And Aaron said unto the Israelites, "Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me." And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molded calf.

And the Israelites said, "These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go, get…down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, ‘These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’"

And the LORD said unto Moses, "I have seen this people, and, look, it is a stubborn people: Now therefore let me alone, that my anger may grow hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation."

And Moses questioned the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does your anger grow hot against your people, which you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘For mischief did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce anger, and relent of this evil against your people."

And the LORD relented of the evil, which he thought to do unto his people. And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tables.

And it came to pass, as soon as Moses came near unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands, and broke them at the foot of the mount. And he took the calf, which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and threw it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Who is on the LORD'S side? Let him come unto me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

And Moses said unto them, "This says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’"

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses said unto the people, "You have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; perhaps I shall make an atonement for your sin."

And Moses returned unto the LORD and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if you will forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written."

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto you: behold, my Angel shall go before you: nevertheless in the day when I punish I will punish their sin…." And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Depart, and go up now, you and the people which you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘Unto your seed will I give it.’"

And Moses said unto the LORD…, "If your presence go not with me, carry us not up there."

And the LORD said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest." (The LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaks unto his friend.)

And Moses said, "I beg you, show me your glory."

And the LORD said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you. You cannot see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. Look, there is a place by me, and you shall stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

"Carve you two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And be ready in the morning, and come up…unto Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me in the top of the mount."

And Moses carved two tables of stone like unto the first; and he rose up early in the morning, and went up unto Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there.

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; looking after the sin of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."

And Moses hurried, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. And he said, "If now I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stubborn people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

And the LORD said, "Look, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD: for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you." And Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights…. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, "These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them. And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD has commanded; the tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his clasps, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets…."

And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was raised up. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward in all their journeys: But if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not…. For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the banner of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch."

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, "...look, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation."

And the LORD called unto Moses, and spoke unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, if any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD…. If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish…. And when anyone will offer a grain offering unto the LORD…and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests...and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar…. The remnant of the grain offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

"And if an individual’s offering be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD."

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, "If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin…a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. And if anyone of the common people sin through ignorance…and be guilty; if his sin, which he has sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish…. And if he brings a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish. And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. And the priest shall take of the blood of it with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood of it at the bottom of the altar…and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor unto the LORD…and it shall be forgiven him."

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, "If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbor…or has deceived his neighbor; he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock…. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven…. And…with all your offerings you shall offer salt."

This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings; Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, "This shall be a statute forever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall search your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that lives among you: For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.… This shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year." And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron…, "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, these are the beasts which you shall eat…. Whatever parts the hoof…and chews the cud, among the beasts, that shall you eat. These shall you eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall you eat. It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your homes, that you eat neither fat nor blood. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul."

REFERENCES

Exodus 32:2, 4, 7-12, 14-16, 19-20, 26-28, 30-35; Exodus 33:1,12a, 15b; Exodus 33:14; Exodus 33:11a, 18-19a, 20b, 21b-23; Exodus 34:1b-2, 4, 5a, 6-10, 28, 29a; Exodus 35:1; Exodus 35:10-11, 21; Exodus 39:42; Exodus 40:17, 34,36-38; Numbers 2:1-2,34; Numbers 18:6; Leviticus 1:1-3; Leviticus 2:1, 2a, 2c-3; Leviticus 3:1; Leviticus 4:1,3; Leviticus 4:27-28,32, Leviticus 4:29-30, 31b; Leviticus 6:1-2; Leviticus 6:6-7; Leviticus 7:37-38; Leviticus 19:1, Leviticus 2:13; Leviticus 16:29-30,34: Leviticus 11:1-3, 9; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 17:11.

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