Chapter 83
greatly at all the good which the Lord had spoken to them through Moses, and they said, we will do all that the Lord has spoken to thee.
32. And the people rose up like one man, and they made generous offerings to the sanctuary of the Lord, and each man brought the offering of the Lord for the work on the sanctuary and for all its implements.
33. And all the children of Israel brought each man of all that was found in his possession for the work on the sanctuary of the Lord, gold, silver and brass, and everything that was serviceable for the sanctuary.
34. And all the skilful men [wise in Hebrew also means skilful ], who were experienced in the work, came and made the sanctuary of the Lord according to all that the Lord had commanded, every man in the work in which he had experience; and all the wisehearted men made the sanctuary and its furniture and all the vessels for the holy service, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
35. And the work on the sanctuary of the tabernacle was completed at the end of five months, and the children of Israel did all that the Lord had commanded Moses.
36. And they brought the sanctuary and all its furniture for inspection to Moses; which were according to the representation the Lord had shown to Moses; so did the children of Israel.
37. And Moses saw the work, and behold, they did it just as the Lord had commanded him. So Moses blessed them.
1. AND in the twelfth month in the twenty third day of the month, Moses took Aaron and his sons, and he dressed them in their garments, and anointed them and did unto them as the Lord had commanded him, and Moses brought up all the offerings which the Lord on that day commanded him.
2. Moses afterward took Aaron and his sons aside and said to them, for seven days shall you remain at the door of the tabernacle, for thus I was commanded to tell you .
3. And Aaron and his sons did all that the Lord had commanded them through Moses, and they remained for seven days at the door of the tabernacle.
4. And on the eighth day, being the first day of the first month, in the second year from the Israelites' departure from Egypt, Moses erected the sanctuary, and Moses put up all the furniture of the tabernacle and all the furniture of the sanctuary, and he did all the Lord had commanded him.
5. And Moses called Aaron and his sons, and they brought the burnt offering and the sin offering for themselves and for the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
6. On that day the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took strange fire and brought it before the Lord, Who had not commanded them in that way, and a fire went forth from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord on that day. 175 .
7. Then, on the day when Moses had completed to erect the sanctuary, the princes of the children of Israel began to bring their offerings before the Lord for the dedication of the altar.
8. And they brought up their offerings, each prince for one day, a prince each day for twelve days in a row .
9. And all the offerings which they brought, each man in his day, one silver charger weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour, mingled with oil for a meat offering.
10. One spoon, weighing ten shekels of gold, full of incense.
11. One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of a year old for a burnt offering.
12. And one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
13. And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of a year old.
14. Thus did the twelve princes of Israel day by day, each man in his day.
15. And it was after this, on the thirteenth day of the month, that Moses commanded the children of Israel to observe the Passover.
16. And the children of Israel kept the Passover in its season in the fourteenth day of the month, as the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
17. And in the second month, on the first day thereof, the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying:
18. Number the heads of all the males of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, thou and thy brother Aaron and the twelve princes of Israel.
19. And Moses did so, and Aaron came with the twelve princes of Israel, and they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
20. And the numbers of the children of Israel by the houses of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
21. But the children of Levi were not numbered amongst their brethren, the children of Israel.
22. And the number of all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from one month old and upward was twenty two thousand, two hundred and seventy three.
23. And the number of all the males of the children of Levi from one month old and upward, was twenty two thousand.
24. And Moses placed the priests and the Levites, each man to his service and to his burden, to serve the sanctuary of the tabernacle, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
25. And on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken away from the Tabernacle of Testimony.
26. At that time the children of Israel continued their journey away from the wilderness of Sinai, and they took a journey of three days, and the cloud rested upon the tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran [which region is mistakenly called Sinai in our days ]. There the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, for they had provoked the Lord in asking Him for meat, that they might eat.
27. And the Lord hearkened to their voice, and gave them meat which they ate for one month.
28. But after this the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and He smote them with a great slaughter, and they were buried there in that place.
29. And the children of Israel called that place Kebroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted for flesh.
30. And they departed from Kebroth Hattaavah and pitched in Hazeroth, which is in the wilderness of Paran.
31. And whilst the children of Israel were in Hazeroth, the anger of the Lord was kindled against Miriam on account of Moses, and she became leprous, white as snow.
32. And she was confined outside the camp for seven days until she had recovered from her leprosy.
33. The children of Israel afterward departed from Hazeroth, and pitched at the border of the wilderness of Paran.
34. At that time the Lord spoke to Moses to send twelve men from the children of Israel, one man for a tribe, to go and explore the land of Canaan.
35. And Moses sent the twelve men, and they came to the land of Canaan to search and exa-