Exodus 30-32 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Exodus 30

 ¹Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.

    ²It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, foursquare, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.

    ³And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well as the grate thereof, as the walls round about and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,

    ⁴And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.

    ⁵And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

    ⁶And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.

    ⁷And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:

    ⁸And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

    ⁹You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.

    ¹⁰And 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.

    ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ¹²When 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.

    ¹³And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.

    ¹⁴He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.

    ¹⁵The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

    ¹⁶And 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.

    ¹⁷And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ¹⁸Thou 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,

    ¹⁹Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:

    ²⁰When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,

    ²¹Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.

    ²²And the Lord spoke to Moses,

    ²³Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much, that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty.

    ²⁴And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:

    ²⁵And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer,

    ²⁶And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament,

    ²⁷And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and furniture thereof, the altars of incense,

    ²⁸And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the service of them.

    ²⁹And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.

    ³⁰Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.

    ³¹And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.

    ³²The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you.

    ³³What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

    ³⁴And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.

    ³⁵And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.

    ³⁶And when thou has beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be to you.

    ³⁷You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.

    ³⁸What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.

   

Exodus 31

 ¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ²Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda,

    ³And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work.

    ⁴To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, and brass,

    ⁵Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.

    ⁶And I have given him for his companion Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,

    ⁷The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,

    ⁸And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick with the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,

    ⁹And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,

    ¹⁰The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for his sons, that they may execute their office about the sacred things:

    ¹¹The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.

    ¹²And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ¹³Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that thou keep my sabbath: because it is a sign between me and you in your generations: that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

    ¹⁴Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do my work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

    ¹⁵Six 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.

    ¹⁶Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

    ¹⁷Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

    ¹⁸And 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.

   

Exodus 32

 ¹And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

    ²And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

    ³And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

    ⁴And 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.

    ⁵And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying: To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.

    ⁶And 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.

    ⁷And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

    ⁸They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

    ⁹And again the Lord said to Moses: See that this people is stiffnecked:

    ¹⁰Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

    ¹¹But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation kindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?

    ¹²Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.

    ¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to you seed, and you shall possess it for ever.

    ¹⁴And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

    ¹⁵And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,

    ¹⁶And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables.

    ¹⁷And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.

    ¹⁸But 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.

    ¹⁹And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:

    ²⁰And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which he strowed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.

    ²¹And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?

    ²²And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.

    ²³They said to me: Make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him.

    ²⁴And 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.

    ²⁵And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies,)

    ²⁶Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on the Lord's side let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him:

    ²⁷And 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.

    ²⁸And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.

    ²⁹And 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.

    ³⁰And 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.

    ³¹And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

    ³²Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

    ³³And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:

    ³⁴But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.

    ³⁵The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.