HOLY BIBLE: Exodus 30 (original) (raw)

1 καὶ ποιήσεις θυσιαστήριον θυμιάματος ἐκ ξύλων ἀσήπτων καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτὸ 2 πήχεος τὸ μῆκος καὶ πήχεος τὸ εὖρος τετράγωνον ἔσται καὶ δύο πήχεων τὸ ὕψος ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἔσται τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ 3 καὶ καταχρυσώσεις αὐτὰ χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ τὴν ἐσχάραν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς τοίχους αὐτοῦ κύκλῳ καὶ τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτῷ στρεπτὴν στεφάνην χρυσῆν κύκλῳ 4 καὶ δύο δακτυλίους χρυσοῦς καθαροὺς ποιήσεις ὑπὸ τὴν στρεπτὴν στεφάνην αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ δύο κλίτη ποιήσεις ἐν τοῖς δυσὶ πλευροῖς καὶ ἔσονται ψαλίδες ταῖς σκυτάλαις ὥστε αἴρειν αὐτὸ ἐν αὐταῖς 5 καὶ ποιήσεις σκυτάλας ἐκ ξύλων ἀσήπτων καὶ καταχρυσώσεις αὐτὰς χρυσίῳ 6 καὶ θήσεις αὐτὸ ἀπέναντι τοῦ καταπετάσματος τοῦ ὄντος ἐπὶ τῆς κιβωτοῦ τῶν μαρτυρίων ἐν οἷς γνωσθήσομαί σοι ἐκεῖθεν 7 καὶ θυμιάσει ἐ{P'} αὐτοῦ Ααρων θυμίαμα σύνθετον λεπτόν τὸ πρωὶ πρωί ὅταν ἐπισκευάζῃ τοὺς λύχνους θυμιάσει ἐ{P'} αὐτοῦ 8 καὶ ὅταν ἐξάπτῃ Ααρων τοὺς λύχνους ὀψέ θυμιάσει ἐ{P'} αὐτοῦ θυμίαμα ἐνδελεχισμοῦ διὰ παντὸς ἔναντι κυρίου εἰς γενεὰς αὐτῶν 9 καὶ οὐκ ἀνοίσεις ἐ{P'} αὐτοῦ θυμίαμα ἕτερον κάρπωμα θυσίαν καὶ σπονδὴν οὐ σπείσεις ἐ{P'} αὐτοῦ 10 καὶ ἐξιλάσεται ἐ{P'} αὐτὸ Ααρων ἐπὶ τῶν κεράτων αὐτοῦ ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τοῦ ἐξιλασμοῦ ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ καθαριεῖ αὐτὸ εἰς τὰς γενεὰς αὐτῶν ἅγιον τῶν ἁγίων ἐστὶν κυρίῳ

1 For burning incense, thou shalt make an altar of acacia wood, 2 a cubit square in surface, and two cubits high; it must have horns going out of it. 3 The whole must be covered with pure gold, the grate and the walls around it and the horns too. It is to have a rim of gold about it, 4 and close under the rim two gold rings on either side, with poles in them, so that the altar can be carried; 5 these poles, too, must be of acacia wood, gilded over. 6 Its position is to be facing the veil that hides the ark and its records, facing, too, the throne that overshadows them, my trysting-place with thee. 7 Aaron, when he trims the lamps each morning, shall burn fragrant incense on it, 8 and again when he lights them at evening he shall burn incense in the Lord’s presence; a custom you are to preserve age after age. 9 You are to offer no incense there but what is of my own prescription; there is to be no sacrifice, no victim, no pouring of libations. 10 Once a year Aaron shall make intercession at the horns of it, with the blood that is offered in atonement for sin, winning pardon for you there, age after age; it shall be all holiness in the Lord’s honour.

1 Facies quoque altare ad adolendum thymiama, de lignis setim, 2 habens cubitum longitudinis, et alterum latitudinis, id est, quadrangulum, et duos cubitos in altitudine. Cornua ex ipso procedent. 3 Vestiesque illud auro purissimo, tam craticulam ejus, quam parietes per circuitum, et cornua. Faciesque ei coronam aureolam per gyrum, 4 et duos annulos aureos sub corona per singula latera, ut mittantur in eos vectes, et altare portetur. 5 Ipsos quoque vectes facies de lignis setim, et inaurabis. 6 Ponesque altare contra velum, quod ante arcum pendet testimonii coram propitiatorio quo tegitur testimonium, ubi loquar tibi. 7 Et adolebit incensum super eo Aaron, suave fragrans, mane. Quando componet lucernas, incendet illud: 8 et quando collocabit eas ad vesperum, uret thymiama sempiternum coram Domino in generationes vestras. 9 Non offeretis super eo thymiama compositionis alterius, nec oblationem, et victimam, nec libabitis libamina. 10 Et deprecabitur Aaron super cornua ejus semel per annum, in sanguine quod oblatum est pro peccato, et placabit super eo in generationibus vestris. Sanctum sanctorum erit Domino.

22 καὶ ἐλάλησεν κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων 23 καὶ σὺ λαβὲ ἡδύσματα τὸ ἄνθος σμύρνης ἐκλεκτῆς πεντακοσίους σίκλους καὶ κινναμώμου εὐώδους τὸ ἥμισυ τούτου διακοσίους πεντήκοντα καὶ καλάμου εὐώδους διακοσίους πεντήκοντα 24 καὶ ἴρεως πεντακοσίους σίκλους τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ ἔλαιον ἐξ ἐλαίων ιν 25 καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτὸ ἔλαιον χρῖσμα ἅγιον μύρον μυρεψικὸν τέχνῃ μυρεψοῦ ἔλαιον χρῖσμα ἅγιον ἔσται 26 καὶ χρίσεις ἐξ αὐτοῦ τὴν σκηνὴν τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ μαρτυρίου 27 καὶ τὴν λυχνίαν καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη αὐτῆς καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τοῦ θυμιάματος 28 καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τῶν ὁλοκαυτωμάτων καὶ πάντα αὐτοῦ τὰ σκεύη καὶ τὴν τράπεζαν καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη αὐτῆς καὶ τὸν λουτῆρα καὶ τὴν βάσιν αὐτοῦ 29 καὶ ἁγιάσεις αὐτά καὶ ἔσται ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων πᾶς ὁ ἁπτόμενος αὐτῶν ἁγιασθήσεται 30 καὶ Ααρων καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ χρίσεις καὶ ἁγιάσεις αὐτοὺς ἱερατεύειν μοι

22 This, too, was the Lord’s word to Moses: 23 Provide thyself with spices, a stone of the best and choicest[2] myrrh, and half a stone of cinnamon, and half a stone of scented cane, 24 a stone, too, of cassia, all reckoned by sanctuary weights; and with these, three quarts of olive oil. 25 And so make the holy oil to be used for anointing, an ointment mixed with all the perfumer’s art. 26 This thou must use to anoint the tabernacle that bears record of me, and the ark where that record lies; 27 the table with its appurtenances, the lamp-stand with its appurtenances, the altar used for incense, 28 and that used for burnt-sacrifice, and all the instruments belonging to them.[3] 29 All these thou shalt sanctify, and they shall be all holiness; whoever touches them shall become holy thereby. 30 Aaron himself and his sons thou shalt anoint and hallow, before they can minister as my priests.

22 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, 23 dicens: Sume tibi aromata, primæ myrrhæ et electæ quingentos siclos, et cinnamomi medium, id est, ducentos quinquaginta siclos, calami similiter ducentos quinquaginta, 24 casiæ autem quingentos siclos, in pondere sanctuarii, olei de olivetis mensuram hin: 25 faciesque unctionis oleum sanctum, unguentum compositum opere unguentarii, 26 et unges ex eo tabernaculum testimonii, et arcam testamenti, 27 mensamque cum vasis suis, et candelabrum, et utensilia ejus, altaria thymiamatis, 28 et holocausti, et universam supellectilem quæ ad cultum eorum pertinet. 29 Sanctificabisque omnia, et erunt Sancta sanctorum; qui tetigerit ea, sanctificabitur. 30 Aaron et filios ejus unges, sanctificabisque eos, ut sacerdotio fungantur mihi.

[1] Cf. II Kg. 24.

[2] The word used in the Hebrew text seems to mean ‘liquid’, although the reckoning is made by weight. The figures here only correspond roughly with those in the original, which are besides uncertain; some think that the weight was twice that here indicated.

[3] The Hebrew text adds at the end, ‘and the basin and its stand’.

[4] This appears to be the sense of the Latin; the Hebrew text is more naturally interpreted as meaning ‘The man who either makes oil like this, or gives away this oil to a stranger’. The stranger, in that case, would be anyone not of the priestly family, as in 29.33 above.

Knox Translation Copyright © 2013 Westminster Diocese
Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
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