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and seide, Also thou schalt make a greet vessil of bras with his foundement to waische, and thou schalt sette it bitwixe the tabernacle of witnessyng and the auter `of brent sacrifices; and whanne watir is put therynne,

lest perauenture thei dien; it schal be a lawful thing euerlastinge to hym and to his seed bi successiouns.

What euer man makith sich oile, and yyueth therof to an alien, he schal be `destried fro his puple.

What euer man makith a lijk thing, that he vse the odour therof, he schal perische fro his puple.

and of brent sacrifice, and alle the vessels of hem; the greet `waischyng vessel with his foundement;

Kepe ye my sabat, for it is hooli to you; he that defoulith it, schal die bi deeth, the soule of hym, that doith werk in the sabat, schal perische fro the myddis of his puple.

Forsothe Moises preiede `his Lord God, and seide, Lord, whi is thi veniaunce wrooth ayens thi puple, whom thou leddist out of the lond of Egipt in greet strengthe and in stronge hond?

And the Lord was plesid, that he dide not the yuel which he spak ayens his puple.

And Moises turnede ayen fro the hil, and bar in his hond twei tablis of witnessyng, writun in euer either side,

To whiche he seide, The Lord God of Israel seith these thingis, A man putte swerd on his hipe, go ye, and `go ye ayen fro yate `til to yate bi the myddil of the castels, and ech man sle his brother, freend, and neiybore.

And Moises seide, Ye han halewid youre hondis to dai to the Lord, ech man in his sone, and brother, that blessyng be youun to you.

The puple herde this worste word, and morenyde, and noon was clothid with his ournyng bi custom.

And whanne Moises yede out to the tabernacle, al the puple roos, and ech man stood in the dore of his tente, and thei bihelden `the bak of Moises, til he entride in to the tente.

Forsothe the Lord spak to Moises face to face, as a man is wont to speke to his freend; and whanne he turnede ayen in to `the castels, Josue, his mynystre, the sone of Nun, a child, yede not awey fro the tabernacle.

`nyl thou worschipe an alien God; `the Lord a gelous louyere is his name, God is a feruent louyere;

Thou schalt offre in the hows of thi Lord God the firste of the fruytis of thi lond. Thou schalt not sethe a kide in the mylk of his modir.

And whanne Moises cam doun fro the hil of Synai, he helde twei tablis of witnessyng, and he wiste not that his face was horned of the felouschipe of Goddis word.

And whanne the wordis weren fillid, he puttide a veil on his face;

whiche sien that the face of Moyses goynge out was horned, but eft he hilide his face, if ony tyme he spak to hem.

the auter of brent sacrifice, and his brasun gridele, with hise barris, and vessels; the `greet waischyng vessel, and `his foundement;