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On the forty-seventh day, Exodus 32 recounts the tragic sin of the golden calf, followed by Moses' intercession on behalf of the people. Leviticus 23 describes the sacred festivals of the Israelite calendar, which celebrate God's faithfulness and provision. Psalm 80 expresses Israel's cry for spiritual restoration. These readings remind us of the need for repentance and God's invitation to renew the covenant.

1. And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

2. And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

3. And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

4. And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

5. And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying: To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.

6. And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat, and drink, and they rose up to play.

7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

8. They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

9. And again the Lord said to Moses: See that this people is stiffnecked:

10. Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

11. But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation kindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?

12. Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.

13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to you seed, and you shall possess it for ever.

14. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

15. And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,

16. And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables.

17. And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.

18. But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight, nor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of singers.

19. And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:

20. And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which he strowed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.

21. And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?

22. And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.

23. They said to me: Make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him.

24. And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and brought it to me: and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.

25. And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies,)

26. Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on the Lord's side let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him:

27. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour.

28. And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.

29. And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you.

30. And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.

31. And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

32. Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

33. And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:

34. But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.

35. The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

3. Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.

4. These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their seasons.

5. The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord:

6. And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.

7. The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall do no servile work therein:

8. But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. And the seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do no servile work therein.

9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

10. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest:

11. Who shall lift up the shed before the Lord, the next day after the sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.

12. And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb without blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord.

13. And the libations shall be offered with it, two tenths of hour tempered with oil for a burnt offering of the Lord, and a most sweet odour: libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

14. You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty of the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings.

15. You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you offered the sheaf of the firstfruits, seven full weeks.

16. Even unto the marrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to say, fifty days, and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.

17. Out of all your dwellings, two leaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord.

18. And you shall offer with the leaves seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one calf from the herd, and two rams, and they shall be for a holocaust with their libations far a most sweet odour to the Lord.

19. You shall offer also a buck goat for sin, and two lambs of the first year for sacrifices of peace offerings.

20. And when the priest hath lifted them up with the leaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.

21. And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You shall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your dwellings and generations.

22. And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain; but you shall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your God.

23. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

24. Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with she sound of trumpets, and it shall be called holy.

25. You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.

26. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

27. Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement, it shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall afflict your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.

28. You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you.

29. Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people:

30. And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people.

31. You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.

32. It is a sabbath of rest, and you shell afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month: from evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.

33. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

34. Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.

35. The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: you shall do no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord.

36. The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy, and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord: for it is the day of assembly and congregation: you shall do no servile work therein.

37. These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord, holocausts and libations according to the rite of every day,

38. Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts, and those things that you offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord voluntarily.

39. So from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days: on the first day and the eighth shall be a sabbath, that is a day of rest.

40. And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

41. And you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast.

42. And you shall dwell in bowers seven days: every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles:

43. That your posterity may know, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

44. And Moses spoke concerning the feasts of the Lord to the children of Israel.

1. Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

2. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

3. before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

4. Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

5. O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

6. How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

7. Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

8. O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

9. Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.

10. Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

11. The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

12. It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

13. Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

14. The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

15. Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

16. And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

17. Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

19. And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

20. O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.