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AND the Lord called Moses again and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of witness, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, ²If any man of you shall bring gifts to the Lord, ye shall bring your gifts of the cattle and of the oxen and of the sheep. ³If his gift be a whole-burnt-offering, he shall bring an unblemished male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall bring it as acceptable before the Lord. ⁴And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering as a thing acceptable for him, to make atonement for him. ⁵And they shall slay the calf before the Lord; and the sons of Aaron the priests shall bring the blood, and they shall pour the blood round about on the altar, which is at the doors of the tabernacle of witness. ⁶And having flayed the whole burnt-offering, they shall divide it by its limbs. ⁷And the sons of Aaron the priests shall put fire on the altar, and shall pile wood on the fire. ⁸And the sons of Aaron the priests shall pile up the divided parts, and the head, and the fat on the wood on the fire, the wood which is on the altar. ⁹And the entrails and the feet they shall wash in water, and the priests shall put all on the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord. ¹⁰And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole-burnt-offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish. ¹¹And he shall lay his hand on its head; and they shall kill it by the side of the altar, toward the north before the Lord, and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour its blood on the altar round about. ¹²And they shall divide it by its limbs, and its head and its fat, and the priests shall pile them up on the wood which is on the fire, on the altar. ¹³And they shall wash the entrails and the feet with water, and the priest shall bring all the parts and put them on the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord. ¹⁴And if he bring his gift, a burnt-offering to the Lord, of birds, then shall he bring his gift of doves or pigeons. ¹⁵And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and shall wring off its head; and the priest shall put it on the altar, and shall wring out the blood at the bottom of the altar. ¹⁶And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by

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generations. ¹⁶And Moses did all things whatsoever the Lord commanded him, so did he.

¹⁷And it came to pass in the first month in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, at the new moon, that the tabernacle was set up. ¹⁸And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put o the chapiters and put the bars into their places, and set up the posts. ¹⁹And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁰And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and be put the staves ¹ by the sides of the ark. ²¹And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and put on it the covering of the veil, and covered the ark of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses. ²²And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness, on the north aide without the veil of the tabernacle. ²³And he put on it the shewbread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁴And he put the candlestick into the tabernacle of witness, on the side of the tabernacle of witness, on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. ²⁵And he put on it its lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁶And he put the golden altar in the tabernacle of witness before the veil: ²⁷and he burnt on it, incense of composition, as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁹And he put the altar of the burnt-offerings by the doors of the tabernacle. ³³And he set up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar; and Moses accomplished all the works.

³⁴And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord. ³⁵And Moses was not able to enter into the tabernacle of testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord. ³⁶And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, the children of Israel ² prepared to depart with their baggage. ³⁷And if the cloud went not up, they did not prepare to depart, till the day when the cloud went up ³⁸For a cloud was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before all Israel in all their ³ journeyings.

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the altar toward the east to the plane of the ashes. ¹⁷