¹ Ir Viešpats kalbėjo Mozei:

² “Pirmo mėnesio pirmą dieną ištiesk Susitikimo palapinę,

³ pastatyk joje skrynią, pakabink prieš ją uždangą,

⁴ įnešk stalą ir padėk ant jo tai, kas turi ant jo būti. Įnešk žvakidę ir sustatyk ant jos lempas.

⁵ Auksinį smilkymo aukurą padėk priešais Liudijimo skrynią. Palapinės įėjime pakabink užuolaidą.

⁶ Pastatyk deginamųjų aukų aukurą priešais įėjimą į Susitikimo palapinę,

⁷ o tarp aukuro ir palapinės­ praustuvę, į kurią pripilk vandens.

⁸ Atskirk kiemą užkabomis ir pakabink užkabą įėjime.

⁹ Paėmęs patepimo aliejaus, patepk palapinę ir visus jos daiktus, ir tai bus šventa;

¹⁰ taip pat deginamųjų aukų aukurą, visus jo reikmenis

¹¹ ir praustuvę su jos stovu.

¹² Aaroną ir jo sūnus privesk prie Susitikimo palapinės įėjimo, apiplauk vandeniu

¹³ ir apvilk Aaroną šventais rūbais man tarnauti: patepk ir pašventink jį, kad jis galėtų būti man kunigu.

¹⁴ Taip pat ir jo sūnus privesk ir apvilk jupomis,

¹⁵ ir juos patepk, kaip jų tėvą patepei, kad galėtų būti man kunigais. Tas patepimas jiems bus amžinai kunigystei per kartų kartas”.

¹⁶ Mozė padarė visa, ką Viešpats įsakė.

¹⁷ Taigi antrųjų metų pirmojo mėnesio pirmą dieną palapinė buvo pastatyta.

¹⁸ Mozė pastatė ją: sustatė lentas, padėjo pakojus, įkišo užkaiščius, pastatė stulpus,

¹⁹ užtiesė palapinės uždangalą ir ant jo uždėjo kitus uždangalus, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

²⁰ Į skrynią įdėjo liudijimą, įkišo kartis ir uždėjo dangtį.

²¹ Kai įnešė skrynią palapinėn, prieš ją pakabino uždangą, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

²² Pastatė ir stalą Susitikimo palapinės šiauriniame šone šiapus uždangos

²³ ir ant jo sudėjo padėtinės duonos kepalus, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

²⁴ Susitikimo palapinėje priešais stalą pastatė žvakidę

²⁵ ir paruošė lempas, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

²⁶ Prieš uždangą pastatė ir auksinį aukurą,

²⁷ ant kurio degino kvapnius smilkalus, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

²⁸ Susitikimo palapinės įėjime pakabino užuolaidą,

²⁹ pastatė deginamųjų aukų aukurą priešais Susitikimo palapinę ir ant to aukuro aukojo deginamąją ir duonos auką, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

³⁰ Tarp Susitikimo palapinės ir aukuro pastatė praustuvę ir į ją pripylė vandens.

³¹ Mozė, Aaronas ir jo sūnūs plaudavosi joje rankas ir kojas,

³² prieš eidami į Susitikimo palapinę ir prieš artindamiesi prie aukuro, kaip Viešpats įsakė Mozei.

³³ Aplink palapinę ir aukurą atitvėrė kiemą ir jo įėjime pakabino užkabą. Taip Mozė užbaigė visus darbus.

³⁴ Kai visa buvo baigta, debesis apgaubė Susitikimo palapinę ir Viešpaties šlovė pripildė ją.

³⁵ Mozė negalėjo įeiti Susitikimo palapinėn, nes debesis buvo ant jos ir Viešpaties šlovė buvo ją pripildžiusi.

³⁶ Debesiui pakilus nuo palapinės, izraelitai keliaudavo toliau;

³⁷ jei debesis būdavo virš palapinės, jie pasilikdavo toje pačioje vietoje, kol debesis pakildavo.

³⁸ Viešpaties debesis buvo virš palapinės dienos metu, o naktį virš jos buvo liepsna visų Izraelio vaikų akivaizdoje per visą kelionės laiką.

¹ When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

² Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

³ All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

⁴ He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

⁵ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

⁶ They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

⁹ Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

¹⁰ Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

¹¹ Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

¹² Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

¹⁴ Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

¹⁵ Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

¹⁷ When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

¹⁸ He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."

¹⁹ It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

²⁰ He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

²¹ Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

²² Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

²³ For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

²⁴ I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

²⁵ When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

²⁶ then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

²⁷ He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

²⁸ The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

²⁹ Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

³⁰ It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

³¹ Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

³² Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

³³ Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

³⁴ Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

³⁵ Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.