{
"book": "exodus",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These [1] be the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Aegypt with Jacob: they did enter in every one with their houses,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first part of this book. Of the Israelites' servile affliction in Aegypt, and their delivery from thence."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Issachar, Zabulon, & Benjamin,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Dan, and Nephthali, Gad, and Aser."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Therefore all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh were seventy: and Joseph was in Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Who being dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "the children of Israel increased, and as it were springing up did multiply, and growing strong exceedingly, filled the land."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "In the mean time there arose a new king over Aegypt, that knew not Joseph:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and he said to his people: Behold (a) the people of the children of Israel is much, and stronger than we.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Envy, vain fear, (v. 10.) & hatred of true religion (v. 13.) are the causes why Infidels persecute the faithful."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Come, let us wisely oppress the same, (a) lest perhaps it multiply: and if there shall be any war against us, it joined with our enemies, and we being overthrown, they depart out of the land.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "See previous note"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Therefore (b) he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built [1]",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The first persecution was in temporal losses and bodily pains, by pressing them with works."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "God must be feared before Princes unto Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the more they did oppress them, so much the more they multiplied and increased:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and the Aegyptians (a) hated the children of Israel, and deriding afflicted them:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "See previous note"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and they brought their life into bitterness with the hard works of clay and brick, & with all service, wherewith they were pressed in the works of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the king of Aegypt said to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "commanding them: (c) When you shall be midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come, if it be a man-child, kill it: if a woman, reserve her.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The second was secret murder."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But the midwives feared God, and did not according to the commandment of the king of Aegypt, but preserved the men-children.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "To whom being called unto him, the king said: What is this that you meant to do, that you would save the men-children?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Who answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Aegyptian women: for they have the knowledge to play the midwife themselves, and before we come to them, they are delivered.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "God therefore did well to the midwives: and the people increased, and became strong exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Pharao therefore commanded all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male-sex (d) cast it into the river: whatsoever of the female, reserve it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The third was open murder."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The small number of Israelites much increasing in Aegypt, 6. especially after the death of Joseph & his brethren, 8. a new King, that knew not Joseph, in vain striveth to hinder their multiplication, 11. by imposing works upon them, 15. and by commanding to kill 22. and to drown all the male-children of them. God in the mean time rewardeth the midwives, that fearing him killed not the children."
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "After these things there came forth a man of the house of Levi, and he took a wife of his own stock."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Who conceived, and bare a son: & seeing him a goodly one, hid him three months."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And when now she could not conceal him, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with [1] bitume and pitch: and put within it the little infant, and laid him in a sedgy place by the river's brink,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "a kind of glue, so called."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "his sister standing a far off, and considering the event of the thing."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to be washed in the river, and her maids walked by the river's brink. Who when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her handmaids: and when it was brought,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "opening it, and seeing with it an infant crying, having pity on it, said: This is one of the infants of the Hebrews."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "To whom the child's sister said: Wilt thou that I go, and call to thee an Hebrew woman, that may nurse the little infant?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "To whom Pharao's daughter speaking: Take, quoth she, this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy hire. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown, delivered him to Pharao's daughter."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Whom she adopted into the place of a son, and called him (a) Moyses, saying: Because from the water I did take him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Mos, in the Aegyptian tongue signifieth water, and Ises, saved. Ioseph. lib. 2. Antiq. & Clement. Alexand. li. 1. Stromat."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "In those days after that Moyses was grown, he went forth to his brethren: and he saw their affliction, and a man that was an Aegyptian striking one of the Hebrews his brethren."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when he had looked about hither and thither, and saw no man present, he struck the Aegyptian, and hid him in the sand.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And going forth another day, he saw two Hebrews brawling; and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Who answered: (b) Who hath appointed thee Prince and Judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, as yesterday thou didst the Aegyptian? Moyses (c) feared, and said: How is this thing come abroad?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The guilty person rejected Moyses for lack of known authority, but God confirmed his commission. Act. 7. So the Jews rejected Christ, Judge of the world."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "He feared to tempt God by staying, but not the fierceness of the king. Heb. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Pharao heard of this talk, and sought to kill Moyses: who flying from his sight, abode in the Land of Madian, and sat beside a well."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the Priest of Madian had seven daughters, which were come to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, they desired to water their father's flocks."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The shepherds came upon them, and drove them away: and Moyses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who being returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are you come sooner than you were wont?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "They answered: A certain man an Aegyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds: moreover also he drew water with us, and gave the sheep to drink."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But he said: Where is he? Why have you let the man go? Call him that he may eat bread."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Therefore Moyses sware that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Who bare him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bare another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: for the God of my father my helper hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But after much time the king of Aegypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and (d) their cry ascended unto God from the works.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Oppression of innocents cryeth to heaven for revenge."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And our Lord looked upon the children of Israel and knew them."
}
],
"summary": "to the water, 5. is taken from thence by Pharao's daughter, 8. who committeth him to be nursed, unwitting to his own mother, adopteth him, and calleth him Moyses, 11. He afterwards visiting his brethren, killeth an Aegyptian: 15. flieth into Madian: 21. marrieth a wife, and hath two sons."
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] Moyses fed the sheep of Jethro his father in law the Priest of Madian: and having driven the flock to the inner parts of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, Horeb.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The three first lessons on the 4. Sunday in Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And our Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire and was not burnt.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Moyses therefore said: I will go, and see this great vision, why the bush is not burnt."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord seeing that he went forward to see, he called him out of the midst of the bush, and said: Moyses, Moyses. Who answered: Here I am."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But he said: Approach not hither, (a) loose off thy shoe from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is (b) holy ground.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "See what manner of reverence & devotion is prescribed, to go bare-foot to holy places."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Of holy places, and of christian devotion in going to them. S. Hier. writeth largely Epist. 17. 18. and 27."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moyses hid his face; for he durst not look against God."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "To whom our Lord said: I have seen the affliction of my people in Aegypt, and I have heard their cry because of their rigour that oversee the works:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and knowing their sorrow, I am descended to deliver them out of the hands of the Aegyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a land good and large, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the place of the Chananeite, and Hetheite, and Amorrheite, and Pherezeite, and Heveite, & Jebuseite."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Therefore the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction wherewith they are oppressed by the Aegyptians."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Moyses said to God: Who am I that I shall go to Pharao, and bring forth the children of Israel out of Aegypt?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Who said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Aegypt, thou shalt sacrifice to God upon this mountain."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Moyses said to God: Lo I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall say to me: What is his name: What shall I say to them?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "God said to Moyses: Iam Which AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE Which IS, hath sent me to you.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And God said again to Moyses: These things shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you: (c) this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial into generation & to generation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "This is the most proper name, but the most common is God, derived in many languages of Good. Mat. 19. v. 17."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Go, and gather together the Ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers hath appeared to me, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, saying: Visiting I have visited you: and I have seen all things that have chanced to you in Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Aegypt, into the land of the Chananeite, and Hetheite, and Amorrheite, and Pherezeite, and Heveite, and Jebuseite, to a Land that floweth with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And they shall hear thy voice: and thou shalt enter in, thou and the ancients of Israel to the king of Aegypt, and thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us: We will go three days' journey into the wilderness to sacrifice unto the Lord our God."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But I know that the king of Aegypt will not dismiss you to go but by mighty hand."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Aegypt in all my marvels, which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will dismiss you."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And I will give grace to this people in the sight of the Aegyptians: and when you shall go forth, you shall not depart empty:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "but each woman shall ask of her neighbour and of her that is in house with her vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall lay it upon your sons and daughters, and (d) shall spoil Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "All that any man possesseth in this world is but lent by God. And therefore he justly taketh away, and lendeth to others; disposing of all as pleaseth him"
}
]
}
],
"summary": "God appeareth to Moyses in a bush burning but not consuming, 7. designeth him the Governor of the children of Israel, 10. with commission to tell them, that they shall be delivered from Aegypt: 21. and shall spoil the Aegyptians."
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Moyses answering said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: Our Lord hath not appeared to thee.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Therefore he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And our Lord said: Cast it upon the ground. He did cast it, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moyses fled."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord said: Stretch thy hand, & catch the tail thereof. He stretched it forth, & took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "That they may believe, quoth he, that the Lord God of their fathers hath appeared to thee, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, & the God of Jacob."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And our Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. Which when he had put into his bosom, he brought it forth full of leprosy like snow."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Draw back, quoth he, thy hand into thy bosom. He drew it back, and brought it forth again, & it was like the other flesh."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If they will not believe thee, quoth he, nor hear the word of the former sign, they will believe the word of the sign following."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And if so be they will believe neither of these two signs, nor hear thy voice, take water of the river, & pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest of the river shall be turned into blood."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Moyses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment & slowness of tongue."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Our Lord said to him: Who made the mouth of man; or who framed the dumb and deaf, the seeing and the blind? Did not I?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Go on therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; & will teach thee what thou shalt speak."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Our Lord being angry at Moyses, said: Aaron thy brother the Levite, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, & seeing thee shall be glad at the heart."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth; & I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what ye must do."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "(a) This rod also take in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God designed a rod for an instrument to work miracles."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Moyses went his way, & returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren in Aegypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. To whom Jethro said: Go in peace:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Therefore our Lord said to Moyses in Madian: Go, and return into Aegypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Moyses therefore took his wife, and his children, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Aegypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord said to him returning into Aegypt: See that thou do all the wonders which I have put in thy hand, before Pharao: (b) I will indurate his heart, and he will not dismiss the people.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "See Annotations c. 7. v. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And thou shalt say to him: This saith the Lord: My first-begotten son is Israel."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Isaid to thee: dismiss my son that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not dismiss him: behold I will kill thy first-begotten son."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And when he was in his journey, in the Inn, our Lord met him, and would have killed him."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Sephora by and by took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the prepuce of her son, and (c) touched his feet, and said:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Abloody spouse thou art to me."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And (c) he let him go after she had said, A bloody spouse thou art to me, because of the circumcision.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "See previous note"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And our Lord said to Aaron: Go to Moyses into the desert. Who went forth to meet him unto the Mountain of God, and kissed him."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Moyses told Aaron all the words of our Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And they came together, and gathered together all the ancients of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Aaron spake all the words which our Lord had said to Moyses: and he wrought the signs before the people,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and (d) the people believed. And they heard that our Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction; and they adored prostrate.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Miracles a motive to true belief."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Moyses receiving power to work miracles in confirmation of his mission, 14. & his brother Aaron being designed to assist him, 20. goeth with wife and children towards Aegypt, 25. is in danger to be slain for not sooner circumcising his son. 27. Aaron meeteth him, 29. so they go together, and declare to the people, that God will deliver them."
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "After these things Moyses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: This saith the Lord God of Israel: dismiss my people that they may sacrifice to me in the desert."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, & dismiss Israel? I know not the Lord, and Israel I will not dismiss."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us to go three days' journey into the wilderness, & to sacrifice to the Lord our God: lest perhaps there chance to us pestilence or sword."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The king of Aegypt said to them: Why do you Moyses and Aaron solicit the people from their works? Go you to your burdens."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Pharao said: The people of the land is much: you see that the multitude is secretly increased: (a) how much more if you give them rest from their works?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Worldly men think God's people increase most by rest, but indeed they multiply more when they are oppressed. S. Cyprian de exhort. Mart. c. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore he commanded in that day the overseers of the works and the exactors of the people, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "You shall no more give straw to the people for to make bricks, as before; but let themselves go and gather straw."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And the task of bricks, which they did before, you shall put upon them, neither shall you diminish any thing: for they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go, and sacrifice to our God."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Let them be oppressed with works, and let them accomplish them: that they hearken not to lying words."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Therefore the overseers of the works and the exactors going forth said unto the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "go, and gather if you can find any-where: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the people was dispersed through all the Land of Aegypt to gather straw."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the overseers of the works were instant, saying: Finish your work every day, as before you were wont to when straw was given unto you."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the overseers of the works of the children of Israel were scourged of Pharao's exactors, saying: Why do you not make up the task of bricks as before, neither yesterday, nor today?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the overseers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so against thy servants?"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Straw is not given us, and bricks are commanded us in like sort: behold we thy servants are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Who said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Go therefore, and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall give up the accustomed number of bricks."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the overseers of the children of Israel saw themselves in hard case, because it was said unto them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And they met Moyses and Aaron, who stood over-against them, coming forth from Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and they said to them: Our Lord see and judge, because (b) you have made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword for to kill us.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The crafty devil knowing that weak men afflicted are easily moved to murmur, stirred this people against their own leaders. S. Greg. l. 29. c. 14. Moral."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Moyses returned to our Lord, and said: Lord (c) Why hast thou afflicted this people? Wherefore hast thou sent me?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God's providence suffereth his children to be most"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "For since the time that I entered in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses and Aaron require of Pharao in the behalf of desert. Which he contemning 5. oppresseth them more, denying them straw, and yet exacting the accustomed number of bricks. 20. The people oppressed impute their misery to Moyses and Aaron. 22. But Moyses prayeth to God for them."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses. Now thou shalt see what things I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he dismiss them, and in a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying: I am the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "that appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty: and my name (d) Adonai I did not shew them.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Adonai is not the name here uttered to Moyses, but is read in place of the unknown name."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And I made a covenant with them, to give them the Land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Aegyptians have oppressed them: & I have remembered my covenant."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore say to the children of Israel: I the Lord who will bring you forth out of the work-prison of the Aegyptians, and will deliver you from servitude: and redeem you in a high arm, and great judgments."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And I will take you to me for my people, and I will be your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, that brought you forth out of the work-prison of the Aegyptians:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and brought you into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to possess: I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses then told all to the children of Israel: who did not hearken unto him, for anguish of spirit, and most painful work."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Go in, and speak to Pharao the king of Aegypt, that he dismiss the children of Israel out of his land."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Moyses answered before our Lord: Behold the children of Israel hear me not: and how will Pharao hear, especially whereas I am of uncircumcised lips?"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, and he gave them commandment unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Aegypt, that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "These are Princes of their houses by their families. The sons of Ruben the first-begotten of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon: Iamuel and Jamin, and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the sons of the Chananitess, these are the progenies of Simeon."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson and Caath, and Merari. And (e) the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty seven.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The years of Joseph dying first of Jacob's sons Gen. 50. and of Levi living longest, and none of the rest, are not without mystery, recorded in holy Scriptures. Chronol. Hebr."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semi, by their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron and Oziel. The years also of Caath's life, were an hundred thirty three."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi, these be the kindreds of Levi by their families."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Amram took to wife Iocabed (f) his [1] aunt by the father's side: who bare him Aaron & Moyses. And the years of Amram's life were an hundred thirty seven.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "See Num. 26. v. 59."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* patruelem pro patrua, quae Latine non dicitur."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "The sons also of Isaar: Core, & Nepheg, & Zechri."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, & Elizaphan, & Sethri."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who bare him Nadab, & Abiu, & Eleazar, & Ithamar."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "The sons also of Core: Aser, & Elcana, & Abiasaph, these be the kindreds of the Corites."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: who bare him Phinees. (g) These are the heads of the Levitical families by their kindreds.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "It pertained not to Moyses' present purpose, to prosecute the genealogies of Jacob's other sons, being come to the origin of the Priestly tribe in Levi the third son. S. Aug. q. 15. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "This is Aaron and Moyses, whom our Lord commanded that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Aegypt by their troops."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "These are they that spake to Pharao the king of Aegypt, that they might bring forth the children of Israel out of Aegypt: this is Moyses, & Aaron,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "in the day when our Lord spake to Moyses in the land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying: I the Lord: speak to Pharao the king of Aegypt, all things which I speak to thee."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Moyses said before our Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips, how will Pharao hear me?"
}
],
"summary": "God revealing himself more to Moyses than he had done to former Patriarchs, 6. commandeth him to tell the children of Israel, that he seeing their miseries will deliver them from Aegypt, and give them possession of Chanaan. 14. The genealogies of Ruben, Simeon, and especially of Levi are recited, 26. to shew the origin of Moyses and Aaron."
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold I have appointed thee the God of Pharao: and Aaron thy brother shall be (a) thy prophet.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Aaron also was the Prophet of God, but subordinate under Moyses, and over Pharao. S. Aug. q. 17. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Thou shalt speak to him all things that I command thee: and he shall speak to Pharao that he dismiss the children of Israel out of his land."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "But I will indurate his heart, and will multiply my signs and wonders in the Land of Aegypt,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and he will not hear you: and I will put in my hand upon Aegypt, and will bring forth my army and people the children of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt, by very great judgments."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the Aegyptians shall know that I am the Lord, which have stretched forth my hand upon Aegypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore Moyses and Aaron did as our Lord had commanded: so did they."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Moyses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty three, when they spake to Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "When Pharao shall say unto you, Shew signs, thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharao, and it shall be turned into a serpent."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Therefore Moyses and Aaron going in unto Pharao, did as our Lord had commanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his servants, the which was turned into a serpent."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Pharao called (b) the wise men and the enchanters: and they also by Aegyptian enchantments and certain secrecies did in like manner.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Iannes and Membres 2. Tim. 3. known by tradition."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And every one did cast forth their rods, the which were turned into dragons: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Pharao's heart was indurate, and he heard them not, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Pharao's heart is aggravated, he will not dismiss the people."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Go to him in the morning, behold he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt stand to meet him upon the bank of the river: and the rod that was turned into a dragon, thou shalt take in thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to thee, saying: Dismiss my people to sacrifice unto me in the desert: and until this present (c) thou wouldst not hear.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Induration of heart (saith S. Bernard) is neither cut with remorse, nor softened, with pity, nor moved with prayers, nor yieldeth to threats: yea is more hardened by punishments. li. 1. de consid. ad Eugen."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "This therefore saith our Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold I will strike with the rod that is in my hand, the water of the river, and it shall be turned into blood."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The fishes also, that are in the river, shall die, and the waters shall putrefy, and the Aegyptians shall be afflicted drinking the water of the river."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Moyses: Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Aegypt, and upon their floods, and rivers, and pools, and all the lakes of waters, that they may be turned into blood: and be there blood in all the Land of Aegypt, as well in the vessels of wood as of stone."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron did as our Lord had commanded: and lifting up the rod he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his servants: (d) which was turned into blood.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The first plague in water, in which the Aegyptians drowned the Hebrews' infants. Theodoret. q. 19. in Exod. the like Ap. 16 Because the wicked spill the blood of God's Saints, he will give them blood to drink."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the fishes that were in the river died, and the river putrefied, and the Aegyptians could not drink the water of the river, and there was blood in the whole land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And the enchanters of the Aegyptians with their enchantments did in like manner and Pharao's heart was indurate, neither did he hear them, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And he turned away himself, and went into his house, neither did he yet set his heart to it this time also."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And all the Aegyptians digged round about the river for water to drink: for they could not drink of the water of the river."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And seven days were fully ended, after that our Lord struck the river."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses being constituted as God of Pharao, and Aaron as the Prophet of Moyses they declare God's commandment to Pharao; 10. turn the rod into a serpent; 17. and the water into blood, which is the first plague. 22. The Magicians do the like by enchantment, and Pharao's heart is indurate."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Moyses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say unto him: This saith the Lord: Dismiss my people for to sacrifice unto me."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "but (a) if thou wilt not dismiss them, behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "If Pharao had not free-will threatening of punishment were unjust. Origen. li. 3. Periar. c. de lib. arbitr. He that cannot do otherwise doth not sin, as both learned and unlearned confess. S. Aug. de vera Relig. c. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the river shall bubble with frogs, which shall come up, and enter into thy house, and thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and unto thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and unto thee, and to thy people, and to all thy servants shall the frogs enter."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand upon the floods, and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth (b) frogs upon the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The 2. plague, Multitude of frogs."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Aegypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the enchanters also by their enchantments did in like manner, and they brought forth frogs upon the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Pharao called Moyses and Aaron, and said to them: (c) Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me & from my people and I will dismiss the people to sacrifice unto the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Enchanters could bring more frogs, but not take these away."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Moyses said to Pharao: Appoint me when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people, and may remain only in the river."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who answered: Tomorrow. But he said: According to thy word will I do; that thou mayst know that there is not the like to the Lord our God."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people: and shall remain only in the river."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moyses cried to our Lord for the promise, concerning the frogs, which he had agreed to Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord did according to the word of Moyses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and they gathered them together into huge heaps, and the earth did rot."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Pharao seeing that rest was given (d) he hardened his own heart; and heard them not, as our Lord had commanded.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Pharao's induration ascribed to himself."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Speak to Aaron: Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth: and be there (e) sciniphs in the whole Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The 3. plague sciniphs, small flying beasts, especially molesting men's eyes. Philo. l. 1. de vita Moysi."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod: and he struck the dust of the earth, and there were made sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through the whole Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And the enchanters with their enchantments practised in like manner to bring forth sciniphs, and (f) they could not: and there were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "The devil's power limited by God. Iob 1. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the enchanters said to Pharao: (g) This is the finger of God. And Pharao's heart was indurate, and he heard them not as our Lord had commanded.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "The enchanters convinced in their understanding, confessed the power of God, but not changed in affection, persisted in malice against the truth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Moyses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao: for he will go forth to the waters: & thou shalt say to him: This saith our Lord: Dismiss my people to sacrifice unto me."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And if thou wilt not dismiss them, behold I will send in upon thee & upon thy servants, & upon thy people, and upon thy houses all kind of (h) flies: and the houses of Aegypt shall be filled with flies of diverse kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "h",
"text": "The 4. plague, Aboundance of all sorts of flies."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And I will make the Land of Gessen marvelous in that day, wherein my people is, so that flies shall not be there: & thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And I will put a division between my people & thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And our Lord did so. And there came a very grievous fly into the houses of Pharao & of his servants, & into all the Land of Aegypt: & the Land was corrupted by such kind of flies."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Pharao called Moyses & Aaron, and said to them. Go and sacrifice to your God in this land."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Moyses said: It cannot so be done: for if we shall offer the abominations of the Aegyptians to the Lord our God, and (i) we kill those things which the Aegyptians do worship before them, they will beat us down with stones.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "i",
"text": "Aegyptian worshipping beasts thought it intolerable abomination to kill, or eat, or burn them in sacrifice. Gen. 43. v. 32. 46. v. 34."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "We will go forth three days' journey into the wilderness: and we will sacrifice unto the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Pharao said: I will dismiss you to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the desert: but go no farther: pray for me."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Moyses said: Being gone forth from thee, I will pray to our Lord: and the fly shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people tomorrow: but deceive no more so, that thou wilt not dismiss the people to sacrifice unto our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Moyses being gone forth from Pharao, prayed our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Who did according to his word: and he took away the flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was left not so much as one."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Pharao's heart (k) was hardened, so that neither this time would he dismiss the people.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "k",
"text": "In the Hebrew: Pharao hardened his own heart, also this time."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The second plague is of frogs. 7. The enchanters make the like. 8. Pharao promiseth to let the Israelites go and sacrifice, so the frogs be taken away. 13. Which being done he breaketh promise. 16. The third plague is of sciniphs, 18. which the enchanters cannot make. 21. The fourth is of flies. 29. Pharao again promiseth to dismiss the people of God, but doth it not."
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Go into Pharao, and speak to him: This saith our Lord, the God of the Hebrews: dismiss my people to sacrifice unto me."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And if thou refuse, and holdest them,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "behold my hand shall be upon thy fields: and upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep, (a) a very sore pestilence.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The 5. plague, Pestilence amongst cattle."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord will make a marvel between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Aegyptians, that nothing at all perish of those things that pertain to the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord hath appointed a time, saying: Tomorrow will our Lord do this thing in the land."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Our Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and (b) all the beasts of the Aegyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel nothing at all perished.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Not all the beasts died, for some died in the 7. & 10. plagues, but all that died pertained to the Aegyptians."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Pharao sent to see: neither was there any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart (c) was hardened, & he did not dismiss the people.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "In Hebr. Vaijchbad leb Parhaoh. Pharao's heart hardened it-self."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron: Take your hands full of ashes out of the chimney, & let Moyses sprinkle it into the air before Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And be there dust upon all the Land of Aegypt: for there shall be in men, and beasts (d) boyles, and swelling bladders in the whole land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The 6. plague Boyles in men and beasts."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao, and Moyses sprinkled it into the air: and there were made boyles of swelling bladders in men and beasts."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "(e) Neither could the enchanters stand before Moyses for boyles that were upon them, and in all the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Poor Enchanters, that could neither escape nor cure this plague."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And our Lord did indurate Pharao's heart, and he heard them not, as our Lord spake to Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: In the morning arise, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: This saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Dismiss my people to sacrifice unto me."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Because this time I will send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people: that thou mayest know there is not the like to me in all the earth."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "For now stretching forth my hand I will strike thee, and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And therefore (f) have I set thee, that in thee I may shew my might, & my name may be told in all the earth. [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Rom. 9."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "In Hebrew I have made thee stand, in the 70 and Chaldee paraphrasis I have kept thee alive. In the Latin I have put or set thee, that in thee, through thine own malice indurate, I may make known my power to mankind. S. Aug."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Dost thou yet hold back my people, and wilt thou not dismiss them?"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Behold I will rain tomorrow this very hour (g) hail exceeding much: such as was not in Aegypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "The 7. plague Terrible hail, thunders, and lightnings."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all things that thou hast in the field: for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields, and the hail fall upon them, shall die."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "He that feared the word of our Lord of Pharao's servants, made his servants to fly, and his beasts into houses:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But he that neglected the word of our Lord, let alone his servants, and his beasts in the fields."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole Land of Aegypt upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Moyses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and our Lord gave thunders, and hail, and running lightnings on the land: and our Lord rained hail upon the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the hail and fire mixed together did drive: and it was of so great bigness as never before appeared in the whole Land of Aegypt since that nation was made."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And the hail smote in all the Land of Aegypt all things that were in the fields, from man even unto beast: and every herb of the field did the hail strike, and every tree of the country it did break."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Only in the Land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And Pharao sent, and called Moyses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned now also, the Lord is just: I and my people, impious."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Pray ye the Lord that the thunders may cease, and the hail: that I may dismiss you, and ye tarry not here any longer."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Moyses said: When I shall be gone forth out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to our Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall not be: that thou mayest know that the earth is our Lord's:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "but I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley came up green, & the flax now was bolled:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "but the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Moyses going forth from Pharao out of the city, stretched forth his hands to our Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, neither did there drop rain any more upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And Pharao seeing that the rain and the hail and thunders were ceased, he increased his sin:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "(h) and his heart was aggravated, and the heart of his servants, & indurate exceedingly: neither did he dismiss the children of Israel, as our Lord had commanded by the hand of Moyses.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "h",
"text": "In Hebrew Vaiach bed libbe hu vahabadaf. And he hardened his own heart, he & his servants."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The fifth plague is pestilence amongst the Aegyptians' cattle. 8. The sixth boyles in men and beasts 18. The seventh, hail. 27. Pharao confessing God to be just, and himself and his people impious, promiseth again to dismiss the people, 34. but faileth to do it."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Go in to Pharao: for (a) I have indurate his heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my signs in him,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By God's patience over Pharao & his servants, in not destroying them, their wicked mind became more obstinate. S. Aug. q. 30. & 36. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and thou mayst tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy nephews, how often I have broken the Aegyptians, & wrought my signs in them: and you may know that I am the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Moyses therefore and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews: Till when wilt thou not be subject to me? Dismiss my people, to sacrifice unto me."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But if thou resist, and wilt not dismiss them: behold I will bring in tomorrow (b) the locust into thy coasts:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The 8. plague, Innumerable locusts, little flying beasts with long hinder legs, that destroy grain, grass & fruit. Plinius li. 11. c. 2. S. Greg. li. 31. c. 20. Moral"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "which may cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for it shall gnaw all trees that spring in the fields."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants, and of all the Aegyptians': such a number as thy fathers have not seen, nor grand-fathers, since they arose upon the earth, until this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from Pharao."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we endure this scandal? Dismiss the men to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Aegypt is undone?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And they called back Moyses & Aaron unto Pharao: who said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses said: With our young and old we will go, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall dismiss you, and your little ones: who doubteth but that (c) you intend very wickedly?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Because God's servants may not temporize in religion, politics unjustly charge them to have bad intentions."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "It shall not so be: but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast out from Pharao's sight."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the Land of Aegypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that remained after the hail."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Moyses stretched forth his rod upon the Land of Aegypt: and our Lord brought in a burning wind all that day & night: and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "which came up over the whole Land of Aegypt: and sat in all the coasts of the Aegyptians innumerable, the like as had not been before that time, nor shall be afterward."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. Therefore the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever on the trees, which the hail had left: there was also nothing at all left that was green in the trees, and in the herbs of the earth, in all Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For the which cause Pharao in haste called Moyses and Aaron, and said to them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Moyses going forth from Pharao's sight, prayed to our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "who made a very vehement wind to blow from the west, and taking the locusts it threw them into the Red sea: there remained not so much as one in all the coasts of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And our Lord did indurate Pharao's heart, neither did he dismiss the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven: and be there (d) darkness upon the Land of Aegypt so thick, that it be palpable.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The 9. plague, Horrible darkness three days together."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Moyses stretched forth his hand toward heaven: and there was made horrible darkness in the whole Land of Aegypt three days."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Pharao called Moyses and Aaron, and said to them: Go sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only and herds remain, let your little ones go with you."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Moyses said: Hosts also & holocausts thou shalt give to us, which we may offer to the Lord our God."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "All the flocks shall go with us: there (e) shall not a hoof remain of them; the which are necessary unto the service of the Lord our God: especially whereas we know not what must be offered till we come to the very place.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "God's people must be resolute in Religion."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And our Lord did indurate Pharao's heart, and he would not dismiss them."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Pharao said to Moyses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see not my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight, thou shalt die."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Moyses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will not see thy face any more."
}
],
"summary": "The eighth plague, of locusts. 21. The ninth darkness. Pharao yieldeth that all men and children should go to the desert, but not the cattle. 28. At last commandeth Moyses to come no more in his sight, which Moyses foretelleth shall so be."
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: yet with one plague more will I touch Pharao and Aegypt, and after this he shall dismiss you, and compel you to go forth."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Thou shalt say therefore to all the people, that every man ask of his friend & every woman of her neighbour vessels of silver and of gold."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the Lord will give grace to his people in the sight of the Aegyptians. And Moyses was a very great man in the Land of Aegypt, in the sight of Pharao's servants, and of all the people."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And he said: This saith our Lord: At midnight I will enter into Aegypt:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and (a) every first-begotten in the Land of the Aegyptians shall die, from the first-begotten of Pharao who sitteth in his throne, even to the first-begotten of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the first-begotten of beasts.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The 10. plague, Death of the first-born in men and beasts of the Aegyptians."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And there shall be a great cry in the whole Land of Aegypt, such as neither hath been before, nor shall be afterwards."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog mutter, from man even to beast: that you may know with how great a miracle our Lord doth divide the Aegyptians and Israel."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall adore me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under thee: after this we shall go forth."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And he departed from Pharao exceeding angry. And our Lord said to Moyses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before Pharao. And our Lord (b) hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he dismiss the children of Israel out of his Land.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "As before c. 7. v. 3. c. 9. v. 16. c. 10. v. 1."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The manner of preparing and eating the Paschal lamb, sprinkling the doorposts with blood thereof: 15. eating no leavened bread seven days together. 29. The first-born of men and beasts among the Aegyptians are slain. 35. The Israelites go away spoiling Aegypt. 43. Incircumcised men may not eat the phase."
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron in the Land of Aegypt:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle in the office on good Friday. And the 9. prophecy before Mass on Easter eve."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: The tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may suffice to the eating of the lamb."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And it shall be a lamb without spot, a male, of a year old: according also to which rite you shall take (a) a kid.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Such as had not means to take a lamb, took a kid, using all the same Rites."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And you shall keep him until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall (b) sacrifice him at even.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Shachatu, immolabunt, shall offer or sacrifice: not only kill, as Protestants translate."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put upon both the posts, and on the upper door-posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: the head with the feet and entrails thereof you shall devour."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Neither shall there remain any thing of him until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And thus you shall eat him: You shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat speedily: for it is the (c) Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Passage in killing the first-born of Aegypt, and not of Israel. S. Hiero. in Mat. 26."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And I will pass through the Land of Aegypt that night, and will strike every first-begotten in the Land of Aegypt from man even unto beast: & (d) in all the gods of Aegypt I will do judgments, I the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The idols of Aegypt were overthrown, as Dagon was in Azotum. 1. Reg. 5. S. Hier. Epist. ad Fabiol. ex tradit. Hebr."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be: & I shall see the blood, & shall pass over you: neither shall there be among you a destroying plague when I shall strike the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And you shall have this day for a monument: & you shall celebrate it solemn to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting observation."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Seven days shall you eat azymes: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses: whosoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall perish out of Israel, from the first day until the seventh day."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day with the like festivity shall be venerable: no work shall you do in them, except those things that pertain to eating."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And you shall observe the azymes: for in the self-same day I will bring forth your army out of the Land of Aegypt, and you shall keep this day unto your generations with a perpetual rite."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at even you shall eat (e) azymes until the one and twentieth day of the same month at even.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Christ observing this precept, had no leavened bread at his last supper: and so instituted the Eucharist in unleavened."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Seven days there shall not be found leavened in your houses: he that shall eat leavened, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, as well of strangers as of them that are born in the land."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Nothing leavened shall you eat: in all your habitations you shall eat azymes."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Moyses called all the Ancients of the children of Israel and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And (f) dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the upper transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Sprinkling of blood with hyssop here & Levit. 14. Num. 19. prescribed, signifieth man's delivery by Christ's blood working in Baptism and other Sacraments. Heb. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "For our Lord will pass striking the Aegyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the upper sill, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, & not suffer the striker to enter your houses and to hurt."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Keep this thing as a law to thee and thy children for ever."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And When you are entered into the Land which our Lord will give you as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And when your children shall say to you: What is this religion?"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "You shall say to them: It is the victim of our Lord's passage, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Aegypt striking the Aegyptians, and delivering our houses. And the people bowing themselves adored."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And the children of Israel going forth did as our Lord had commanded Moyses & Aaron."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And it came to pass at midnight, our Lord struck (g) every first-begotten in the Land of Aegypt, from the first-begotten of Pharao, who sat in his throne, unto the first-begotten of the captive woman that was in the prison, and every first-begotten of beasts.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "Punishment conform to their sin, for persecuting God's first-begotten son Israel. Exod. 4. v. 22. Theodor. q. 22. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Pharao arose in the night, & all his servants, & all Aegypt: & there arose a great cry in Aegypt: for neither was there a house wherein there lay not a dead one."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And Pharao calling Moyses & Aaron in the night, said: Arise & go forth from my people, you and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Your sheep & herds take you as you demanded, and departing bless me."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And the Aegyptians urged the people to go forth out of the land quickly, saying: We shall all die."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "The people therefore took dough before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it upon their shoulders."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And the children of Israel did as Moyses had commanded: & they asked of the Aegyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And our Lord gave grace to the people before the Aegyptians that they did lend them: & (h) they spoiled the Aegyptians.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "h",
"text": "Lawful spoil by the warrant of God, Lord of all."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse into Socoth, almost six hundred thousand of foot men, beside little ones."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "But also the common people of all sorts innumerable went up with them, sheep and herds and beasts of diverse kinds exceeding many."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "And they baked the meal, which a little before they had taken out of Aegypt tempered: and made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Aegyptians urging them to depart, & not suffering them to make any tarriance: neither did they think upon preparing any meat."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And the dwelling of the children of Israel that they abode (i) in Aegypt, was four hundred thirty years.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "i",
"text": "From the promise made to Abraham (Gen. 12. v. 7) and his first going into Aegypt (v. 10) to this time, were 430. years Gal. 3. of which they were in great persecution above 80 years, before that in servitude about 60. more, before that also they were strangers partly in Aegypt, partly in"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "The which being expired, the same day all the army of our Lord went forth out of the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "This is the observable night of our Lord, when he brought them forth out of the Land of Aegypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron: This is the religion of the Phase: No alien shall eat of it."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "All the assembly of the children of Israel shall make it."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And if any of the sojourners be willing to dwell among you, and make the Phase of the Lord, first all the male that he hath shall be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the rite: & he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if there be any man uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "All one law shall be to him that is born in the land and to the Proselyte that sojourneth with you."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "And all the children of Israel did as our Lord had commanded Moyses and Aaron."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "And the same day our Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt by their troops."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first lesson at Matins on Candlemass day."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Sanctify unto me every first-born that openeth the matrice in the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts; for they are all mine."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Moyses said to the people: Remember this day in the which you went forth out of Aegypt, & out of the house of servitude, because with a strong hand hath our Lord brought you forth out of this place; that you eat not leavened bread."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "This day you go forth in the month of new corn."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when our Lord shall have brought thee into the Land of Chananeite and Hetheite & Amorrheite & Heveite & Jebuseite, which he sware to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that (a) floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The old Testament proposed commonly temporal rewards. S. Hierom. Ep. ad Dardanum."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Seven days shalt thou eat azymes: and in the seventh day shall be the solemnity of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Azymes shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any leavened thing with thee, nor in all thy coasts."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is that which our Lord did to me when I came forth out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a monument before thine eyes: and that the law of our Lord be always in the mouth, for in a strong hand our Lord hath brought thee out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Thou shalt keep this observation at the set time from days to days."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when our Lord shall have brought thee into the Land of the Chananeite, as he sware to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "thou shalt separate all that openeth the matrice unto our Lord, and all that is brought forth in thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of male sex thou shalt consecrate to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "The first-born of an ass thou shall change for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every first-born of men among thy children, thou shalt redeem with a price."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow saying: What is this? Thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did our Lord bring us forth out of the land of Aegypt, out of the house of servitude."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "For (b) when Pharao's heart was indurate, and would not dismiss us, our Lord slew every first-born in the Land of Aegypt, from the first-born of man to the first-born of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to our Lord all that openeth the matrice of the male sex, and all the first-born of my sons I do redeem.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "In the Hebrew, when Pharao had indurated himself."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "It shall be therefore as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hanged before thine eyes, for a remembrance: because our Lord by a strong hand hath brought us forth out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Therefore when Pharao had sent forth the people, our Lord led them not by the way of the Philisthiims' country which is near: thinking (c) lest perhaps it would repent them, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God's prevention to avoid tentations sheweth freewill in man."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is besides the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up out of the Land of Aegypt armed."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Moyses also (d) took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "By this appeareth how much Moyses esteemed Joseph's charge concerning translation of his bones. Also S. Paul commended it. Heb. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And marching from Socoth they camped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that he might be the guide of their journey both times."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people."
}
],
"summary": "God commandeth to remember their delivery from Aegypt by the solemnity of Pasch, 2. and by consecrating to him the first-born. 17. And so leadeth them through the desert towards the red sea (Moyses taking with him Joseph's bones) by a pillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: Let them return and camp over against Phihahiroth which is between Magdal and the sea against Beelsephon: in the sight thereof you shall camp upon the sea."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Pharao will say concerning the children of Israel: They are straightened in the land, the desert hath shut them in."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And I will indurate his heart, (a) and he will pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Aegyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Although the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin have, And he, yet Protestants corruptly thrust in the text, that he shall, to make it sound to their sense, that God did not only permit, but work Pharao's induration."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And it was told the king of Aegyptians that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed toward the people, & they said: What meant we to do, that we dismissed Israel from serving us?"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Aegypt, and Captains of the whole army."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord hardened Pharao's heart the king of Aegypt, & he pursued the children of Israel: but they went forth in a mighty hand."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when the Aegyptians pursued their steps going before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and chariots, & the whole army were in Phihahiroth against Beelsephon."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when Pharao approached, the children of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Aegyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and said to Moyses: Perhaps there were no graves in Aegypt, therefore thou hast taken us thence to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, in bringing us out of Aegypt?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Is not this the word that we spake to thee in Aegypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Aegyptians? For it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Moyses said to the people: Fear not; stand, and see the great wonders of our Lord that he will do this day: for the Aegyptians, whom now you see, you shall no more see for ever."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Our Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: (b) Why cryest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Asorrowful heart, lamentably mourning for the people is called crying to God. S. Hierom. in Gal. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But thou lift up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand upon the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go in the midst of the sea by dry ground."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "[1] And I will indurate the heart of the Aegyptians to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "1 Reg. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And the Aegyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots and in his horsemen."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And (c) the Angel of God that went before the camp of Israel, removing himself, went behind them: & together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forward,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Protection of Angels."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "stood behind, between the Aegyptians' camp & the camp of Israel: & it was a dark cloud, & lightening the night, so that they could not come to each other the whole night time."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And when Moyses had stretched forth his hand upon the sea, our Lord took it away, a vehement and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And the children of Israel went through the midst of the dry sea: for the water was as it were a wall on their right hand and their left."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the Aegyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's horses, his chariots and horsemen through the midst of the sea."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "[1] And now the morning watch was come, and behold our Lord looking upon the Aegyptians' camp through the pillar of fire and the cloud, slew their army:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The fourth prophecy in the office before Mass on Easter eve. And the second on Whitsun-eve."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were borne into the depth. The Aegyptians therefore said: Let us fly from Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against us."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the sea, that the waters may return to the Aegyptians upon their chariots and horsemen."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when Moyses had stretched forth his hand against the sea, it returned in the first break of day to the former place: and the Aegyptians flying away, the waters came upon them, and our Lord enwrapt them in the midst of the waves."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And the waters returned, and overwhelmed the chariots & the horsemen of all Pharao's army, who following were entered into the sea, (d) neither did there so much as one of them remain.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "So in Baptism all sins are destroyed. S. Cyp. Ep. 76. in fine S. Aug. Tract. 12. & 13. in Ioan."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the dry sea, and the waters were unto them as instead of a wall on the right hand and on the left:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "& our Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hand of the Aegyptians."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And they saw the Aegyptians dead upon the sea shore, & the mighty hand that our Lord had exercised against them: & the people feared our Lord, and they believed our Lord, (e) and Moyses his servant.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The same credit is given to God speaking by Moyses, as if he had spoken immediately by himself. S. Hiero. in Epist. ad Philem."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Pharao persecuting the children of Israel with a great army 10. they murmur against Moyses, 13. but are encouraged by him, and pass through the red sea dry-foot. 23. Pharao and his host willfully following are drowned."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Then (a) sang Moyses and the children of Israel this song to our Lord, and said: Let us sing to our Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The first of all Canticles, sacred or profane. Origen. ho. 6. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "My strength, and my praise is our Lord, and he is made unto me a salvation: this is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Our Lord is a man of war, Omnipotent is his name."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Pharao's chariots and his army (b) he hath cast into the sea: his chosen Princes are drowned in the red sea.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God only suffered them to go into the sea. For they went of their own accord, supposing they might follow where the Israelites went before. S. Aug. ser. 89. de temp."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The depths have overwhelmed them, they are sunk into the bottom like a stone."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thy right hand, o Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, o Lord, hath strucken the enemy."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And in the spirit of thy fury were the waters gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have his fill: I will draw forth my sword, my hand shall kill them."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The spirit blew and the sea overwhelmed them: they sank as lead in the vehement waters."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Who is like to thee among the strong, o Lord? Who is like to thee, magnifical in sanctity, terrible and laudable, doing marvels?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Thou didst stretch forth thy hand, and the earth devoured them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou hast in thy mercy been a guide to the people which thou hast redeemed: & in thy strength thou hast carried them unto thy holy habitation."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows possessed the inhabiters of Philisthiim."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Then were the Princes of Edom troubled, trembling ceased on the sturdy of Moab: all the inhabiters of Chanaan were stark."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: Let them become unmovable as a stone, until thy people, o Lord, shall pass, until thy people shall pass, this which thou hast possessed."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast wrought, o Lord: thy sanctuary Lord, which thy hands have confirmed."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Our Lord shall reign for ever and evermore."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "For Pharao on horseback entered in with his chariots & horsemen into the sea: and our Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Mary therefore the Prophetess, Aaron's sister, took (c) a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and dances,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Musical instruments used before the law of Moyses in the service of God. The end of the third age. THE CONTINUANCE OF THE CHURCH AND RELIGION IN THE THIRD AGE, from Abraham's going forth of Chaldea, to the parting of Israel out of Aegypt. The space of 430. years."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "to whom she began the song, saying: Let us sing to our Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath cast into the sea."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Moyses removed Israel from (d) the red sea, and they went forth into the desert Sur: and they walked three days through the wilderness, and found not water.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "These things chanced to them in figure. 1. Cor. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And they came into Mara, neither could they drink the waters of Mara, because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the people murmured against Moyses, saying: What shall we drink?"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But he cried to our Lord. Who did shew him (e) a piece of wood: which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him precepts, and judgments, and there he proved him,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "The wholesome wood of the Cross made the bitter sea of Gentiles sweet. Theodoret q. 26. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do that is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the maladies, that I laid upon Aegypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord God thy curer."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they camped beside the waters."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses with the people sing a Canticle of thanks-giving for their delivery. 22. The people being three days in the desert without water, then finding that is bitter, do murmur. 25. It is made sweet. 27. Coming to Elim they find twelve fountains and seventy palm-trees."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came forth out of the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The second part of this book. How the Israelites were sustained in the desert, and prepared to receive the Law."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And all the assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moyses & Aaron in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of our Lord in the Land of Aegypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and did eat bread our fill: why have you brought us into this desert, that you might kill all the multitude with famine?"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold I will rain you bread from heaven: let the people go forth, and gather that sufficeth for every day: (a) that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or no.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God left it in their will to be content with enough, or to covet more, yet suffered them not to have more, when it came to measuring. v. 18. and 2. Cor. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel: At even you shall know that our Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Aegypt;"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and in the morning you shall see the glory of our Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against our Lord. But as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Moyses said: At even our Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread your fill: for he hath heard your murmurings, which you have murmured against him, for what are we? Neither is your murmuring against us, but against our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole assembly of the children of Israel: Approach you before our Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when Aaron spake to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold the glory of our Lord appeared in a cloud."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, say to them: At even you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Therefore it came to pass at even, & (b) the quail rose, and covered the camp: in the morning also a dew lay round about the camp.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These birds by God's providence came from other places to the children of Israel. Nu. 11. v. 31."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle like unto the hoar frost on the ground."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Which when the children of Israel had seen, they said one to other: Man-hu! Which signifieth: What is this! For they knew not what it was. To whom Moyses said: This is the bread, which our Lord hath given you to eat.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "This is the word, that our Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it so much as sufficeth to eat: a gomor every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent so shall you take up."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither he that gathered more, had above: nor he that provided less, found under: but every one gathered according to that which they were able to eat."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Moyses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Who heard him not, but certain of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrefied. And Moyses was angry against them."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And every one of them gathered in the morning so much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun waxed hot, it melted."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But in the sixth day they gathered double portions, that is, two gomors every man: and all the Princes of the multitude (c) came, and told Moyses.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "By their wondering at the double quantity, it appeareth they intended not to gather so much."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who said to them: This is it which our Lord hath spoken: The Sabbath's rest is sanctified unto our Lord tomorrow. Whatsoever is to be wrought, do it: and the meats that are to be made ready, make them ready: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And they did so as Moyses had commanded, and it putrefied not, neither was there worm found in it."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Moyses said: Eat it today, because it is the Sabbath of our Lord: today it shall not be found in the field."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Gather it six days: but in the seventh day is the Sabbath of our Lord, therefore it shall not be found."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found not."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: How long will you not keep my commandments, and my law?"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "See that our Lord hath given you a Sabbath, and for this cause on the sixth day he giveth you double portions: let each man tarry with himself, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And the people kept the Sabbath on the seventh day."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: which was as it were coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Moyses said: This is the word, which our Lord hath commanded: (d) Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto the generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when you were brought forth out of the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "By anticipation Moyses writeth here the commandment given when the Tabernacle and Ark were finished. Exo. ult."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Moyses said to Aaron: Take (e) one vessel, and put Manna into it, so much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before our Lord to keep unto your generations:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "This Relic was put in a golden vessel Heb. 9. though it was infinitely inferior to Christ's flesh Io. 6. yea inferior to the flesh of any glorified Saint."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "as our Lord commanded Moyses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be reserved."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And the children of Israel did eat Manna forty years, till they came into the habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they touched the borders of the land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And a gomor is the tenth part an ephi."
}
],
"summary": "The people murmuring for meat, & that they had left the flesh-pots of Aegypt, 4. God giveth them quails and Manna. 16. Whereof they are commanded to gather for every day, 22. but the sixth day double for the Sabbath, 32. and to keep a measure of it in the tabernacle for a memory. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The beginning of the fourth age."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward from the desert Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of our Lord, camped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to drink."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Who chiding against Moyses, said: Give us water, that we may drink. To whom Moyses answered: Why chide you against me? Wherefore do you tempt our Lord?"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "The people therefore was thirsty there for lack of water, & murmured against Moyses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Aegypt to kill us, and our children, & our beasts with thirst:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses cried to our Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little while, and they will stone me."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, take in thy hand, and go."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, & water shall go out thereof, that the people may drink. Moyses did so before the ancients of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and he called the name of that place, Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted our Lord, saying: Is the Lord among us or not?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Moyses said to Josue: Choose out men, and go forth & fight against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand in the top of the hill having the rod of God in my hand."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Josue did as Moyses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec: but Moyses and Aaron and Hur went up upon the top of the Hill."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when Moyses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but (a) if he did let them down a little, Amalec overcame.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "If this ceremony of holding up his hands was of such importance in the law of nature, why do Heretics deride the same, and the like in the Catholic Church? Whereas also our Saviour lifting up his hands blessed his disciples. Luc. 24. S. Damascen also teacheth (l. 4. c. 12. Ortho.) that this extension of his hands prefigure the Cross of Christ. And now it representeth the same."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the hands of Moyses were heavy: therefore they took a stone, and put under him, whereupon he sat: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass that his hands were not weary until sun set."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Josue put Amalec to flight, & his people by the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Write this for a monument in a book, & deliver it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Moyses builded an Altar, and called the name thereof, Our Lord my exaltation, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Because the hand of our Lord's throne, and the war of our Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation unto generation."
}
],
"summary": "The people murmuring again in Raphidim for want of drink, our Lord giveth them water out of a rock. 8. Amalech fighteth with them. And Moyses lifting up his hand in prayer, Israel overcometh, otherwise Amalech prevaileth."
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And When Jethro the (a) Priest of Madian, the allied of Moyses, had heard all the things, that God had done to Moyses, and to Israel his people, and that our Lord had brought forth Israel out of Aegypt;",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Cohen in Hebrew signifieth Prince or Priest; which offices in the law of nature were often joined in one person."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "he took Sephora the wife of Moyses whom he had sent back:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and her two sons, of which one was called Gersam, his father saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country;"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the other Eliezer: for the God of my father, quoth he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from Pharao's sword."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Jethro therefore the allied of Moyses came and his sons, and his wife to Moyses into the desert, where he was camped beside the mountain of God."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he sent word to Moyses, saying: I Jethro thy allied come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two children with her."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Who going forth to meet his allied, adored, and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was entered into the tent,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Moyses told his allied all things that our Lord had done to Pharao, and the Aegyptians for Israel: and the whole travail which had chanced to them in the journey, and that our Lord had delivered them."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things, that our Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Aegyptians,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and he said: Blessed is the Lord, that hath delivered you out of the hand of the Aegyptians, and out of the hand of Pharao, that hath delivered his people out of the hand of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Now do I know, that the Lord is great above all gods: for because they dealt proudly against them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Jethro therefore the allied of Moyses offered holocausts and hosts to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the next day Moyses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moyses from morning until night."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Which thing when his allied had seen, to wit, all things that he did in the people, he said: What is this that thou doest in the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people attendeth from morning until night?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "To whom Moyses answered: The people cometh to me seeking the sentence of God."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And when any controversy chanceth among them, they come unto me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But he said: Thou doest not well:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou art tired with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee, the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not sustain it."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But (b) hear my words and councils, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to report their words unto him:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Manifold wisdom, whereof Daniel prophesieth (c. 12. v. 4.) in Christian Gentiles, was here prefigured in Jethro a Gentile."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "& to shew to the people the ceremonies & rite of worshipping, and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that they ought to do."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And provide out of all the people men that are wise, & do fear God, in whom there is truth, and that do hate avarice, and appoint of them tribunes, and centurions, and quinquagenarians, and deans,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "which may judge the people at all times: and what great matter soever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, & let them judge the less matters only: & so it may be lighter for thee, the burden being imparted unto others."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "If thou doest this, thou shalt fulfill the commandment of God, & shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to their places with peace."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Which things when Moyses heard, (c) he did all things that he had suggested unto him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "To whom Moyses willingly yielded. Origen. in hunc locum. Morally, superiors are admonished by Moyses example to learn of any man, that which is good. S. Chrysostom. ho. de ferendis reprehensionibus."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And choosing substantial men out of all Israel, he appointed them Princes of the people, tribunes, and centurions, and quinquagenarians, and deans."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Who judged the people at all time: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, themselves judging the easier cases only."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And he dismissed his allied: who returning went into his country."
}
],
"summary": "Jethro Moyses' father in law bringeth to him his wife and children. 8. And hearing the great works of God, 12. offereth Sacrifice: 13. and wisely advised Moyses to appoint subordinate officers to judge less causes, reserving the greater to himself."
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt, this day they came into (a) the wilderness of Sinai.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "To this place (which was their 12. mansion) they came the 47. day after they parted from Aegypt. And the third day following which was the 50, the law was given in mount Sinai. S. Hierom. Epist. 1. ad Fabiolam."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, & there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Moyses went up to God: and our Lord called him from the mountain, and said: (b) This shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and shalt tell the children of Israel:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God would have their free consent, else it were not a perfect covenant. Theodoret q. 35 in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Yourselves have seen what I have done to the Aegyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you unto me."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be (c) my peculiar of all peoples: for all the earth is mine.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "In this covenant God promiseth particular love; Priestly function, whereby they might better serve him; and effectual grace and sanctity."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And you shall be unto me (c) a Priestly Kingdom, and a holy nation: these are the words that thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "See previous note"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Moyses came: and calling together the nations of the people, he declared all the words which our Lord had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And all the people answered together. (d) All things that our Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moyses had reported the people's words to our Lord,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The people promise loyalty to God; and to keep his commandments."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "our Lord said to him: Now presently will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. Moyses therefore (e) told the people's words to our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "So Angels & Saints offer our prayers & other good works to God, though he know all things beforehand."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them today, and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And let them be ready against the third day: for in the third day the Lord will descend in the sight of all the people upon the mount Sinai."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people in circuit, and shalt say to them: Beware ye ascend not into the mount, & that you touch not the ends thereof: every one that toucheth the mount, dying shall die."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Hand shall not touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, it shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them ascend into the mount."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Moyses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "he said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightnings to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, & the noise of the trumpet sounded exceedingly: and the people, that was in the camp, feared."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And when Moyses had brought them forth to meet with God from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And all the mount Sinai smoked: for because our Lord was descended upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the sound of the trumpet grew louder by little and little, and was drawn out a length: Moyses spake, and God answered him."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And our Lord descended upon the mount Sinai in the very top of the mount, and he called Moyses into the top thereof. Whither when he was ascended,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "he said unto him: Go down, and charge the people, lest perhaps they will pass their limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them perish."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The Priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Moyses said to our Lord: The common people cannot ascend into the mount Sinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Put limits about the mount, and sanctify it."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "To whom our Lord said: Go, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, and Aaron with thee: but (f) the Priests and the people let them not pass the limits, nor ascend to the Lord, lest perhaps he kill them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "The people & all inferior Clergy also, are to keep their limits & to learn God's will of their Superiors."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Moyses went down to the people, and told them all."
}
],
"summary": "Near to mount Sinai, with commemoration of their delivery from Aegypt, the people are commanded to be sanctified: 16. and so our Lord coming in thunders and lightnings speaketh with Moyses."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake all these words."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the house of servitude."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Thou shalt not make to thee a (a) graven thing, nor any similitude that is in heaven above, & that is in the earth beneath, neither of those things that are in the waters under the earth.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In Hebrew Pesel, in Greek ἐὶδωλον, in Latin sculptile, in"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God mighty, jealous, (b) visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This commination and promise annexed to the first commandment pertaineth to every one of the nine following. Catech. Ro. p. 3. q. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and doing mercy upon thousands to them that love me, and keep my precepts."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. For the Lord will not hold him innocent that shall take the name of the Lord his God vainly."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Remember that thou sanctify the Sabbath day."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Six days shalt thou work, and shalt do all thy works."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work in it, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy woman servant, thy beast, and the stranger that is within thy gates."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "For six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested in the seventh day, therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and sanctified it."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "[1] Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be long lived upon the earth, which the Lord thy God will give thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle on Wednesday in the third week of Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt not murder."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt not steal."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Thou shalt not speak against thy neighbour false testimony."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor servant, nor handmaid, nor ox, nor ass, nor any thing that is his."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And all the people saw the voices, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking: and being frightened and strucken with fear they stood a far off,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "saying to Moyses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not our Lord Speak to us, lest perhaps we die."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Moyses said to the people: Fear not: for God came to prove you, and that his terror might be in you, and you should not sin."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the people stood a far off. But Moyses went unto the dark cloud wherein God was."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Our Lord said moreover to Moyses: This shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that from heaven I have spoken to you."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "You shall not make gods of silver, nor gods of gold shall you make to you."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "An altar (c) of earth you shall make to me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and pacifics, your sheep and oxen in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "This and other ceremonial precepts are determinate laws, for observing the commandments of the first table pertaining to God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And if thou make an Altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewed stones: for if thou lift up thy knife over it, it shall be polluted."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Thou shalt not go up by grises unto mine Altar, lest thy turpitude be discovered."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses receiveth the Decalogue or ten commandments of God, for all the people 23. with repetition that they shall not make false gods, nor make Altars but of earth or unhewed stone, and without steps. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The third part of this book, containing Divine Laws, Moral, Ceremonial, & Judicial."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the (a) judgments which thou shalt propose to them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Judicial laws do instruct in particular, how to keep the commandments of the second table, pertaining to our neighbours."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free [1] gratis.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* Paying nothing."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "With the raiment he entered in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But if his Lord give him a wife, and she bear sons & daughters, the woman and her children shall be her Lord's; but himself shall go out with his raiment."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And if the servant say: I love my Lord and wife & children, I will not go out free:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "his lord shall present him to (b) the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his bond man for ever.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The Judges authorized by God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out, as bondwomen are wont to go out."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If she mislike the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall dismiss her: but he shall not have authority to sell her unto a strange people, if he despise her."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But if he despouse her to his son, he shall do to her after the manner of daughters."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, and the price of her chastity he shall not deny."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "If he do not these three things, she shall go out gratis without money."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "He that striketh a man willfully to kill him, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, I will appoint thee a place whereunto he ought to fly."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "If a man of set purpose kill his neighbour, and by lying in wait for him, thou shalt pluck him out from mine Altar, that he may die."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "He that striketh his father or mother, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the trespass, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "If men fall at words, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but lie in his bed:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "if he rise, and walk abroad upon his staff, he that did strike shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "He that striketh his man or maid-servant with a rod, and they die in his hands, he shall be guilty of the crime."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to punishment, because it is his money."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "If certain fall at words, and one strike a woman with child, and she indeed abort, but herself live; he shall be subject to so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But if her death do ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "adustion for adustion, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "If any man strike the eye of his man-servant or maid-servant, and leave them but one eye, he shall make them free for the eye which he put out."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Also if he strike out a tooth of his man-servant or maid-servant, he shall in like manner make them free."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "If an ox with his horn strike a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, the owner also of the ox shall be quit."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "But if the ox were wont to strike from yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, neither did he shut him up, and he kill a man or a woman; both the ox shall be stoned, & they shall put to death his owner also."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever he is asked."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Also if with his horn he strike a son, or a daughter, he shall be subject to the like sentence."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "If he invade a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, but the ox shall be stoned."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "If a man open a cistern, & dig one, & do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "the owner of the cistern shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which died shall be his own."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "If one man's ox gore another man's ox, & he die, they shall sell the ox that liveth, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "But if he knew that his ox was wont to strike from yesterday and the day before, and his master did not keep him in, he shall render ox for ox, and shall take the carcass whole."
}
],
"summary": "Judicial precepts concerning bondmen and bondwomen, 12. Manslaughter and striking: killing and cursing of parents. 23. The law of like pain for a hurt, 28. of an oxe striking with his horn."
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall restore (a) five oxen for one ox, and",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "four sheep for one sheep."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "If the thief be found breaking up the house or undermining it, and taking a wound die; the striker shall not be guilty of blood."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "But if he do this when the sun is risen, he hath committed manslaughter, and himself shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, himself shall be sold."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If that which he stole be found with him alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and let go his beast to feed upon that which is other men's; the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, he shall restore, according to the estimation of the damage."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "If fire breaking forth light upon the thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he shall render the damage that kindled the fire."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If a man commit money, or a vessel unto his friend to keep, & they be stolen away from him that received them; if the thief be found, he shall restore double:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to (b) the gods, and shall swear that he did not extend his hand upon his neighbour's good,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Judges called gods for their eminent authority. Exo. 7. v. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "to do any fraud, as well in ox as in ass, and sheep and raiment, and whatsoever may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If a man commit ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken of enemies, and no man saw;"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "there shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's good: and the owner shall admit the oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall restore the damage to the owner."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "If it were eaten of a beast, let him bring unto him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He that asketh of his neighbour to borrow any of these things, and it be hurt or dead, the owner being not present, he shall be compelled to make restitution."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired and came for the hire of the same."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "If a man seduce a virgin being not yet despoused, and lie with her; he shall endow her, and have her to wife."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "If the virgin's father will not give her, he shall give money according to the manner of the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Enchanters thou shalt not suffer to live."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "He that lieth with a brute beast, dying let him die."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, but to the Lord only."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: (c) for yourselves also were strangers in the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The law of nature requireth to do to others as we would they should do to us. For which cause (besides others) God suffered his people to be strangers in Aegypt, to move them to compassion towards others in like case."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Awidow and an orphan you shall not hurt."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and my fury shall take indignation, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "If thou lend money to my people being poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not urge them as an exactor, nor oppress them with usuries."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sun set."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "For that same is the only thing wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he other to sleep in: if he (d) cry to me, I will hear him, because I am merciful.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Oppression of the poor cryeth to God for revenge."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Thou shalt not detract from (e) the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Priests called gods for their sacred function. See pag. 156."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Thy tithes and thy first fruits thou shalt not slack to pay, the first-born of thy sons thou shalt give me."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Of thy oxen also & sheep thou shalt do in like manner: seven days let it be with the dam, the eighth day thou shalt render it to me."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Holy men you shall be to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs."
}
],
"summary": "The punishment of theft 5. and other trespasses, 7. if a thing committed to custody or lent doth perish, 16. of deflowering a virgin, 18. of enchanting, bestiality, and idolatry, 21. of hurting strangers, widows, and orphans. 25. The law of lending without usury, 26. of taking pledge, 28. of reverence to superiors, and of paying tithes."
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Thou shalt not admit a lying voice: neither shalt thou join thy hand to say false testimony for a wicked person."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou in judgement agree to the sentence of the most part, to stray from the truth."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "The (a) poor man also thou shalt not pity in judgment.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "All virtues being founded in justice cease to be true virtues, when justice is not first observed. S. Hierom. in Psal. 32. es in Prov. 31."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with the same."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thou shalt not decline the poor man's judgment."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Alie thou shalt avoid. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the impious man."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Neither shalt thou take bribes, which do blind also the wise, and pervert the words of the just."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The stranger thou shalt not molest, for you know the hearts of strangers: because yourselves also were strangers in the Land of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and make it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do in thy vineyard and thy olivet."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox may rest and thine ass: and the son of thy handmaid may be refreshed, and the stranger."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of foreign gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "[1] Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "Three principal feasts besides the Sabbath, & some others."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt keep (b) the solemnity of Azymes. Seven days shalt thou eat azymes, as I commanded thee, in time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Aegypt: thou shalt not appear in my sight empty.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Pasch in memory of their delivery from Aegypt."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the solemnity of the harvest (c) of the first fruits of thy work, whatsoever thou didst sow in the field. The solemnity also in the end of the year, (d) when thou hast gathered all thy corn out of the field.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Pentecost, when they received the Law."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Tabernacles in memory of God's protection forty years in the desert."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thrice a year shall all thy male sex appear before the Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of the solemnity remain until the morning."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The first fruits of the corn of thy ground thou shalt carry into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Behold I will send mine Angel, which shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Observe him, and hear his voice, neither do thou think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be enemy to thine enemies, & will afflict them that afflict thee."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And mine Angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrheite, and Hetheite, & Pherezeite, and Chananeite, and Heveite, & Jebuseite, whom I will destroy."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread & waters, and may take away infirmity from the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "There shall not be a fruitless nor barren body in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "I will send my terror to run before thee, and will kill all people, to whom thou shalt enter: and will turn the backs of all thine enemies before thee:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "sending forth hornets before, that shall chase away the Heveite, and Chananeite, & Hetheite, before thou enter."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and beasts increase against thee."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "By little and little I will expel them from thy sight, till thou be increased, and dost possess the Land."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea unto the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert unto the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the Land in your hands, and will cast them out from your sight."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Thou shalt (e) not enter league with them, nor with their gods.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Peace with infidels forbidden to God's people."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee to sin against me, if thou serve their gods: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee."
}
],
"summary": "Laws are appointed to Judges, (the enemy's oxe or ass to be saved) 8. namely not to take bribes. 10. The seventh year, and day all must rest. 14. Three principal feasts must be solemnized every year. 20. Conduction and protection of an Angel is promised. 24. The people is again commanded to destroy Idols. 29. Why their enemies shall be destroyed by little and little."
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "To Moyses also he said: Go up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy Ancients of Israel, and you shall adore a far off."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Moyses only shall ascend to the Lord, and they shall not approach: neither shall the people ascend with him."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Moyses therefore came and told the people all the words of our Lord, & the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: All the words of our Lord, which he hath spoken, we will do."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses wrote all the words of our Lord: and rising in the morning he (a) builded an Altar at the foot of the mount, & twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "As when Moyses had brought the Israelites from bondage, and received the law for them he built an Altar for Sacrifice: so Christ having redeemed us, and given us a Law, for application of the fruit thereof Altars are erected, & Sacrifice offered."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, & they offered holocausts, & sacrificed pacific victims to our Lord, calves."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moyses therefore took the half part of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the residue he poured upon the Altar."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And taking the volume of the covenant, he read the people hearing it: Who said, All things that our Lord hath spoken, we will do, and we will be obedient."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And he took the blood, and (b) sprinkled it upon the people, and said: This is the blood of the Covenant which our Lord hath made with you upon all these words.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This was done corporally to the Jews. In Christians Christ's blood applied by Sacrifice and Sacraments sanctified their souls. Heb. 9. The lesson in Mass on Imber Wednesday in Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And there went up Moyses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the Ancients of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when it is clear."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Neither did he set his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired far off, and they saw God, and did eat, and drink."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written: that thou mayst teach them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Moyses rose up, and his Minister Josue: and Moyses ascending into the mount of God,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "said to the Ancients: Expect here till we return to you, you have Aaron and Hur with you: If any question shall rise, you shall refer it to them."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when Moyses was ascended, a cloud covered the mount,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and the glory of our Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days, and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the darkness."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the form of the glory of our Lord, was as it were fire burning upon the top of the mount, in the sight of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Moyses entering into the midst of the cloud, ascended into the mount: and he was there forty days and forty nights."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses with others are commanded to ascend, he to the Lord, the rest a far off. 4. They offer Sacrifice. 8. Moyses sprinkleth the blood of the Testament upon the people. 15. Then ascending to the mountain, God covereth it with a fiery cloud."
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take first fruits for me, of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And these are the things which you must take: (a) Gold, and silver, and brass,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "As the Israelites were prompt to offer these external things in the old law, so Christians must offer the like for God's service: but specially all sorts of virtues, Faith, hope, charity, penance, devotion, prayer, alms, fasting, &c."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "hyacinth and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and silk, and the hair of goats,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and rams' skins dyed red, and janthine skins, and the wood setim;"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for incense of good savour:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod, and rationale."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "according to all the similitude of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, & of all the vessels to the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Frame an ark of the wood setim, the length whereof shall have two cubits & an half: the breadth, a cubit & an half: the height, likewise a cubit & an half."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And thou shalt plate it with most pure gold within and without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "& four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, & two on the other."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt make bars also of the wood setim, & shalt cover them with gold."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "the which shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And thou shalt put in the ark the testification which I will give thee."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Thou shalt make a Propitiatory of most pure gold: the length thereof shall hold two cubits and an half, and the breadth a cubit & an half."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Two (b) Cherubims also thou shalt make of beaten gold, on both sides of the oracle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "If Images were unlawful, God would not have commanded to make Cherubims. com. Nic. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Let one Cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Let them cover both sides of the Propitiatory spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces turned unto the Propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "wherein thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Thence will I command, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory & from the midst of the two Cherubims which shall be upon the ark of testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Thou shalt make a table also of the wood setim, having two cubits in length, and in breadth a cubit, & in height a cubit and an half."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And thou shalt plate it with most pure gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and to the ledge itself a crown interpolished, four fingers high: and upon the same, another golden crown."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in the four corners of the same table at every foot."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be put through them, and the table may be carried."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "The bars also themselves thou shalt make of the wood setim, & shalt compass them with gold to bear up the table."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Thou shalt prepare also saucers, and phials, censers, & goblets, wherein the libaments are to be offered, of most pure gold."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And thou shalt set upon the table (c) loaves of proposition in my sight always.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "For the perpetual use and sanctity of these loaves, which none might eat but such as were pure (1. Reg. 21.) they prefigured the holy Eucharist. S. Hier. in Tit. 1. S. Damascen de ortho. li. 4. c. 14. S. Cyril. cathec. 4. And consequently Christ is really present in the B. Sacrament. For if there were bread in substance, it should not excel the figure, which is required in every thing prefigured. Colloss. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Thou shalt make also a candle stick beaten of most pure gold, the shaft thereof, & branches, cups, and bowls, and lilies proceeding from the same."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Six branches shall go forth of the sides, three out of one side, and three out of the other."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Three cups as it were in manner of a nut on every branch, and bowl withal, and a lily: and three-cups likewise of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. This shall be the work of the six branches, that are to be drawn forth from the shaft:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in manner of a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six coming forth out of one shaft."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Both the bowls therefore and the branches shall be out of it, all the whole beaten of most pure gold."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, for to give light over-against."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "The snuffers also and where the snuffings shall be put out, let them be made of most pure gold."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "The whole weight of the candlestick with all the furniture thereof shall have a talent of most pure gold."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Look, and make it according to the pattern, that was shewed thee in the mount."
}
],
"summary": "Oblations of first fruits, and free-gifts for making the Tabernacle, and things pertaining thereto. 10. The Ark. 17. The Propitiatory, and Cherubims. 23. A table, and thereon the Loaves of proposition. 31. A candlestick, 37. and seven lamps, with snuffers of gold."
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the tabernacle thou shalt make thus: Ten curtains shalt thou make of twisted silk, and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, varied with embroidered work."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The length of one curtain shall have twenty eight cubits: the breadth shall be of four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Five curtains shall be (a) joined one to another, & the other five shall hang together with the connection.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Christ's members by their union & community assist each other, and adorn his tabernacle, the Church."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Loops of hyacinth thou shalt make in the sides & tops of the curtains, that they may be coupled one to another."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Fifty loops shall every curtain have on both sides, so set on, that one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the other."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thou shalt make also fifty circles of gold wherewith the veils of the curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of hair, to cover the top of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The length of one hair curtain shall have thirty cubits: and the breadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Of the which, five thou shalt join apart, and the six thou shalt couple one to another, so that the sixth curtain in the front of the roof thou shalt double."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, that it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of the other curtains that it may be coupled with his fellow."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops may be joined, that of all there may be made one covering."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And that which shall remain in the curtains, that are prepared for the roof, to wit, one curtain that is overplus, with the half thereof thou shalt cover the backside of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another on the other side, which is the overplus in the length of the curtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of the ram's skins dyed red: & over that again another cover of janthine skins."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing upright of the wood setim,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "of the which let every one have ten cubits in length, and in breadth one and a half a-piece."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "In the sides of the board, shall be made two mortises, whereby one board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall all the boards be prepared."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Of the which twenty shall be in the south side that tendeth southward."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "For the which thou shalt cast forty feet of silver, that there may two feet be put under every board at the two corners."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the North, there shall be twenty boards,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "having forty feet of silver, two feet shall be put under every board."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But on the west quarter of the tabernacle thou shalt make six boards,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the back of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, & one jointure shall hold them all. The like jointure shall be kept for the two boards also that are to be put in the corners."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And they shall be in all eight boards, their silver feet sixteen, two feet accounted for every board."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Thou shalt make also five bars of the wood setim, to hold together the boards on the one side of the tabernacle,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and five others on the other side, & as many at the west side:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "which shall be put along by the midst of the boards from one end to the other."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "The boards also themselves thou shalt plate with gold, & shalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, through which the bars may hold together the boardwork: the which thou shalt cover with plates of gold."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And thou shalt erect the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shewed thee in the Mount."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Thou shalt make also a veil of hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk, wrought with embroidered work & goodly variety:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "which thou shalt hang before four pillars of the wood setim, the which themselves also shall be plated with gold, & shall have four heads of gold, but feet of silver."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, within the which thou shalt put the ark of testimony, with the which also the Sanctuary, and the Sanctuaries of the Sanctuary, shall be divided."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Thou shalt set also the Propitiatory upon the ark of testimony in the (b) Sancta sanctorum:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The chiefest part of the Tabernacle, called Sancta sanctorum Holy of holies."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and the table without the veil: and over-against the table the candlestick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall stand in the north side."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entering of the tabernacle of hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk with embroidered work."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And five pillars of the wood setim thou shalt plate with gold, before the which the hanging shall be drawn: whose heads shall be of gold, and feet of brass."
}
],
"summary": "The form of the Tabernacle, with the appertinances, and of what matter, number, and qualities all things shall be."
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Thou shalt make also an Altar of the wood setim, which shall have five cubits in length, an as many in breadth, that is, four-square, and three cubits in height."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And there shall be at the four corners horns of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans for to take the ashes, and tongues, and flesh-hooks, and fire pans, all the vessels thou shalt make of brass."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And a grate in manner of a net of brass: at the four corners whereof shall be four rings of brass,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "which thou shalt put under the hearth of the Altar: and the grates shall be unto the midst of the Altar."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Thou shalt make also two bars for the Altar of the wood setim, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and thou shalt draw them through rings, & they shall be on both sides of the Altar to carry it."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Not massy, but empty & hollow in the inside shalt thou make it, as it was shewed thee in the Mount."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south part whereof against the south there shall be hangings of twisted silk: one side shall hold in length an hundred cubits."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And twenty pillars with as many feet of brass, which shall have heads with their engravings of silver."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "In like manner also on the north side there shall be in length hangings of an hundred cubits, twenty pillars, and feet of brass as many, and their heads with their engravings of silver."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many feet."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east, there shall be fifty cubits."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "In the which there shall be deputed to one side hangings of fifteen cubits, and three pillars and as many feet:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and in the other side there shall be hangings containing fifteen cubits, three pillars, and as many feet."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And in the entering of the court there shall be made an hanging of twenty cubits of hyacinth and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with as many feet."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with plates of silver, silver heads, and feet of brass."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "In length the court shall occupy and hundred cubits, in breadth fifty, the height, shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of twisted silk, and shall have feet of brass."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies, the pins as well of it as of the court, thou shalt make of brass."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Command the children of Israel that they bring thee oil of the olive-trees the purest, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn (c) always.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God would not have darkness in this tabernacle by day nor night, signifying that his people ought always to shine in good works. S. Beda li. 3. c. 1. de tabernac."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is drawn before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons, shall place it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. Is shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions before the children of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "God commandeth Moyses to make diverse sorts of vestures for Aaron and his sons, prescribing the matter, manner, and ornaments thereof."
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among the children of Israel (a) that they may do the function of priesthood unto me: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Vocation necessary to spiritual function. Heb. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And thou shalt make an holy vesture to Aaron thy brother for glory and beauty."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have replenished with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's vestures, wherein he being sanctified may minister to me."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And (b) these shall be the vestments that they shall make: Rationale and an Ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, that they may do the function of priesthood unto me.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These vestments signify that Bishops and Priests must have special virtues, discretion, purity of life, sincere intention, contemplation of God, supportation of the people's infirmity, solicitude of their good, exemplar life, sound doctrine, and band of union. S. Hiero. ad Fabiol. de vestitu Sacerdotum. to. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And they shall take gold, and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and silk."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And they shall make the Ephod of gold and hyacinth and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk, embroidered with diverse colours."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "It shall have two edges joined in the top on both sides, that they may be closed together."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The very workmanship also and all the variety of the work shall be of gold and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And thou shalt take two Onyx stones, and shalt grave in them the names of the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "six names in one stone, and the other six in the other, according to the order of their nativity."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "After the work of a graver and the graving of a lapidary, thou shalt grave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and thou shalt put them in both sides of the Ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt make also hooks of gold,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and two little chains of most pure gold linked one to another, which thou shalt put into the hooks."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The Rationale of judgment also thou shalt make with embroidered work of diverse colours, according to the workmanship of the Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "It shall be four square and double: it shall have the measure of a palm as well in length as in breadth."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And thou shalt set in it four rews of stones: In the first rew shall be the stone sardius, and topazius, and the emerald:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "in the second the carbuncle, the sapphire, & the jasper:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "in the third a ligurius, an achates, an amethyst:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "in the fourth a chrysolith, an onyx, and berillus. They shall be set in gold by their rews."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be graven, every stone with the names of every one according to the twelve tribes."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Thou shalt make in the Rationale chains linked one to another of the purest gold:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in both the tops of the Rationale:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in the edges thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and the ends of the chains themselves thou shalt couple with two hooks on both sides of the Ephod, which is toward the Rationale."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Thou shalt make also two rings of gold which thou shalt put in the tops of the Rationale, in the brims, that are over against the Ephod, & look toward the back parts thereof."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on both sides of the Ephod beneath, that looketh toward the nether joining, that the Rationale may be fitted with the Ephod,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the Ephod with a lace of hyacinth, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, & the Rationale & Ephod may not be separated one from the other."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the Rationale of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the Sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And thou shalt put in the Rationale of Judgment (c) Doctrine, and Verity, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the Lord always.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Knowledge of the cause, and sincere proceeding therein, are the two keys of right judgement."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And thou shalt make the tunic of the Ephod all of hyacinth,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "in the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the utmost parts of garments, that it may not easily be broken."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, little bells interposed between,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "so that there be a bell of gold and a pomegranate; and again another bell of gold & a pomegranate."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry, that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in & cometh out of the Sanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, & that he die not."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave after the work of a graver, Holy to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And thou shalt tie it with a lace of hyacinth, and it shall be upon the mitre,"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "hanging over the forehead of the High-Priest. And Aaron shall carry the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and donaries. And the plate shall be always in his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with them."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "And thou shalt gird the tunic with silk, and thou shalt make a silken mitre, and a bawdrike of embroidered work."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Moreover for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, and bawdrikes, and mitres for glory and beauty:"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the function of priesthood unto me."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their turpitude from the reins unto the thighs:"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "and Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall enter into the tabernacle of testimony, or when they approach to the Altar to minister in the Sanctuary, lest guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron and to his seed after him."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "But this also shalt thou do, (a) that they may be consecrated to me in priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without spot,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Special preparation before Bishops and Priests be consecrated."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour thou shalt make all."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And: being put in a basket thou shalt offer them: and the calf and the two rams."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of testimony: And (b) when thou hast washed the father with his sons in water,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The first preparation in the party to be consecrated is cleansing from sin: then to be adorned with the virtues above mentioned. Exod. 8. v. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "thou shalt vest Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the linen garment and the tunic, and the Ephod and the Rationale, which thou shalt gird with the bawdrike."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate upon the mitre,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "His sons also thou shalt bring, and shalt invest them with the linen tunics, and gird them with a bawdrike,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "to wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon them: and they shall be Priests to me by a perpetual religion. After that thou shalt have consecrated their hands,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the door of the tabernacle of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And that which thou takest of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put upon the horns of the Altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Thou shalt take also the whole fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt offer a burnt sacrifice upon the Altar:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "but the flesh of the calf and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad without the camp, because it is for sin."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Which when thou hast killed, thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and pour round about the Altar."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the ram itself thou shalt cut into pieces, and his entrails and feet being washed, thou shalt put upon the flesh cut in pieces, and upon his head."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt sacrifice upon the Altar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Which when thou hast immolated, thou shalt take of his blood, and put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon the thumbs and great toes of their right hand and foot, and thou shalt pour the blood upon the Altar round about."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And when thou hast taken of the blood that is upon the Altar, and of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, his sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are consecrated,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the tail and the tallow, that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat, that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because it is the ram of consecration:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and a piece of one loaf, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of the basket of azymes, which is set in the sight of the Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And thou shalt take all from their hands: and shalt burn them upon the Altar for an holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the Lord, because it is his oblation."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was consecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, and it shall fall to thy part."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aaron's part and his sons by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the primitives and beginnings of their pacific victims which they offer to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have after him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in it."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "He of his sons that shall be appointed High-Priest in his stead, and that shall enter into the tabernacle of testimony to minister in the Sanctuary, shall wear it seven days."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, & shalt boil the flesh thereof in a holy place;"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "which Aaron shalt eat and his sons. The loaves also, that are in the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of testimony,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "that it may be a placable sacrifice, & the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread till the morning, thou shalt burn the remains with fire: they shall not be eaten, because they are sanctified."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "All that I have commanded thee thou shalt do upon Aaron and his sons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands:"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "& thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the Altar when thou hast offered the host of expiation, and shalt anoint it unto sanctification."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most Holy, every one, that shall touch it, shall be sanctified."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "This is it which thou shalt do upon the Altar: Two lambs of a year old (c) every day continually,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Diverse things were offered at diverse times, and all signified Christ's Sacrifice in his Church. S. Aug. li. 1. c. 18. cont. advers. leg. & Prophet, yet none daily but a lamb: more particularly signifying the daily offering of the lamb of God, and perpetual effect thereof. Origen. in Ioan. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "one lamb in the morning, and another at even,"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "the tenth part of flour tempered with oil beaten, which shall have in measure the fourth part of an hin, and wine for libation of the same measure to one lamb."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, according to the rite of the morning oblation, and according to that which we have said, for a savour of sweetness:"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "it is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony before the Lord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And there will I command the children of Israel, and the Altar shall be sanctified in my glory."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "I will sanctify also the tabernacle of testimony with the Altar & Aaron with his sons, to do the function of priesthood unto me."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel & will be their God,"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "& they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that have brought them out of the Land of Aegypt, that I might abide among them, I the Lord their God."
}
],
"summary": "The manner of consecrating Aaron and other Priests: with burnt offerings, 26. and pacifics, whereof Aaron and his sons shall participate. 38. The institution of the daily Sacrifice of two lambs, one in the morning, the other at even."
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Thou shalt make also an Altar to burn incense, of the wood setim,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "having a cubit of length, and another of breadth, that is, four square, and two cubits in height. The horns shall proceed out of the same."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And thou shalt plate it with the purest gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the Altar may be carried."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "The bars also themselves thou shalt make of the wood setim, and shalt plate them with gold."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And thou shalt set the Altar against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Aaron shall burn incense upon it, sweetly fragrant, in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and when he shall place them at even, he shall burn incense everlasting before the Lord through your generations."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libaments."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin, & shall pacify upon it in your generations. It shall be most Holy to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, & there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And this shall every one give that passeth to the naming, (a) half a sicle according to the measure of the temple. A sicle hath twenty (b) oboles. The half part of a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "That is, 7. d. ob. English. For a sicle of the Sanctuary is about 15. d."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Obolus, 3. farthings."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He that is accounted in the number, for twenty years and upward, shall give price."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, & the poor man shall diminish nothing."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the money being received, which was contributed of the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of testimony, that it may be a monument of them before the Lord, & he may be propitious to their souls."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt make also a laver with his foot of brass, to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the Altar. And water being put into it,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Aaron and his sons shall wash therein their hands and feet,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "when they are going into the tabernacle of testimony, and when they are to come unto the Altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by succession."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much, that is, two hundred fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred fifty,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and of cassia five hundred sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment compounded by the art of an unguentary,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and thereof thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of testimony, and the ark of the testament,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and the table with the vessel thereof, the candlestick, and the furniture thereof, the Altars of incense,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and of holocaust, and all the furniture that pertaineth to the service of them."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most Holy: he that shall touch them, shall be sanctified."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the function of priesthood unto me."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "To the children of Israel also thou shalt say: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me through your generations."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other after the composition of it, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, shall be abandoned out of his people."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of an unguentary, exactly tempered, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most Holy shall the incense be unto you."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Such confection you shall not make unto your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, shall perish out of his people."
}
],
"summary": "How, and of what matter, the Altar of incense shall be made: 12. What money shall be gathered for the use of the Tabernacle. 18. A brazen laver is also to be made, 25. and holy oil of unction."
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and I have replenished him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, & understanding, and knowledge in all work,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "to devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, and brass,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "of marble, and precious stones, and diversity of wood."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And I have given him for his fellow, Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan. And in the heart of every skillful man have I put wisdom: that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "the tabernacle of covenant, and the ark of testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and the table and the vessels thereof, the candlestick most pure with the vessels thereof, and the Altars of incense,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with his foot,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the Priest, and for his sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "the oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the Sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath: because it is a sign between me and you in your generations: that you may know that I am the Lord, which sanctify you."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall pollute it, dying shall die: he that shall do work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the holy rest to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work in this day, shall die."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Let the children of Israel keep the Sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "between me and the children of Israel, and a sign perpetual. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And our Lord, when he had ended such speeches in mount Sinai, gave unto Moyses two stone tables of testimony, written (a) with the finger of God.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Not by Moyses, but by an Angel, at God's appointment. Gal. 3. v. 19."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Beseleel and Ooliab are deputed by our Lord to make the Tabernacle, and the things belonging thereto. 12. The observation of the sabbath day is again commanded. 18. And our Lord delivereth to Moyses two tables written with the finger of God."
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the people seeing that Moyses made tarriance ere he came down from the mount, being assembled against Aaron, they said: Arise, make us (a) gods, that may go before us: for what hath chanced to this Moyses the man that brought us out of the Land of Aegypt, we know not.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Aaron knew what gods they meant, to wit, such as they had seen worshipped in Aegypt, and therefore he made them a molten calf. v. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earlets from the ears of your wives, and sons, and daughters, & bring them to me."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the people did that he had commanded, bringing the earlets to Aaron."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Which when he had received, he formed them by founder's work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Aegypt.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Which when Aaron had seen, he builded an altar before it, and by a crier's voice proclaimed saying: Tomorrow is the solemnity of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and pacific hosts, and the people sat down to eat, and to drink, and they rose up (b) to play.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Excess in play called foolish mirth, is the daughter of gluttony, and mother of Idolatry. S. Greg. li. 31. c. 31. Moral."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the Land of Aegypt, hath sinned."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "They have quickly revolted from the way that thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored, and immolating hosts unto (c) it, have said: These are thy gods Israel, that have brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "To the molten calf, which they had made."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And again our Lord said to Moyses: I see that this people is stiff-necked:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "(d) suffer me, that my fury may be angry against them, & that I may destroy them, and I will make thee into a great nation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God saying, Suffer me, signifieth that he could be hindered. S. Hierom. in Ion. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But Moyses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why Lord, is thy fury angry against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth of the Land of Aegypt, in great power, and in a strong hand?",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Let not the Aegyptians say I beseech thee: He hath craftily brought them forth, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thine anger cease, and be pacified upon the wickedness of thy people."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel (e) thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land, whereof I have spoken, I will give to your seed, & you shall possess it always.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Not only God's promise, but also his servant's merits are here proposed for procuring mercy to the people. See the Annotation."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord was pacified from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Moyses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of testimony in his hand, written on both sides,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Josue hearing the tumult of the people crying out, said to Moyses: The noise of battail is heard in the camp."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging of fight, nor the shout of men compelling to fly: but I do hear the voice of singers."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And when he approached to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being (e) very wrath, he threw the tables out of his hand, and brake them at the foot of the mount.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Moyses the meekest man on earth (Nu. 12.) in God's cause was most zealous against sin. S. Aug. q. 144. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And catching the calf which they had made, he burnt it, & beat it into powder, which he strawed into water, and gave thereof drink to the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he said to Aaron: What hath this people done to thee, that thou shouldest bring upon them an heinous sin?"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "To whom he answered: Let not my Lord be offended for thou knowest this people, that it is prone to evil:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "they said to me: Make us gods, that may go before us: for unto this same Moyses, that brought us forth out of the Land of Aegypt, we know not what is chanced."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "To whom I said: Which of you hath gold? They took, & brought to me: & I cast it into the fire, and (f) this calf came forth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Aaron confessed the fault briefly, not intending a frivolous excuse: for he could not think, but Moyses knew the truth. S. Aug. q. 145. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Moyses therefore seeing the people that they were made naked (for Aaron had spoiled them for the ignominy of filth, & had set them naked among their enemies)."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "& standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be our Lord's, let him join to me, And there gathered unto him all the sons of Levi:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "to whom he said: This 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 every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And (g) the sons of Levi did according to the saying of Moyses, and there were slain in that day about three and twenty thousand men.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "Their zeal used with authority and order is here rewarded: which otherwise wanting, when Simeon and Levi slew the Sichemites, was blamed by Jacob. Gen. 34. & 49."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Moyses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to our Lord, every man in his son & in his brother, that blessing may be given to you."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And when the next day was come, Moyses spake to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to our Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your sinful fact."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And returning to our 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,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "or if thou do not, (h) strike me out of the book that thou hast written.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "h",
"text": "Moyses not content with his own salvation, would rather perish with the people, than they should all be destroyed: and therefore at his instance God pardoned them. S. Hiero. Ep. 12. ad Gaud. & in Ion. 1. S. Aug. q. 147. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "To whom our Lord answered: He that hath sinned to me, him will I strike out of my book:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "but go thou, and lead this people wither I have told thee: mine Angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Our Lord therefore smote the people for the fault concerning the calf, which Aaron had made."
}
],
"summary": "The people (Aaron consenting) make & adore the image of a calf. 7. Which God revealing to Moyses, 11. he prayeth our Lord, for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's sake to spare the people, and perform his promise. 14. Wherewith God is pacified. 15. Yet Moyses coming from the Mount, and seeing the calf, and idolatry, throweth down the tables and breaketh them, 20. destroyeth the idol, 21. blameth Aaron, 27. causeth many Idolaters to be slain, 31. and again prayeth for the people."
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying: Go, get thee up from this place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the Land of Aegypt, into the land whereof I sware to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and I will send an Angel thy precursor, that I may cast out the Chananeite, and Amorrheite, and Hetheite, and Pherezeite, and Heveite, and Jebuseite,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and thou mayest enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey: for (a) I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff-necked people: lest perhaps I destroy thee in the way.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God would not in this passage work such miracles, as he did, bringing them forth of Aegypt. So it is a commination because they were stubborn and stiff-necked."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the people hearing this very ill saying, mourned: and no man put on his ornaments after the custom."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Speak to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiff-necked people, once I shall go up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay away thy ornaments, that I may know what to do unto thee."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore the children of Israel laid away their ornaments from mount Horeb."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Moyses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp a far off, and called the name thereof, The Tabernacle of covenant. And all the people, that had any question, went forth to the Tabernacle of covenant, without the camp."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when Moyses 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 Moyses, till he entered into the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when he was entered into the Tabernacle of covenant, the pillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, & he spake with Moyses,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "all they beholding that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the Tabernacle. And they stood, & adored at the doors of their tabernacles."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord spake unto Moyses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his minister Josue the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the Tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Moyses said to our Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people, & doest not shew me whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found grace in my sight."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "If therefore I have found grace in thy sight, shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thine eyes, look upon thy people this nation."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord said: My face shall go before thee, & I will give thee rest."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Moyses said: If thyself doest not go before, bring us not out of this place."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For whereby 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 of all peoples, that dwell upon the earth?"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will I do: for thou hast found grace before me, and thyself I have known by name."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who said: Shew me thy glory."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "He answered: I will shew thee (b) all good, and (c) will call 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.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The vision of God in glory is all good."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God by his grace maketh his servants to call upon his name. S. Aug. q. 154. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: (d) for man shall not see me, & live.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "None in this life can see God as Saints do in glory. 1. Joan. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And again: Behold, quoth he, there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when my glory shall pass [1] I will set thee in a hole of the rock, & protect thee with my right hand, until I pass:",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Rom. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see (e) my back-parts: but my face thou canst not see.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Moyses saw more glorious works and effects of God, than other Prophets, yet not his substance and divine nature. Theodoret. q. 68. in Exod. S. Hier. de verb. Isa. vidi Dom. S. Chrysost. ho. 4. de in co. Dei natura."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "God's wrath being mitigated by Moyses, the people mourn for their sin. 7. Moyses pitcheth the tabernacle without the camp, and therein converseth familiarly with God, 18. desiring to see his glory."
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And after this he said: (a) Cut thee two tables of stone like unto the former, and I will write upon them the words, which the tables had which thou hast broken.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The first tables being broken, yet others are made: so though the first grace given in Baptism be lost, yet there remaineth penance, as the second table of safety after shipwreck. S. Hiero. Epis. ad Demetriad."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Be ready in the morning, that thou mayest forthwith go up into the mount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Let no man go up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout the whole mount: the oxen also and the sheep let them not feed over-against."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "He cut out therefore two tables of stone, such as had been before: and rising very early he went up into mount Sinai, as our Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when our Lord was descended in a cloud, Moyses stood with him, calling upon the name of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Who passing before him said: [1] Dominatour Lord God, merciful and clement, patient and of much compassion, and true,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* chief ruler."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "which keepest mercy unto thousands: which takest away iniquity, and wicked facts, and sins, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Which doest render the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the nephews unto the third and fourth generation."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Moyses making haste, bowed flat unto the earth, & adoring,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "he said: If I have found grace in thy sight, o Lord, I beseech thee that thou wilt go with us (for it is a stiff-necked people) and take away our iniquities & sins, & possess us."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Our Lord answered: (b) I will make a covenant in the sight of all. I will do signs that were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations: that this people may see, in the midst of whom thou art, the terrible work of the Lord, which I will do.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Notwithstanding his former commination chap. 33. v. 3. God here promiseth new benefits."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will cast out before thy face the Amorrheite, & Chananeite, & Hetheite, the Pherezeite also, and Heveite, and Jebuseite."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Beware thou never join amity with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "but destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "adore not a strange God. The Lord his name is Jealous, God is an emulator."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Enter no traffic with the men of those regions: lest when they have fornicated with their gods, & have adored their idols, some man call thee to eat of the things immolated."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Neither shalt thou take a wife for thy sons of their daughters: lest after themselves have fornicated they make thy sons also to fornicate with their gods."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Molten gods thou shalt not make to thee."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Thou shalt keep the solemnity of the azymes. Seven days shalt thou eat azymes, as I have commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn: for in the month of spring time thou didst go out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "All of the male kind, that openeth the matrice, shall be mine. Of all beasts, as well oxen as of sheep, it shall be mine."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The first-born of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear empty in my sight."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to ear & reap."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The solemnity of weeks thou shalt make to thee, in the first fruits of corn of thy wheat harvest, and the solemnity, when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid up."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Three times of the year all thy male shall appear in the sight of the omnipotent Lord God of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have dilated thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land, when thou doest go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Thou shalt not immolate the blood of my host upon leaven: neither shall there remain in the morning of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: write thee these words, in which I have made a covenant both with thee and with Israel."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Therefore he was there with our Lord forty days & forty nights: he did not eat bread, and he drunk no water, & (c) he wrote in the tables the words of the covenant, (d) ten.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God by an Angel not Moyses. supra v. 1. & Deut. 10. v. 2. & 4."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "How soever the commandments are divided in both tables, here it is certain, that there be no more nor fewer than ten in all."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And when Moyses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of testimony, and he knew not that his face was (e) horned by the conversation of the talk of our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "So his face appeared to the beholders, by reason of the glistering beams of his countenance shining gloriously, after his conversation with God forty days: which signifieth that much more that which abideth (in all eternity) is in glory. 2 Cor. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Aaron & the children of Israel seeing the face of Moyses horned, they were afraid to come near."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And being called of him, they returned as well Aaron as the Princes of the Synagogue. And after that he spake to them,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "all the children of Israel also came to him: whom he commanded all things that he had heard of our Lord in mount Sinai."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And having ended his talk, he put (f) a veil upon his face.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "The same veil (saith S. Paul) remaineth upon the heart of the Jews, that they cannot see Christ, till by his special grace they shall be illuminated: 2. Cor. 3. The like is upon the heart of Heretics that cannot see the Church. S. Aug. in Psal. 30. con. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Which going in to our Lord, and speaking with him, he took away until he went forth, and then he spake to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "who saw that the face of Moyses coming forth was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spake to them."
}
],
"summary": "Moyses goeth again into Mount Sinai, with new tables, praying for the people: 10. to whom God promiseth to give possession of the Land. 12. Prohibiteth all association with the Gentiles, for fear of Idolatry, 18. giveth precepts concerning the first-born, the Sabbath, and other feasts. 28. After forty day's fast, Moyses returneth to the people with the commandments, and his face appearing horned, he covereth it whensoever he speaketh to the people."
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore (a) all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together, he said to them: These are the things which our Lord hath commanded to be done.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "After the fall of the people to Idolatry, their punishment, and repentance, their reconciliation to God, and new tables of the commandments made and written, Moyses repeateth the former precept of keeping the Sabbath, and provideth all necessaries to the making of the Tabernacle, whereto the Princes and people most promptly and liberally contribute. S. Aug. q. 172. in Exo."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Six days you shall do work: the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath, and rest of our Lord: he that shall do any work in it, shall be slain."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "You shall not kindle fire in all your habitations on the sabbath day."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word that our Lord hath commanded, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Separate with you first fruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing & hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold and silver, and brass,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "hyacinth and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and silk, the hair of goats,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and rams' skins dyed red, and janthine skins, the wood setim,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet incense."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the Ephod and the Rationale."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which our Lord hath commanded:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "to wit, the Tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the boardwork with the bars, the pins & the feet:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "the Ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil, that is drawn before it:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "the Table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of proposition:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "the Candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil to the nourishing of fires:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "the Altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction and the incense of spices: the Hanging at the door of the tabernacle:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the Altar of holocaust, and his grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the Laver and his feet:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "the Curtains of the court with the pillars and the feet, the hanging in the doors of the entry,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "the pins of the tabernacle and of the court with their little cords:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "the Vestments, that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high-Priest, and of his sons, to do the function of Priesthood unto me."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And all the multitude of the children of Israel going forth from the sight of Moyses,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "offered first fruits to our Lord with a most prompt and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatsoever was necessary to the service thereof and to the holy vestments,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "both men and women did give, tablets and earlets, rings and bracelets: every vessel of gold was separated for the donaries of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "If any man had hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed red, and janthine skins,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "metal of silver and brass, they offered to our Lord, and the wood setim for diverse uses."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But the skillful women also gave such things as they had spun, hyacinth, purple, and scarlet, and silk,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and goats' hair, giving all of their own accord."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But the Princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the Ephod and the Rationale,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and spices and oil to maintain the lights, and for the preparing of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "All men and women with devout mind offered donaries, that the works might be made which our Lord had commanded by the hand of Moyses. All the children of Israel did dedicate voluntary things to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Moyses said to the children of Israel: Behold, our Lord hath (b) called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "As matter alone is not sufficient for a building without artificers, to whom God giveth special skill: so for expounding holy Scripture God giveth particular knowledge to Pastors and Doctors, to the consummation of Saints, to the work of the ministry, to the edifying of the body of Christ (the Church) Ephs. 4."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and intelligence, and science and all learning,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "to devise and to make work in gold and silver, and brass,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and in graving stones, and in carpenter's work. Whatsoever can be devised artificially,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "he hath given in his heart: Ooliab also the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "both hath he instructed with wisdom, to make the works of a carpenter, a tapester, an embroiderer of hyacinth and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and silk, and to weave all things, and to invent all new things."
}
],
"summary": "The precept of the Sabbath is yet renewed. 4. First fruits, and other gifts are required, and duly offered, for the making of the tabernacle and other things thereto belonging, which are here recited. 30. Beseleel and Ooliab are appointed workmen for this purpose."
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom our Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the Sanctuary, and which our Lord did command."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when Moyses had called them, and every cunning man, to whom our Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered themselves to the making of the work,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "he delivered all the donaries of the children of Israel unto them. Who being earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning did offer their vows."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Whereupon (a) the artificers being constrained to come,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "As the people abounded in devotion, so the workmen of modesty and religion would have no more than necessary. S. Augustin. q. 171. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "said to Moyses: The people offereth more than is necessary."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moyses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier's voice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more in the work of the Sanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "because the things that were offered did suffice and were over-much."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And all the wise hearted men, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted silk, and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "of which one had in length twenty eight cubits, and in breadth four: there was one measure of all the curtains."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five he coupled to themselves one with another."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "He made also loops of hyacinth in the edge of one curtain on either side, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "that the loops might meet one against another, and might be joined each with other."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Whereupon also he did cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and might be made one tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "He made also eleven curtains of goats hair to cover the roof of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "one curtain in length had thirty cubits, & in breadth four cubits: all the curtains were of one measure:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "of which five he joined apart, & the other six apart."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red: & another cover over that of janthine skins."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "He made also the boards of the tabernacle of the wood setim standing."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "The length of one board was ten cubits: and the breadth contained one cubit & an half."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be joined to the other. So made he in all the boards of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Of the which twenty were at the south side against the south,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "with forty feet of silver. Two feet were put under one board on either side of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "At that side also of the tabernacle, that looked toward the north, he made twenty boards,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "with forty feet of silver, two feet for every board."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and two other at each corner of the tabernacle behind:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "which were also joined from beneath unto the top, & they grew together into one connexion. So he made on either side at the corners:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "that there were in all eight boards, and had sixteen feet of silver, to wit, two feet under every board."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "He made also bars of the wood setim, five to hold together the boards of one side of the tabernacle,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and five other to join together the boards of the other side: and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle against the sea."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the boards from corner unto corner."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And the boardwork itself he plated with gold. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: the which also themselves he covered with plates of gold."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "He made also a veil of hyacinth, and purple, scarlet, and twisted silk, with embroidered work, varied and distinguished:"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "and four pillars of the wood setim, which with their heads he plated with gold, casting their feet of silver."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and twisted silk, with the work of an embroiderer:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "and five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their feet he did cast of brass."
}
],
"summary": "More being given than was needful. 6. Moyses made to be proclaimed that no more should be offered. 8. So the curtains, 13. rings, 18. buckles, 19. the cover, 20. boards, 21. bars, 35. a veil, 36. pillars, and a hanging are made ready."
},
{
"chapter": 37,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Beseleel made also the ark of the wood setim, having two cubits & an half in length, and a cubit and an half in breadth, the height also was of one cubit and an half: and he plated it with the purest gold within & without."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he made to it a crown of gold round about,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in the one side, and two in the other."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Bars also he made of the wood setim, which he plated with gold,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and which he put into the rings, that were at the sides of the ark to carry it."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "He made also the Propitiatory, that is, the Oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits & an half in length, and a cubit & an half in breadth."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Two Cherubins also of beaten gold, which he set on either side of the propitiatory:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "One Cherub in the top of one side, and the other Cherub in the top of the other side: two Cherubins in each top of the Propitiatory,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "spreading their wings, and (a) covering the Propitiatory, and looking one toward the other and toward it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The Cherubins covering all upon and within the ark signify (saith S. Gregory Nyssen) that the Scriptures have a higher sense than the literal. de vita Moyses post medium."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "He made also the table of the wood setim in length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, which had in height a cubit and an half."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And he did compass it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and to the ledge itself a golden crown interpolished of four fingers, & upon the same another golden crown."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners at every foot of the table"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "against the crown: & he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The bars also themselves he made of the wood setim, and compassed them with gold."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the vessels for the diverse uses of the table, saucers, phials, and goblets, & censers, of pure gold, wherein the libaments are to be offered."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "He made also the candlestick beaten of the finest gold. From the shaft whereof the branches, cups, & bowls & lilies did proceed:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "six on both sides, three branches on one side, & three on the other:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "three cups in manner of a nut on every branch, and bowls withal and lilies, and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that proceeded from the shaft of the candlestick, equal."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one and lilies:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six branches proceeding from one shaft."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Both the bowls therefore, & the branches were out of it, all beaten of the purest gold."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels, where the snuffings should be put out, of most pure gold."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "The candlestick withal the vessels thereof did weigh a talent of gold."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "He made also the altar of incense of the wood setim, having a cubit every way four square, and in height two: from the corners whereof the horns did proceed."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And he plated it with the purest gold, with the grate and the walls and the horns."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden rings under the crown at either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar may be carried."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And the bars themselves he made also of the wood setim, and covered them with plates of gold."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "He compounded also oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices with the work of a pigmentary."
}
],
"summary": "Beseleel maketh the Ark. 6. the Propitiatory, with Cherubims, 10. the Table, with vessels belonging thereto, 17. the Candlestick with bowels and branches: 23. seven lamps with snuffers, 25. the Altar of incense, 29. and compoundeth the incense."
},
{
"chapter": 38,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "He made also the Altar of Holocaust of the wood setim, five cubits four square, and three in height:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "the horns whereof did proceed from the corners, and he covered it with plates of brass."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And for the uses thereof he prepared of brass diverse vessels, cauldrons, tongs, flesh-hooks, pot-hooks, and fire pans."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the grate thereof in manner of a net he made of brass, and under it in the midst of the altar an hearth,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "casting four rings at as many tops of the net, to put in bars to carry it:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "the which themselves also he made of the wood setim, and covered them with plates of brass:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and he drew them through the rings, that stood out in the sides of the altar. And the altar itself was not massy, but hollow of boards, and within empty."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of women's glasses, (a) that watched in the door of the tabernacle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These women watched there for devotion, and it seemeth the same custom continued till Christ's time. For Anna the widow observed this state of life. Luc. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings of twisted silk, of an hundred cubits,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "twenty pillars of brass with their feet, the heads of the pillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "In like manner at the north side the hangings, pillars, and feet & the heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work & metal."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings of fifty cubits, ten brazen pillars with their feet, and the heads of the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Moreover against the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "of the which, one side contained fifteen cubits of three pillars, with their feet:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "& on the other side (because between both he made the entry of the tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, & three pillars, & feet as many."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "All the hangings of the court were woven of twisted silk."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The feet of the pillars were of brass, & their heads with all their gravings of silver: but the pillars also of the court themselves he plated with silver."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And in the entry thereof he made with embroidered work a hanging of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and twisted silk, that had twenty cubits in length, but the height was five cubits, according to the measure which all the hangings of the court had."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the pillars in the entry were four with feet of brass, and their heads and gravings of silver."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he made of brass."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "These are the instruments of the tabernacle of testimony, which were numbered according to the precept of Moyses, in the ceremonies of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the Priest:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "which Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda had accomplished, as our Lord commanded by Moyses,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "having joined to himself for his companion Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan: who was himself also an egregious artificer in wood, and a tapester, and embroiderer of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and silk."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "All the gold that was spent in the work of the Sanctuary, and that was offered in donaries, was nine and twenty talents, and seven hundred thirty sicles according to the measure of the Sanctuary."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And it was offered of them that passed to the number, from twenty years and upward, of six hundred three thousand, & five hundred fifty able men to bear arms."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "There were moreover an hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the feet of the Sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "An hundred feet were made of an hundred talents, one talent being accounted for every foot."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And of the thousand seven hundred, and seventy five he made the heads of the pillars, which themselves he also plated with silver."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Of brass also there were offered seventy two thousand talents, and four hundred sicles besides,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "of the which were cast the feet in the entry of the tabernacle of testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and all the vessels, that pertain to the use thereof,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and the feet of the court as well in the circuit as in the entry thereof, and the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about."
}
],
"summary": "The same Beseleel maketh the Altar of Holocaust. 8. the brazen laver. 9. the court with pillars and hangings. 21. The gifts that were offered are recited."
},
{
"chapter": 39,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Moreover of hyacinth and purple, scarlet and silk he made the vestures, that Aaron should wear when he ministered in the holy places, as our Lord commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "He made therefore an Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and twisted silk,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "with embroidered work, and he did cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the former colours,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and two edges coupled one to the other in the top on either side,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and a bawdrike of the same colours, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "He prepared also two Onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, & graven by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "& he set them in the sides of the Ephod for a monument of the children of Israel, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He made also a Rationale with embroidered work according to the work of the Ephod, of gold, hyacinth, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, & twisted silk:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "four square, double, of the measure of a palm."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And he set four rews of precious stones. In the first rew was sardius, topazius, an emerald."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "In the third, a ligurius, an achates, and an amethyst."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "In the fourth a chrysolith, an onyx, and berillus, compassed & enclosed in gold by their rews."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the twelve stones themselves were graven with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, every one with his several name."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "They made also in the rationale little chains linked one to another of the purest gold,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and two hooks, and as many rings of gold. Moreover the rings they set on either side of the Rationale,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "on the which the two golden chains should hang, which they put into the hooks, that stood out in the corners of the Ephod."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "These both before and behind did so agree with themselves, that the Ephod and the Rationale might be knit one to the other,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "tied to the bawdrike & with rings strongly coupled, which a lace of hyacinth joined, lest they should flag loosely, and be moved one from the other, as our Lord commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "They made also the tunic of the Ephod all of hyacinth,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and a hole for the head in the upper part against the midst, and the border of the hole round about woven:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and beneath at the feet pomegranates of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and twisted silk:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and little bells of the purest gold, which they did put between the pomegranates in the utmost part of the tunic round about:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "to wit, a bell of gold, & a pomegranate, wherewith the high-Priest went adorned, when he executed his ministry, as our Lord had commanded Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "They made also silken tunics with woven work for Aaron and his sons:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and mitres with their little crowns of silk:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Linen breeches also, of fine linen:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "& a girdle of twisted silk, hyacinth, purple, & scarlet twice dyed, with the art of embroidering, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "They made also the plate of (a) sacred veneration of most pure gold, & they wrote in it with the work of a lapidary: The Holy of our Lord:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Alexander the Great seeing Iaddus the high-Priest, bearing this venerable plate on his forehead, with great reverence went unto him, and adored the name of God written in the plate. Josephus. li. 11. c. 8. Antiq."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and they tied it to the mitre with a lace of hyacinth, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Therefore all the work of the tabernacle & of the roof of testimony was perfected: & the children of Israel did all things which our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And they offered the tabernacle & the roof & the whole furniture, rings, boards, bars, pillars and their feet,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "the cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the other cover of janthine skins,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "the veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "the table with the vessels thereof and the loaves of proposition:"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "the candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them with the oil:"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "the altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "and the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "the altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and all the vessels thereof: the laver with the foot thereof: the hangings of the court, and the pillars with their feet:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "the hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and the pins thereof. Nothing wanted of the vessels, that was commanded to be made for the ministry of the tabernacle, and for the roof of covenant."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "The vestments also, which the priests use in the Sanctuary, to wit, Aaron and his sons,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "the children of Israel offered, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Which things after that Moyses saw all finished, he blessed them."
}
],
"summary": "All the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made. 31. and the whole work of the Tabernacle is perfited."
},
{
"chapter": 40,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The (a) first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt erect the tabernacle of the testimony,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The Tabernacle, prepared in the first year and erected the first day of the second year, signifieth the Church of Christ, prepared in the old Testament, & established, exalted, and confirmed in the new."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "& shalt put in it the ark, and shalt let down before it the veil:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "& bringing in the table, thou shalt set upon it the things that are commanded after the rite. The candlestick shall stand with the lamps thereof,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and the altar of gold whereon the incense is burned, before the ark of testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and before it the altar of holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "the laver between the altar and the tabernacle, which thou shalt fill with water."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And thou shalt compass about the court with hangings, & the entry thereof."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And taking the oil of unction thou shalt anoint the tabernacle with the vessels thereof, that they may be sanctified:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the altar of holocaust and all the vessels thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "the laver with the foot thereof; all shalt thou consecrate with the oil of unction, that they may be (b) most Holy.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "More holy than any thing without the Sanctuary, but the Sancta Sanctorum itself was then most holy of all places in this world."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, and having washed them with water,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "thou shalt revest them with the sacred vestments, that they may minister to me, and the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting priesthood."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Moyses did all things which our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Therefore the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was placed."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Moyses erected it, and put the boards and feet and bars, and reared the pillars,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He put also the testimony in (c) the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Agomor of Manna was now put in the ark mentioned before. chap. 16."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew before it the veil to fulfill the commandment of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "He set the table also in the tabernacle of testimony at the north side without the veil,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "ordering the bread of proposition before it, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of testimony over against the table on the south side,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "He set also the altar of gold under the roof of testimony against the veil,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and burned upon it the incense of spices, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "He put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of testimony,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony, offering on it the holocaust, and the sacrifices, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "The laver also he set between the tabernacle of testimony and the altar, filling it with water."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "when they entered the roof of covenant, and went to the altar, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "He erected also the court, round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfited,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "the cloud covered the tabernacle of testimony, and the glory of our Lord filled it."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "(d) Neither could Moyses enter the roof of covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of our Lord shining, because the cloud had covered all things.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Without all doubt, saith S. Augustin. q. 173. in Exod. Moyses prefigured other persons when he entered into the cloud on mount Sinai, and others now when he could not enter into the tabernacle replenished with the glory of God. In Sinai he signified those that penetrate the profound mysteries of Christ, here the Jews who understand not the same."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "If at any time the cloud did leave the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "If it hung over, they remained in the same place."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "For the cloud of our Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions."
}
],
"summary": "According to God's commandment Moyses erecteth the Tabernacle, with all things appertaining, the first day of the second year after their delivery from Aegypt. 32. God replenisheth the same with his Majesty, a cloud remaining over it by day, and a pillar of fire by night, but when they shall march, the same passeth before them."
}
]
}