Numbers chapter 5 Star Chart: Clockwise from when
"any (Castor) man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, And a (Castor) man (red radius) lie with her (Pollux) carnally, and it be hid from the (lunar eyeballs) eyes of her (Castor) husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no (lunar eyeballs) witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner" (5:12-13) till "the (Milky Way) spirit of jealousy come upon him (Castor), and he be jealous of his wife (Pollux), and she be defiled: or if the (Milky Way) spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled" (5:14) is 360°, most likely a day. "Then shall the (Castor) man bring his (Pollux) wife unto the (Hercules) priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of (lunar) barley meal; he shall pour no (solar) oil upon it, nor put (solar) frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance" (5:15) is 150° minutes later. Etcetera. "And when he hath made her to drink the (lunar) water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her (Castor) husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her (lunar) belly shall swell, and her (lunar) thigh shall rot: and the (Pollux) woman shall be a curse among her (Gemini) people. And if the (Pollux) woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive (lunar pregnancy) seed" (5:27-28) is 210° minutes more. Numbers chapter 7-8 Star Chart: Clockwise from "when (Ophiuchus) Moses was gone into the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him (150°), then he (lunar ears) heard the (red radius) voice of one speaking unto him from off the (solar golden) mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony (210°), from between the two (lunar) cherubims: and he (red radius) spake unto him (360° seconds later). |
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Drinking A Conditional Curse to Prove You're Innocent
5:1 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
2 Command the (Gemini) children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every (star-dotted) leper, and every one that hath an (red radius bleeding, etc.) issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
3 Both male (Castor) and female (Pollux) shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
4 And the (Gemini) children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, so did the (Gemini) children of Israel.
5 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
6 Speak unto the (Gemini) children of Israel, When a (Castor) man or (Pollux) woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the (Shekinah) Lord, and that person be guilty;
7 Then they shall (red radius) confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof (20%), and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the (Shekinah) Lord, even to the priest; beside the (Aries) ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9 And every offering of all the holy things of the (Gemini) children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
12 Speak unto the (Gemini) children of Israel, and say unto them, If any (Castor) man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13 And a (Castor) man (red radius) lie with her (Pollux) carnally, and it be hid from the (lunar eyeballs) eyes of her (Castor) husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him (Castor), and he be jealous of his wife (Pollux), and she be defiled: or if the (Milky Way) spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15 Then shall the (Castor) man bring his (Pollux) wife unto the (Hercules) priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of (lunar) barley meal; he shall pour no (solar) oil upon it, nor put (solar) frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the (Shekinah) Lord:
17 And the priest shall take (lunar) holy water in an (solar) earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the (red radius) tabernacle the (Hercules) priest shall take, and put it into the (lunar) water:
18 And the (Hercules) priest shall set the (Pollux) woman before the (Shekinah) Lord, and uncover the (Pollux) woman's head, and put the (lunar) offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the (Hercules) priest shall have in his hand the (lunar) bitter water that causeth the curse:
19 And the (Hercules) priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the (Pollux) woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this (lunar) bitter water that causeth the curse:
20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy (Castor) husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee (Pollux) beside thine (Castor) husband:
21 Then the (Hercules) priest shall charge the (Pollux) woman with an oath of cursing, and the (Hercules) priest shall say unto the (Castor) woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy (Gemini) people, when the Lord doth make thy (lunar) thigh to rot, and thy (lunar) belly to swell;
22 And this (lunar) water that causeth the curse shall go into thy (lunar) bowels, to make thy (lunar) belly to swell, and thy (lunar) thigh to rot: And the (Pollux) woman shall say, Amen, amen.
23 And the (Hercules) priest shall (red radius) write these curses in a (lunar) book, and he shall blot them out with the (lunar) bitter water:
In 1 Corinthians 11:29, St. Paul seems to allude to the case of the guilty woman drinking the bitter cursed waters that caused her destruction: He who eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation (κριμα, condemnation or judgment) to himself; and there is probably a reference to the same thing in Psalm 109:18, and in Daniel 9:11.
The priest shall write these curses - and he shall blot them out - It appears that the curses which were written down with a kind of ink prepared for the purpose, as some of the rabbins think, without any calx of iron or other material that could make a permanent dye, were washed off the parchment into the water which the woman was obliged to drink, so that she drank the very words of the execration. The ink used in the East is almost all of this kind - a wet sponge will completely efface the finest of their writings.
The rabbins who have commented on this text give us the following information: When any man, prompted by the spirit of jealousy, suspected his wife to have committed adultery, he brought her first before the judges, and accused her of the crime; but as she asserted her innocency, and refused to acknowledge herself guilty, and as he had no witnesses to produce, he required that she should be sentenced to drink the waters of bitterness which the law had appointed; that God, by this means, might discover what she wished to conceal. After the judges had heard the accusation and the denial, the man and his wife were both sent to Jerusalem, to appear before the Sanhedrin, who were the sole judges in such matters. The rabbins say that the judges of the Sanhedrin, at first endeavored with threatenings to confound the woman, and cause her to confess her crime; when she still persisted in her innocence, she was led to the eastern gate of the court of Israel, where she was stripped of the clothes she wore, and dressed in black before a number of persons of her own sex. The priest then told her that if she knew herself to be innocent she had no evil to apprehend; but if she were guilty, she might expect to suffer all that the law threatened: to which she answered, Amen, amen.
The priest then wrote the words of the law upon a piece of vellum, with ink that had no vitriol in it, that it might be the more easily blotted out. The words written on the vellum were, according to the rabbins, the following: -
"If a strange man have not come near thee, and thou art not polluted by forsaking the bed of thy husband, these bitter waters which I have cursed will not hurt thee: but if thou have gone astray from thy husband, and have polluted thyself by coming near to another man, may thou be accursed of the Lord, and become an example for all his people; may thy thigh rot, and thy belly swell till it burst! may these cursed waters enter into thy belly, and, being swelled therewith, may thy thigh putrefy!"
After this the priest took a new pitcher, filled it with water out of the brazen bason that was near the altar of burnt-offering, cast some dust into it taken from the pavement of the temple, mingled something bitter, as wormwood, with it, and having read the curses above mentioned to the woman, and received her answer of Amen, he scraped off the curses from the vellum into the pitcher of water. During this time another priest tore her clothes as low as her bosom, made her head bare, untied the tresses of her hair, fastened her torn clothes with a girdle below her breasts, and presented her with the tenth part of an ephah, or about three pints of barley-meal, which was in a frying pan, without oil or incense.
The other priest, who had prepared the waters of jealousy, then gave them to be drank by the accused person, and as soon as she had swallowed them, he put the pan with the meal in it into her hand. This was waved before the Lord, and a part of it thrown into the fire of the altar. If the woman was innocent, she returned with her husband; and the waters, instead of incommoding her, made her more healthy and fruitful than ever: if on the contrary she were guilty, she was seen immediately to grow pale, her eyes started out of her head, and, lest the temple should be defiled with her death, she was carried out, and died instantly with all the ignominious circumstances related in the curses, which the rabbins say had the same effect on him with whom she had been criminal, though he were absent and at a distance. They add, however, that if the husband himself had been guilty with another woman, then the waters had no bad effect even on his criminal wife; as in that case the transgression on the one part was, in a certain sense, balanced by the transgression on the other.
24 And he shall cause the (Pollux) woman to drink the (lunar) bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
25 Then the (Hercules) priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the (Pollux) woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the (Shekinah) Lord, and offer it upon the (solar) altar:
26 And the (Hercules) priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and (solar) burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the (Pollux) woman to (lunar) drink the water.
27 And when he hath made her to drink the (lunar) water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her (Castor) husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her (lunar) belly shall swell, and her (lunar) thigh shall rot: and the (Pollux) woman shall be a curse among her (Gemini) people.
28 And if the (Pollux) woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29 This is the law of jealousies, when a (Pollux) wife goeth aside to another instead of her (Castor) husband, and is defiled;
30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his (Pollux) wife, and shall set the woman before the (Shekinah) Lord, and the (Hercules) priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31 Then shall the (Castor) man be guiltless from iniquity, and this (Pollux) woman shall bear her iniquity.
Jesus Was a Netser (or Branch) and a Nazarene
(from Nazareth), But Not a Nazarite
Since He Drank Wine and Touched the Dead
6:1 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the (Gemini) children of Israel, and (red radius) say unto them, When either (Castor) man or (Pollux) woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the (Shekinah) Lord:
3 He (Hercules) shall (red radius) separate himself from (lunar and solar) wine and strong drink, and shall drink no (lunar or solar) vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of (lunar or solar) grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
4 All the days of his (Hercules) (red radius) separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the (red radius) vine tree, from the (lunar or solar) kernels even to the husk.
Forbidden fruit was grapes (Book of Enoch 31:3-5).
5 All the days of the (red radius) vow of his (Hercules) (red radius) separation there shall no (red radius) razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he (Hercules) shall be (red radius) holy, and shall let the (red radius) locks of the hair of his (Hercules) head grow.
6 All the days that he (Hercules) (red radius) separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.
7 He shall not make himself unclean for his (Castor) father, or for his (Pollux) mother, for his (Castor) brother, or for his (Pollux) sister, when they die: because the (red radius) consecration of his God is upon his head.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.
When either man or woman shall separate, etc. - The word nazir, from nazar, to separate, signifies merely a separated person, i. e., one peculiarly devoted to the service of God by being separated from all servile employments. From the Nazarites sprang the Rechabites, from the Rechabites the Essenes, from the Essenes the Anchorites or Hermits, and in imitation of those, the different monastic orders. Some contend strongly that the Nazarite was a type of our Lord; but neither analogy nor proof can be produced. Our blessed Lord both drank wine and touched the dead, which no Nazarite would do: as to his either shaving his hair or letting it grow, we know nothing. His being called a Nazarene, Matthew 2:23, is nothing to the purpose, as it can mean no more than either that he was an inhabitant of Nazareth, which was a place of no credit, and therefore used as a term of reproach; or that he was in a general sense consecrated to the service of God - so were Samson, Samuel, Jeremiah, and John Baptist; or rather, that he was the netser or Branch, Isaiah 11:1, and tsemach, Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 6:12, which is quite a different word; but this title is expressly applied to our blessed Lord by the above prophets; but in no place do they or any other prophets call him a Nazarite, in the sense in which nazir is used. Indeed it could not in truth be applied to him, as the distinguishing marks of a Nazarite never belonged to him. He was, it is true, the netser or branch out of the root of Jesse, the genuine heir to the throne of David, whose dominion should extend over the universe, who should be King of kings, and Lord of Lords; but the word Ναζωραιος, Matthew 2:23, signifies merely a Nazoraean, or inhabitant of Nazareth.
No vinegar of wine, etc. - chomets signifies fermented wine, and is probably used here to signify wine of a strong body, or any highly intoxicating liquor. Dr. Lightfoot supposes that the Leper being the most defiled and loathsome of creatures, was an emblem of the wretched, miserable state of man by the fall; and that the Nazarite was the emblem of man in his state of innocence. Wine and grapes are here particularly forbidden to the Nazarite because, as the doctor thinks, being an emblem of man in his paradisiacal state, he was forbidden that tree and its fruits by eating of which Adam fell; for the doctor, as well as the Jewish rabbins, believed the tree of knowledge to have been none other than the vine. "the tree of knowledge ... bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine" (Book of Enoch 31:3-5).
Vinegar of strong drink - See the note on Leviticus 10:9.
There shall no razor come upon his head - The vow of the Nazarite consisted in the following particulars: -
1. He consecrated himself in a very especial and extraordinary manner to God.
2. This was to continue for a certain season, probably never less than a whole year, that he might have a full growth of hair to burn in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offering, Numbers 6:18.
3. During the time of his separation, or nazarate, he drank no wine nor strong drink; nor used any vinegar formed from any inebriating liquor, nor ate the flesh or dried grapes, nor tasted even the kernels or husks of any thing that had grown upon the vine.
4. He never shaved his head, but let his hair grow, as the proof of his being in this separated state, and under vows of peculiar austerity.
5. He never touched any dead body, nor did any of the last offices, even to his nearest kin; but was considered as the priests, who were wholly taken up with the service of God, and regarded nothing else.
6. All the days of his separation he was holy, Numbers 6:8.
During the whole time he was to be incessantly employed in religious acts.
The consecration of his God is upon his head - Literally, The separation of his God is upon his head; meaning his hair, which was the proof and emblem of his separation. Now as the hair of the Nazarite was a token of his subjection to God through all the peculiarities of his nazarate, a woman, who is married, is considered as a Nazarite for life, i. e., separated from all others, and joined to one husband who is her lord; hence St. Paul, probably alluding to this circumstance, says, 1 Corinthians 11:10 : The woman ought to have power upon her head, i.e., wear her hair and veil; for this hair is a proof of her nazarate, and of her being in subjection to her husband, as the Nazarite was under subjection to the Lord by the rule of his order.
9 And if any man (Perseus) die very suddenly by him (Hercules), and he hath defiled the (lunar) head of his consecration; then he shall (red radius) shave his (lunar) head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two (lunar white) turtles, or two (lunar white) young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation:
11 And the (Castor) priest shall offer the one for a (solar) sin offering, and the other for a (solar) burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his (lunar) head that same day.
12 And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his (red radius) separation, and shall bring a (lunar white) lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
13 And this is the law of the (Hercules) Nazarite, when the days of his (red radius) separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the (red radius) door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
14 And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one (lunar white) (Aries) he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one (lunar white) (Aries) ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one (lunar white) (Aries) ram without blemish for (solar) peace offerings,
15 And a (lunar) basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with (solar golden) oil, and (lunar) wafers of unleavened bread anointed with (solar golden) oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
16 And the priest shall bring them before the (Shekinah) Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his (solar) burnt offering:
17 And he shall offer the (Aries) ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the (Shekinah) Lord, with the (lunar) basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
18 And the (Hercules) Nazarite shall (red radius) shave the (lunar) head of his (red radius) separation at the door of the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the (red radius) hair of the (lunar) head of his (red radius) separation, and put it in the (solar) fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the (Aries) ram, and one (lunar) unleavened cake out of the (lunar) basket, and one (lunar) unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the (lunar) hands of the Nazarite, after the (red radius) hair of his (red radius) separation is (red radius) shaven:
20 And the (Castor) priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the (Shekinah) Lord: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
21 This is the law of the (Hercules) Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the (Shekinah) Lord for his (red radius) separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his (red radius) separation.
22 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto (Hercules) Aaron and unto his (Gemini) sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the (Cepheus Perseus) children of Israel, saying unto them,
24 The (Shekinah) Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The (Shekinah) Lord make his (solar Shekinah) face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The (Shekinah) Lord lift up his countenance upon thee (180°), and give thee peace.
27 And they shall put my name (Shaddai) upon the (Gemini) children of Israel, and I will bless them.
Offerings of the Princes For Dedicating the Altar
7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the (red radius) tabernacle, and had (solar golden oil) anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
2 That the (Cepheus & Perseus) princes of Israel, heads of the house of their (Gemini) fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
3 And they brought their offering before the (Shekinah) Lord, six (red radius) covered wagons, and twelve (Taurus) oxen; a wagon for two of the (Gemini) princes, and for each one an (Taurus) ox: and they brought them before the (red radius) tabernacle.
4 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the (Gemini) Levites, to every man according to his service.
6 And (Ophiuchus) Moses took the (red radius) wagons and the (Taurus) oxen, and gave them unto the (Gemini) Levites.
7 Two (red radius) wagons and four (Taurus) oxen he gave unto the (Gemini) sons of Gershon, according to their service:
8 And four (red radius) wagons and eight (Taurus) oxen he gave unto the (Gemini) sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of (Castor) Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9 But unto the (Gemini) sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
10 And the (Gemini) princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the (Gemini) princes offered their offering before the altar.
11 And the (Shekinah) Lord said unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, They shall offer their offering, each (Perseus) prince on his day, for the dedicating of the (solar) altar.
12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
13 And his offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar golden) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
14 One (red radius) spoon of ten shekels of (solar) gold, full of (red radius) incense:
15 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
16 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
18 On the second day (Perseus) Nethaneel the son of Zuar, (Cepheus) prince of Issachar, did offer:
19 He offered for his offering one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
20 One (red radius) spoon of (solar) gold of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
21 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
22 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of (Perseus) Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
24 On the third day (Perseus) Eliab the son of Helon, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Zebulun, did offer:
25 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
26 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
27 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
28 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
30 On the fourth day (Perseus) Elizur the son of Shedeur, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Reuben, did offer:
31 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
32 One (red radius) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
33 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
34 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
35 And for a (solar) sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
36 On the fifth day (Perseus) Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Simeon, did offer:
37 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
38 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
39 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
40 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
42 On the sixth day (Perseus) Eliasaph the son of Deuel, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Gad, offered:
43 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
44 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
45 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
46 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
48 On the seventh day (Perseus) Elishama the son of Ammihud, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Ephraim, offered:
49 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
50 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
51 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
52 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
53 And for a (solar) sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
54 On the eighth day offered (Perseus) Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Manasseh:
55 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
56 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
57 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
58 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
60 On the ninth day (Perseus) Abidan the son of Gideoni, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Benjamin, offered:
61 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
62 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
63 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
64 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
65 And for a (solar) sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Dan, offered:
67 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
68 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
69 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
70 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
72 On the eleventh day (Perseus) Pagiel the son of Ocran, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Asher, offered:
73 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
74 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
75 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
76 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
78 On the twelfth day (Perseus) Ahira the son of Enan, (Cepheus) prince of the (Gemini) children of Naphtali, offered:
79 His offering was one (lunar) silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one (lunar) silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine (lunar) flour mingled with (solar) oil for a meat (Meal) offering:
80 One (red radius) (solar) golden spoon of ten shekels, full of (red radius) incense:
81 One young (Taurus) bullock, one (Aries) ram, one (Aries) lamb of the first year, for a (solar) burnt offering:
82 One (Taurus) kid of the goats for a sin offering:
83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two (Taurus) oxen, five (Aries) rams, five (Taurus) he goats, five (Aries) lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the (Gemini) princes of Israel: twelve (lunar) chargers of silver, twelve (lunar) silver bowls, twelve (red radius) (solar) spoons of gold:
85 Each (lunar) charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each (lunar) bowl seventy: all the (lunar) silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
86 The (red radius) (solar) golden spoons were twelve, full of (red radius) incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the (solar) gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
87 All the (Taurus) oxen for the (solar) burnt offering were twelve (Taurus) bullocks, the (Aries) rams twelve, the (Aries) lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat (Meal) offering: and the (Taurus) kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
88 And all the (Taurus) oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the (Aries) rams sixty, the (Taurus) he goats sixty, the (Aries) lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
89 And when (Ophiuchus) Moses was gone into the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the (red radius) voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two (lunar) cherubims: and he (red radius) spake unto him.
8:1 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto (Hercules) Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the (lunar) lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the (red radius) candlestick.
3 And (Hercules) Aaron did so; he lighted the (lunar) lamps thereof over against the (red radius) candlestick, as the (Shekinah) Lord commanded (Ophiuchus) Moses.
4 And this work of the (red radius) candlestick was of (solar) beaten gold, unto the (red radius) shaft thereof, unto the (lunar crescent) flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the (Zodiac) pattern which the Lord had shewed (Ophiuchus) Moses, so he made the (red-radius) candlestick.
5 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
6 Take the (Gemini) Levites from among the (Cepheus, Perseus) children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: (Red Radius) Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them (red radius) shave all their flesh, and let them wash their (lunar) clothes (in the Eridanus), and so make themselves clean.
8 Then let them take a young (Taurus) bullock with his meat offering, even (lunar) fine flour mingled with (solar golden) oil, and another young (Taurus) bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.
9 And thou shalt bring the (Gemini) Levites before the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the (Gemini) children of Israel together:
10 And thou shalt bring the (Gemini) Levites before the (Shekinah) Lord: and the children of Israel shall put their (lunar) hands upon the (Gemini) Levites:
11 And (Hercules) Aaron shall offer the (Gemini) Levites before the (Shekinah) Lord for an offering of the (Cepheus, Perseus) children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the (Shekinah) Lord.
12 And the (Gemini) Levites shall lay their (lunar) hands upon the (lunar) heads of the (Taurus) bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a (solar) burnt offering, unto the (Shekinah) Lord, to make an atonement for the (Gemini) Levites.
13 And thou shalt set the (Gemini) Levites before (Hercules) Aaron, and before his (Cepheus, Perseus) sons, and offer them for an offering unto the (Shekinah) Lord.
14 Thus shalt thou separate the (Gemini) Levites from among the (Cepheus, Perseus) children of Israel: and the (Gemini) Levites shall be mine.
15 And after that shall the (Gemini) Levites go in to do the service of the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them (in the Eridanus), and offer them for an offering.
16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the (Gemini) children of Israel; instead of such as open every (red radius) womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the (Gemini) children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
17 For all the firstborn of the (Gemini) children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every (Perseus) firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the (Gemini) Levites for all the firstborn of the (Cepheus, Perseus) children of Israel.
19 And I have given the (Gemini) Levites as a gift to (Hercules) Aaron and to his (Cepheus, Perseus) sons from among the (Gemini) children of Israel, to do the service of the (Gemini) children of Israel in the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the (Gemini) children of Israel: that there be no plague among the (Gemini) children of Israel, when the (Gemini) children of Israel come nigh unto the (red radius) sanctuary.
20 And (Ophiuchus) Moses, and (Hercules) Aaron, and all the congregation of the (Cepheus, Perseus) children of Israel, did to the (Gemini) Levites according unto all that the (Shekinah) Lord commanded (Ophiuchus) Moses concerning the (Gemini) Levites, so did the (Cepheus, Perseus) children of Israel unto them.
21 And the (Gemini) Levites were purified, and they washed their (lunar) clothes (in the Eridanus); and (Hercules) Aaron offered them as an offering before the (Shekinah) Lord; and (Hercules) Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 And after that went the (Gemini) Levites in to do their service in the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation before (Hercules) Aaron, and before his (Gemini) sons: as the (Shekinah) Lord had commanded (Ophiuchus) Moses concerning the (Gemini) Levites, so did they unto them.
23 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
24 This is it that belongeth unto the (Gemini) Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation:
25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
26 But shall minister with their brethren in the (red radius) tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the (Gemini) Levites touching their charge.
A Second Passover
9:1 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year (1445 B.C.) after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the (Gemini) children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this (lunar) month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And (Ophiuchus) Moses (red radius) spake unto the (Gemini) children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at (sun on red radius line) even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the (Shekinah) Lord commanded (Ophiuchus) Moses, so did the (Gemini) children of Israel.
6 And there were certain (Gemini) men, who were defiled by the dead (Perseus) body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before (Ophiuchus) Moses and before (Hercules) Aaron on that day:
7 And those (Gemini) men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a (Perseus) man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the (Shekinah) Lord in his appointed season among the (Gemini) children of Israel?
8 And (Ophiuchus) Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the (Shekinah) Lord will (red radius) command concerning you.
9 And the (Shekinah) Lord spake unto (Ophiuchus) Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the (Gemini) children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a (Perseus) dead body, or be in a (red radius) journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the (Shekinah) Lord.
11 The fourteenth day of the second month at (sun on red radius horizon) even they shall keep it, and eat it with (lunar) unleavened bread and (green Milky Way) bitter herbs.
12 They shall leave none of it unto the (sun on red radius horizon) morning, nor (red radius) break any (lunar) bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be (red radius) cut off from among his (Gemini) people: because he brought not the (Aries) offering of the (Shekinah) Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a (Perseus) stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the (Shekinah) Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the (Perseus) stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
15 And on the day that the (red radius) tabernacle was reared up the (Milky Way) cloud covered the (red radius) tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at (sun on red radius horizon) even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of (solar) fire, until the (sun on red radius horizon) morning.
16 So it was alway: the (Milky Way) cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of (solar) fire by night.
17 And when the (Milky Way) cloud was taken up from the (red radius) tabernacle, then after that the (Gemini) children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the (Milky Way) cloud abode, there the (Gemini) children of Israel pitched their (red radius) tents.
18 At the (red radius) commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord the (Gemini) children of Israel journeyed, and at the (red radius) commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord they pitched: as long as the (Milky Way) cloud abode upon the (red radius) tabernacle they rested in their (red radius) tents.
19 And when the (Milky Way) cloud tarried long upon the (red radius) tabernacle many days, then the (Gemini) children of Israel kept the charge of the (Shekinah) Lord, and journeyed not.
20 And so it was, when the (Milky Way) cloud was a few days upon the (red radius) tabernacle; according to the (red radius) commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord they abode in their (red radius) tents, and according to the commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord they (red radius) journeyed.
21 And so it was, when the (Milky Way) cloud abode from (sun on red radius horizon) even unto the (sun on red radius horizon) morning, and that the (Milky Way) cloud was taken up in the (sun on red radius horizon) morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the (Milky Way) cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the (Milky Way) cloud tarried upon the (red radius) tabernacle, remaining thereon, the (Gemini) children of Israel abode in their (red radius) tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they (red radius) journeyed.
23 At the (red radius) commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord they rested in the (red radius) tents, and at the (red radius) commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord they (red radius) journeyed: they kept the charge of the (Shekinah) Lord, at the (red radius) commandment of the (Shekinah) Lord by the hand of (Castor) Moses.