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"The holy garments of Aharon shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

Seven days shall the son who is Kohen in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.

"Thus shall you do to Aharon, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them.

I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: Aharon also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the Kohen's office.

"When you take a census of the children of Yisra'el, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

Aharon and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

You shall anoint Aharon and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the Kohen's office.

Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."

the finely worked garments -- the holy garments for Aharon the Kohen -- the garments of his sons to minister in the Kohen's office,

You shall keep the Shabbat therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Moshe begged the LORD his God, and said, "The LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Mitzrayim with great power and with a mighty hand?

The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

Moshe 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.

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

He said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, '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."

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

When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.