The Tent of Meeting and the Festivals

1 Moses hurried and did all that God commanded him; he came down and made the tablets and the tabernacle and its vessels, the ark, the lamps, the table, the altar of burnt offerings, the altar of incense, the shoulder-piece, the breastplate, the precious stones, the basin and its bases, and all the things shown to him. He arranged all the vestments of the priests, the sashes and the rest, the turban, the golden plate, and the holy crown; he also made the anointing oil for the priests, and he consecrated the priests themselves. And when everything was finished, the cloud covered all of it. 2 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and God spoke to him from the tabernacle, saying, “This is the law of the altar, by which you shall sacrifice to me and pray for your souls. As for what you shall offer me, offer of the cattle the calf, the sheep, and the female goat; and of birds, the turtledove and the dove. 3 “If there is leprosy in your land and the leper is cleansed, let them take for the Lord two live young birds, and cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet; and he shall come to the priest, who shall kill one and keep the other. And he shall deal with the leper according to all that I have commanded in my law. 4 “When the times come around to you, you shall make me holy with a feast day and rejoice before me at the feast of unleavened bread, and set bread before me, keeping a feast of remembrance, because on that day you came out of the land of Egypt. 5 “At the feast of weeks you shall set bread before me and make me an offering for your fruits. 6 “But the feast of trumpets shall be an offering for your watchers, because on it I watched over my creation, so that you may be mindful of the whole world. At the beginning of the year, when you present them to me, I will take account of the number of the dead and of those who are born, and of the fast of mercy. For you shall fast to me for your souls, so that the promises of your fathers may be fulfilled. 7 “Also bring me the feast of tabernacles. You shall take for me the pleasant fruit of the tree and boughs of palm and willows and cedars and branches of myrrh; and I will remember the whole earth with rain, and the measure of the seasons will be established, and I will set the stars in order and command the clouds, and the winds will sound and the lightnings run abroad, and there will be a storm of thunder, and this will be a perpetual sign. The nights also will yield dew, as I said after the flood of the earth.” 8 When he gave him commandment concerning the year of the life of Noah, he said to him, “These are the years that I ordained after the weeks in which I visited the city of men, when I showed them the place of birth and said, ‘This is the place of which I taught the first man, saying, “If you do not transgress what I commanded you, all things will be subject to you.”’ But he transgressed my ways and was persuaded by his wife, and she was deceived by the serpent. And then death was ordained for the generations of men.”⁠a 9 And the Lord showed him the ways of paradise and said to him, “These are the ways that men have lost by not walking in them, because they sinned against me.” 10 The Lord commanded him concerning the salvation of the souls of the people and said, “If they walk in my ways, I will not forsake them, but will always be merciful to them, and will bless their offspring; and the earth will hurry to yield its fruit, and there will be rain for them to increase their harvests, and the earth will not be barren. Yet I know that they will corrupt their ways, and I will forsake them, and they will forget the covenants I made with their fathers. Yet I will not forget them forever; for in the last days they will know that because of their sins their offspring was forsaken, for I am faithful in my ways.”