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And thou shalt make the altar of incense of incorruptible wood. ²And thou shalt make it a cubit in length, and a cubit in breadth: it shall be square; and the height of it shall be of two cubits, its horns shall be ³ of the same piece. ³And thou shalt gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a wreathen border of gold round about. ⁴And thou shalt make under its wreathen border two rings of pure gold; thou shalt make it to the two corners on the two sides, and they shall be bearings for the staves, so as to bear it with them. ⁵And thou shalt make the staves of incorruptible wood, and shalt gild them with gold. ⁶And thou shalt set it before the veil that is over the ark of the testimonies, wherein I will make myself known to thee from thence. ⁷And Aaron shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whensoever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it. ⁸And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense-offering always before the Lord for their generations. ⁹And thou shalt not offer strange incense upon it, nor an offering made by fire; nor a sacrifice; and thou shalt not pour a drink-offering upon it. ¹⁰And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement ⁴ on its horns; he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.

¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ¹²If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a ⁵ destruction in the visiting of them. ¹³And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli go to the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord. ¹⁴Every one that passes the survey from twenty years old and upwards shall give the offering to the Lord. ¹⁵The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half didrachm in giving the offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your souls. ¹⁶And thou shalt take the money of the offering from the children of Israel, and shalt give it for the service of the tabernacle of testimony; and it shall be to the children of Israel a memorial before the Lord to make atonement for your souls. ¹⁷And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸Make a brazen laver, and a brazen base for it, ⁶ for washing; and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar and thou shalt pour forth water into it. ¹⁹And Aaron and his sons shall wash

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and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, ⁹These are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰And now let me alone, and l will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make thee a great nation. ¹¹And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Wherefore O Lord, art thou very angry with thy people, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with great strength and with thy high arm? ¹²Take heed lest at anytime the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from thy wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of thy people, ¹³remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever. ¹⁴And the Lord was ⁷ prevailed upon to preserve his people.

¹⁵And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tables of testimony were in his hands, tables of stone written on both their sides: they were written within and without. ¹⁶And the tables were the work of God, and the writing the writing of God written on the tables. ¹⁷And ⁸ Joshua having heard the voice of the people crying, says to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. ¹⁸And Moses says, It is not the voice of them that begin the battle nor the voice of them that begin the cry of defeat, but the voice of them that begin the banquet of wine do I hear.

¹⁹And when be drew nigh to the camp, he sees the calf and the dances; and Moses being very angry cast the two tables out of his hands, and broke them to pieces under the mountain. ²⁰And having taken the calf which they made, he consumed it with fire, and ground it very small, and ⁹ scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel to drink it. ²¹And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought upon them a great sin? ²²And Aaron said to Moses, Be not angry, my lord, for thou knowest the ¹⁰ impetuosity of this people. ²³For they say to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what is ¹¹ become of him. ²⁴And I said to them, If any one has golden ornaments, take them off; and they gave them me, and I cast them into the fire, and there came out this calf. ²⁵And when Moses saw that the people was scattered,— for Aaron had scattered them so as to be a rejoicing to their enemies, — ²⁶then stood Moses at the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's side? let him come to me. Then all the sons of Levi came to him. ²⁷And he says to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every one his brother, and every one his neighbour, and everyone him that is nearest to him. ²⁸And the sons of Levi did as Moses spoke to them,

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⁶And I have ¹² appointed him and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan, and to every one understanding in heart I have given understanding; ⁷and they shall ¹³ make all things as many as I have appointed thee, —⁷the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the covenant; and the propitiatory that is upon it and the furniture of the tabernacle, ⁸and the altars, and the table and all its furniture, ⁹and the pure candlestick and all its furniture, and the laver and its base, ¹⁰and Aaron's robes of ministry, and the robes of his sons to minister to me as priests, ¹¹and the anointing oil and the compound incense of the sanctuary; according to all that I have commanded thee shall they make them.

¹²And the Lord spoke to. Moses, saying, ¹³Do thou also charge the children of Israel, saying, Take heed and keep my sabbaths; for they are a sign with me and among you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord that sanctifies you. ¹⁴And ye shall keep the sabbaths, because this is holy to the Lord for you; he that profanes it shall surely be put o death: every one who shall do a work on it that soul shall be destroyed from the midst of his people. ¹⁵Six days thou shalt do works, but the seventh day is the Sabbath a holy rest to the Lord; every one who shall do a work on the seventh day shall be put to death. ¹⁶And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbaths, to observe them throughout their generations. ¹⁷It is a perpetual covenant with me and the children of Israel, it is a perpetual sign with me; for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and on the seventh day he ceased, and rested. ¹⁸And he gave to Moses when he left off speaking to him in mount Sina, the two tables of testimony, tables of stone written upon with the finger of God