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LEVITICUS XVI—THE DAY OF ATONEMENT

29 | And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

31 It shall be å sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:

33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Chapter 17 1 The blood of all slain beasts must be offered to the Lord at the door of the tabernacle. 7 They must not offer to devils. 10 All eating of blood is forbidden. 15 and all that dieth alone, or is torn.

|ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the

children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying,

3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,

4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.

6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils”, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

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Moses Tramples the Crown

AFTER THE PAINTING BY NICOLAS POUSSIN, THE GREAT FRENCH MASTER OF THE SEVEN

TEENTH CENTURY.

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"And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.”—Ex., 2, 10.

ROM the moment of Moses' formal installa

tion in the palace as the princess' adopted

son, the Bible passes directly to the moment when, four decades later, he espoused his own people's downtrodden cause. For the intervening portion of his life we must seek other sources.

Josephus tells us the well-known legend illustrated in this picture. The princess Thermuthis one day brought the child to her father; and he, consenting to the lad's adoption, playfully took off his crown and placed it upon Moses. The child in playing with the glittering thing suddenly placed it under his feet and stood upon it. This was a most evil omen of what he might do in the future, especially as a soothsayer had some years before prophesied to Pharaoh that a Hebrew babe was about to be born who would destroy the power of Egypt. Some of those in the room would have slain the child at once; but Thermuthis seeing his peril snatched him away and fled, and Pharaoh spared him. The parallelism of this legend with the biblical account of Christ's infancy is obvious. Indeed through all Moses' career there appear many interesting points of similarity to the

life of the Redeemer.