January 27
Exodus 29:26 —
32:14
26 “And
you must take the breast of the ram of installation, which is for Aaron, and
wave it to and fro as a wave offering before Jehovah, and it must become your
portion.
27 And
you must sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the sacred
portion that was waved and that was contributed from the ram of installation,
from what was for Aaron and from what was for his sons.
28 And
it must become Aaron’s and his sons’ by a regulation to time indefinite to be
performed by the sons of Israel, because it is a sacred portion; and it will
become a sacred portion to be rendered by the sons of Israel. From their
communion sacrifices it is their sacred portion for Jehovah.
29 “And
the holy garments that are Aaron’s will serve for his sons after him to anoint
them in them and to fill their hand with power in them.
30 Seven
days the priest who succeeds him from among his sons and who comes into the tent
of meeting to minister in the holy place will wear them.
31 “And
you will take the ram of installation, and you must boil its flesh in a holy
place.
32 And
Aaron and his sons must eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the
basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
33 And
they must eat the things with which atonement has been made to fill their hand
with power, in order to sanctify them. But a stranger may not eat them, because
they are something holy.
34 And
if any of the flesh of the installation sacrifice and of the bread should be
left over until the morning, then you must burn what is left over with fire. It
must not be eaten, because it is something holy.
35 “And
you must do this way to Aaron and his sons according to all that I have
commanded you. You will take seven days to fill their hand with power.
36 And
you will offer the bull of the sin offering daily for an atonement, and you must
purify the altar from sin by your making atonement over it, and you must anoint
it to sanctify it.
37 You
will take seven days to make atonement over the altar, and you must sanctify it
that it may indeed become a most holy altar. Anyone who touches the altar is to
be holy.
38 “And
this is what you will offer upon the altar: young rams each a year old, two a
day constantly.
39 And
you will offer the one young ram in the morning, and you will offer the other
young ram between the two evenings.
40 And
a tenth part of an ephah measure of fine flour moistened with the fourth of a
hin of beaten oil, and a drink offering of the fourth of a hin of wine, will go
for the first young ram.
41 And
you will offer the second young ram between the two evenings. With a grain
offering like that of the morning and with a drink offering like its, you will
render it as a restful odor, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
42 It
is a constant burnt offering throughout YOUR generations at the entrance of the
tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I shall present myself to YOU people to
speak to you there.
43 “And
I will present myself there to the sons of Israel, and it will certainly be
sanctified by my glory.
44 And
I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar; and I shall sanctify Aaron
and his sons for them to act as priests to me.
45 And
I will tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will prove to be
their God.
46 And
they will certainly know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them out of
the land of Egypt that I may tabernacle in the midst of them. I am Jehovah their
God.
30
“And you must make an altar as a place for burning incense; out of acacia wood
you will make it.
2 A
cubit in length and a cubit in width, it should be foursquare, and its height
two cubits. Its horns extend out of it.
3 And
you must overlay it with pure gold, its top surface and its sides round about
and its horns; and you must make a border of gold round about for it.
4 You
will also make for it two rings of gold. Down below its border upon two of its
sides you will make them, upon two opposite sides of it, as they must serve as
supports for the poles with which to carry it.
5 And
you must make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6 And
you must put it before the curtain that is near the ark of the testimony, before
the cover that is over the Testimony, where I shall present myself to you.
7 “And
Aaron must make perfumed incense smoke upon it. Morning by morning, when he
dresses the lamps, he will make it smoke.
8 And
when Aaron lights up the lamps between the two evenings, he will make it smoke.
It is an incense constantly before Jehovah during YOUR generations.
9 YOU
must not offer upon it illegitimate incense or a burnt offering or a grain
offering; and YOU must not pour a drink offering upon it.
10 And
Aaron must make atonement upon its horns once a year. With some of the blood of
the sin offering of the atonement he will make atonement for it once a year
during YOUR generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.”
11 And
Jehovah went on to speak to Moses, saying:
12 “Whenever
you take the sum of the sons of Israel as a census of them, then they must each
give a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when taking a census of them, that there
may come to be no plague upon them when taking a census of them.
13 This
is what all those will give who pass over to those numbered: a half shekel by
the shekel of the holy place. Twenty gerahs equal a shekel. A half shekel is
the contribution to Jehovah.
14 Everyone
passing over to those registered from twenty years old and upward will give
Jehovah’s contribution.
15 The
rich should not give more, and the lowly must not give less than the half
shekel, in order to give Jehovah’s contribution so as to make atonement for YOUR
souls.
16 And
you must take the silver money of the atonement from the sons of Israel and give
it in behalf of the service of the tent of meeting, that it may indeed serve as
a memorial before Jehovah for the sons of Israel, to make atonement for YOUR
souls.”
17 And
Jehovah spoke further to Moses, saying:
18 “You
must make a basin of copper and its stand of copper for washing, and you must
put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water into it.
19 And
Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet at it.
20 When
they go into the tent of meeting they will wash with water that they may not
die, or when they go near the altar to minister in order to make an offering
made by fire smoke to Jehovah.
21 And
they must wash their hands and their feet that they may not die, and it must
serve as a regulation to time indefinite for them, for him and his offspring
throughout their generations.”
22 And
Jehovah continued to speak to Moses, saying:
23 “As
for you, take to yourself the choicest perfumes: myrrh in congealed drops five
hundred units, and sweet cinnamon in half that amount, two hundred and fifty
units, and sweet calamus two hundred and fifty units,
24 and
cassia five hundred units by the shekel of the holy place, and olive oil a hin.
25 Then
you must make out of it a holy anointing oil, an ointment, a mixture that is the
work of an ointment maker. It is to be a holy anointing oil.
26 “And
you must anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
27 and
the table and all its utensils and the lampstand and its utensils and the altar
of incense,
28 and
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
29 And
you must sanctify them that they may indeed become most holy. Anyone touching
them is to be holy.
30 And
you will anoint Aaron and his sons, and you must sanctify them for acting as
priests to me.
31 “And
you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This is to continue as a holy
anointing oil to me during YOUR generations.
32 It
is not to be rubbed in the flesh of mankind, and with its composition YOU must
not make any like it. It is something holy. It is to continue as something holy
for YOU.
33 Anyone
who makes an ointment like it and who puts some of it upon a stranger must be
cut off from his people.’”
34 And
Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “Take to yourself perfumes: stacte drops and
onycha and perfumed galbanum and pure frankincense. There should be the same
portion of each.
35 And
you must make it into an incense, a spice mixture, the work of an ointment
maker, salted, pure, something holy.
36 And
you must pound some of it into fine powder and put some of it before the
Testimony in the tent of meeting, where I shall present myself to you. It should
be most holy to YOU people.
37 And
the incense that you will make with this composition, YOU must not make for
yourselves. For you it is to continue as something holy to Jehovah.
38 Whoever
makes any like it to enjoy its smell must be cut off from his people.”
31
And Jehovah continued to speak to Moses, saying:
2 “See,
I do call by name Bezalel
the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah.
3 And
I shall fill him with the spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in
knowledge and in every kind of craftsmanship,
4 for
designing devices, for working in gold and silver and copper,
5 and
in working of stones to set them and in working of wood to make products of
every kind.
6 As
for me, look! I do put with him Oholiab
the son of Ahisamach
of the tribe of Dan, and in the heart of everyone wise of heart I do put wisdom,
that they may indeed make everything I have commanded you:
7 the
tent of meeting and the Ark for the testimony and the cover that is upon it, and
all the utensils of the tent,
8 and
the table and its utensils, and the lampstand of pure gold and all its utensils,
and the altar of incense,
9 and
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand,
10 and
the garments of knitted work and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the
garments of his sons for acting as priests;
11 and
the anointing oil and the perfumed incense for the sanctuary. According to
everything I have commanded you they will do.”
12 And
Jehovah said further to Moses:
13 “As
for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Especially my sabbaths YOU are to
keep, for it is a sign between me and YOU during YOUR generations that YOU may
know that I Jehovah am sanctifying YOU.
14 And
YOU must keep the sabbath, for it is something holy to YOU. A profaner of it
will positively be put to death. In case there is anyone doing work on it, then
that soul must be cut off from the midst of his people.
15 Six
days may work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest. It
is something holy to Jehovah. Anyone doing work on the sabbath day will
positively be put to death.
16 And
the sons of Israel must keep the sabbath, so as to carry out the sabbath during
their generations. It is a covenant to time indefinite.
17 Between
me and the sons of Israel it is a sign to time indefinite, because in six days
Jehovah made the heavens and the earth and on the seventh day he rested and
proceeded to refresh himself.’”
18 Now
as soon as he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai he proceeded to
give Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written on by God’s
finger.
32
Meanwhile the people got to see that Moses was taking a long time about coming
down from the mountain. So the people congregated themselves about Aaron and
said to him: “Get up, make for us a god who will go ahead of us, because as
regards this Moses, the man who led us up out of the land of Egypt, we certainly
do not know what has happened to him.”
2 At
this Aaron said to them: “Tear off the gold earrings that are in the ears of
YOUR wives, of YOUR sons and of YOUR daughters and bring them to me.”
3 And
all the people began tearing off the gold earrings that were in their ears and
bringing them to Aaron.
4 Then
he took [the gold] from their hands, and he formed it with a graving tool and
proceeded to make it into a molten statue of a calf. And they began to say:
“This is your God, O Israel, who led you up out of the land of Egypt.”
5 When
Aaron got to see this, he went to building an altar before it. Finally Aaron
called out and said: “There is a festival to Jehovah tomorrow.”
6 So
on the next day they were early in rising, and they began offering up burnt
offerings and presenting communion sacrifices. After that the people sat down to
eat and drink. Then they got up to have a good time.
7 Jehovah
now said to Moses: “Go, descend, because your people whom you led up out of the
land of Egypt have acted ruinously.
8 They
have turned aside in a hurry from the way I have commanded them to go. They have
made a molten statue of a calf for themselves and keep bowing down to it and
sacrificing to it and saying, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who led you up out of
the land of Egypt.’”
9 And
Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “I have looked at this people and here it is a
stiff-necked people.
10 So
now let me be, that my anger may blaze against them and I may exterminate them,
and let me make you into a great nation.”
11 And
Moses proceeded to soften the face of Jehovah his God and to say: “Why, O
Jehovah, should your anger blaze against your people whom you brought out of the
land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
12 Why
should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out in order to kill
them among the mountains and to exterminate them from the surface of the
ground’? Turn from your burning anger and feel regret over the evil against your
people.
13 Remember
Abraham, Isaac and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, in that
you said to them, ‘I shall multiply YOUR seed like the stars of the heavens, and
all this land that I have designated I shall give to YOUR seed, that they may
indeed take possession of it to time indefinite.’”
14 And
Jehovah began to feel regret over the evil that he had spoken of doing to his
people.