brought us out of Egypt. 24. Then I said to them, Whoever have any gold pendant, let them break it off, and bring it to me, and I cast it into the fire, whence this calf was produced.

25. But when Moses saw the people disarrayed, (to wash the erruptions produced by the water with the gold dust), for Aaron had made them disarray. ed, so that they might be easily smitten by their assailants.

26. Moses then stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on the Eternal's side, let him come to me then all Levi's race came to him. 27. And he said to them, Thus saith the Eternal, God of Israel, let every one put his sword by his side, and go through the camp, and slay his guilty brother, or companion, or neighbour.

28. So Levi's race did as Moses said: and about three thousand men fell.

29. Then Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to the Eternal to-day on this trophy of your piety over idolatry, even on sons and brothers, that he may be gracious to you this day.

30. And on the morrow, Moses said to the people, Ye have committed a great sin; but I will now pray to the Eternal, perhaps I shall prevail with him to forgive your sin.

31. Then Moses prayed to the Eternal, saying, Alas! this people have committed a great sin, in making an idol of gold. 32. Yet, O forgive their sin! but if thou wilt reject them from being thy vi şible church, reject me also from it.

33. Then the Eternal said to Moses, Whoever hath sinned against me, him will I cast off. 34. Go now, therefore, and lead the people to the place, whereof I spoke to thee: behold mine angel shall go before thee; yet I will visit their sin upon them, in the day of my visitation. 35. So the Eternal plagued the people, because of the idolatry of the golden calf, which they compelled Aaron to make.

CHAP. XXXIII.

THE PEOPLE MOURN.

THEN the Eternal said to Moses, Go from hence with the people thou hast brought out of Egypt, to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to their seed: 2. For I will send an angel before you, and disposses the Canaanite, the Amo rite, the Hittite, the Girgasite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebuzite, for their wickedness, 3. To a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go among this people as before, lest I consume them in the way, as it is a stubborn people.

4. When the people heard these evil tidings they mourned, and no man put on his ornaments; 5. As the Eternal had said to Moses, Say to the Israelites, ye are a stiff-necked people, I will come into the midst of you to consume you in a moment, unless you put off your ornaments and humble yourselves. 6. So they put them off at Mount Horeb.

7. Now Moses took his tent, and pitched it with out the camp at a distance, calling it the tabernacle of the assembly. And every one that sought to call on the Eternal went out to it.

8. When Moses went out to it, all the people rose, and each stood in his tent-door, looking after Moses till he went into it.

9. Now as he entered into it, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at its door before all the peo ple; and the Eternal spoke with Moses. 10. Then all the people rose and worshipped, each one in his tent-door.

11. The Eternal spoke to Moses familiarly as a man doth to his friend; and he sometimes returned to the camp: but his attendant Joshua, the son of Nun (a youth), went not out of the tabernacle.

12. Then Moses said to the Eternal, Lo, thou sayest to me, bring up this people; but thou hast

not told me who shall go with me, or if this pillar shall still be sent with me, though thou hast said, I have called thee by naine, and thou hast obtained my favour. 13. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have obtained thy favour, shew me what I ought to do that I may obtain thy favour so as I may consider this nation as thy people. 14. Then he said, My presence shall accompany thee, and thou shalt have rest.

15. Then Moses said, If thy presence go not with us carry us not from hence to the good land: 16. For how shall it be known that I and this people have obtained thy favour, but by this, that thou art with us, so that I and thy people be distinguished from all the people of the earth. 17. Then the Eternal said to Moses, I will grant thee this favour thou hast asked, for thou hast obtained my favour, and art a favourite.

18. Then Moses said, I beseech thee shew me thy glory. 19. Then he said, I will shew thee all my goodness, making thee know the Eternal. I will shew this grace and mercy to my sincere and upright.servants. 20. But he said, Thou canst not behold the brightness of my glory, for the weakness of this mortal life cannot bear it, Rev. i. 17.

21. Then the Eternal said, There is a place on the rock where thou canst wait for me; 22. And thou shalt be in the cleft of the rock when my glory is dis played, and I will cover thee with a cloud while my glory passeth. 23. And I will remove the cloud that thou mayest see a glimpse of it; but the brightness of it thou canst not behold.

CHAP. XXXIV.

THE TABLES OF THE LAW ARE RENEWED.

Now the Eternal said to Moses, Hew two tables. of stone like the first, and I will write on them the words which were in the first which thou brakest.

2. And come up to the top of the mount in the morning, to present thyself before me. 3. Let none come with thee, or be on all the mount; neither let flocks nor herds feed about it. 4. Then Moses did as the Eternal commanded him, taking in his hand two tables of stone.

5. Then the Eternal descended in a cloud which stood there. And Moses called on the Eternal's name. 6. Now the Eternal made the symbol of his presence pass before him; and he declared his name, The Eternal God, merciful, and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7. Extending mercy to thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, to the penitent, and will not at all clear the impenitent; visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth race, who by following their example, and approving their conduct, adopt their crimes.

8. Now Moses speedily bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped, saying, 9. O Eternal, if I have now obtained thy favour, I pray thee go with us, though it be a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquities and our sin, and take us for an inhe ritance to thee.

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10. Then he said, Lo, I will make a covenant before all thy people; I will do wonders such as have not been done in any nation on all the earth, and all the people amongst whom thou art shall see the Eternal's terrible work he will do for thee. Observe what I command thee this day: Lo, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgasite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12. Take heed to thyself, and make no alliance with the inhabitants of the land to which thou goest, lest it be a snare to you; 13. But destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. 14. For thou shalt worship no other god with the Eternal, who will not suffer his glory to be given to another, being a jealous God; 15.

Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and go a whoring after their gods to sacrifice to them, or eat of their sacrifices when you are invited; 16. And your sons intermarry with their daughters, and go a whoring after their gods with them.

17. You shall make no gods. 18. You shall keep the festival of unleavened bread seven days, in the month of Abib, as I commanded when you came out of Egypt. 19. All the first-born of man or beast that are males shall be devoted to the Eternal. 20. All thy first-born sons shall be redeemed; and nonė shall appear before me empty-handed at the feast. 20. But the firstlings of unclean beasts shall be redeemed with those that are clean, as that of an ass with a lamb, else it shall be destroyed.

21. You shall work six days, and rest the seventh, even in seed-time and harvest. 22. You shall keep the feast of the seventh week after the passover, of the first fruits of wheat-harvest then, and the feast of ingathering at the civil year's end.

23. These three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Eternal, the God of Israel, at these appointed feasts. 24. For he will cast out the nations before thee, and extend thy borders; neither shall any invade your land when ye go to appear before the Eternal your God at his house three times in the year.

25. You shall not offer the blood of the Lord's sacrifice with leaven; nor shall any of the feast of the passover sacrifice remain till the morning. 26. The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the Eternal your God's house. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk, (like Pagans).

27. Then the Eternal said to Moses, Thou shalt write these words, for in the tenor of them I make a Covenant with thee and Israel.

28. Now he was there with the Eternal forty days and forty nights; he neither eat bread nor drank was