai, when he commanded the chil¬ dren of Israel, that they should offer their •- ' •lations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai. CHAP. VIII. Moses consecrateth Aaron and his sons. \ ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying -tjL 2 0 Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction, a calf for sin, two rams, a basket with unleavened bread, 3 And thou shalt gather together all the congregation to the door of the tabernacle. 4 And Moses did as the Lord had com¬ manded. And all the multitude being ga¬ thered together before the door of the taber¬ nacle, 0 He said: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded to be done. 6 And immediately he offered Aaron and bis sons: and when he had washed them, 7 He vested the high-priest with the strait linen garment, girding him with the girdle, and putting on him the violet tmiick, ana over it he put the ephod, 8 And binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on which was Doctrine and Truth. 9 He put also the mitre upon his head: and upon the mitre over the forehead, he put the plate of gold, consecrated with sanctifi¬ cation, as the Lord had conmianded him. 10 He took also the oil of unction, with which he anohited the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof. 11 And when he had sanctified and spriiik- iei? the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof^ and the laver with the foot thereof, he sanctified with the oil. 12 *And ho poured it upon Aaron’s head, and he anointea and consecrated him: 13 And after he had offered liis sons, he vested them with bnen tuiiicks, and girded them with girdles, and put mitres on them as the Lord had commanded. 14 He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and liis sons had put their hands upon the head thereof, 15 He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altai- round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof. 16 But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, he burnt upon the altar: 17 And the calf with the skin, and the flesh and the dung, he burnt without the camp, as the Lord had commanded. 18 He offered also a ram for a holocaust; and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head, 19 He immolated it, and poured the blood thereof round about upon tne altar. 20 And cutting the ram into pieces, the head thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt in the fire, 21 Having first washed the entrails, and the feet, and the whole ram together he burnt upon the altar, because it was a holo¬ caust of most sweet odour to the Lord, as he had commanded him. 22 He offered also the second ram, in the consecration of priests: and Aaron, and bis sons put their hands upon the head thereof: 23 And when Moses had immolated it, he took of the blood thereof, and touched the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and the thumb of his right hand, and in like manner also the great toe of his right foot. 24 He offered also the sons of Aaron : and when with the blood of the ram that was immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of every one of them, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes of their right feet, the rest he poured on the altar round about: 25 But the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and with the right shoulder, he separated. 26 And taking out of the basket of unlea¬ vened bread, which was before the Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a cake tempered with oil and a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder, 27 Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons; Who having lifted them up before the Lord, 28 He took them again from their hands, and burnt them upon the altar of holocaust, because it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet odour of sacrifice to the Lord. 29 And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his portion, elevating it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him. 30 And taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar, he sprinkled Aaron, and his vestments, and bis sons, and their vestmente witli it. 31 And when he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded them, say¬ ing ; Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and there eat it. Eat ye also the 29, 88. anil! 40 EccH, ' 80 /A. M. aaik Aule C. l«ur. Chap. IX. LEVITICUS. Chap. X. loaves of consecration, that axe laid in the basket, as the Lord commanded me, saying: ‘ Aaron and his sons shall eat them: 32 And whatsoever shall be left of the flesh and tlie loaves, shall be consumed with fii'e. 33 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired. For in seven days the conse¬ cration is finished: 34 As at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the sacrifice might be accom¬ plished. 35 Day and night shall you remain in the tabernacle observing the watches of the Lord, lest you die: for so it hath been commanded me. 36 And Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses. CHAP. IX. Aaron offereth secriflee for himself and the people. Fire cometh from the Lord upon the altar. ND when the eighth day was come, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the ancients of Israel, and said to Aaron: •' 2 Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord. 3 And to the children of Israel thou shalt say : Take ye a he-goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without blemish for a holocaust, 4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace- offerings: and immolate them before the Lord, offering for the sacrifice of every one of them flour tempered with oil; for to-day the Lord will appear to you. 5 They brought therefore all things that Moses had commanded before the door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood, 6 Moses said: This is ^he word, which the Lord hath commanded: do it, and his glory will appear to you. 7 And he said to Aaron : approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice for thy sin; offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the people: and when thou hast slain the people’s victim, pray for them, as the Lord hath com¬ manded. 8 And forthwith Aaron, approaching to the altar, immolated the calf for his sin: 9 And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger therein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured "ihe rest at the foot thereof. 10 And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver, which are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord had com¬ manded Moses: 11 But the flesh and skins thereof he burnt with fire without the camp. 12 He immolated also the victim of holo¬ caust : and his sons brought him the blood thereof, which he poured round about on the altar. 13 And the victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the head and all the members, all which he burnt with fire upon the altar, 14 Having first washed the entrails and the feet with water. 15 Then offering for the sin of the people, he slew the he-goat: and expiating the altar, 1 6 He offered the holocaust; _ • Exod. 20, 82, and Exod. SO, 22, and 40, 0 ; Infra, 24,9, / A. M. 2514 ; Exod. 29,1. F 17 Adding in the sacrifice the libations, wliich are offered withal, and burning them upon the altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning holocaust. 18 He immolated also the bullock and the ram, the peace-offerings of the people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon the altar round about. 19 The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, and the caul of the liver. 30 They put upon the breasts. Ana after the fat was burnt upon the altar, 21 Aaron separated their breasts, and the riglit shoulders, elevating them before the Lord, as Moses had commanded. 22 And stretching forth his hands to the ipeople, he blessed them. And so the v ictims tor sin, and the holocausts, and the peace- offerings being finished, he came down. 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and afterwards came forth and blessed the people. * And the flory of the Lord appeared to all the multitude: 24 And behold a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces. CHAP. X. Nndab and Abiufor offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests are forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things, \ ND Nadab and Abiu, tne sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.' 2 And fire coming out from the Lord de¬ stroyed them, and they died before the Lord. 3 And Moses said to Aaron : This is what the Lord hath spoken: I will be sanctified in them that approach to me, and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace. 4 And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan. the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your bre¬ thren from before the sanctuary, and caiTy them without the camp. 5 And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with linen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them. 6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Elea- zar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not youi heads, and rend not your garments, lest per¬ haps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled: 7 But you shall not go out of the door o! the tabernacle, otherwise you shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they did all things according to the precept of Moses. 8 The Lord also said to Aaron: 9 You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die: because it is an ever¬ lasting precept through your generations: 10 And that you may have knowledge to k 2 Mac. 2,10. 1 A. M. 2514 : Num. 3. 4. and 20, 61; 1 Par. 24. 3. 81 CHAr. XI. LEVITICUS. Chap. discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean: 11 And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses. 12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons tliat were left: Take the sacrifice that is remainin" of the ob¬ lation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies. 13 And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been com¬ manded me. 14 The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. Eor they are set aside for thee and thy children, of tlie victims of peace-offerings of the children of Israel. lo Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and tlie fat that is burnt on the altar, and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the liord hath commanded. 16 ”* While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck-goat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt: and being angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said : 17 W hy did you not eat in the holy place the sacrihce for sin, which is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord, 18 Especially whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried within the holy places, and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as was commanded me ? 19 Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has happened : how could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sor¬ rowful heart? 20 Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied. CHAP. XI. The distinction of clean and unclean animals. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:" 2 Say to the children of Israel: “These ai'e the animals which you are to eat of all tlie living things of the earth. 3 Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat. 4 But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others, that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean. 6 The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean. m 2 Mac. 2,11.—A. 2514:. A. C. 1490. Chap. il. Ver. 2. Animals which you are to eat, Ac. The prohibition of so many kinds of beasts, birds, and fishes, in the law. was ordered, 1st, to ex¬ ercise the people in obedience, and temperance; 2ndly, to restrain them from the vices of which these animals were symbols ; Srdly, because the things here forbidden were for the most part unwholesome, and not proper to be eaten; 4thl^, that the people of God, by Deing obliged to abstain from things corpo¬ rally unclean, might be trained up to spiritual cleanness. Ver. 8. Hoof ditdded, and cheweth the cud. The dividing of the hoof and chewing of the cud, signify discretion between good and evil, and meditating on the law of God ; aua where either of those is wunt- 6 The hare also: for that too cheweth thv cud, but divideth not the hoof. 7 ^ And the swine, which, though it di videth the hoof, clioweth not the cud. 8 The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you. 9 These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat. 10 But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you, ] 1 And detestable: their fiesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall avoid. 12 All that have not fins and scales, in the waters shall be unclean. 13 Of birds these are they which yon must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you : The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey, 14 And the kite, and the vulture, accord¬ ing to their kind, 15 And all that is of the raven kind, ac¬ cording to their likeness. 16 The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind. 17 The screech-owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis, 18 And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion, 19 The heron, and the charadrion accord¬ ing to its kind, the houp also, and the bat. 20 Of things that ny, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you. 21 But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, where¬ with it hoppeth upon the earth, 22 That you shall eat, as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophiomachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind. 23 But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you; 24 And whosoever shall toucli the car¬ casses of them, shall be defiled, and shall be unclean until the evening: 25 And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead, he shall wash his clothes, and shml be unclsan until the sun set. 26 Every beast that hath a hoof, but di¬ videth it not, nor cheweth the cud, shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled. 27 That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be un¬ clean : he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening. 28 And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things ai e unclean to you. 29 These also shall be reckoned among o Deut. 14, 3.—p 2 Mac- 6,18. ing a maji is unclean. In like manner fishes were reputed unclean that had not fins and scales : that is, souls that did not raise themselves up by prayei and cover themselves with the scales of virtues. Ver. 5. The cherogrillus. Some suppose it to he the rabbit, others the hedge-hog. St. Jerom intimates that it is another kind of animal common in Pales¬ tine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We choose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that follow, (which are little known in this part of the world), to keep the Greek or La.- tin names. Ver. 13. The griffon. Not the monster which the ainters represent, which hath no being upon eartli; ut a bird of the eagle kind, larger than the common. 82 Chap. XII. LEVITICUS. Chap. XIII. nnclean things, of all that move upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile, every one according to their kind: 30 The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stello, and the lizard, and the mole: 31 All these are unclean. He that touch- 3th their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening. 32 And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or hair-cloths; or any thing in which work is done, they shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and JO afterwards shall be clean. 33 But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall be defiled, and there¬ fore is to be broken. 34 Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be unclean. 35 And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be un¬ clean : whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be un¬ clean. 36 But fountains and cisterns, and all ga¬ therings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be de¬ filed. 37 If it fall upon seed-com, it shall not defile it. 38 But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled. 39 If any beast die, ot whieh it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening : 40 And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening. 41 All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable, neither shall it be taken for meat. 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable. 43 Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean, 44 for I am the Lord your God: ® be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth. 45 For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. 46 You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the wa¬ ters, and creepeth on the earth: 47 That you may know the differences of tlie clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse. CHAP. XII. The purification of women after child-birth, A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing : 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them : * If a woman having received seed shall bear a man-child, she shaU be unclean seven days, according to the days of the separation of her flowers. q 1 Pet. 1.16. r A. NL 25U. $ Luke, J, 22. 3 * And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised: 4 But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. Sha shall touch no holy thing neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled. 5 But if she shall bear a maid-child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses, and she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty- six days. 6 And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a ho- Ipcaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin, and shall deliver them to the priest: 7 Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth a man-child or a maid-child. 8 And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, “ or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed. CHAP. XIII. The law concerning leprosy tnmen, and in garments, A ND the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: * 2 The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a different colour or a blister, or as it were something shining, that is, the stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any one of his sons. 3 And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and the hair turned white, and the place where the leprosy appears lower than the skin and the rest of the flesh : it is the stroke of the leprosy, and upon his judgment he shall be separated. 4 But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower than the other flesh, and the hair be of the former colour, the priest shall shut him up seven days. 5 And the seventh day he shall look on him: and if the leprosy be grown no far¬ ther, and hath not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut him up again other seven days. 6 And on the seventh day, he shall look on him: if the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and not spread in the skin, he shall declare him clean, because it is but a scab : and the man shall wash his clothes, and shall be clean. 7 But if the leprosy grow again, after he was seen by the priest and restored to clean¬ ness, he shall be brought to him, 8 And shall be condiemned of uncleanness. 9 If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to the priest, 10 And he shall view him. And when there shall be a white colour in the skin, and it shall have changed the look of the hair, and the living flesh itself shall appear: 11 It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the skin. The priest there¬ fore shall declare him unclean, and shall not shut him up, because he is evidently unclean. 12 But if the leprosy spring out running about in the skin, and coverall the skin from the head to the feet, whatsoever falieth un- der the sight of the eyes, _ t John, 7, 23. u Supra. 6, 7, and 11; Luke. a. 24. V A. M. 2014. 83 CHAr. XIII. LEVITICUS. Chap. XIV. 13 The priest shall view him, and shall judge that the leprosy which he has is very clean: because it is all turned into white¬ ness, and therefore the man shall be clean. 14 But when the live flesh shall appear in him, 16 Then by the judgment of the priest he shall be defiled, and shall be reckoned among the unclean: for live flesh, if it be spotted with leprosy, is unclean. 16 And if again it be turned into white¬ ness, and cover all the man, 17 The priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean. 18 When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed, 19 And in the place of the ulcer, there ap- peareth a white scar, or somewhat red, the man shall be brought to the priest: 20 And when he shall see the place of the leprosy lower than the other flesh, and the hair turned white, he shall declare him un¬ clean, for the plague of leprosy is broken out in the ulcer. 21 But if the hair be of the former colour, and the scar somewhat obscure, and be not lower than the flesh that is near it, he shall shut him up seven days. 22 And if it spread, he shall judge him to have the leprosy: 23 But if it stay in its place, it is hut the scar of an ulcer, and the man shall be clean. 24 The flesh also and skin that hath been burnt, and after it is healed hath a white or a red scar, 25 The priest shall view it, and if he see it turned white, and the place thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall declare him un¬ clean, because the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar. 26 But if the colour of the hair be not changed, nor the blemish lower than the other flesh, and the appearance of the lepro¬ sy be somewhat obscure, he shall shut him up seven days. 27 And on the seventh day he shall view him : if the leprosy be grown farther in the skin, he shall declare him unclean. 28 But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear, it is the sore of a burn¬ ing, and therefore he shall be cleansed, be¬ cause it is only the scar of a burning. 29 If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the priest shall see them, 30 And if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard; 31 But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh that is near it, and the hair black : he shall shut him up seven days, 32 And on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair keep its colour, and the place of the blemish be even with the other flesh : 33 The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot, and he shall be shut up other seven days: 34 If on the seventh day the evil seem to have staid in its place, and not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him, and his clothes being washed he shall be clean. 35 But if _ after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin, 36 He shall seek no more whether the hair be tunied yellow, because he is evidently unclean. 37 But if the spot be staid, and the hair be black, let him know that the man is healed, and let him confidently pronounce him clean. 38 If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman, 39 The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness shineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a white blemish, and that the man is clean. 40 The man whose hair falleth oft’ from his head, he is bald and clean: 41 And if the hail’ fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean. 42 But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a white or reddish colour, 43 And the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy which is risen in the bald part. 44 Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest, 45 Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth, and he shall cry out that he is defiled ami unclean. 46 All the time that he is a leper and un¬ clean, he shall dwell alone without the camp. 47 A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy 48 In the warp, and the woof, or a skin, or whatsoever is made of a skin, 49 If it be infected with a white or red spot, it shall be accounted the leprosy, and shall be shewn to the priest. 50 And he shall look upon it and shall shut it up seven days : 51 And on the seventh day when he look- eth on it again, if he find that it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy: he shall judge the garment unclean, and every thing wherein it shall be found: 62 And therefore it shall be burnt with fire. 63 But if he see that it is not grown, 64 He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the leprosy is, and he shall shut it up other seven days. 65 And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned, nor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean, and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the garment, or through the whole. 66 But if the place of the leprosy be some¬ what dark, after the garment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which is sound. 67 And if after this there appear in those places that before were without spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire. 58 If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure, the second time, and they shall be clean. 69 This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins, how it ought to be cleansed, or pronounced un¬ clean. CHAP. XIV. The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:" 2 This is the rite of a leper, when he w A. AL 2511. 84 ::hap. XIV. LEVITICUS. Chap. XIV. is to be cleansed: he shall be brought to the priest: 3 • Who going out of the camp when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed, 4 *' Shall command him that is to be puri¬ fied, Lxod. 20, 7 q Eccli . 10, 6.—r Deut. 24,14; Tob. 4,15. Chap. XVIIL Ter. 23. Because it is a heinous crime. In Hebrew, this word heinous crime is ex- preeeed by the word confusion, signifying tho.8hame- tulnessand baseness of tlxis abominable sin. Chap. XIX. Ver. 10. Different seeds, £iC. Tliis Chap. XIX " Be ye holy, because 1 the Lord your God am holy. 3 Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. 4 Turn ye not to idols, nor make to your¬ selves molten gods. I am the Lord your God. 5 If ye oifer in sacrilice a peace-offering to the Lord, that he may be favourable, 6 You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next day; and whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire. 7 If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety; 8 And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord, and that soul shall perish from among his people. 9 ® When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shall not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground; nor shall thou gather the ears that remain. 10 Neither shall thou gather the bunches, and grapes that fall down in thy vineyard, but shaft leave them to the poor ana the strangers to take. I am the Lord your God. 11 Yoi shall not steal. You shall not he, neither shall any man deceive his neighbour. 12 ^Thou shall not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord. 133 Thou shall not calumniate thy neigh¬ bour, nor oppress him by violence. '’The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning. 14 Thou shall not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind • but thou shall fear the Lord thy God, be¬ cause I am the Lord. 15 Thou shall not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. * Respect not the per¬ son of the poor, nor honour the countenance of the mighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice. 16 Thou shall not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shall not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. J am the Lord, 17 ‘ Thou shall not hate thy brother in thy heart, “but reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him. 18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. * Thou shall love thy friend as thyself. 1 am the Lord. 19 Keep ye my laws. Thou shall not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou, shall not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shall not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts. 20 If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bond servant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scoimged, and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman. 21 And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the taber¬ nacle of the testimony: 22 And the priest shall pray for him and for his sin before the Lord, and he shall have s Deut. 1.17, and 16,19 : Prov. 24.23 ; Eccli. 42,1; James, 2, 2.—t 1 John, 2, ll, and 3,14. u Eccli. 10, IS ; Mat. 18,15 ; Luke, 17, S.—v Mat. 5. _ 43, and 22, 39 ; Luke, 6, 27 ; Rom. 13, 0._ law tends to recommend simplicity and plain dealing in all things, and to teach the people not to join any false worsliip or heresy with the worslnp of the ta ut G-od. 89 LEVITICUS. Chap. XX. LEVITICUS. Chap. XX. mercy on liiin, and the sin shall be forgiven. 23 When yon shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit-trees, you shall take away the first-fruits of them; the fruit that comes forth shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat of them. 24 But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to the praise of the Lord. 25 And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof, gathering the increase thereof. 1 am the Lord your God. 26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams. 27 Nor shall you cvAyour hair roundwise: nor shave your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks: 1 am the Lord. 29 Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness. 30 Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. 1 am the Lord. 31 Go not aside after wizards, neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them : 1 am the Lord your God. 32 Rise up before the hoary head, and ho¬ nour the person of the aged man ; and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord. 33 " If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him; 34 But let him be among you as one of the same country: and you shall love him as vourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 1 am the Lord j^our God. 35 Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure. 36 Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextai'y equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 Keep all my precepts, and all my judg¬ ments, and do them. I am the Lord. CHAP. XX. Divers crimes to be punished zvith death. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying : * 2 Thus shalt thou say to the cliildren of Israel: *' If any man of the children of Is¬ rael, or of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, ive of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let im die; the people of the land shall stone him. 3 And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of ins peo¬ ple, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my command¬ ment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him; 5 I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornica¬ tion with Moloch, out of the midst of their people. 6 The soul that shall go aside after magi¬ cians, and soothsayers, and shall commit for- W Eiod. 22, 21_ _ A. M. 2614. y Supra, 18, 21. __ z 1 Pet. 1 , 16 .—g Exod. 21 ,17 ; Ver. 23. The Jirst fruits. Prceputia, literally, their fore-skins ; it alludes to ciroiuncision, and sig- iiifies that for the first three years the trees were to be as uncffcumcised, and their fruit unclean ; till in the fourth year their Increase was sanctified and nication with them, 1 will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people. 7 ' Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy be¬ cause 1 am the Lord your God. 8 Keep my precepts, and do them. 1 am the Lord that sanctify you. 9 “ He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die : he hath cursed his father, and mother, let his blood be upon him. 10 * If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour’s wife, let them be put to death, both theadul- rer and the adultress. 11 If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death; their blood be upon them. 12 If any man lie with his daughter-in-law, let both die, because they have done a hein¬ ous crime: their blood be upon them. 13 If any one lie with a man as with a wo¬ man, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be up¬ on them. 14 If any man after marrying the daugh¬ ter, marry her mother, he hath done a hein¬ ous crime: he shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you. 15 He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill. 16 ® The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same: their blood be upon them. 17^ If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother’s shame: they have committed a crime: they shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another’s nakedness, and they shall bear their iniquity. 18 If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people. 19 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father: he that doth this, hath un¬ covered the shame of his own flesh, both shall bear their iniquity. 20 If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin,both shall bear their sin: they shall die without children. 21 He that marrieth his brother’s wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness : they shall be with¬ out children. 22 Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into wiiich you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out. 23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore J abhorred them. 24 But to you I say; Possess their land Frov. 20, 20 J Matt. 15, 4 t Mark, 7,10. 6 Deut. 22. 22; John, 8, 5. _ c Supra, 18, 23. given to the Lord, that is, to the priests. Chah. XX. Ver. 16 . The beast also ye shall kill The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of tuch abomiiiatioiu 90 CnAr. XXI. LEVITICUS. Chap. XXII. which I will give you for an inhei’itance, a land flowing with milk and honey. 1 am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people. 25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean : defile not your souls with beasts, or birds,or any things that move on the earth, and which 1 have shewn you to be miclean. 26 ** You shall be holy unto me, because 1 Hie Lord am holy, and I have separated you {rom other people, that you should be mine. 27 ‘A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them. CHAP. XXL Ordinances relating to the priests. T he Lord said also to Moses : Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens : 2 But only for his kin, such as are near in blood, that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also, 3 And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband : 4 But not even for the prince of his peo¬ ple shall he do any thing that may make him unclean. 5 V Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name: for they oifer the burnt oflfering of the Lord, and the bread of their God, and therefore they shall be holy. 7 * They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband : because they are consecrated to their God, 8 And oifer the loaves of proposition. Lot them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them. 9 If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire. 10 The high-priest, that is to say, the priest, is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured, and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood, and whchath been vested with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head, he shall not rend his garments: 11 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person; not even for his father, or his mo¬ ther, shall he be defiled : 12 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of the holy unction of Ills God is upon him. 1 am the Lord. 13 ' He shall take a virgin unto his wife: 14 But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people : 15 He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his na¬ tion : for 1 am the Lord who sanctify him. 16 And tlie Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 17 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their familieSj hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God. 18 Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind, if he be lame, if he have a little, or a great^, or a crooked nose, 19 If his foot, or if his hand be broken, 20 If he be crook-backed, or blear-eyed, or have a peai'l in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rup¬ ture : 21 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish, he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God. 22 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary, 23 Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanc¬ tuary. 1 am the Lord who sanctify them. 24 Moses therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that liad been commanded him. CHAP. XXII. Who may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered. A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, say- ing :■>' 2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are conse¬ crated of the children of Israel, and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord. 3 Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perisn before the Lord. I am the Lord. 4 The man of the ^eed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sancti¬ fied to me, until he be healed. He that touch- eth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead, and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation, 5 And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the touching of which is defiling, 6 Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified: but when he hath washed his flesh with wa¬ ter, 7 And the sun is down, then being puri¬ fied, he shall eat of the sanctified things, be¬ cause it is his meat. 8 *That which dieth of itself, and that wliich was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. 1 am the Lord. 9 Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctu¬ ary, when they shall have defiled it. 1 am the Lord who sanctify them. 10 No stranger sharl eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them. 1 Pet. 1, 16. « Deut. 18,11 ; 1 liiugs, 28, 7. /A. M. 2514.—£f Supra, 19, 27 ; Ezec. 41. 20. h Supra, 19, 29.—«Ezec. 44, 22. j A. M. 2514.—A Supi a, 17,15 : Exod. 22, SI; Deut. 14, 21; Ezec. 4,14. Chap. XXI. Ver. l. Anuiicleanness,viz.,&\ic)\SLS was contracted in laying out the dead body, or touch¬ ing it; or in going into the house, or assisting at the funeral, Ac. . _ . . CuAP. XXIL Ver. 3. Approacheth irc- This is to give us to understand, with what purity of soul we are to approach to the blessed sacrament of which these meats tliat had been offered in sacrifice were a figure. 01 Chap. XXII. 11 But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them. 12 If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified, nor of the first-fruits. 13 But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children return to her father’s nouse, she shall eat of her father’s meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid, no stranger hath leave to eat of them. 14 He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary. 15 And they shall not profane the sancti¬ fied things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord: 16 Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them. 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 18 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all tne children of Israel, and thou shalt '.y to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatso¬ ever it be which he presenteth for a holo¬ caust of the Lord, 19 To be offered by you, it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it, neither shall it be accj^table. 21 ' The man that offereth a victim of eace-offerings to the Lord, either paying is vows, or offering of his own accord, whe¬ ther of beeves or of sheep, shall offer it with¬ out blemish, that it may be acceptable: there shall be no blemish in it. 22 If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, ©r a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord’s altar. 23 An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut off, thou mayst offer voluntarily; but a vow may not be p^aid with them. 24 You shall not offer to the Lord any beast that hath the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away: neither shall you do any such thing in your land. 25 You shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all corrupted, and defiled: you shall not re¬ ceive them. 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, i B brought forth, they shall be seven days under the udder of their dam: but the eighth day, and thenceforth, they may be off'ered to the Lord. 28 Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed the same day witli their young ones. 29 If you immolate a victim for thanks¬ giving to the Lord, that he may be favour¬ able, 30 You shall eat it the same day, there shall not any of it remain until the morning of the next day. I am the Lord, 31 Keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord. Chap. XXIlI 32 Trofane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. 1 ana the Lord who sanctify you, 33 And wlio brought j^ou out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God; 1 am the Lord. CHAP. XXIIl. Holy-days to be kept. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing : 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them; These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy. 3 Six days shall ye do work : the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations. 4 These also are the holy-days of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their seasons. 5 ** The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord: 6 And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unlea¬ vened bread. 7 The first day shall be most solemn un¬ to you, and holy: you shall do no servile work therein: 8 But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. And the seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do no servile work therein. 9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the first-fruits of your har¬ vest to the priest: 11 who shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, the next day after the sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it. 12 And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb without blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord. 13 And the libations shall be offered with it, two-tenths of flour tenmered with oil, for a burnt-offering of the Lord, and a most sweet odour: libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 You shall not eat either bread, or parch¬ ed corn, or frumenty of the hai’vest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings. 15 “You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you of- ferred the sheaf of the first- fruits, seven full weeks. 16 Even unto the morrow after the se¬ venth week be expired, that is to say, fifty days, and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord. 17 Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the first-fruits, of two-tenths of flour lea- vened, which you sloall bake for the first- fruits of the Lord. 18 And you shall offer with the loaves seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one calf from the herd, and two rams, and they shall be for a holocaust with their LEVITICUS. l Deut. l,*i. 21 ; Kccli. 35,11. m A. M. 2314. EzoJ. 12,13: Nuin. 26, 10. 0 IX'iU, I*;. 0. CuAP. XXIII. LEVITICUS. Chap. XXIV. libations for a most sweet odour to the Lord. 19 You shall offer also a buck-goat for sin, and two lambs of the first year for sacrifices of peace-offerings. 20 And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the first-fruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use. 21 And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You shall do no servile work therein. It shall be an ever¬ lasting ordinance in all your dwellings and generations. 22 V And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground : neither shall you gather the ears that remain ; but you shall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your God. 23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 24 ? Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memo¬ rial, with the sound of trumpets, and it shall be called holy. 25 You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord. 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27 'Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement, it shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall afflict your souls on that day, and shall oft'er a holocaust to the Lord. 28 You shall do no servile work in the time of this day; because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you. 29 Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people : 30 And ever}’’ soitl that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people •31 You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance un¬ to you in all your generations, and dwell¬ ings. 32 It is a sabbath of_ rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month: from evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths. 33 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 34 Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord. 35 The first day shall be called most so¬ lemn and most holy: you shall do no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. 36 The eighth day also shall be most so¬ lemn and most holy, and you shall offer ho¬ locausts to the Lord: for it is the day of assembly and congregation: you shall do no servile work therein. 37 These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord, holocausts and libations according to the rite of every day. 38 Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts, and those things that you offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord voluntarily. 39 So from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days: on the p Supra, 10, 0.— V Num. 29, 1. r Supra, 16, 20 ; JSum. 20, 7 ; John, 7, 37. first day and the eighth shall be a sabbatli, that is a day of rest. 40 And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God. 41 And you shall keep the solemnity there¬ of seven days in the year. It shall be an ever¬ lasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast. 42 And you shall dwell in '^owers seven days: every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles : 43 That your posterity may know, that 1 made the children of Israel to dwell in taber¬ nacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. 44 And Moses spoke concerning the feasts of the Lord to the children of Israel. CHAP. XXIV. The oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of blasphemy, A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: * 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually, 3 Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations. 4 They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually. 5 Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shall bake twelve loaves thereof, two-tenths shall be in every loaf: 6 And thou shalt set them six and six one against another upon the most clean table before the Lord: 7 And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord. 8 Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord, being received of the chil¬ dren of Israel by an everlasting covenant: 9 And they shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ ’that they may eat them in the holy placp: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right. 10 And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyp¬ tian, among the children of Israel, and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel. 11 And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses : (now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan ;) 12 And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command. 13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, 14 Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let them that heard him. put their hands upon his head, and let all the people stone him. 15 And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: the man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin : 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die: all the multi¬ tude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth tha name of the Lord, dying let him die. 17 ‘He that striketh, and killeth a man djdng let him die. ___ s A. il. 251^ t £xod. 21, 12. 93 Chap. XXV. LEVITICUS. Chap. XXV. 18 He tliat killeth a beast, shall make it good, that is to say, shall give beast for beast. 19 He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: 20 “Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. VVhat blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to sufter. 21 He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished. 22 Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God. 23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and they brought forth him that had blasphemed, without the camp, and they stoned him. And the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses. CHAP. XXV. The law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying: * 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shaft say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which 1 will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath to the Lord. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy ffeld and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof: 4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 6 What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes of the first-fruits as a vin¬ tage : for it is a year of rest to the land : 6 But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy man-servant, to thy maid¬ servant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that soiourn with thee: 7 All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle. 8 Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years: 9 And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land. 10 And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land : for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his pos¬ session, and every one shall go back to his former family: 11 Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the first-fruits of the vines, 12 Because of the sanctification of the iubilee: but as they grow you shall presently eat them. 13 In the year of the jubilee all shall re¬ turn to their possessions. 14 When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him ac¬ cording to the number of years from the jubilee. u Exod. 21, 24 ; Pent. 19. 21 ; Mat. 6, 38. Chap. XXV. Ver. 10. Remission. That is, a ^'enc- ral release and discharge from debts aud bondage. 15 And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits. 16 The more yeai's remian after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase; and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits. 17 Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God. 18 Do my precepts, and keep my judg¬ ments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear, 19 And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fear¬ ing no man’s invasion. 20 But if you say : What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits ? 21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years: 22 And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year; till new grow up, you shall eat the old store. 23 The land also shall not be sold for ever : because it is mine, and you are stran¬ gers and sojourners with me. 24 For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption. 25 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold. 26 But if he have no kinsman, and he him¬ self can find the price to redeem it: 27 The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it: and the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again. 28 But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor. 29 He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired: 30 If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be re¬ deemed, not even in the jubilee. 81 But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields : if it be not re¬ deemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner. 32 The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed: 33 If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel. 34 But let not their suburbs be sold, be¬ cause it is a perpetual possession. 35 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee, 36 Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. _ V A. M. 2514.—Exod, 23,10. and a reinstating of every man in his fonner poos^ eio'is. 94 Chap. XXVI. LEVITICUS. Chap. XXVI. 37 Thou shalt not give him money upon usury, nor exact of him any increase or fruits. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be yonr God. 3y If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bond-servants : 40 But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee, 41 And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers, 42 For they are my servants, and 1 brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bond-men : 43 Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God. 44 Let your bond-men, and your bond- women, be of the nations that are round about you. 45 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants : 46 And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your bre¬ thren the children of Israel by might. 47 If the hand of a stranger or a soiourner row strong among you, and thy brother eing impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race: 48 After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him; 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself, 50 Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant, 51 If there be many years that remain un¬ til the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price. 52 If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years, 63 His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him vio¬ lently in thy sight. 54 And if by these means he cannot be re¬ deemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children. 65 For the children of Israel are my ser¬ vants, whom 1 brought forth out of the land of Egypt. CHAP, XXVI. Goctspromises to them that keep his commajidments. And the many punishments with which he threat¬ ens transgressors. X AM the Lord your God : • you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set Up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for 1 am the Lord your God. 2 Keep ray sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary : I am the Lord. 3 ^ If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in due seasons. 4 And the ground shall bring forth its in¬ crease, and the trees shall be filled with fruit. 5 The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat yoiu' bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear. 6 1 will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters. 7 You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you. 8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others, and a hundred of you ten thousand: your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will look on you, and make you in¬ crease : you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old. 11 I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off. 12 * 1 will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am, the Lord your God : who^havc brought you out of the land of the Egyp¬ tians, that you should not serve them, and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright. 14 “ But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments, 15 If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: 16 I also will do these things to you: 1 will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your liv°s. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by vour enemies. "n 1 will set my face against you, and yon shall fall down befor<' your enemies, and shall be made subject to them that hate you, you shall flee when no man pursueth you. 18 But if you will not yet for all this obey me: 1 will chastise you seven times more for your sins, 19 And I will break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass: 20 Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit. 21 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, 1 will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins : 22 And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number, and that your highways may be desolate. 23 And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me : 24 I also will walk contrary to y 9 u, and will strike you seven times for your sins. 25 And 1 will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, 1 will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you shall he delivered into the hands of yoiu’ enemies. X A M. 2.514 : Exod. 20, 4 ; Deut. 6. 8; P3. IW, l.—v Deut. 28,1. z 2 epr- 6,10. a Deut. 28, 16 : Molac. 2, 2. 95 CfiAP. XXVI. 2G After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight; and you shall eat, and shall not be (illed. 27 But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me: 28 1 will also go against you with oppo¬ site fury, and 1 will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins, 29 So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and will receive no more your sweet odours. 32 And I will destroy your land, and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof. 33 And I will scatter you among the Gen¬ tiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation: when you shall be 35 In the enemy’s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest m the sabbaths of her de¬ solation. because she did not rest in your sab' baths when you dwelt therein. 36 And as to them that shall remain of you t will send fear in their hearts in the coun¬ tries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pm'sueth them, 37 And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars, none of you shall dare to resist your enemies. 38 You shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy’s land shall consume you, 39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own: 40 Until they confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me. 41 Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies’ land until tneir uncirciimcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their sins. 42 And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Ab¬ raham. I will remember also the land: 43 Which when she.shall be left by them, shall emoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, be¬ cause they rejected my judgments, and de¬ spised my laws. 44 And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God. 45 And I will remember my former cove¬ nant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Chap. XXVIT. Lord gave between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. CHAP. XXVII. Of vows and tithes. A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘ -t^ 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to esti¬ mation. 3 If it be a man from twenty years old un¬ to sixty years old, he shall give fifty sides of silver, after the weight of the sanctuary: 4 It a woman, thirty. 5 But from the fifth year until the twen¬ tieth, a man shall give twenty sides: a wo¬ man ten. 6 From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given five sides: for a female three. 7 A man that is sixty years old or up¬ ward, shall give fifteen sides : a woman ten. 8 If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give. 9 But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be holy, 10 And cannot be changed, that is to say, neither a better for a worse, nor a worse for a better. And if he shall change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be consecrated to the Lord. 11 An unclean beast, which cannot be sa¬ crificed to the Lord, if any man shall vow, shall be brought before the priest: 12 Who judging whether it be good of bad, shall set the price: 13 Which if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part. 14 If a man shall vow his house, and sanc¬ tify it to the Lord, the priesU'shall consider it, whether it be good or bad, and it shall be sold according to the price, which he shall appoint. 15 But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he shall give the fifth part of the estimation over and above, and shall have the house. 16 And if he vow the field of his posses¬ sion, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sowed with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty si¬ des of silver. 17 If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning, as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated. 18 But if some time after, the priest shah reckon the money according to the numbw of years that remain until the jubilee, and the price shall be abated. 19 And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it. 20 And if he will not redeem it, nut it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it, may not redeem it any more : 21 For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as a pos¬ session consecrated, pertaineth to the right of tli 0 priests# 22 li a field that was bought, and not of a LEVITICUS. 6 A. ik 1^(14. Chap. I. NUAIBEES. Chap. I. man’s ancestors’ possession, be sauctitled to the Lord, 23 The priest shall reckon the price ac¬ cording to the number of years: unto the jubilee; and he that had vowed, shall give that to the Lord. 24 But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession. 25 All estimation shall be made according to the side of the sanctuary. * A side hath twenty obols. 26 The first-born, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and vow: whether ic be bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord’s. 27 And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem it, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the price. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how much soever it was estimated by thee. 28 •'Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, c Exod. 30,13 ; Num. 3, 47 ; Ezec. 45,12. shall not be sold, neither may it be redeemed. Wliatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord. 29 And any consecration that is offered by man, shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die. 30 All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord’s, and are sanctified to him. 31 And if any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth part of them. 32 Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd’s rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanc¬ tified to the Lord. 33 It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be clianged for another, if any man change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai. _ d Jos. 6, 19. THE BOOK OF NUMBERS. This fourth Book of Moses is called Numbers, because it begins ivith the numbering oj the people. The Hebrews, f*’om its first loords, call Vaiedabber. It contains the transactions of the Israelites om the second month of the second year after their going out of Egypt, until the beginning of the eleventh month of the fortieth year; that is, a history almost of thirty-nine years. CHAP. 1. The children of Israel are numbered: the Levites are designed to serve the tabernacle. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying: * . 2 ■''Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex, 3 From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and 4 And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds 5 Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur. 6 Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Su- riSiidddii 7 Of juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab. 8 Of Issacliar, Nathanael the son of Suar. 9 Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon. 10 And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud: of Manasses, Uamaliel the son of Phadeissur. 11 Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon. 12 Of Dan, Ahie ^er th e son of Ammisadd ai. G 13 Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran. 14 Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel. 15 Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel: 17 Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people: 18 And assembled them on the first day of the second month, reckoning them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from twenty years old and upward, 19 As the Lord had commanded Moses, And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai. 20 Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and families and houses and names of every head, all that were of fi h t male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war, 21 Were forty-six thousand five hundred. 22 Of the sons of Simeon by their gene¬ rations and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of every one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war, 23 Fiftv-niue thousand three hundred. 24 Of the sons of Gad, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned up by the nam es of ever y /Exod^ 30,12. 97 Chap. 1. NUMBERS. Chap. II. one from enty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 25 Forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. 2d Of the sons of Juda, by their genera¬ tions and families and houses of their kin¬ dreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 27 Were reckoned up seventy-four thou¬ sand six hundred. 28 Of the sons of Issachar, by their gene¬ rations and families and houses of their kin¬ dreds, by the names of every one from twenty years ola and upward, all that could go forth to wan 29 Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred. 30 Of the sons of Zabulon, by the genera¬ tions and families and houses of their kin¬ dreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 31 Fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 32 Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the generations and fa¬ milies and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 33 Forty thousand five hundred 34 Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by Uie generations and families and houses of theu’ kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war, 35 Thirty-two thousand two hundred. 36 Of the sons of Benjamin, by their ge- nei’ations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, aU that were able to go forth to war, 37 Thirty-five thousand four hundred. 38 Of the sons of Dan, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 39 Sixty-two thousand seven hundred. 40 Of the sons of Aser, by their genera¬ tions and families and houses of their kin¬ dreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 41 Forty-one thousand and five hundred. 42 Of the sons of Nephtali, by their gene¬ rations and families and houses of their kin¬ dreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 43 Fifty-three thousand four hundred. 44 These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds. 45 And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to war, 46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men. 47 But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them. 48 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 49 Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel; _ ■j K. i.i 50 But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. 61 When you are to go forward, the Le¬ vites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain. 62 And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and bands and army. 53 But the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle, lest there come indignation upon the multitude of the chil¬ dren of Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle of the testimony. 64 And the children of Israel did accord¬ ing to all things which the Lord had com manded Moses. CHAP. II. The order of the tribes tn their camp. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: v 2 All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and standards, and the houses of tneir kindreds, round about the tabernacle of the covenant. 3 On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of Ami- nadab. 4 And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. 6 Next unto him they of the tribe of Issa¬ char encamped, whose prince was Nathanael, the son of Saar. 6 And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand four hundred. 7 In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon. 8 And all the army of fighting men of his stock, werefifty-seven thousand four hundred. 9 All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty-six thou¬ sand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march first, 10 In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur: 11 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-six thousand five hundred. 12 Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon; whose pnnce was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. 13 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 14 In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel. 16 And the whole army of his fighting men that were numbered, were forty-five thou¬ sand six hundred and fifty. 16 All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they shall march in the second place. 17 And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the officers of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up. so shall it be taken down. Every one shall march according to their places, and ranks. 18 On the west side shall b e the camp of A. C. 98 CnA.r. III. NUMBERS, Chap. III. the sons of Ephraim, wliose prince was £li- sama the son of Ammiud. 19 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty thousand five hundred, 20 And with them the tribe of the sons of Manasses, whMe prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. 21 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were thirty-two tiiousand two hundred. 22 In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the prince was Abidan tlie son of Gedeon. 23 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were reckoned up, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. 24 All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and eight thousand one himdred by their troops: they shall march in the third place. 25 On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisaddai. 26 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were sixty-two thou¬ sand seven hundred. 27 Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose prince was Phe- giel tlie son of Ochran. 28 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-one thou¬ sand five hundred. 29 Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son of Enan. 30 The whole army of his fighting men, were fifty three thousand four hundred. 31 All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and fifty-seven thou¬ sand six hundred: and they shall march last. 32 This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army divided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. 33 And the Levites were not numbered among the cliildren of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses. 34 And the children of Israel did accord¬ ing to all things that the Lord had command¬ ed. They camped by their troops, and marched by the families and houses of their fathers. CHAP. III. The Levites are ntimbered and their offices distin¬ guished. They are taken in the place of the first¬ born of the children of Israel. ^HESE are the generations of Aaron and JL Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in Mount Sinai. 2 *And these the names of the sons of Aaron; his first-born Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and itiiamar. 3 These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were anointed, and whose nanus were filled and consecrated, to do the functions of priesthood. 4 Now Nadab and Abiu died, withom children, when they oftered strange fire be¬ fore the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father. 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 6 Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to mi¬ nister to him, and let them \yatcri, ? And observe whaUucVijr appertaineth h Exod. 6,83.—i Lev. 10,1, and 3 ; 11’ar. 84. 8. to the service of the multitude before the ta¬ bernacle of the testimony, 8 And let them keep the vessels of the ta¬ bernacle, serving in the ministry thereof. 9 And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift, 10 To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered b:y the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stran¬ ger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 12 1 have taken the Levites from the chil¬ dren of Israel, for every first-born that open- eth the womb among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. 13 ■' For every first-born is mine: since I struck the first-born in the land of Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is first-born in Israel both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord. 14 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying: 15 Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward. 16 Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded. 17 * And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath and Merart 18 The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei. 19 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Je- saar, Hebron and Oziel: 20 The sons of Merari: Mohqli and Musi. 21 Of Gerson were two families, the Leb- nites, and the Semeites : 22 Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred. 23 These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west, 24 Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25 And their charge shall be in the taber¬ nacle of the covenant: 26 The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the taber¬ nacle, and all the furniture thereof. 27 Of the kindred of Caath come the fa¬ milies of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the fa¬ milies of the Caathites reckoned up by their names: 28 A11 of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary, 29 And shall camp on the south side. 30 And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel: 31 And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they mi¬ nister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind. 32 And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priesL shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary. , , 33 And of Merari are the famihes of the Mo'joli- cs, and Musites, reckon<.d up by tncir names : jKxod. 18. 2 i Infra, 8,lQ.—k Exod. G. 16. 99 Chap. IV. 34 All of the male kind from one monfli and upward, six thousand two hundred. 35 Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: they shall camp on the north side. 36 Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pil¬ lars and their sockets, and all things that per¬ tain to this kind of service: 37 And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and the pins with their cords. 38 Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side, shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death. 39 All the Levites, that' Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand. 40 And the Lord said to Moses: Number the first-born of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt take the sum of them. 41 And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the first-born of the children of Is¬ rael, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the first-born of the cattle of the children of Israel: 42 Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the first-born of the children of Israel: 43 And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy three. 44 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 45 Take the Levites for the first-born of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord. 46 But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the first-born of the cliildren of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites, 47 Thou shalt take five sides for every head, according to the weight of the sanc¬ tuary. "*A sicle hath twenty obols. 48 And thou shalt give tlie money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above. 49 Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom they had redeemed from the Levites, 50 For the first-born of the children of Is¬ rael, one thousand three hundred and sixty- five sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary. 51 And gave it to Aaron and his sons, ac¬ cording to the word that the Lord had com¬ manded him. CHAP. IV. The age and time of the Levites’ service : their of¬ fices and burdeiis. A n D the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying;" 2 Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by their houses and families. 3 From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. 4 This is the service of the sons of Caath : 5 When the camp is to set forward, Aai’on and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of i A. Al. -ibli. A. 0. i490. m Cxod. 80,18 ; Lcvit. 27, 25 i lui'ra, ts, 10 ■ Chap, IV. the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it, 6 And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. 7 They shall wrap up also the table of pro¬ position in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it: 8 And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. 9 They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, wliich are necessary for the dressing of the lamps: 10 And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the bars. 11 And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars. 12 All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they shall wrap up in a clotl of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars. 13 They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth, 14 And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say, fire-pans, flesli-hooks and forks, pot¬ hooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar together with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. 15 And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the ° sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up : and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest the.y die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath; in the tabernacle of the covenant: 16 And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to whose charge per- taineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet incense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of unction, and what¬ soever pertaineth to the service of the taber¬ nacle, and of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary. 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying; 18 Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites: 19 But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall appoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man is to carry. 20 Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die. 21 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 22 Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by their houses and families and kindreds. 23 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number them all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. 24 This is the office of the family of the Gersonites: _ Exekicl, ib, Vi.~n A. M. 2514. 0 1 Par. 16,15. 100 NUMBERS. Chap. IV. NUMBEKS. Chap. V, 25 To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof of the covenant, the other co¬ vering, and the violet covering over all, and the hanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the covenant, 26 The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is before the tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords and the vessels of the ministry, 27 The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the commandment of Aaron and his sons: and each man shall know to what burden he must be assigned. 28 This is the service of the family of the Gersonites in the tabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 29 Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Me- rari also by the families and houses of their fathers, 30 From thirty years old and upwar^unto fifty years old, all that go in to the office of their ministry, and to the service of the co¬ venant of the testimony. 31 These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets, 32 The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and pins and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and furniture, and so shall carry them. 33 This is the office of the family of the Morarites, and their ministry in the taber¬ nacle of the covenant: and they shall be un¬ der the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 34: So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers. 35 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to the ministry of the tabernacle of the covenant: 36 A'nd they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty. 37 This is the number of the people of Caath that go in to the tabernacle of the co¬ venant : these did Moses and Aaron number according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. 38 The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, 39 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to minister in the tanernacle of the covenant: 40 And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty. 41 This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord. 42 The sous of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, 43 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to fulfil the rites of the tabernacle of the covenant: 44 And they were found three thousand two hundred. 45 This is the number of the sons of Me¬ rari, whom Moses and Aaron reckoned up according to the commandment of the Lord oy the hand of Moses. 46 All that were reckoned up of the Le- vites, and whom Moses and Aaron and the p A. M. Chap. V. Ver. 7. Shall confess. This confession tnd Bktisfaction, ordained in the Old Law, was a figure of tiio sacrament of penance. Ver. 14. The spirit of lealousp, Ac. This ordi- princes of Israel took by name, by the kin¬ dreds and houses of their fathers, 47 From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old. that go into the minis¬ try of the tabornacle, and to carry the bur¬ dens, 48 Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty. 49 Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every one according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded him. CHAP. V. The unclean are removed out of the camp: confession of smsf and satisfaction: first-fruits and oblations belonuing to the priests: trial of jealousy, A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:’’ 2 Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead: 3 Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it vvlien I shall dwell with you. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 6 Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended, 7 They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned. 8 But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice. 9 All the first-fruits also, which the chil¬ dren of Israel offer, belong to the priest: 10 And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 12 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband, 13 Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery: 14 If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is de¬ filed, or is charged with false suspicion, 15 He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery. 16 The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord. 17 And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it. 18 And when the woman shall stand be¬ fore the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put on her hands the sacri fice ol 2514. __ nance was designed to clear the innocent, and to pre- vent jealous husbands from doing mischief to their wives : as likewise to r*”*' all a horror of adultery, by punishing it in so reit.*.fkable a manner, lOi Chap. VI. NUMBERS. Chap. VI. remembrance, ajid the oblation of jealousy; and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration. 19 And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy hus¬ band’s bed, these most bitter waters, on which I hare heaped curses, shall not hurt thee. 20 But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man; 21 These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and bm-st asunder. 22 Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell ai^d thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer. Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses, 24 And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up, 25 The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lordj and shall put it upon the altar: yet so as first, 26 To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to didnk. 27 And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people. 28 But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children. 29 This is the law of jealousy. If a wo¬ man hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled. 30 Ana the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written: 31 The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity. CHAP. VI. The law of the Nazarites: the form of blessing the people. A nd the Lord spoke^ to Moses, saying: ® 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord: 3 They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried. 4 All the days that they are consecrated to the Lord by vow; they shall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to the kernel. 6 All the time of his separation *■ no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be ful¬ filled of his consecration to the Lord, lie shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow. G All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead, 7 Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because the consecration of his God is upon his head. 8 All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord. 9 But if any man die suddenly before him: the head of his consecration shall be defiled: and he shall shave it forthwith on the same day of his purification, and again on the se¬ venth day. 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the tes¬ timony. 11 And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead: and he shall sanctify his head that day: 12 And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his sanctification was profaned. 13 This is the law of consecration. When ‘ the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, 14 And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he-lamb of a year old without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe-lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin-offer¬ ing, and one ram without blemish for a vic¬ tim of peace offering, 15 A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers without lea¬ ven anointed with oil, and the libations ol each: 16 And the priest shall present them be¬ fore the Lord, and shall offer both the sin- offering and the holocaust. 17^ But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace-offering to the Lord, offer¬ ing at the same time the basket of unleaven¬ ed bread, and the libations that are due by custom. _ 18 * Then shall the hair of the consecra¬ tion of the Nazarite, be shaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he shall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the sacrifice of the peace- offerings. 19 And shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver them into the hands of the N a- zarite, after his head is shaven. 20 And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord ; and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After this the N^arite may drink wine. 21 This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation to the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which his hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind, so shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctifica¬ tion. 22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: q A..M. 25U.—r Judges, 13, b. s Acts, 21 , 102 Cfiap, VII. numbers. Chap. VII. 24 ‘ The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. 25 The Lord show hia face to thee, and have mercy on thee. 26 The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace. 27 And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and 1 will bless them. CHAP. VII. The offerings of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle : God speaketh to Moses from the pro¬ pitiatory. A ND it came to pass in the day that Mo- ■tx. ses had finished the tabernacle, “ and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof, 2 The princes oi Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, of¬ fered * 3 Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes of- .’ered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they ofiered them before the tabernacle. 4 And the Lord said to Moses : 5 Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the D'-der of their ministry. 6 Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them to the Levites. 7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according to their neces¬ sity. 8 The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to tneii- offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 9 But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders. _ 10 And the princes offered for the dedica¬ tion of the altar on the day when it was an¬ ointed, their oblation before the altar. 11 And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after another offer their ffifts for the dedication of the altar. 12 The first day Nahasson the son of Arainadab of the tribe of Juda offered his offering: 13 And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 14 A little mortar of ten sides of gold full of incense: 15 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 16 And a buck-goat for sin : 17 And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nahasson the son of Aminadab. 18 The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar, made his offering, 19 A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sa¬ crifice : 20 A little mortar of gold weighing ten si¬ des full of incense: 21 A;n ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 22 And a buck-goat for sin : 23 And for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five ouck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nathanael the son of Suar. 24 The third day the prince of the sons ol Zabulon^ Eiiab the son of Helon, 25 Offered a silver dish weighing one hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seven¬ ty sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacri¬ fice; 26 A little mortar of gold weighing ten si¬ des full of incense: 27 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old a holocaust: 28 And a buck-goat for sin : 29 And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of Eiiab the son of Helon. 30 The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur, 31 Offered a silver dish weighing one hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of se¬ venty sides according to the weight of tiie sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice : 32 A little mortar of gold v/eighing ten sides full of incense: 33 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a holocaust; 34 And a buck-goat for sin: 35 And for victims of peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eli¬ sur the son of Sedeur. 36 The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai, 37 Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides after the weight of the sanc¬ tuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice : 38 A little mortar of gold weighing ten si- scles full of incense: 39 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a iamb of a year old for a holocaust; 40 And a buck-goat for sin : 41 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. 42 The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel, 43 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of se¬ venty sides by the weight of the sanctuary, botli full of flour tempered with oil for a sa¬ crifice : 44 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: 45 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 46 And a buck-goat for sin: 47 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Duel. 48 The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammind, 49 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of se¬ venty sides according to the weight of thf t Eccli. 36, 19, M Exod. 40, 16.—i’ A. M. 2514. 103 Chap. VII. NUMBERS. Chap. VIII. sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrilice : 50 A little mortar of gold weighing ten si¬ des full of incense : 51 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 52 And a buck-goat for sin: 53 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisaraa the son of Ammiud. 54 The eighth da^ the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur, 55 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seven¬ ty sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 50 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense; 57 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 58 And a buck-goat for sin; 50 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. 60 The ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon, 61 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seven¬ ty sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacri¬ fice: _ 62 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: 63 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 64 And a buck-goat for sin; 65 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gedeon. 66 The tenth day the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Aramisaddai, 67 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seven¬ ty sides, according to the weight of the sanc¬ tuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 68 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense : 69 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a Iamb of a year old for a holocaust: 70 And a buck-goat for sin: 71 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai. 72 The eleventh day the prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son ot Ochran, 73 Offered a silver dish weighing a hxtn- dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seven¬ ty sides, according to the weight of the sanc¬ tuary, both full of flour tempered wfith oil for a saerifice: 74 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: 75 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 76 And a buck-goat for sin : 77 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering Df Phegiel the son of Ochran. _ w A. M. 2514. CuAP. VIIL Ver. 7. Let them be sprinkled toilb 78 The twelfth day the prince of the sons of JS'ephtali, Ahira the son of Enan, 79 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun¬ dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seven- ty sides, according to the weight of the sano- tuary, both fall of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 80 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense : 81 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: 82 And a buck-goat for sin: 83 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. 84 These were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve dishes of sUver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold: 85 Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides of silver, and each bowl seventy sides: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two thousand four hundred sides, by the weight of the sanctuary. 86 Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten sides a-piece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and twenty sides of gold. 87 Twelve oxen out of the herd for a ho¬ locaust, twelve rams, twelve lambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve buck-goats for sin. 88 And for sacrifices of peace-offerings, oxen twenty four, rams sixty, buck-gcats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed. 89 And when Moses entered into the ta¬ bernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that was over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him. CUAP. VIIL The seven lamps are placed on the golden candlestick, to shine towards the loaves of proposition : the or¬ dination of the Levites: and to what age they shall serve in the tabernacle. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, say¬ ing: ^ 2 Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over-against the north, towards the ta¬ ble of the loaves of proposition, over-against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh. 3 And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had com¬ manded Moses. 4 Now this was the work of the candle¬ stick, it was of beaten gold, botfi the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the branches: according to the pat¬ tern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the candlestick. 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 6 Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them. 7 According to tliis rite: Let them be sprinkled with the water of purification, and A. (1 1490. the tcater of puriflcatton. This was the holy water 104 Chap. VIIT. NUMBERS. Chap. IX. let them shave all the hairs of their flesh. And when they shall have washed their gar¬ ments, and are cleansed, 8 They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering thereof fine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt take another ox of the herd for a sin-offering : 9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the covenant, calling toge¬ ther all the multitude of the children of Is¬ rael : 10 And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their liands upon them: 11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the Lord from the chil¬ dren of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry. 12 The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a holocaust to the Lord, to pray for them. 13 And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt con¬ secrate them being offered to the Lord, 14 And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine. 15 And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for as a ift they were given me by the children of srael. 16 * I have taken them instead of the first¬ born that open every womb in Israel, 17 For all the first-born of the children of Israel, both of men and of beasts, are mine. From tlie day that I slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself: 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel: 19 And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the taber¬ nacle of the covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among the people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary. 20 And Moses and Aaron and all the mul¬ titude of the children of Israel did with the Levites all that the Lord had commanded Moses: 21 And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them, 22 That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the covenant to do their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was it done. 23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 24 This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. 25 And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve: 26 And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of the covenant, X Exod. 13, 2 ; Supra, S, 13 ; Luke, 2. 23. V A. M. 2314 ; A. C. 1190.— g Exod. 12, 3. niixed with the ashes of the red cow. Numb. xix. appointed for purifying all that were unclean. It was a figure of the blood of Christ, applied to our louls by his holy sacraments. Chap. LS. Ver, 2. Make the phase. That is. to keep the things that are committed to their care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites touching then- charge. CHAP. IX. The precept of the pasch is renewed . the unclean and travellers are to observe it the second month • the. ramp is guided by the pillar of the cloud. come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:*' 2 ’ Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time, 3 The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof. 4 And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase. 5 And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did ac¬ cording to all things that the Lord had com¬ manded Moses. 6 But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Mo¬ ses and Aaron, 7 Said to them: We are unclean by occa¬ sion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel? 8 And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he will ordain concerning you. 9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 10 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar oft' in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord. 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild let¬ tuce : 12 They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, “ nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase. 13 But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not make the phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, because he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season : he shall bear his sin. 14 The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall make the phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and justifications thereof. The same ordinance shall be with you both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. 15 ‘’Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening tliere was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning. 16 So it was always : day the cloud co¬ vered it, and by night as it were the appear¬ ance of fire. 17 And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then the children a Exod. 12, 46 ; John, 10, SO. b Exod. 40,10, and 8 2 ; Supra, 7,1. _ keep the paschal solemnity, and eat the paschal lamb. Ver. 0. Behold some who toere U7tclean by occasion of the soul of a man, and whomsoever he shall cnoose, the same shall be holy: you take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi. 8 And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi, 9 Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the peo¬ ple, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the taber¬ nacle, and should stand before the congrega¬ tion of the people, and should minister to him ? 10 Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also. 11 And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him ? 12 Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But they an¬ swered: We will not come. 13 Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us ? 14 Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields . and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes ? We will not come. 15 Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices; thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them. 16 And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord to-morrow, and Aaron apart. 17 Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer. 18 When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing, 19 And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all. 20 And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aarom said: 21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them. 22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man’s sin shall thy wrath rage against all ? 23 And the Lord said to Moses: 24 Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Da¬ than and Abiron, 25 And Moses arose, and went to DathaE and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel fol¬ lowing him, 26 He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch no¬ thing of theu‘8, lest you be involved in their sins. 27 And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron m Eccli. 46,22 j 1 Cor. 10,10; Jude, 1,12. their pretending to the priesthood without being lawfully called and sent: the same is the case of aU modern sectaries, Ver. 15. Very angry. This anger was a zeal against sin ; and an indignation at the affiront offer ed to God ; like that which the same holy prophet cuncoived upon the sight of the golden calf, Exod, xsx.ii. 19. U1 CiiAr. XVI. LUMBERS. Chap. XVII. coming out stood in the entry of their pavil¬ ions with their wives and children, and all the people. 28 And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that 1 have not forged them of my own head: 29 If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visit¬ ed, the Lord did not send me. 30 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. 31 "And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder un¬ der their feet: 32 And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance. 33 And they vveut down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people. 34 But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also. 35 And a fire coming out from tlie Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that ofered the incense. 36 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 37 Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers tuat lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other; because they are sancti¬ fied 38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into jplates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial. 39 Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar: 40 That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses. 41 The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have Tailed the people of the Lord. 42 And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased, 43 Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. 44 And the Lord said to Moses: 45 Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground, 46 Moses said to Aaron : Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put in¬ cense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for ^eady wrath is gone _ n Deut. 11. 6 : Fa. 105,17, and 18. . Chap. XVII. .Ver. 8. The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was irndded. . XXX. rTiOst sweet odour to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: 28 And in the sacrifices of tliem three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two to every ram, 29 The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which in all are seven lambs: a buck-goat also. 30 Which is slain for expiationbeside the perpetual holocaust and the libations thereof. 31 You shall offer them all without blem¬ ish with their libations. CHAP. XXIX. Sacrifices for the festivals of the seventh month. HE first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and holy unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because It is the day of the sounding and of trumpets. 2 And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish. 3 And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two tenths to a ram, 4 One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven lambs: 5 And a buck-goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of the people. 6 Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the sacrifices thereof, and the erpetual holocaust with the accustomed li- ations. With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice for a most sweet odour to the Lord. 7 *The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and venerable unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall do no servile work therein. 8 And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: 9 And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered witli oil to every calf, two tenths to a ram, 10 The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which are in all seven lambs: 11 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be offered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with their sacrifice and libations. 12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days. 13 And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a yeai' old, without blemish : 14 And for their libations three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, being in all thirteen calves: and two tenths to each ram, being two rams, 15 And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen lambs: 16 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. 17 On the second day you shall offer twelve calves of the herd, two rams and four¬ teen lambs of a year old, without blemish: 18 And the sacrifices and the libations for every one, for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall duly celebrate; 19 And a buck-goat for a sin-offering be¬ sides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacri¬ fice and the libation thereof. 20 The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: 21 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the rite: 22 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the libation thereof. 23 The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: 24 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate in right manner: 26 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. 26 The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: 27 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite: 28 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the S erpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the bation thereof. 29 The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: 30 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate accord¬ ing to the rite: 31 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. 32 The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, witliout blemish: 33 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate accord¬ ing to the rite: 34 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. 35 On the eighth day, which is most so¬ lemn, you shall do no servile work: 36 But you shall offer a holocust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: 37 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate accord¬ ing to the rite; 38 And a buck-goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. 39 These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnicies; besides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacri¬ fice, for libation, and for victims of peace- offerings. CHAP. XXX. Of vows and oaths: and their obligation, A ND Moses told the children of Israel all X that the Lord had commanded him: X Levit. 16, 2», 28, 7. 122 Chap. XXXI. KUMREBS. Chap. XXXI. 2 And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: 'i'his is the word that the Lord hath commanded: 3 If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised. 4 If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself bv an oath, being in her father’s house, ana but yet a girl in age : if her fa¬ ther knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: 5 Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed. 6 But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gain-said it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gain-said it. 7 If she nave a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath : 8 The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gain-say it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she pro¬ mised. 9 But if as soon as he heareth he gain-say it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no elfect: the Lord will forgive her. 10 The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fufil whatsoever they vow. 11 If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath, 12 If her husband hear, and hold his,peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised. 13 But if forthwith he gain-say it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gain-said it, and the Lord will be merciful to her. 14 If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it. 15 But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immedi- ateh' as he heard it, he held his peace. 16 But if he gain-say it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity. 17 These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father’s house. CHAP. XXXl. The Madianites are slain for having drawn the people of Israel into sin. The dividing of the booty. A nd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be ga¬ thered to thy people. 3 And Moses forthwith said: 'Arm of you men to fight, wdio may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites. 4 Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the w'ar. 5 And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well ap¬ pointed f jr battle. 6 Aad Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, and he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound. 7 And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men. 8 “ And their kings Evi, and .Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. 9 And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered: 10 And all their cities, aiffl their villages, and castles, they burned, 11 And they carried away the booty, and all that tliey had taken both of men and of beasts. 12 And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priesL and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan over- agaiust Jericho. 13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp- 14 And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle, 15 Said: Why have you saved the women? 16 ‘Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the peo¬ ple was punished. 17 ® Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men. 18 But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves: 19 And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day. 20 And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be purified. 21 Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, " which the Lord hath commanded Moses: 22 Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, 23 And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by fire, but whatsoever can¬ not abide the fire, shall be sanctified with the water of expiation: 24 And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being purified, you shall af¬ terwards enter into the camp. 25 And the Lord said to Moses: 26 Take the sum of the things that were p A. M. 2553. A. C. 1451. r Supra, 2517.—a Jos..l3. 21. 6 Supra, 25,18.—c Judge."), 21,11. d Levit. 0, 28, and 11, S3, and 15,11. Chap. XXXI. Ver. 16. The sin of Phogor. The pleased to order it otherwise in the present case. In •in committed in tlie worship of Beelphegor. detestation of the wickedness of this people, who V’er. 17. Qf children. Women and children, origi-j oy the counsel of Balaam, had sent their women Daily speaking, were not to be killed in war, Dent, j Among the Israelites on purpose to draw them from XX. 14. But the great Lord of life and death was' God. Chap. XXXI. NUMBERS. Chap. XXXIl. taken both of man and beast, thou and Elea- zar the priest and the princes of the multi¬ tude : 27 And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multi¬ tude. 28 And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of live hmidred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep. 29 And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the E riest, because they are the first-fruits of the lord. 30 Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord. 31 And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded. 32 And the spoil which the army had tak¬ en, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 Seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 Sixty-one thousand asses; 35 And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men. 36 And one half was given to them that bad been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: 37 Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy- five sheep. 38 And out of the thirty-six thousand ox¬ en, seventy two oxen: 39 Out of the thirty thousand five hun¬ dred asses, sixty-one asses: 40 Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty- two souls. 41 And Moses delivered the number of the first-fruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him, 42 Out of the half of the children of Is¬ rael, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle. 43 But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hmidred sheep, 44 And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, 45 And out of the thirty thousand five hun- di’ed asses, 46 And out of the sixteen thousand per¬ sons, 47 Moses took the fiftieth head,and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded. 48 And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said: 49 We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting. 50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us. 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest re¬ ceived aU the gold in divers kinds. 52 In weight sixteen thousand seven hun¬ dred and fifty sides, from the tribunes and from the centurions. 53 For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own. 54 And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel be¬ fore the Lord. CHAP. XXXII. The tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasses, receive their inheritance on the east side of Jordan, upon co?iditions approved of by Moses. ND*the sons of lluben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle, 2 ■''They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the multitude, and said: 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and N ebo, and Been, 4 The land, which the Lord hath con- fiuered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle: 5 And we pray thee, if we have found fa¬ vour in thy sight, that chou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan. 6 And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here? 7 Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them ? 8 Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land? 9 ^And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord gave them. 10 *And he swore in his anger, saying: 11 If these men, that came up out oi Egypt, from twenty years old and upward shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because tliey would not follow me, 12 Except Caleb the son of J(!phone the Cenezite, and Josuethe son of JSun; these have fultilled my will. 13 And the Lord being angry against Is¬ rael, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed. 14 And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and off¬ spring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel. 15 For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you 'shall be the cause of the destruction of all. 16 But they coming near, said: We wil' make sheep-folds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children: 17 A.nd we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the inhabitants. 28 We will not return into our houses un- <7 Supra, u, 24.—A Supra, 14. 20. 124 e Deut. S, 12.—/ A. M 2008. Chap. XXXIL til the children of Israel possess their inheri¬ tance : 19 Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof, 20 And Moses said to them: * If you do (vhat you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord : 21 And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies: 22 And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the countries that you desire, before the Lord. 23 But if you do not what >;ou say, no man can doubt but you sin against God; and know ye^ that your sin shall overtake you. 24 Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised. 25 •'And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses; We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commanaeth. 26 We will leave our childi'en, and our wives and sheep and cattle, in the cities of Galaad: 27 And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest. 28 Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Is¬ rael, and said to them: 29 * If the children of Gad, and the chil¬ dren of Ruben mss with you over the Jor¬ dan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject to you: give them Galaad in jpossession. 30_ But if they will not pass armed with you into the lan-d of Chanaan, let them re¬ ceive places to dwell in among you. 31 And the children of Gad, and the chil¬ dren of Ruben answered : As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do : 32 We will go armed before the Lord into .he land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan. 33 Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and the king¬ dom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about. 34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 35 And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa, ,36 And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities^nd folds for their cattle. 37 But the children of Ruben built Hese- bon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim, ^ And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama: giving names to the cities which they had built. 39 ‘Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting olf the Amorrhites the in¬ habitants thereof. 40 And Moses gave the land of Galaad to i Jos. 1, U.—j Jos. 4, 12. k l)eut. 3,12: Jos. 13, 8, and 22, 4. I Gen. 50, 22.—tn Hxod. 12, 12. Chap. XXXIU. Ver. l. The mamions. These mansions, or journeys of the children of Israel from Egyiit to the land of promise, were tigures, aecording to tne fatliers, of the steps and degrees by ■which Chap. XXXIII. Machir the son of Manasses, and he dwelt in it, 41 And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, and he callea them Havcth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair. 42 Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof; and he called it by hi own name Nobe. CHAP. XXXIII. The mansions or journeys of the children of Israe. towards the land of promise. '^HESE are the mansions of the children ol JL Israel, who went out of Egypt by their troops under theconduct of Moses and Aaron, 2 Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord. 3 Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the phase, with a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians, 4 ”* Who were burying their first-born, whom the Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had executed vengeance,) 5 And they camped in Soccoth. 6 And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness. 7 “Departing from thence they came over-against Phihahiroth, which looketh to¬ wards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum. 8 And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: " and having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara. 9 '' And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they camped. 10 But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And de¬ parting from the Red Sea, 11 Ijiey camped in the desert of Sin, 12 And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca. 13 And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus. 14 And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, « where the people wanted water to drink. 15 And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai. 16_ But departing also from the desert ’’ of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust. 17 And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth. 18 'And from Haseroth they came to Rethma. 19 And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares. 20 And they departed from thence ar.d came to Lebna. 21 Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa. 22 And departing from Ressa, they came to Ceelatha. n Exod. 14, 2.—o Exod. 16, 22. p Exod. 13, 21.—q Exod. 17, 1. r Exod. 19, 2 ; Supra, 11, 34.—j Supra, 13, U_ Christians leaving sin are to advance from -virtue t# ■virtue, till they come to the heavenly mansions, u ter tliifl life to see and enjoy God. 125 NUMBERS. Chap. XXXIII. NUMBERS. Chap. XXXIV. 23 And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher. 24 Departing from the mour tain Sepher, they came to Arada. 25 from llience they went and camped in Maceloth. 26 And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath. 27 Removing from Thahath they camped in Thare. 28 And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in Methca. 29 And removing from Methca, they camped in Hesmona. 30 And departing from Hesmona, they came to Moseroth. 31 And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan. 32 ‘ And departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad. 33 From thence they went and camped in Jetebatha. 34 And from Jetebatha they came to He- brona. 35 And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber. 36 “ They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which is Cades. 37 And departing from Cades, they camp¬ ed in Mount Hor, in the uttermost borders of the land of Edom. 38 •’ And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of Egypt, “'the fifth month, the first day of the month, 39 When he was a hundred and twenty- three years old. 40 And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard that the chil¬ dren of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan. 41 And they departed from mount Hor, and camped in Salmona. 42 From whence they removed and came to Phunon. 43 And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth. 44 And from Oboth they came to Ijeaba- rim, which is in the borders of the Moabites. 45 And departing from Ijeabaium they pitched their tents in Dibongab. 46 From thence they went and camped in H elmon deblathaim. 47 And departing from Helmondebla- thaim, they came to the mountains of Abarim over-against Nabo. 48 And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, over-against Jericho. 49 And there they camped from Bethsi- moth even to Ablesatim in the plains of the Moabites, 60 Where the Lord said to Moses; * 61 Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan, 62 Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: »beat down their pillars, and break in pieces t Dent. 10,7■—i* Supra, 20,1. V Supra, 20, 25 : Deut. 32, 60. _ w A. M. 2552. A. C. 1452. _ CilAP. XXXIV. Ver. 3. The most salt sea. 'J'lie Take of SodoDa, other-Aisa called the Dead Sea. Ver. 4. The Scorpion. A mountain so called froiu luviiifi’ a (Treat number of Scorpioiia- their statues, and waste all their high places, 63 Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession. 64 And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall the inherit* ance be given. The possession shall be di¬ vided by the tribes and the families. 55 But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that remain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears \n your sides, and. they shall be your adversaries in the land of your habitation. 66 And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, 1 will do to you. CHAP. XXXIV. T'he limits of Chanaan; with the names of the men that make the division of it. A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, say- ■T\. ing :* 2 Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are en¬ tered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits: 3 “The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward: 4 Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona. 6 And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea. 6 And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof. 7 But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great sea, reaching to the most high mountain, 8 From which they shall come to Emath as far as the borders of Sedada: 9 And the limits shall go as far as Ze- phrona, and the village of Enan, These shall be the borders on the north side. 10 From thence they shall mark out the bounds towards the east side from the vil¬ lage of Enan unto Sephama. 11 And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over-against the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea of Cenereth, 12 And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe. 14 For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses, ' (E A. &L 3663. V Dent. 7, 6 : j udjres, 2,2. _ z A. M 26.63.—g Jos. 15,1._ Ver. 6. The great secu 'I'he Mediterranean. Ver. 7. The most high mountain. Libanus. Ver. 11. Sea of Cenereth. This is tlio sea o (Jali lee, illustrated by the miracles of our J.ori 126 Chap. XXXr. NUMBERS. Chap. XXXV. 15 That is two tribes and a half, have re¬ ceived theii’ portion beyond the Jordan over- against Jericho at the east side. 16 And the Lord said to Moses; 17 * These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto you; Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, 18 And one prince of every tribe, 19 Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone. 20 Or the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, EUdad the son of Chaselon. 22 Ot the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli, 23 Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 24 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan. 25 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach. 26 Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince the son of Ozan. 27 Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi. 28 Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud. 29 These are they -whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land of Chanaan to the children of Israel. CHAP. XXXV. Cities are appointed for the Levites. Of which six are to be the cities of refuge. A nd the Lord spoke these things also to Moses *in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over-against Jericho: 2 Command the children of Israel that thej; give to the Levites out of their pos¬ sessions, 3 Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts: 4 Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side: 5 Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without. 6 * And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities, 7 That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs. 8 And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Is¬ rael, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Le¬ vites according to the extent of their inheri- lince. 9 The Lord said to Moses: 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou snalt say to them: When you shall 6 Jos. 11,1, and 3. c A. M. 2663. _ d Jos. 21, 2. _ Chap. XXXV. Ver. 25. Until the death, he. This ■uvsticallv signified that our deliverance wa-s to be have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan, 11 Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will. 12 And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged. 13Ana of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives, 14 Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan, 15 As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will. 16 Ir any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. 17 If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner. 18 If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the blood of him that struck him. 19 The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he appre- hendeth him, he shall kill him. 20 0 If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him with ill design: 21 Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him. 22 But if by chance-medley, and without hatred, 23 And enmity, he do any of these things, 24 And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between hun that struck, and the next of kin : 25 The innocent shall be delivered from the handof the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high-priest, that is anointed with the holy oil. 26 If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished, 27 And be struck by him that is the aveng¬ er of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him. 28 Eor the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high-priest: And after he is dead, then shall the man- slayer return to his own country. 29 These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings. 30 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man. 31 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith 32 The banished and fugitives before the death of the high-priest may by no means return into their own cities. 33 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the inno¬ cent : neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another. 34 And thus shall your possession b® e Deut. 19, 2 ; Jos. 20, 2. /Deut. 4,41; Jos. 20, 7, ooid 8. _ fyL>eut. 19,11. _ effected by the death of Christ, the high priest and the anointed of God. 127 Chap. 1. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. I. cleansed, myself abiding with you. For 1 am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel. CHAP. XX.XVI. That the inheritances may not be alienated from one tribe to another, all are to marry within their own tribes. A ND the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, of the stock of the children of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses before the princes of Israel, and said : * 2 The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide the land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give to the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their fa¬ ther : 3 Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession will follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a diminishing of our inheritance. 4 And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee, that is, the hftieth year of re¬ mission, is come, the distribution made by the lots shall be confounded, and the P 9 S- session of the one shall pass to the others*. 6 Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the command of the Lord; The h Supra, 27, l. tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly. 0 And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: ‘ Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe. 7 Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred: 8 And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may re¬ main in the families, 9 And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so 10 As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughtei’s of Salphaad did as was commanded ; 11 And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father 12 Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the possession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and family of their father. 13 These are the commandments and judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over- against Jericho. _ i Tobias, 7,14. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. This hook is called Deuteronomt, which signifies a becoxd law, because it repeats and inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai, tvith other precepts not expressed before. The Hebrews, from the first words in the hook, call it Ells Haddebarim. . CHAP. I. A repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cades- barne : and of the people's murmuring and their punishment. HESE are the words, wdiich Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over-against the Red Sea, between Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much gold: 2 Eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne. 3 •’ In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them : 4 * After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon; and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai, 5 Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound the law, and to say: 6 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough in this mountain: 7 Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the other places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Eu¬ phrates. 8 Behold, said he, 1 have delivered it to you : go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it tc, them, and to their seed after them. 9 And I said to you at that time: 10 ' I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude. 11 (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.) 12 I alone am notable to bear your busi¬ ness, and the charge of you and your difter- ences. 13 Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conver¬ sation is approved among your tribes, that 1 may appoint them your rulers. 14 Then you answered me : The thing is good which thou meanest to do. 15 And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers. j \ .U. 2553. A. C. IWI. k Num. 21, 24.—/ Exod. 18.18. 128 Chap. 1 , DEUTERONOMY. Chap. 11. tribunes, and centurions, ana officers over hi ties, and over tens, who might teach you all things. l(i And I commanded them^ saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: "‘whether he be one of your country, or a stranger. 17 " There shall be no difference of per¬ sons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man’s person, because it is the judgment of God, And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and 1 will hear it. 18 And I commanded you all things that you were to do. 19 And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrliite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne, 20 I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us. 21 See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged. 22 ®And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall go. 23 And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe: 24 Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains, came as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land, 25 Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought them to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give us. 26 And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God, 27 You murmured in your tents, and said : the Lord hateth us, and therefore he hath brought us out of the Land of Egypt, that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorr¬ hite, and destroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? the messen¬ gers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there. 29 And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them: 30 The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all. 31 And ill the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place. 32 And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God, 33 ^ Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud. 34 And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said: 35 sNot one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers : 36 Except Caleb the son of Jephone : For he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his childrenj because he hath followed the Lord. 37 Neither is his indignation against the people to be w'ondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said : Neither shalt thou go in thither. 38 But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encou¬ rage him, and he shall divide the land' by lot to Israel. 39 Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall pos¬ sess it. 40 But return you and go into the wilder¬ ness by the way of the lied Sea. 41 ’’And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we w'ill go up and fight, as the Lord our, God hath commanded. And when you went ready armed unto the mountain, 42 The Lord said to me: Say to them' Go not up, and fight not, for 1 am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies. 43 I spoke, and ; ou hearkened not: but resisting the comm uidment of the Lord, and swelling with price, you went up into the mountain. 44 And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir es far as Horma. 45 And when you returned and wept be¬ fore the Lord, he heard you not, neither w'ould he yield to your voice. 46 So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time. CHAP. II. They are forbid to fight against the Edomites, Moo- bites, and Ammonites. Their victory over Sehon king of Hesebon. A nd departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth to the lied Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount Seir a long time. 2 And the Lord said to me : 3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north: 4 And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your bre¬ thren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir. and they will be afraid of you. 5 Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because 1 have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession. 6 You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters fur money, and shall drink. 7 The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every wmrk of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wil- m John, 7, 24 —n Lev. 19,15: Infra, 16,19 ; Prov, 24. 23 ; Eccli. 42,1: James, 2,1. o Num. 13, 3, and 32, 8. Obaf. L Ver. 28. Walled up to the sky, A ligu- I p Exod. 13, 21; Num. 14, 14. g Num. 14, 23 ; Ps. 94, 11. r N um. 14. 40.—f Num. 14, 42. _ rative expression, signifying the wails to he very high, 329 Chai>. II. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. III. dcrness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing. 8 And when we had passed by oiir brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab. 9 And the Lord said to me: 'Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them; for 1 will not give thee any of their land, because 1 have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession. 10 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims, 11 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites eall them Emims. 12 The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the Lord gave him. 13 Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it. 14 And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was eonsumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn: 15 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp. 16 And after all the fighting men were dead, 17 The Lord spoke to me, saying: 18 Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, “ the city named Ar: 19 And when thou comest nigh the fron¬ tiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for 1 will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a pos¬ session. 20 It was accounted a land of giants : and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Am¬ monites call Zomzommims, 21 A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in their stead, 22 As he had done in favour of the chil¬ dren of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess to this day. 23 The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, wei’e expelled by the Cappa¬ docians : who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. 24 Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: " Behold 1 have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him. 25 This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon tlie nations that dwell under the whole lieaven: that when they near thy name they may fear and tremble", and be in pain like women in travail. 26 So 1 sent messengers from the wil¬ derness ui Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying: 27 We will pass through thy land, we w ill iNum. 21,15. V. A. M. 2555. A. 0.1451. V A. M. 2553 .—w Num. 21, 21. Chap. II. Ver. 80. Hardened, Ac. That is, in f’UniiiiTnciit cf his sius he left him to his own go .along by the highway : we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left. 28 Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through, 29 As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our Goo will give us. 30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon woidd not let us pass : because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his he’ Ton saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the tire: 16 Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female, 17 The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven, 18 Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that abide in the wa¬ ters under the earth: 19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to hea¬ ven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven. 20 But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day. 21 *And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that 1 should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the ex¬ cellent land, which he will give you. 22 Behold I die in this land, 1 shall not pass over the Jordan : you shall pass, and possess the goodly land. 23 Beware lest thou ever forget the cove¬ nant of the Lord thy God, which he hath raade with thee: and make to thyself a gra- 7en likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made : 24 'Because the Lord thy God is a con¬ suming fire, a jealous God. 25 If you shall beget sons and grandsons, ind abide in the land, and being deceived, nake to yourselves any similitude, commit- •,ing evil before the Lord your God, to pro¬ voke liim to wrath; 26 1 call this day heaven and earth to wit¬ ness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will desti’oy you, 27 And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you. 28 And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men’s hands : wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him : yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul. 30 After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice. 31 Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God : he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers. 32 Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the day that God creat¬ ed man upon the earth, from one end of hea¬ ven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time, 33 That a people should hear the voice of j Exod. 24,10.—& Supra, 1. 37, I HelJ. 12. 29.—m Exod. 13. 21. God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived : 34 If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched-out arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, liefore thy ejes. 35 That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him. 36 From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire, 37 Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. "‘And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power, 38 To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou ai't, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day. 39 Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other. 40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which 1 command thee : that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God wdll give thee. 41 ” Then Moses set aside three cities be¬ yond the Jordan at the east-side, 42 That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities : 43 ° Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad : and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses. 44 This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel, 45 And these are the testimonies and cere¬ monies and judgments, which he spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt, -46 Beyond the Jordan in the valley over- against the temple of Phogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moses slew. And the chil¬ dren of Israel coming out of Egypt, 47 Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun: 48 From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon, 49 All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east-side, unto the sea of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga. CHAP. V. The ten commandments are repeated and explained. ND Moses called all Israel, and said to them : * Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in lloreb^_ n Num. 35,14. o Jos. 30, 3.1—^ A. M. 2553. 132 I Chap, V. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. VI. 3 He made not the covenant with our fathers^ but with us, who are now present and living. 4 He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire. 5 I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you his words, for you feared the nre, and went not up into the mountain, and he said : G «I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 7 '■ Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight, 8 * Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth. 9 ‘ Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy (iod, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me, 10 And showing mercy unto many thou¬ sands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. 11 “ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain : for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing. 12 Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath com¬ manded thee. 13 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all tliy works. 14 •' The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thjr gates? that thy man¬ servant and thy maid-servant may rest, even as thyself. 15 Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee l)Ut from thence with a strong hand, and a stretch ed-out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the sabbath-day. 16 “'Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 And thou shalt not steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21 * Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife: nor his house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. 22 These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me. 23 Rut you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and saw the Q Exod. 20, 2 : Lev. 26, l; Fs. 80, 11. r Exod. 20, 3 ; Fs. 80. 10. s Exod. 20, 4 ; Lev. 26,1 ; Fs. 96, t Exod. 34, 14. u Exod, 20.7 : Lev. 19,12: Mat. 6. ^3 mountain burn, came to me, all the princea of the tribes and the elders, and you said: 24 Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his greatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and have proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived. 25 Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great fire consume us: For if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. 26 What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, wdio speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be able to live ? 27 Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and w^e will hear and will do them. 28 And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me : I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have spoken all things well. 29 Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my com¬ mandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever ? 30 Go and say to them: Return into your tents. 31 But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my commandments, and ceremonies and judgments; which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a possession, 32 Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you; oil shall not go aside neither to the right and, nor to the left, 33 But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession. CHAP. VI. An exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law. T hese are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that 1 should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it 2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which 1 command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. 5 ‘ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. 6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: 7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping, and rleing^__ V Gen. 2, 2 ; Exod. 20,10 j Heb. 4, 4. w Exod. 20,12 ; Eccli. 3, 9 : Mat. 15, 4: Mark, 7, 10 Ephes. 6, 2,—x Mat. 5, 28 ; Rom. 7,7. V A. M. 2553.— « Infra, 11.13 ; Mat. 22,37: Mark, 12, SO ; Luke. 10.27. 133 Chap. VII. DEUTEEONOMY. Chap. VII. 8 And thou slulfc bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house. 10 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for whicli he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build. 11 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst iidt plant, 12 And thou shalt have eaten and be full: 13 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name. 14 You shall not go after tlie strange gods of all the nations, that are round about yon: 15 Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee : lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth. 16 * Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation. 17 Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee. 18 And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers, 19 That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken. 20 And when thy son shall ask thee to¬ morrow. saying: What mean these testimo¬ nies, and ceremonres and judgments, wliich the Lord our God hath commanded us ? 21 Thou shalt say to him: We were bond- men of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand. 22 And he wrought signs and wonders f reat and very grievous in Egypt against ’hai'ao, and all his house, in our sight, 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers. 24 And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordmances, and should fear the Lord jur God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day. 25 And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us. CHAP. VII. No league nor fellowship to be made with the Cha- naanites: God promiseth his people his blessing and assistance, xfthey keep his commandments, W HEN ®the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have de¬ stroyed many nations before thee, ‘^the He- thite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and a Infra, 10, 20 ; JIat. 4, 10 ; Luke, 4,8. 6 Mat. 4,7 ; Liike, 4,13. C A. M. 2553.,—d Exod. 28, 23, aiid 33. 2. the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou: _ 2 And the Lord thy God shall have de¬ livered them to thee, thou shalt utterly de¬ stroy them. ‘Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: 4 For she will turn away thy son from fol - lowing me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kin¬ dled, and will quickly destroy thee. 5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: •''Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. 6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. * The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth. 7 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people: 8 But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt. 9 And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keep¬ ing his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his command¬ ments, unto a thousand generations: 10 And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve. 11 Keep therefore the precepts and cere¬ monies and judgments, which I command thee this day t® do. 12 If after thou hast heard these judg¬ ments, thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers; 13 And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he w'ould give it thee- 14 Blessed shalt thou be among all people. * No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle. 15 The Lord w'ill take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous infirmities of Egypt, wliich thou knowest, he will not bi’ing upon thee, but upon thy enemies. 16 Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin. 17 If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to de¬ stroy them ? 18 Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyp¬ tians, 19 The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and w onders, and the strong hand,and the stretched-out arm. with e Exod. 23, 32. and 34,15,16. /Exod. 23, 24 ; Infra, 12 , 3, and 16, 22 . g Infra, 14, 2.—h lafra, 26,18.—» Exod. 23 . 2 a 134 Chap. VIIL DEUTERONOMY. Chap. IX. which the Lord thy God brought thee out : 60 will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest. 20 ■' Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves. 21 Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible: 22 He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou will not be able to destroy them alto¬ gether : lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee. 23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from under heaven : no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them. 25 * 'J'heir graven things thou shalt burn with fire : thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou olfend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as unclean¬ ness and filth, because it is an anathema. CHAP. Vlll. The people it put in mind of Gods dealings with them, to the end that they may love him and serve him. A ll ' the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and go¬ ing in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath Drought thee for forty years through the de¬ sert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. 3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou northy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. 4 Thy raiment, with which thou wast co¬ vered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year, 5 That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up. 6 That thou shouldst keep the command¬ ments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and fear him. 7 For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of winters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out: 8 A land of wheat, and ba rle y, and v ine- 3 Exod. 23, 28 ; Jos. 24,12. k 2 Mac. 12, to.—I A. M. 265S. _ m Mat. 4, 4 ; Luke, 4, 4. _ Chap. VII. Ver. 25. Graven things. Idols, so Killed by contempt. Ver. 26. An anathema. That is, a thing devoted to destruction; and -which carries along with it a curse. CUAP. Vlll. Ver. 3. Xot in bread alone, dw. yards, wherein fig-trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey 9 Where without any want thou shalt eat, thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass: 10 That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the excellent land w'hich he hath given thee. 11 Take heed, and beware lest at any dme thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandments and judgments and cere¬ monies, which I command thee this day : 12 Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them, 13 And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things, 14 Thy heart be lifted up, and thou re¬ member not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: 15 And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, "wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: “who brought forth streams out of the hard¬ est rock, 16 ^And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee, 17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me. 18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth. 19 But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: behold now 1 foretell thee that thou shalt utterly perish. 20 As the nations, which the Lord de¬ stroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you Be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God. CHAP. IX. Lest they should impute their victories to their own merits, they are put in mind of their manifold re¬ bellions and other sins, for which they should have been destroyed, but God spared them for his pro¬ mise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. H ear, O Israel: ®Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and waUed up to the sky, 2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand. 3 Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over be¬ fore thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee. 4 Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: n Num. 20. 9, and 21, C. o Exod. 17, 6. p Exod. 16, 14.—g A. M. 265 3. That is, That God is able to make food of -vvliat ho pleases for the support of man. Ver. 15. The Dipsas A serpent-whose bite'caus- cth a violent thirst: from -whence it has its name for in Greek dipsa, (S V*) eiguiftea thirst, Ibo Chap. IX. For my justice hath the I Exod, 21, 2 ; Jer. 34,14. X Levit. 22, 20, and 21; Eccli. 35,14. _ at a loss to find objects for their charity : but it is an ordinance tluit allsiiould do tlieir best endeavours to prevent any of their brethren from sufieriug the liardships of poverty and want. 140 Chap. XVI. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. XVII. shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God. 22 But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city : the flean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart. 23 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water. CHAP. XVI. The three principal soleinfiittes to be observed ■' just judge} to he appointed in every city ; all occasions oj idolatry to be avoided. O BSERVE the month of new corn, s'which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God; because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. 2 And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there. 3 Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou earnest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life. 4 No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning. 5 Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God ^'iil give thee: 6 Butin the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the even¬ ing, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou earnest out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy dwellings. 8 Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh d^', because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work. 9 Thou shalt number unto thee seven w’eeks from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God. 11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daugh¬ ter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid¬ servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there : 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded. 13 Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the bai’ii-floor and of the wine-press. 14 And thou shalt make merry in thy fes¬ tival time, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, t'g y man-servan t, and thy maid-servant, the !/A. M. 2553. A. C. 1451. » Eiod. 23,15, and 34. 20 ; Eccli. 35, 6 .—a Exod. 23,8 ; _ Lev. 19, 15 ; Sup T 17 ; Eccli. 20 , 31. _ CiiAi*. XV'll. Ver. 3. The host of heaven. That h the stars. Levite also and the stranger, and the father- less_and the widow that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose : and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy. Ifl Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose : in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. * No one shall ap¬ pear with his hands empty before the Lord: 17 But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him. 18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magis¬ trates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment, 19 And not go aside to either part. “ Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just. 20 Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and pos¬ sess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee. 21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God: 22 Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue : which things the Lord thy God hateth. CHAP. XVII. Victims must be without blemish. Idolaters are to be slain. Controversies are to be decided by the high- prtest and council, whose sentence must be obeyed under pain of death. The duty of a king, who is to receive the law of God at the priest’s hands. ^T^HOU ''shalt not sacrifice to the Lord -i- thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 2 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, 3 So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not com¬ manded : 4 And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is com¬ mitted in Israel: 5 Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be stoned. 6 ® By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth wit¬ ness against him. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee. 8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the b A. M. 2653. c Infra, 19,16; Mat. 18,18; 2 Cor. 13,1. _ d Supra, 13, 9. _ Ver. 8. If thou perceive, &c. Here we sec wh.at authority God was pleased to give to the church 141 Chap. XVIII. BEUTERONOMY. Chap. XVllI. words of the judges within tliy gates do vary: aidse, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose. 0 * And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and they shall shew thee the truth of the judgment. 10 And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the place, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee, 11 According to his law 5 and thou shalt follow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand. 12 But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt taae away the evil from Israel: 13 And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards swell with pride. 14 When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, and pos- sessest it, and shalt sayI will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about: 15 Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation king, that is not thy bro¬ ther. 16 And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way. 17 He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold. 18 But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe, 19 And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law. 20 And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren, nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons may reign a long time over Israel. CHAP. XVIII. The Lord is the inheritance of the priests and Levites. Heathenish abommattons are to be avoided. The great prophet Christ is promised. False pro¬ phets must be slain. ''PHE -^priests and Levites, ^'and all that JL are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, be¬ cause they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations, 2 And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them. 3 This shall be the priest’s due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast: 4 * The first-fruits alstfbf corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep. 5 For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever. _6 If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which the Lord shall choose, 7 He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord. 8 He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers. 9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abomina¬ tions of those nations. 10 ‘Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard, 11 Nor charmer, nor any one that consult¬ eth pythonic spirits, or fortune-tellers, ■'or that seeketh the truth from the dead. 12 For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming. 13 Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God. 14 These nations, wdiose land thou shalt possess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God. 15 *The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a prophet of thy nation and of thy bre¬ thren like unto me : him thou shalt hear: 16 As thou desirest of the Lord thy God in ' Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any mor j the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire, lest 1 die. 17 And the Lord said to me: they have spoken all things well. 18 “I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and 1 will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall com¬ mand him. 19 And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger. 20 But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that 1 did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, he shall be slain. 21 And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I knovv the word that the Lord hath not spoken ? 22 Thou shalt have this sign : Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that y e 2 Tar. 19,8.—/ A. M. 255S. g Num. 18,20, ajid 23: Supra, 10, 9; 1 Cor. 9,13. h Nam. 18, 2L t Levit. 20, 27 .—J 1 Kings, 28, 7. k John, 1, 46 ; Acts, 3, 22. I Exod. 20, 2E—m John, 1,46. guides of the Old Testament, in deciding, without appeal, all controversies relating to ,tb* law ; pro- Boising that they should not err tkorfeha; and surely he has not done less for the church guides of the New Testament. 142 ,r o Chap. XLt. DEUTEEONOMY. Chap. XX. thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind; and therefore thou shalt not fear him. CHAP. XIX. The cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false wit¬ nesses must be punished, T^HEN "the Lord thy God hath destroy- VV ed the nations, whose land he will de¬ liver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dw'ell in the cities and houses thereof: 2 ® Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give thee in possession, 3 Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole province of thy land equally into three parts; that he who is forced to flee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape. 4 This shall be the law' of the slayer that fleeth,whose life is to be saved: He tha\, killeth his neighbour ignorantly, and who is proved to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before: 5 But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting down the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities aforesaid, and live: 6 Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him W'hose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain. 7 Therefore 1 command thee, that thou .separate three cities at equal distance one from another. 8 And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he swore to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised them, 9 (Yet so, if thou keep his command¬ ments, and do the things which I command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt double the number of the three cities afore¬ said : 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood. 11 «But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid, 12 The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kins¬ man of liim w hose blood was shed, and he shall die. 13 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt o/innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee. 14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour’s land-mark, which predeces¬ sors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess. 15 *■ One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness n A. M. 2553.—o JNlun. 35, 11; Jos. 20. 2. p lieu. 23, 14 ; Exoct. .34, 24 ; Supra, 12, 20. q Xum. 35. 20. r iripra, 17, 6 ; Mat. is. lU ; 2 Cor. 13. 1. be: but in the mouth of two or three wit¬ nesses every w'ord shall stand. 16 If a lying witness stand against a man. accusing hini of transgression, 17 Both of them, betw'een whom the con¬ troversy is, shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in those days. 18 'And when after most diligent inquisi¬ tion, they shall And that the false witness hath told a lie against his brother : 19 'J'hey shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take aw'ay the evil out of the midst of thee: 20 That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things. 21 Thou shalt not pity him, ‘ but shalt re¬ quire life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. CHAP. XX. Laws relating to war. r ?“thougo out to war against thy ene¬ mies, and see horsemen and chariots^ and the numbers of the enemy’s army greater than thine, thou shalt not fear them; because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 2 And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before the army, and shall speak to the people in this manner: 3 Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies, let not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye them not: 4 Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight for you against I yojir enemies, to deliver you from danger. 5 And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing of the army: ■'What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it ? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat ? iec him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute his office. 7 Whatman is there, that hath espoused a w'ife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her. 8 After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and shall speak to the peo¬ ple : “ What man is there that is fearful, and faint-hearted ? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts of his breth¬ ren to fear, as he himself is possessed w ith fear. 9 And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace, and have made an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to fight. 10 If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace. 11 if they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute. 12 But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt be¬ siege it. 13 And when the Lord thy God shall de- liver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay a ll I Dan. 13, 62. t Exod. 21, 23, and 24 ; Levit. 24, 20 ; Mat. 6, SS. u A. M. 2653.— 1 > 1 Mao. 3, 66. w Judges, 7, 3. Cmap. XXL ' DEUTEKOKOiiY. ' Chap. XXlI. that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword, 14 Excepting women and children, cattle and other thinj^s, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee. 15 So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in pos¬ session. 16 But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live : 17 But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Phere- zite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: 18 Lest they teach you to do all the abo¬ minations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God. ^ 19 When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed it with bulwarks to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that may be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with axes: for it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of them that fight against thee. 20 But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and fit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take the city, which fighteth against thee. CHAP. XXL The expiation of a secret murder. The marrying a captive. The eldest son must not be deprived of his birth-right for hatred of his mother. A stubborn son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged on a gibbet, he must be taken down the same day and buried. T^HEN * there shall be found in the land, ▼ » which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder, 2 Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about: 3 And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground, 4 And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike oif the head of the heifer: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or un¬ clean should be judged. 6 And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley, 7 And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. 8 Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord and lay not in¬ nocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people Israel. And the giult of blood shall be taken from them: 9 And thou shalt be free from the inno¬ cent’s blood, that was shed, w'hen thou shalt X A. M. 2653. A. C. 115n V 1 Par. 6, L have done what the Lord hath commanded thee. 10 If thou go out to fight against thy ene mies, and the Lord thy God deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away cap¬ tives, 11 And seest in the number of the cap¬ tives a beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife, 12 Thou shalt bring her into thy house : and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails, 13 And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife. 14 But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her. 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had chil¬ dren by him, and the son of the hated be the first-born, 16 And he meaneth to dividehis substance among his sons : he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born, and prefer him before the son of the hated. 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this ‘is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights. 18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his fa jher or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: 19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment, 20 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing pj.ir admonitions, he giveth himself to revel¬ ling, and to debauchery and banquetings : 21 The people of the city shall stone him : and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid. 22 When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet: 23 His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall bo buried the same day:* for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession. CHAP. XXII. Humanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the other. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof of a house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed. The pun¬ ishment of him that slandereth his wife, as also oj adultery and rape. T hou “ shalt not pass by if thou seest thy hrother’s ox, * or his sheep go astray : but thou shalt bring them back to thy brotfier. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them. 3 Thou shalt do in like manner with his a ss, and with his ra iment, and with ever y ' z Gal. 8,13. a A. M. 2553.—6 Exod. 28, 4. 144 Chap. XXII. DEITTEEONOMY. Chap. XXIII. thing that is thy brother’s, which is lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to another. 4 If thou see thy brother’s ass or his ox to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him. o A woman shall not be clothed with man’s apparel, neither shall a man use wo¬ man’s apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God. 6 If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird’s nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her young: 7 But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time. 8 When thou b.uildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong. 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified together. 10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together. 12 ' Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered. 13 If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her, 14 And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, 1 found her not a virgin. 15 Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate: 16 And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her, 17 He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say : 1 found not thy daughter a vir¬ gin : and behold these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients or the city ; 18 And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him, 19 Condemning him besides in a hundred sides of silver, which he shall give to the damsel’s father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. 20 But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel: 21 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father’s house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her fathei*’s house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. 22 If a man lie with another man’s wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterei and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. 23 If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her, 24 Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, ancrthey shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife. • And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of theew 25 But if a man find a damsel that is be- trotlied, in the field, and taking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die: 26 The damsel shall suffer nothing, nei. ther is she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer; 27 She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her. 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment: 29 * He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sides of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life. 30 No man shall take his father’s wife, nor remove his covering. CHAP. XXIII. Who may and who may not enter into the church: un¬ cleanness to be avoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows, and eating other men’s grapes and com. A n eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord. 2 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. 3 ^ The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever: 4 Because they would not meet yon with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: * and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee. 5 And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not make peace'with them, neitlier shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, be¬ cause he is thy brother : nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 They that are born of them, in the third t eneration shall enter into the church of the rord. 9 When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing. 10 If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp. c Num. 15,38. d Lev. 20,10.—e Exod. 22,18. Chap. XXIL Ver. 6. Thou shalt not take, ead. 36 The Lord shall bring thee, and tliy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fa¬ thers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a bye-word to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in. 38 * Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all. 39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms. 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fail off and perish. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity. 42 The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy ground. 43 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower. a Lev. 26,14; Lament. 2,17; Baruch, 1, 20; Malac. 2,2.-6 Micheas, 6,15 : Aggeus, 1,6. Ver, 15. All these curses, iic. Thus God dealt with world, rewarding them for some little good they the transgressors of his law in the old testament: have done, and reserving their punishment for the tut now he often suffers sinners to prosper in this'other world. liQ I I Chap. XXVIII. DEUTERONOMY. .^Chap. XXIX. 44 He Shan lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou pei’ish : because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee. 46 And they shall be as signs and w'onders on thee, and on tiiy seed for ever. 47 Because thou didst not serve tlie Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: 48 Thou slialt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things : and he stall an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee. 49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flieth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand. 60 A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant. 51 And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee. 52 And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high walls be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee: 53 "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wlierewith thy enemy shall oppress thee. 64 The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom, 55 So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates. 66 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over-much niceness and tender¬ ness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter, 57 And the filth of the after-births, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, where¬ with thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates. 68 If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law, that are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name: that is. The Lord thy God: 59 The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and per¬ petual. 60 And he shall bring back on thee all the afiftictions of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee. _ c Lament. 4 , 10 •, Baruch, 2,2, and 8. _ A. M. 2m.—e Exod. 10, 4 ._ CuAF, XXIX. Ver.4. Hath not ffiven you. &c. Through your own fault and because you resisted 61 Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and plagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume thee: 62 And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God. 63 And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess. 64 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. 65 Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with pensiveness : 66 And thy life shall be as it were hang¬ ing before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life. 67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fear¬ fulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes. 68 The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man shall buy you. CHAP. XXIX. The covenant u solemnly corffirmed between God and his people. Threats against those that shall break it. T hese ^ are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: ‘you have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land. 3 The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders, 4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day. fi'^He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age. 6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God. 7 And you came to this place: » and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them. 8 And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to * Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses. 9 Keep therefore the words of this cove- / Supra, 8, 2.—fif Supra, 8,1. h Supra, 8,16; Numb. 82; Jo». 13,8, and 22,4, his trrace. 150 Chap. XXIX. DEUTEROKOMY. Chap. XXX. nant, and fulfil them : that you may under- stanq all that you do, 10 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel, 11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water; 12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee. 13 That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths, 15 But with all that are present and that are absent. 16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Eg 3 'pt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them, 17 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped. 18 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness. 19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: 1 shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty, 20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him; and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven, 21 And utterly destroy him out of all tlie tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant: 22 And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it, 23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, ‘nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Goraorrha, Adama and Seboim. which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation: 24 And all the nations shall say: ^ Why hath the Lord done thus to this land ? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath ? 25 And they shall answer; Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their father^ when he brought them out of the land of Egypt: 26 And they have served strange gods, and i Gen. 19, 34. 3 3 Kings, 9, 8 ; J er. 2 2, 8, _ Ver. 19. The drunken. Ac., absumat ebria sitientem. It is a proverbial expression, which may either be understood, as spoken by the sinner, blessing, that is flattering himself in his sins with the imagination of peace, and so great an abvmdance as may satisfy, and as it were, consume all thirst and want: or it may be referred to the root of bitterness, spoken of before, which being drunken with sin may attract, adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned: 27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume: 28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day. 29 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do ail the words of this law. CHAP. XXX. Great mercies are jtromised to the penitent: God's commandmerit is feasible. Life and death are set before them. ■j^OW *when all these things shall be -Li come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which 1 have set forth before thee^ and thou shalt be touched with repentance ot thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee, 2 And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: 3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before. 4 If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence, 5 ' And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: an(^ blessing thee, he will make thee more nu¬ merous than were thy fathers. 6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live. 7 And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee. 8 But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do ail the commandments which 1 command thee this day: 9 And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, thy cattle, and in the fruit of the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will re¬ turn to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers: 10 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 11 This commandment, that 1 command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee; , , ,, 12 Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to k A. M. 2653. _ I 2 Mac. 1, 29. __ and by that means consume, such as thirst after the Ver. 29. Secret things, Ac. As much as to say. secret things belong to, and are known to, God alone ; our business must be to observe what he ha« revealed and manifested to ns, and to direct our lives accordingly. 151 Chap. XXXl. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. XXXI. bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work ? 13 Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou niayst excuse thyself, and say; '"Which of ns can cross the sea, and bring it unto us : that we may hear, and do that which is com¬ manded ? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it. 15 Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil: 16 That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judg¬ ments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. 17 But if thy heart be turned awaj^, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them: 18 I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Anra- ham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them. CHAP. XXXL Moses encourageth the people, and Josue who is ap¬ pointed to succeed him. He delivereth the law to the priests. God foretelleth that the people will of- ten forsake him, and that he will punish them. He commandeth Moses to write a canticle, as a con¬ stant remembrancer of the law. A nd “ Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel, 2 And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me : ® Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan. 3 The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these na¬ tions in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as the Loi d hath spoken. 4 And the Lord shall do to them ^ as he did to Sehon and Og the kings of the Amorr- hites, and to their land, and shall destroy them. 5 Therefore when the Lord shall have de¬ livered these also to you,« you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you. 6 Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor forsake thee. 7 And Moses called Josue,and said to him before all Israel: '‘Take courage, and be va¬ liant : for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and Ihou shalt divide it By. lot. 8 And the Lord who is your leader, he m Rom. 10,6.—n A. M. 2653. o Supra, 8, 27 i Num. 27, IS. himself will be with thee: he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. 9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who car¬ ried the ai'k of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel. 10 And he commanded them, saying: Af¬ ter seven yeai’s, in the year of remission, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel come together, to ap¬ pear in the sight of the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the words of this law before all Israel, in their hearing. 12 And the people being all assembled to¬ gether, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearii^ they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law: 13 That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and fear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it: 14 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh : call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testi¬ mony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the ta¬ bernacle of the testimony: 15 And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood in the entry of the tabernacle. 16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, 17 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day : and 1 will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day : In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me. 18 But 1 will hide, and cover mv face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed stran^ gods. 19 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and smg it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testi¬ mony among the children of Israel. 20 For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant. 21 And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no obli¬ vion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the land which Khave promised them. 22 Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the children of Israel. 23 And the Lord commanded Jos ue the p Num. 21, 24,-3 Supra, 7. 2. r Jos, 1, 0; 8 Kings, 2, 2. 152 Chap. XXXII. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. XXXII. son of Xun, and said: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which 1 have promised, and 1 will be with thee. 24 Therefoi'e after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a volume, and hnished it: 25 He commanded the Levites, who car¬ ried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 26 Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee. 27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While 1 am yet living, and going in with yon, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when 1 shall be dead ? 28 Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and 1 will speak these w'ords in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside from the way that I have commanded you : and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands. 30 Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end. CHAP. XXXII. A canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up into a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not enter into it. H ear, * O ye Heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. 2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower tip- on the herb, and as drops upon the grass. 3 Because 1 will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. 4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments : God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right. 5 They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation. 6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee ? 7 ‘Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee. 8 When the Most High divided the na¬ tions : wlien he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of peoiile according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, in a place of hoiTor, and of vast wilderness : he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders. 12 The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him. 1 3 He set him upon high land; that he ^ A. M. 2663. A. C. 1461.—t Job, 9. a « Jer. 16. 14 ; lioiu, lO, 18 might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone. 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might di’ink the purest blood of the grape. 15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. 16 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abo¬ minations. 17 They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. 18 Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that creat¬ ed thee, 19 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. 20 And he said: I will hide m^ face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children. 21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: “ and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation. 22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall de¬ vour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains. 23 They shall be consumed with famine and birds shall devour them with a most bit¬ ter bite: 1 will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents. 24 1 will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them. 25 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years. 26 1 said: Where are they ? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. 27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things. 28 They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom. 29 ^ O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for thek last end. 30 How should one pursue after a thou¬ sand, and two chase ten thousand ? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? 31 For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges. 32 Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the subui’bs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter, 33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable. 34 Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures ?_ 35 “"Revenge is mine, and I will repajf vAcv. 0 . 12 . I w Eccli. 28,1: Itom, 12 .19 j lleb. Irt. fio. 153 Chap. XXXII. DEUTERONOMY. Chap. XXXIII. them ill due time, that their toot may slide : the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come. 36 The Lord will pudge his people,'and win have mercy on his servants: he shall see tliat iAeir hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed. 37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted? 38 Of whose victims they eat the fat, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress. 39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other Goq besides me : * I will kill and I will make to live : 1 will strike, and I will heal, “ and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever. 41 If I shall whet my sword as the light¬ ning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me. 42 1 will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies. ^ 43 ^ Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants : and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he w'ill be merciful to the land of his people. 44 So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun. 45 And he ended all these words, speak¬ ing to all Israel. 46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which 1 testify to you this day; which you shall command your chil¬ dren to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law : 47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land w'hither you are going over the Jordan to possess it. 48 And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying: 49 Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over-against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain. 50 When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, ® as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 51 “Because you trespassed against me ui the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel. 52 Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it. CHAP. XXXIII. Closes before his death blesseth the tribes of Israel. T his is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses blessed the children of Israel, before his death. 2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law. 3 He hath loved the people, • all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine. 4 Moses commanded us a law, the inhe¬ ritance of the multitude of Jacob. 5 He shall be king with the the princes of the people being with the tribes of Israel. 6 Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number. 7 This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda, and bring him in unto his people; his hands shall fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his enemies. 8 To Levi also he said; Thy perfection, and thy doctrine he to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction: 9 •'’Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: 1 do not know you : and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant, 10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense iu thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar. 11 Bless, O Lord, his strength, and re¬ ceive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise. 12 And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride-chamber shall he abide all the day long, and between his shoulders shall be rest. 13 To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath. 14 Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon. 15 Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the everlasting hills: 16 And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The blessing of himi' that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren. 17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhino¬ ceros : with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim, and these the thou¬ sands of Manasses. Is And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles. most right, assembled X 2 Mac. 7, e.—y Jei-. 2,28. zl Kings, 2,6 : Tobias, is, 2: Wisd. 16, IS. a Job, 10, 7 : Wisd. 16,15. 02 Mac. 7, 6.—c Num. 20,26, and 27,13. Chap. XXXIII. \ er. 8. Holy man, Aaron and his successors in the priesthood. Ver. 0. Who hath sai(L