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they have worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said: 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.' And now let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot and I may consume them, and I will make of you a great nation and mightier than this one. When he had said these things to him, and he had prayed for them and made atonement, he thus went down. And when Joshua heard the voice of the people as they shouted, he says to Moses: 'The sound of war is in the camp.' And Moses says: 'It is not the sound of them that shout for mastery, nor the sound of them that cry for being overcome, but the sound of them that sing because of wine that I hear.' And when he came near the camp by the calf and the dances, Moses waxed hot with anger and he cast the two tablets out of his hands 157 and broke them beneath the mount, and he took the calf and burned it in the fire and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the Israelites drink of it. There indeed, moved with the anger and zeal of God against the ungodly, and having propitiated the divine by civil war in the purging of the leaders of the madness, he fasts for another forty days, just as before, needing none of the food customary to nature, but living in another, altered way, and he receives tablets, fashioned by his own, Moses', hands, but written by divine power. Then he also saw the glory of the Lord, seated by the cleft of the rock. And his face was glorified, so that Aaron and the sons of Israel were not able to gaze steadfastly upon his face when he came down from the mountain. But he himself did not know that the appearance of his face had been glorified until he spoke to them and saw that they were afraid to come near him. And after he spoke to them all that the Lord had commanded him, he put a veil on his face. But whenever he went in before the Lord, the veil was taken away. Then he set up the tabernacle, having delivered the laws and the divine priesthood according to the divine instruction, God having filled Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding and knowledge to be the master builder of all things, to work the gold and the silver and the bronze, and to cut the stone and every kind of wood, along with Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. Josephus affirms that this Bezalel was the son of Mary, the sister of Moses, and of Hur, who along with Aaron held up the hands of Moses against Amalek. And the account is plausible. Others say that Uzziel was the husband of Mary, without being able to show from where. And Josephus says that in seven months all the works of the tabernacle were completed, and on the first day of the first month of the second year of the exodus it was set up. And this the scripture of Exodus also testifies, having its end in these things. The things in the third Mosaic book, called Leviticus, concerning both those who offer and the sacrifices offered by the people and the priests, and concerning the atonement for sins and the entrance of the priests and their exit into the holy places, and the anointing 158 of Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu and their appointment, who also were destroyed on that very account after many days, offering man-made fire on the altars, which was forbidden, since fire from heaven always consumed the sacrifices, from which also they were to burn incense, and the things concerning the dedication of the tabernacle and of the holy things, and the remaining moral laws and punishments for those who transgress, and which of the four-footed animals and birds and swimming creatures are for food, and concerning the one who was stoned for the blasphemy, the son of the Israelite woman and the Egyptian man, in the fight against the Hebrew, and concerning the need not to utter the divine name at all without reason, during this second year of the exodus from Egypt were both done and ordained. In the same second year, on the first of the second month, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, as the fourth Mosaic book of Numbers says, to number the people from twenty years old and upward, and there were found 60 myriads and 3550, apart from the Levites. for these were appointed by God's command to minister to Aaron and to keep the

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προσκεκυνήκασιν αὐτῷ καὶ τεθύ κασιν αὐτῷ, καὶ εἶπαν· οὗτοι οἱ θεοί σου, Ἰσραήλ, οἵτινες ἀνεβίβασάν σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου. καὶ νῦν ἔασόν με, καὶ θυμωθεὶς ὀργῇ ἐκτρίψω αὐτούς, καὶ ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα καὶ ἰσχυρότερον ἢ τοῦτο. ταῦτα πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰπόντος, αὐτοῦ τε δεηθέντος ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐξιλασαμένου οὕτω κατῄει. Ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰησοῦς τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ λαοῦ κραζόντων λέγει πρὸς Μωυσῆν· φωνὴ πολέμου ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ. καὶ λέγει Μωυσῆς· οὐκ ἔστι φωνὴ ἐξαρ χόντων κατ' ἰσχὺν οὐδὲ φωνὴ ἐξαρχόντων τροπῆς, ἀλλὰ φωνὴν ἐξαρχόν των οἴνου ἀκούω ἐγώ. ἡνίκα δὲ ἤγγισε τῇ παρεμβολῇ παρὰ τὸν μόσχον καὶ τοὺς χορούς, ὀργισθεὶς θυμῷ Μωυσῆς ἔρριψεν ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ 157 τὰς δύο πλάκας καὶ συνέτριψεν αὐτὰς ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος, καὶ λαβὼν τὸν μόσχον κατέκαυσεν αὐτὸν ἐν πυρὶ καὶ κατήλεσεν αὐτὸν λεπτόν, καὶ ἔσπειρεν αὐ τὸ ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ ἐπότισεν αὐτὸ τοῖς Ἰσραηλίταις. Ἔνθα δὴ θυμῷ καὶ ζήλῳ θεοῦ κατὰ τῶν ἀσεβῶν κινηθεὶς καὶ ἐμφυλίῳ πολέμῳ τὸ θεῖον ἱλεωσάμενος τῇ καθάρσει τῶν ἡγησαμένων τῆς μανίας, ἄλλην ἡμερῶν τεσσαρακοντάδα νηστεύει, καθὰ καὶ τὸ πρότερον, μηδενὸς προσδεηθεὶς τῶν συνήθων τῇ φύσει βρώματος, ἀλλ' ἄλλῳ τρόπῳ βιοτεύων ἐξηλλαγμένῳ, πλάκας τε λαμβάνει, χερσὶν αὐτοῦ Μωυσέως εἰργασμένας, θείᾳ δὲ δυνάμει γεγραμμένας. τότε εἶδε καὶ τὴν δόξαν κυρίου παρὰ τὴν τῆς πέτρας ὀπὴν καθίσας. Καὶ ἐδοξάσθη τῷ προσώπῳ, ὡς μὴ δύνασθαι ἀτενίζειν τῷ προσώπῳ αὐτοῦ κατελθόντος ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους τόν τε Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραήλ. αὐτὸς δὲ ἠγνόει ὅτι δεδόξασται ἡ ὄψις αὐτοῦ ἕως τοῦ λαλῆσαι αὐτοῖς καὶ ἰδεῖν ὅτι ἐφοβοῦντο ἐγγίσαι αὐτῷ. μετὰ δὲ τὸ λαλῆσαι αὐτοῖς ὅσα ἐνετεί λατο κύριος αὐτῷ, ἐπέθηκε κάλυμμα ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ. ἡνίκα δ' ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο ἔναντι κυρίου περιῃρεῖτο τὸ κάλυμμα. Τότε τὴν σκηνὴν ἐπήξατο παραδοὺς τὰ νομικὰ καὶ τὴν θείαν ἱερωσύνην κατὰ τὴν θείαν ὑφήγησιν, ἐμπλήσαντος τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν Βεσελεὴλ τὸν τοῦ Οὐρῆ τὸν τοῦ Ὢρ ἐκ φυλῆς Ἰούδα πνεῦμα θεῖον σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως καὶἐπιστήμης ἀρχιτεκτονεῖν πάντων, ποιεῖν τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τὸν χαλκὸν καὶ λιθουργεῖν τὸν λίθον καὶ πᾶν ξύλον σὺν τῷ Ἐλιὰβ τῷ τοῦ Ἀχισαμὲχ ἐκ φυλῆς ∆άν. Τοῦτον τὸν Βεσελεὴλ Ἰώσηππος υἱὸν εἶναι Μαρίας τῆς ἀδελφῆς Μωυ σέως διαβεβαιοῦται καὶ τοῦ Ὤρ, ὃς σὺν τῷ Ἀαρὼν ἀνεῖχε τὰς χεῖρας Μωυσέως κατὰ τοῦ Ἀμαλήκ. καὶ πιθανὸς ὁ λόγος. ἄλλοι τὸν Ὀζιήλ φασινεἶναι ἄνδρα Μαρίας, οὐκ ἔχοντες δεῖξαι πόθεν. φησὶ δὲ Ἰώσηππος ὅτι ἐν ἑπτὰ μησὶν ἐτελειώθη πάντα τὰ ἔργα τῆς σκηνῆς καὶ τῇ πρώτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ πρώτου μηνὸς τοῦ δευτέρου ἔτους τῆς ἐξόδου ἔστη. τοῦτο δὲ καὶ ἡ γραφὴ τῆς Ἐξόδου μαρτυρεῖ πέρας ἐν τούτοις ἔχουσα. Τὰ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ Μωυσαϊκῇ βίβλῳ τοῦ λεγομένου Λευιτικοῦ περί τε προσ αγόντων καὶ προσαγομένων θυσιῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τῶν ἱερέων περί τε ἱλασμοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ εἰσόδου τῶν ἱερέων καὶ ἐξόδου εἰς τὰ ἅγια, χρίσεώς 158 τε Ἀαρὼν καὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ Ναβὰδ καὶ Ἀβιοὺδ καὶ προχειρισμοῦ αὐτῶν, οἳ καὶ διεφθάρησαν κατ' αὐτὸ μετὰ πολλὰς ἡμέρας πῦρ χειρόηθες τοῖς θυσιαστηρίοις προσφέροντες, ὅπερ προαπηγόρευτο, πυρὸς οὐρανίου τὰς θυσίας καταναλίσκοντος ἀεί, ἐξ οὗ καὶ θυμιᾶν ἐχρῆν, τά τε περὶ τὸν ἐγκαινισμὸν τῆς σκηνῆς καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ λοιπῶν ἠθικῶν νομίμων καὶ κολάσεων τοῖς παραβαίνουσιν, ὅσα τε τῶν τετραπόδων καὶ πετεινῶν καὶ νηκτῶν βρώσιμα, καὶ περὶ τοῦ λιθοβοληθέντος διὰ τὴν βλασφημίαν υἱοῦ τῆς Ἰσραηλίτιδος καὶ τοῦ Αἰγυπτίου ἐν τῇ πρὸς τὸν Ἑβραῖον μάχῃ, καὶ περὶ τοῦ μὴ δεῖν ὅλως προσφέρειν ἀλόγως τὸ θεῖον ὄνομα, κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ δεύτερον ἔτος τῆς ἐξόδου Αἰγύπτου πέπρακταί τε καὶ διατετύπωται. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει μιᾷ τοῦ μηνὸς τοῦ δευτέρου ἐλάλησε κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ Σινᾷ, ὥς φησιν ἡ τετάρτη Μωυσαϊκὴ βίβλος τῶν Ἀριθμῶν, ἐξαριθμῆσαι τὸν λαὸν ἀπὸ εἰκοσαέτους καὶ ἐπάνω, καὶ εὑρέθησαν μυριάδες ξʹ καὶ γφνʹ χωρὶς τῶν Λευιτῶν. οὗτοι γὰρ ταχθέντες προστάγματι θεοῦ λειτουργεῖν τῷ Ἀαρὼν καὶ φυλάσσειν τὰς