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Exodus 31

    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

    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.

Exodus 33

    ²And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.

    ³That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I destroy thee in the way.

    ⁴And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no man put on his ornaments according to custom.

    ⁵And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou are a stiffnecked people; once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do with thee.

    ⁶So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by mount Horeb.

    ⁷Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And all the people that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp.

    ⁸And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, 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.

    ⁹And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the pillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with Moses.

    ¹⁰And 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.

    ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.

    ¹²And Moses said to the Lord; Thou commandest me to lead forth this people: 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.

    ¹³If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, show me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people this nation.

    ¹⁴And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give thee rest.

    ¹⁵And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not out of this place.

    ¹⁶For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?

    ¹⁷And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will I do: for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have known by name.

    ¹⁸And he said: Shew me thy glory.

    ¹⁹He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.

    ²⁰And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live.

    ²¹And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.

    ²²And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the rock, and protect thee with my right hand, till I pass:

    ²³And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see.

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Matthew 22

    ²The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son.

    ³And he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage; and they would not come.

    ⁴Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.

    ⁵But they neglected, and went their own ways, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise.

    ⁶And the rest laid hands on his servants, and having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

    ⁷But when the king had heard of it, he was angry, and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city.

    ⁸Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.

    ⁹Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

    ¹⁰And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.

    ¹¹And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.

    ¹²And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? But he was silent.

    ¹³Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    ¹⁴For many are called, but few are chosen.

    ¹⁵Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

    ¹⁶And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

    ¹⁷Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

    ¹⁸But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

    ¹⁹Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.

    ²⁰And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?

    ²¹They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

    ²²And hearing this they wondered, and leaving him, went their ways.