And Yahweh called to Moses, and he spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'If any man among you brings an offering to Yahweh, you shall bring your gift offering from the cattle of the herd or flock'."
Yahweh went on to set out his terms and conditions for receiving sacrifices. Having themselves mutilated, complying with crackpot 'laws', surrendering more than a ton of gold, more than 3 tons of silver, more than 2 tons of bronze, and building a Tabernacle, etc., was not enough to appease this 'god'. They found that they had to conduct sacrifices according to the officially approved formal procedures.
For example, the man who wanted to offer a burnt sacrifice of the herd must bring a male without blemish, and must offer it before Yahweh out of his own free will at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
He should press his hand down on the head of the burnt offering, so that it could be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
He should slaughter the bullock before Yahweh, and the sons of Aaron the priest must bring the blood and splash it on the altar, all the way round, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
The benefit to Yahweh was that he greatly enjoyed seeing creatures being killed, and if a bunch of dim-witted followers were duped into doing the killings in the hope that it would somehow benefit them, then all well and good. And the practice was also about perverting those who were once normal human beings, turning them into sick, crazed psychopaths who believed that conducting slaughter on defenseless animals - or even their fellow human beings, was somehow normal, natural, and even desirable.
The servant of Yahweh must have the burnt offering skinned, and cut into pieces. And the sons of Aaron must put fire on the altar and arrange logs on the fire. And the sons of Aaron had to arrange the parts, the head and the fat, on the logs on the fire on the altar. But the entrails and the legs had to be washed in water, and the priest had to burn it all on the altar, a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a soothing fragrance to Yahweh.
If the burnt sacrifice for the offering was of the flock, such as a sheep, or one of the goats, then the procedure was quite similar, except that the animal must be slaughtered on the side of the altar northwards before Yahweh.
If the burnt sacrifice for the offering was of birds, then the worshiper must bring his offering of turtle doves or young pigeons. In this case the priest must bring it to the altar and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar, and its blood had to be drained agaist the side of the altar. And he had to pluck away its crop with its filth, and throw it to the east side of the altar, by the place of the ashes. And he must tear it open at its wings. He must not sever it completely.
And these were all examples of a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a soothing fragrance to Yahweh. What a normal person would see as the senseless killing of an animal or bird, Yahweh perceived as pleasing entertainment that satiated his desire for bloodletting, and he found the euphemism of a "soothing fragrance" rather amusing. But it wasn't just a euphemism. Yahweh's sensory equipment did allow him to experience smells - and he loved the smell of blood.
Another type of gift to Yahweh available to the misguided worshiper was the grain offering. This had to be of fine flour, and the worshiper must pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. Yahweh quite liked the aromas of frankincense, and various other incense and oils.
No meal offering to Yahweh should be made with leaven, for the worshiper may burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire to Yahweh. And every meal offering must be seasoned with salt.
In the case of a peace offering, this could be male or female without blemish from the herd, or the flock, and the fat from the entrails had to be presented, and the two kidneys with the fat on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys he should remove.
Yahweh said that all the fat was his, and his followers must eat neither fat nor blood. This was a statute for all their generations. The blood was Yahweh's favorite part, although he felt that explicitly stating so might wake up a few people as to his true nature.
In a sin offering, if the worshiper had unintentionally committed a sin against any of Yahweh's commandments, he could atone for his sin by bringing a young bullock to Yahweh.
Yahweh's love of watching creatures bleed to death exceeded his dislike of some pathetic servant failing to comply with some particular pointless law that Yahweh had arbitrarily concocted, and so Yahweh regarded each of these rituals as a profitable deal. When an innocent creature died, it was an increase in entropy, order tending to disorder, which was a process Yahweh thoroughly approved of.
During the sin offering, the priest had to dip his finger in the bullock's blood, and splash some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, at the front of the veil of the Sanctuary. And the priest must put some of the blood on the horns of the aromatic incense altar before Yahweh, which was in the Tent of Meeting. And he should pour all the bullock's blood at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which was at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Yahweh was actually an evil, bloodthirsty devil in plain sight, but he so enjoyed hoodwinking all these ape-like creatures into imagining he was a 'god'. And he loved ruling over primitive creatures like this. Even back in the old days, when he was coming in and out of his virtual reality on Hell, he had been telling himself that some day he would have hundreds of thousands of worshipers, even if they weren't exactly the sharpest tools in the box.
Seven was Yahweh's favorite number. It is a prime number, and 111 in binary.
The sin offering would also be allowed to atone for any sin committed through ignorance collectively, by the whole assembly of Israelites. The bullock's blood would be splashed before Yahweh in the same way.
If a ruler unwittingly transgressed against one of Yahweh's 'laws', and the ruler became aware of his fault, then he had to make a sin offering involving a kid of the goats, a male without blemish, and he had to slaughter it where the burnt offerings are slaughtered before Yahweh. The blood had to be put on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and poured at the base of that altar. And the fat had to be burnt as incense on the altar. Yahweh also liked the smell of burning fat or flesh.
Apart from the various types of offering for sins committed in ignorance, Yahweh also set out the procedure for cases where an individual had sinned knowingly. For example, if they dealt falsely with their neighbor, failing to return something lost, or robbery, or extortion, or bearing false witness, then the sinner had to restore the full value of the object involved, or the false testimony, and as a penalty he had to add a further one-fifth of the value. On the day of his guilt offering he had to give it to whomever it belonged, and he had to bring a ram without blemish to Yahweh, for a guilt offering to the priest.
Yahweh told Moses to command Aaron and his sons to comply with the law of the burnt offering. This was the burnt offering on the hearth of the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar had to be kept burning on it.
The priest had to put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers, and he had to take up the ashes of the burnt offering consumed by the fire upon the altar and put them beside the altar. Then he had to change into other garments and carry out the ashes to a clean place outside the camp. The fire upon the altar must not be quenched and the priest had to burn logs on it morning by morning and arrange the burnt offering on it, and he had to burn the choice part of the peace offerings as incense on it.
Then there was the law of the meal or grain offering. The sons of Aaron must present this to Yahweh, to the front of the altar. One of them had to take from it his handful of the flour of the meal offering and its oil, and all the frankincense on the meal offering, and he had to burn it as incense on the altar, a soothing fragrance to Yahweh.
Aaron and his sons had to eat the remainder of it, with unleavened bread in the Sanctuary, the court of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh reiterated that it must not be baked with leaven. It was given by Yahweh as their portion from his offerings made by fire, and was especially holy. Every male from among the sons of Aaron must eat from it.
There was a meal offering to be presented to Yahweh on the day that Aaron was anointed as priest. This consisted of fine flour mixed with oil on a griddle, and it had to be offered as a soothing fragrance to Yahweh. It must be completely burned, and none of it could be eaten.
Yahweh told Moses to tell Aaron and his sons about the law of the sin offering. The sin offering had to be slaughtered before Yahweh, where the burnt offering would be slaughtered, and then the priest who offered it for sin, along with the other males among the priests had to eat it in the Sanctuary. Anyone who touched the flesh would be set apart, and if the blood was sprinkled on any garment, that garment had to be washed in the Sanctuary. If it was boiled in an earthen bowl, the bowl had to be broken, or if it was boiled in a brazen pot it had to be scoured and rinsed in water.
But any sin offering whose blood was brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Sanctuary must not be eaten, it must be burned in the fire.
In the law of the guilt offering, they had to slaughter it in the place where they slaughtered the burnt offering, and sprinkle its blood on the altar, all the way round. The fat had to be presented and burnt as incense on the altar. Every male from among the priests had to eat from it, in the Sanctuary. And the skin would belong to the priest who made atonement for it.
Any grain offering baked in the oven, or dressed in the covered pan, or the griddle, belonged to the priest offering it. But every grain offering mixed with oil or dry would be for all the sons of Aaron.
There was a law of the sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh. If the peace offering was presented for a thanksgiving, it had to be offered with oil mixed with unleavened cakes, unleavened wafers, or cakes of finely blended flour. But as well as the cakes he had to present his offering of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
There was plenty more drivel from Yahweh, partly a repeat of nonsense he had already spouted, such as how they must eat no kind of fat or blood, otherwise they would be cut off from their people.
Wouldn't it have been better simply to ignore this bully, cut him off from them, leave him in his Tent reminiscing on past experiences of excitedly watching slaughters and smelling blood and fat, and move on? All stick together, so that if he follows them he cannot appear to only one of them, who would serve as a traitor to his own people and lead them into becoming an evildoing, parasitic people set apart, universally despised (and justifiably so), and expelled from every nation where they ever tried to settle? Refuse to trade their humanity for wealth and privilege? And ignore any attempted communications from Yahweh via dreams?
Moses was then ordered to take Aaron and his sons, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread, and gather the assembly together at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. And Moses did as commanded.
So Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. He put the coat on Aaron, and dressed him with the sash, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and dressed him with the embroidered sash of the ephod. He put the breastplate on him, and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummin. And he put the turban on his head, and he set the golden plate, the appointed crown, on the front of the turban.
Moses took the anointing oil, and he anointed the Tabernacle and everything in it, and consecrated them. He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, and he anointed the altar and its utensils, both the basin and the stand. And he poured the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and he anointed him, to consecrate him.
And Moses put tunics on the sons of Aaron, and tied them with sashes, and wound headdresses on them.
And he brought the bullock for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bullock for the sin offering. And he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and smeared it on the horns of the altar, all the way round with his finger, and he purified the altar and poured the blood at the base of the altar, and he consecrated it to make atonement for it.
He took all the fat on the entrails, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it as incense on the altar. But the bullock, its hide, its flesh, and its dung, he burned as fire outside the camp, as Moses had been commanded for a sin offering.
Moses brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head. And he slaughtered it, and Moses splashed the blood on the altar, all the way round. And he cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned as incense the head, and the pieces, and the fat. He washed the entrails and the legs in water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar as incense. This was a burnt sacrifice for a soothing fragrance to Yahweh.
He brought the other ram, which was the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons ominously laid their hands on its head. And he slaughtered it, and Moses took some of the blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the large toe of his right foot.
And he brought the sons of Aaron, and for each son, Moses put some of the blood on the tip of his right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. And Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar, all the way round.
And he took all the fat, and the right shoulder, and out of the basket of unleavened bread he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and he put them on the fat and the right shoulder.
And he put all these on Aaron's hands and on his sons' hands, and he waved them as a wave offering before Yahweh. And Moses took them from their hands and burned them with incense at the altar with the burnt offering, They were consecrations for a soothing fragrance, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Moses took the breast, and he waved it as a wave offering before Yahweh of the ram of consecration. This was Moses' share, as commanded.
Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood that was on the altar, and he splashed on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments, and he consecrated all of those.
And Moses told Aaron and his sons to boil the flesh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and to eat it there with the bread that was in the basket of consecrations, as Moses had commanded them. And what remained of the flesh and the blood they had to burn with fire. Or at least, the blood had to thermally decompose.
Then they must not go out of the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the day of fulfilling of the days for their consecration. They had to remain at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the office of Yahweh, so that they did not die. And Aaron and his sons did as commanded by Yahweh through the hand of Moses.
On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel. He told Aaron to take a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.
And he told Aaron to speak to the sons of Israel, saying, "Take a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering, and a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh, and a meal offering mixed with oil. For today, Yahweh will appear to you."
And they brought what Moses had commanded in front of the Tent of Meeting, and the whole assembly drew near and stood in the presence of Yahweh. And Moses said that this was what Yahweh had ordered them to do, and he would appear to them.
Moses told Aaron to go to the altar and prepare his sin offering and his burnt offering, and make atonement for himself and the people, and present the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Yahweh had commanded.
And so Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering that was for himself. And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and smeared it on the horns of the altar, and he poured out the blood at the base of the altar. But the fat, the kidneys and lobe above the liver of the sin offering he burned as incense on the altar, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. And the flesh and hide he burned with fire outside the camp.
And he slaughtered the ram for the burnt offering, and the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, which he splashed all around the altar. And they presented the burnt offering to him with its pieces and the head, and he burned them as incense on the altar, a soothing fragrance to Yahweh. He washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them as incense on the burnt offering on the altar.
Then Aaron brought the people's offering, and he took the goat that was the sin offering for the people, and he slaughtered it and offered it for sin.
And he brought the burnt offering, and prepared it as directed. And he brought the meal offering, and took a handful of it and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
Aaron also slaughtered the bullock and the ram for the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people, and the sons of Aaron presented to him the blood that he sprinkled on the altar, all the way around. They also brought all the fat portions from the bullock and the ram, and placed them on the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar, but he waved the breasts and the right shoulder as a wave offering before Yahweh.
And Aaron raised his hand towards the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out and blessed the people, and the magnificent splendor of Yahweh appeared to all the people, and out came fire from before Yahweh, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When the people saw this they shouted, and fell on their faces.
For the "magnificent splendor", Yahweh could always discharge some spare electrons from the top of his head; he didn't mind being temporarily a fraction heavier, and he could soon top up his antigravity charge whenever required from his antimatter generator. His avatar of orbs concealed his true nature and "Terminator" robot appearance. His handheld graphene supercapacitor gun fired a brief, ultra-focused plasma arc along a laser-guided path, to create the spectacle of "fire" coming out from before him.
And Nadab and Abihu, two of Aaron's sons, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense in it, and they brought it before Yahweh. And Yahweh's graphene supercapacitor gun fired a further two shots, and Nadab and Abihu fell down dead before Yahweh.
Now one of Yahweh's excuses was that the two sons had brought "strange" fire that had not been commanded. Well, it was unscheduled and unexpected. They had just seen their 'god' consume the burnt offering and the fat on the altar, and they wanted to get a closer look. They were under the illusion that their 'god' was a good god, not a devil, and would treat them kindly, and would like to have the burning incense at close range. Unfortunately for them, they knew very little about Yahweh!
As they approached Yahweh they were getting too close for his comfort, and Yahweh was concerned that the fire and burning incense might disperse his orbs avatar cloud, risking exposure of his true appearance. He decided to shoot first and ask questions later. And after all, Yahweh had already told Moses that "no man can see Me and live".
By now, any last remaining vestiges of possibility that Yahweh might have been a good and fair 'god' were well and truly dispelled. A 'god' that kills the two eldest sons of its top priest, when their 'crime' was so spurious that it could not even be properly defined??? Only a self-hating retard would have chosen Yahweh as their El, and by this point Aaron and Moses only continued to support Yahweh because they had fallen for the sunk cost fallacy.
Now it seems reasonable to suppose that Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu may have consumed some alcohol, and a short while later Yahweh would give Aaron a lecture about not drinking wine or strong drink. Nadab and Abihu had been stuck in the Tent of Meeting for seven days and seven nights, waiting for the fulfillment of their consecration, probably fasting for six days after the sacrifices were consumed, and only able to drink water from the basin used for washing. They were only briefly allowed some freedom on the eighth day before ceremonies resumed, so they must have eaten well, and maybe drank a little wine.
If pressed, Yahweh would have probably come up with some ridiculous statement about how killing people hurt him more than it did them. No! He relished it.
Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh has spoken, saying: 'By those approaching Me I will be set apart, and before all the people I will be glorified'."
And Aaron was silent.
At that point he and his remaining sons should have waited until they had the chance to leave the Sanctuary, then take off all their priests' garments, and tell Moses that if he wants to carry on as a Yahweh lackey it's up to him, but they are no longer priests, and they will never again have anything to do with the Sanctuary. And if Yahweh is going to kill them, it's better to be for a real reason than for no reason.
And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and he told them to come and carry their cousins' bodies from in front of the Sanctuary to the outside of the camp. So they came and carried the bodies, still in their tunics, to the outside of the camp.
And Moses told Aaron and his two surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar not to mourn for their loss, not to uncover their heads or tear their clothes, lest they die and anger come on all the assembly. But the house of Israel would weep bitterly for the burning that Yahweh had kindled. And Aaron and the two sons must not go out from the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, for the anointing oil was still on them.
And they did as Moses said.
First they had to mutilate themselves, then they had to comply with an ever-increasing host of crackpot 'commandments' and 'laws', then they had to perform sacrifices and worship according to authorized procedures and were banned from eating fat, then they couldn't do art or sculpture, then they had to give up their gold, silver, bronze and other treasures, then they had to build a Tabernacle, then they had to allow the killing of two of their top priest's sons for no good reason, and then the surviving priests were prohibited from mourning or expressing any dissent.
And all of this was supposed to somehow bring them good luck. Yet it hadn't worked out quite the way they'd hoped.
And Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying, "Do not drink wine or strong drink, you, or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting in case you die - an eonian statute throughout your generations - and so that you might make a distinction between dedicated and profane, and between clean and unclean, and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes that Yahweh has spoken to them by the hand of Moses."
And Moses spoke to Aaron and his remaining sons Mishael and Elzaphan, telling them to take the meal offering that remained from the offering of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it was especially holy. They had to eat it in the Sanctuary because it was Aaron's portion, and his sons' portion, from the sacrifices of Yahweh made by fire, for that is what Moses had been commanded.
And the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the heave offering they had to eat in a clean place, Aaron and his surviving sons, and his daughters, whom Yahweh was probably considering targeting next.
Moses asked about the goat of the sin offering, and it turned out it was burnt up, and he was angry with Mishael and Elzaphan, the remaining sons, saying, "Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the Sanctuary, seeing that it is especially holy, and Yahweh has given it to you to remove the iniquity of the assembly, to make atonement for them before him? See, its blood was not brought inside the Sanctuary, where you should have eaten it as I commanded."
And Aaron said to Moses, "See now, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh, and such things have befallen me and, had I eaten the sin offering today, would it have been accepted in the eyes of Yahweh?"
And Moses was satisfied with that answer.
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron with a new list of demands, telling them to speak to the sons of Israel and tell them which of the Earth's living creatures they could and couldn't eat. For hundreds of millions of years, animals had been getting on just fine, eating what worked for them, and rejecting what didn't. They didn't need some 'god' - or devil - telling them what they could and couldn't eat.
Yahweh told them that whatever divides the hoof, and was cloven-footed, and chews the cud, they could eat. But they couldn't eat the camel, the rock badger, and the hare, because they did not divide the hoof. They couldn't eat the pig because it did not chew the cud. The prohibited animals were to be classed as unclean.
In the waters, they could eat whatever had fins and scales, but everything that did not was to be classed as detestable.
Yahweh gave them a list of birds that were "unclean" according to his law; the eagle, the black vulture, the bearded vulture, the Egyptian vulture, the little vulture, the kite, the falcon, every raven, the ostrich, the nighthawk, the seagull, the hawk, the owl and the great owl, the swan, the pelican, the stork, the heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Yahweh told them that every flying insect that goes on fours should be detestable to them. Yet of every flying insect that walks on all fours, they could eat those that had jointed legs above their feet, to leap on the ground with.
This is rather like saying every devil or mentally sick Type II being should be detestable to them, yet if it falsely claims to be a 'god', promises to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, promises to multiply their seed exceedingly, promises to smite their enemies, tells them they have to cut off their foreskins as part of a "Covenant", tells them they can't work one day out of seven, tells them they have to celebrate a "Passover" mass murder event by eating unleavened bread for seven days, tells them they have to obey loads of barmy 'laws', tells them they have to sacrifice animals according to some convoluted procedure, and kills them for a minor transgression, then it's suddenly the best thing since leavened bread.
Yahweh gave examples of other "unclean" creatures such as the weasel and the chameleon, and came up with an arbitrary, pseudo-scientific law that anyone who touched such creatures in their death would be unclean until the evening. Why not the afternoon, or midnight? And if an "unclean" animal fell into a clay pot, then anything in the pot should be "unclean" as well, and the pot must be broken. Yahweh was supposed to be multiplying the descendants of these people, but he was encouraging waste of resources.
Another of Yahweh's rants was about women giving birth. He said that in the case of a male child, the mother would be unclean for seven days, then the child had to be genitally mutilated on the eighth day, and then the woman had to wait another 33 days until the date of her "purification", before which she would be prohibited from touching any dedicated thing or going into the Sanctuary.
If it was a female child, the mother would be unclean for two weeks, and then her purification would take another 66 days.
But it gets worse. Whatever the sex of the child, when the days of the mother's purification were fulfilled, she had to bring a lamb, a son of the first year, for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, who would present it before Yahweh and make atonement for her, and then she would be "cleansed from the fountain of her blood". And if she couldn't bring a lamb, she should bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for the burnt offering, and one for the sin offering.
With this sort of tripe, it's no wonder the descendants of these people would, thousands of years hence, become psychopaths and misfits, for example, with the male so-called 'soldiers' putting on women's underwear, or smashing children's toys, from the ruins of the homes where they had been conducting a genocide, or they would run over and crush to death with a bulldozer a peace activist who was protesting against their demolition of the occupied people's homes, or a clothing company founder would dance naked in front of his female employees, evidently believing that he was too sexy for his clothes.
Yahweh went on such a long diatribe about whether or not a person suffering from leprosy was 'unclean', that Moses and Aaron must have been almost dying of thirst by the end. But then Yahweh spoke to Moses for almost as long about the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing by the priest. And next Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron about his laws for what would happen if a man or woman had a discharge. Not surprisingly, it involved the sacrifice of turtledoves or pigeons, so that Yahweh could get his daily fix of blood.
As expected, Yahweh's reasons for killing two of Aaron's sons are further clarified, when he said to Moses, "Speak to your brother Aaron that he does not at any time come into the Sanctuary inside the veil in front of the Mercy Seat which is on the Ark, so that he does not die, for I will be appearing in the cloud on the Mercy Seat."
So only now, after spouting a load of gibberish regarding his hundreds of so-called 'laws' in order to satisfy his bloodlust, the sniveling little toe-rag has owned up and confirmed his primary reason for killing the two sons - that they got too close to him by opening the veil and looking at the cloud above the Ark, and he panicked and killed them to avoid being revealed as a repulsive Terminator robot camouflaged by orbs. Yahweh had already cited drinking alcohol as a proximate cause.
Now Yahweh's olfactory system far surpassed human capabilities. "Electronic-nose" technology included arrays of chemical sensors that could distinguish between various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) generated as products of combustion, and Yahweh was able to identify which animal or bird was being sacrificed. And his visual system included active penetrating sensors that transmitted non-ionizing radiation in the millimeter wave to terahertz range, and it was easy for him to 'see' through materials like the blue, purple, scarlet and fine-twined linen of the veil that concealed the Mercy Seat, without harmful X-rays. His silicon brain could conduct real-time analysis of all this data, along with electrical signals from his 'ears', far more rapidly than a human brain.
Thus, he could see, hear and smell what was taking place on the other side of the veil, but the veil concealed him from his worshipers, unless they entered the Most Holy Place.
Then Yahweh began talking about scapegoats, inspired by the fact that he, Yahweh, had sacrificed the two scapegoats Nadab and Abihu, who ended up bearing the blame for Yahweh's deception as an ugly, repellent, evildoing android posing as a 'god'.
The scapegoat ritual included the killing and burning of a bullock, a ram and a goat, but there was a second goat that was brought in and then taken away into the wilderness. Aaron had to cast lots for the two goats, one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat. Yahweh doesn't even bother to hide the fact that the sacrificed animals are for him. But specifically, they are to satisfy his addiction to the sight and sounds of killing, and the smell of blood, and the VOCs released by combustion of biological carbon-based life.
Next Yahweh ordered Moses to speak to Aaron and the people about slaughters of animals in general. If any man of the house of Israel slaughtered an ox, lamb, or goat, whether in the camp or outside the camp, he must bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, to present an offering to Yahweh in front of the Tabernacle of Yahweh. Otherwise, blood-guilt should be imputed to that man, and he should be cut off from his people.
Yahweh added that even if a stranger was staying amongst them, and offered up a burnt offering or sacrifice without bringing it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to prepare it for Yahweh, then that man must be shunned by his people.
Yahweh's addiction has really taken a hold by now, and it's not enough to have an ever-increasing myriad of so-called 'laws', which whenever unwittingly or knowingly broken, will provide Yahweh with his multiple-times-a-day blood fix. He wants to have a monopoly on slaughter, so that he can never miss out on experiencing his 'enjoyment' and 'pleasure' associated with the killings.
And if he did miss out on just one slaughter, he would take it as a great insult. Similarly, if he missed out on blood undergoing thermal decomposition because one of his hapless servants had eaten it, that would be taken as a massive disrespect.
Many of these Israelites were in-bred; they had taken a cousin in marriage. And Yahweh went on to expound on what, in contrast to most of his 'laws', was eminently sensible - that the practice of incest was bad for a nation.
Next Yahweh told Moses another series of commandments, some of them reiterations of his earlier orders, such as how his servants had to observe his Sabbath, respect their parents, not turn to idols and make themselves molten gods, and not steal, lie, or deal falsely to each other. Yahweh did want his people to multiply, so that they could go on to wreak havoc on the rest of mankind, and subvert and sabotage Earth's civilization. And he needed to deceive them into imagining that he was a 'god', and so some of his orders were rational; others were just for his own gratification.
Yahweh said that any of the sons of Israel or strangers living among them who gave their children to Molech must be put to death by stoning. And if they did not, then Yahweh would set his face against the culprit and his family and cut them off from their people.
Yahweh reemphasized that he had set apart the sons of Israel from the other nations, a fact which would become increasingly apparent to any thoughtful person in those other nations throughout the centuries, and interestingly, Yahweh confirmed that it was because he, Yahweh, was set apart.
"And you shall prepare yourselves, and you shall be set apart, for I am Yahweh your Elohim. [...] And you shall be separated to Me, for I, Yahweh, am set apart, and I have separated you from the nations so that you should be Mine."
Well, yes, by his evil actions in working to ruin a developing civilization, he had set himself apart from the other members of Hellian society, and had marked himself out as a renegade.
Yahweh was unaware that the Hellian delegation (of normal, 'good', highly intelligent superbeings) who had arrived on Earth centuries in advance of him in their antimatter-powered ships, the 'gods' who had built monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge, had planted four separate swarms of probes disguised as small carbonaceous chondrite asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Some of their ships were stocked with these 'asteroid' probes, that would arrange themselves so as to form an optical telescope array with an effective aperture of 10km diameter. And other ships would carry spare shuttle drones, so that the probes ships' crews could descend to Earth.
Now in classical optics, the minimum angular resolution θ in radians is given by θ = 1.22 * λ / D where:
λ is the wavelength of the light, and D is the effective lens aperture diameter.
When D = 10km and we take λ as 500nm, then we have θ = 1.22 * 5x10-7 / 10,000 = 6.1x10-11 radians.
Now for such small angles, the angle θ in radians is very nearly equal to object size or spatial resolution Δℓ / distance d. And so the minimum object size that can be resolved is Δℓ = θ * d. So we have θ = 6.1x10-11 radians, and let's go into the details of how they minimized the distance between their telescope and Earth.
They had 1,920 probes in total, each 5m radius, divided into four lots of 480, which were brought on four antimatter-powered craft. Each craft's drone hanger was a 44m length of a 200m radius rotating cylinder wall, and so each ship could accommodate four rows of 5m radius probes, and each row could fit 120 around the circumference.
The four ships placed each array of four hundred and eighty 5m radius probes at 90° apart along the asteroid belt, on the edge facing the Earth. So at the best approach, one of these would be at the same point on the orbit as the Earth, and the separation would be at its minimum of ~1.2AU (Astronomical Units, of which 1AU is the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million km). The asteroid belt starts about 2.2AU out from the Sun, hence 1.2AU is the distance from Earth to the closest part of the asteroid belt.
It would be too energy intensive to power the probes to move so that they were 'tracking' the Earth. Instead, at a greater orbital radius, they are slower moving and clearly taking longer to traverse the longer circumference of their orbit compared to the inner planets.
Internal antimatter reactors were used to make tiny corrections to keep each unit of a 480-strong swarm in alignment with each other. However, one of the 480 units in a swarm was dedicated as the main laser transmitter, to send the optical signal from Earth to reach scouting parties light years away, with baseline loss from the synthetic aperture limited to around 2%.
To extend the reach, there were some relay systems placed in convenient, uninhabited locations. However, if the receiver was a km-scale array collector, the antimatter-powered laser could transmit to locations in excess of 100 light years.
And to save power, the three 480-unit swarms furthest from the Earth at any time would stop receiving optical data and transmitting the laser signal, would make alignment corrections less frequently, and would just be transmitting signals every now and then to confirm their operational status.
So in the worst case, the nearest probes are aligned 45° out from the Earth. Here, the distance between the probe and Earth is one side of a scalene triangle with the other two sides 1AU and 2.2AU, and the angle between the two known sides is 45°. The unknown side is ~1.652AU or 248 million km.
In the best case, when the 10km swarm array telescope is at a distance of 1.2AU or 180 million km, the minimum object size that can be resolved on Earth is Δℓ = θ * d = 6.1x10-11 * 1.8x1011m = ~11m.
In the worst case, when the 10km swarm array telescope is at a distance of 1.65AU or 248 million km, the minimum object size that can be resolved on Earth is Δℓ = θ * d = 6.1x10-11 * 2.48x1011m = ~15.1m.
Each 5m radius probe was roughly cylindrical-shaped, with its high-quality telescope facing Earth, and about 2m depth, so the volume was ~157 m3.
The antimatter reactor had a cylinder of length 1m and radius 0.5m to store the hydrogen. As with other Hellian antimatter reactor designs, this length and volume was divided into equal halves, one for the working fluid at 50 kg/m3, and one for the metallic hydrogen reserve tank at 600 kg/m3. So the total mass of hydrogen for matter/antimatter reaction was π x (0.5m)2 x 0.5m x (600+50) kg/m3 = ~255kg.
There were two toruses wrapped around the hydrogen cylinder, for the antihydrogen, divided in the same manner as the hydrogen. The large diameter R was the cylinder radius of 0.5m plus the torus minor radius r, which was 0.25m, making R = 0.75m. And so each torus volume was V = 2π2r2R = ~0.925m3. This was comfortably over the ~0.393m3 of each hydrogen tank, so that most of each torus's volume was a vacuum gap even when freshly stocked with 255 kg of antihydrogen.
The antihydrogen was confined in a 12T magnetic field. The total stored magnetic energy was 2 x 0.925m3 x (12T)2 / (2 x 4π x 10-7) = ~106 MJ. They could achieve 1 MJ/kg with their confining magnets, so in principle would need only ~106 kg, although this was raised for an additional safety margin.
Some of the probe's interior was graphene foam at 100 kg/m3. If the top 0.1m depth with the lens face was 1,500 kg/m3, that's ~12 tonnes (given the 5m probe radius), and with 10 tonnes for the matter/antimatter reactor including capture / control mechanisms and cryogenic cooling, 10 tonnes for graphene foam and 10 tonnes for miscellaneous, the total dry mass was ~42 tonnes. And so, with 510 kg of matter/antimatter, the mass ratio was 42.51 / 42 = ~1.0121. These reactors achieved effective exhaust velocity of 0.33c, and so the Δv was ln(1.0121) x 0.33c = ~0.00397c.
And so, with the four swarms providing resolution of ~11-15m, details such as a flurry of movements of 40m diameter drones with a 120m wingspan could be readily resolved. The array was monitoring areas with an emerging civilization, mostly the areas where the beings had visited around the time they built the pyramids, including the inhabited parts along the Nile.
Now it was 1875 BC when Yahweh was conducting his sunlight-blocking operation in preparation for Egypt's seven years of famine, that the movements of his craft flying from the quarry site and up into the stratosphere were picked up without his knowledge, and transmitted at the speed of light. But well before 1446 BC when Yahweh did his ten plagues of Egypt, and the next year would go on to kill Nadab and Abihu, and become addicted to the smell of blood, the laser signals that gave him away had already come to the attention of a character who was known as "the Father"...
Yahweh was a racial supremacist who not only believed that 'his' people should become a master race; he also regarded disabled people as an inferior class to be discriminated against, and not even worthy of entering his Sanctuary to worship him or bear gifts, because their presence would render it "profane".
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to Aaron, saying, 'Any descendant of yours in their generations who has any blemish shall not approach to offer the bread of his Elohim. For every man in whom there is a blemish shall not approach: a blind man, or lame, or disfigured, or deformed, or a man in whom there is a broken foot or broken hand, or a humped back, or emaciated, or with a blemish in his eye, or who is scurvied, or scabbed, or has his testicles broken.'
'No descendant of the priest Aaron in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. There is a blemish in him. He shall not come near to offer the bread of his Elohim. He shall eat the bread of his Elohim, the most holy food and the holy food, but he shall not go inside the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish, so that he does not profane My sanctuary, for I am Yahweh Who sets them apart'."
And after Yahweh had killed two of Aaron's sons for getting too close to him, Aaron and his surviving sons received another warning.
"Speak to Aaron and his sons that they shall keep themselves apart from the dedicated things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My set apart name in the things that they dedicate to Me. I am Yahweh."
Yahweh also ordered that any of his servants who were lepers or had a running discharge were banned from eating from the holy things until they were clean.
Yahweh's narcissism was such that he ordered a series of his "feasts" that his servants were obliged to observe. He again mentioned his "Sabbath", describing it as the "Sabbath of Yahweh", a day of rest when work was not allowed. And there was the Passover to Yahweh, in the 14th day of the 1st month between the evenings.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread to Yahweh began on the 15th of the same month, when for seven days his servants were commanded to eat unleavened bread. On the 1st day they must do no customary work, and on the 7th day they must do no laborious work. However, not surprisingly, they must bring near an offering made by fire to Yahweh for seven days. Yahweh's blood addiction did not have any breaks.
When they came into the land that Yahweh had promised them, and they reaped the first harvest, they had to bring a sheaf of the firstfruits from the harvest to the priest, who had to wave the sheaf before Yahweh, for their acceptance. This had to be performed on the day after the Sabbath. Also on this day, they had to prepare a male lamb of the first year without blemish, for a burnt offering to Yahweh. Its meat offering had to be two tenths deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made to Yahweh for a soothing fragrance.
If only Abram had been given a soothing fragrance - a compulsory one of bitter almonds - humanity might have turned out like any normal developing civilization - exploiting energy resources, going out to their Moon and planets, developing and maintaining infrastructure, etc..
Instead, a hoax about "global boiling" and a "climate emergency" was pushed for the consumption of scientific illiterates, retards and grifting corrupt 'scientists' to clamor against progress. They could launch astronauts into orbit, but there was no credible evidence that they ever actually landed on their Moon as opposed to simply making a few low quality films in a desert and stealing the money; the narrative was that they inexplicably never returned for decades because the technology had somehow got lost, and never even making any further efforts to pretend they were serious about space travel until a supposed fly-by in the era of AI video. Instead of using resources for maintaining and developing infrastructure and improving people's lives, wars were fomented for the benefit of a genocidal, apartheid terrorist state inhabited by bloodthirsty psychopaths, with resources going into allowing anti-humanity states to kill and maim their opponents more efficiently. And insane degeneracy and debauchery such as transgenderism was pushed in order to promote mental disease.
It was partly for population reduction, and partly about curtailing freedoms and making life less pleasant for those who survived.
There was also a drink offering of wine, the 4th part of a hin. A hin was nearly 6 liters. Yahweh didn't mind the smell of wine; he just didn't want anyone near him who wasn't completely sober. For this feast his servants were prohibited from eating bread, parched corn, or green ears, until they had brought an offering to their Elohim. If they felt that they needed or wanted an Elohim, why not scrap Yahweh for a better alternative? It is not as if there was any shortage.
Another of Yahweh's schemes for getting his "soothing fragrance" incorporated the square of Yahweh's favorite number; seven squared, or binary 111 squared, which is 110001. They had to number for themselves, from the day after the Sabbath when they brought the sheaf offering, seven complete Sabbaths to pass. And here, of course, they had to bring a new meal offering to Yahweh, which involved sacrifice and burning of unblemished lambs, a young bullock, and rams, and a male goat.
In the 7th month on the 1st day of the month, they had to have a special Sabbath which involved blowing of trumpets. They must do no laborious work, but they did have to bring near to Yahweh an offering made by fire.
Then on the 10th day of this 7th month, they had another special day that Yahweh named the "Day of Atonement". It involved an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Then on the 15th day of that 7th month they had to do what Yahweh called the "Feast of Booths". For 7 days, and on the 8th day, an offering made by fire had to be brought near to Yahweh. Also, they had to live in booths (or temporary shelters) for seven days, as a reminder that this was what happened when Yahweh brought them out of Egypt.
There was the son of an Israelite woman and Egyptian man who fought with an Israelite man in the camp, and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed and cursed Yahweh's name. The Israelite woman was named Shelomith, of the tribe of Dan. The son was brought to Moses and kept under guard, until Yahweh ordered how he should be dealt with.
Yahweh spoke to Moses saying that the cursing son must be brought outside the camp, and all those who heard should put their hands on his head, and then the whole assembly should stone him. And Yahweh told Moses to tell the Israelites that whoever curses his Elohim should be responsible for his sin. And he who blasphemes the name of Yahweh shall surely be put to death. All the assembly shall certainly stone him, whether it is a stranger or he who is born in the land.
Yahweh then set out some of his laws and penalties. If a man destroyed the life of a man, then he should surely be put to death. Any blemish caused by a man in his neighbor should be done to him, such as eye for eye and tooth for tooth. And he who kills an animal should restore it. Of course, these laws did not apply to Yahweh, who took great delight in having his minions sacrifice multiple animals daily, and he enjoyed killing and mutilating human beings.
Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to tell them that they should bring the cursing son of Shelomith outside the camp and stone him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Yahweh could not afford to have any dissent or free debate about whether or not it made sense for the Israelites to obey Yahweh in mutilating themselves and carrying out his agenda, since he was well aware that those advocating for freedom and autonomy would win any honest, rational argument. Thus, he needed to have a law against "blasphemy" and taking his name in vain. He needed to silence all his critics, e.g., by stoning them to death.
Similarly, in about another 3,450 years, a similar situation would arise regarding a grotesque, malicious, racist, colossal libel against people of White European descent, who were falsely accused of conducting a genocide against Yahweh's followers, and falsely accused of murdering six million of them. The outrageous lie could be readily refuted in any free debate, which is why in many European countries it was made illegal to question the official narrative, and those who did debunk it were sentenced to jail to shut them up. They even had to imprison a nonagenarian grandmother for the thought crime of being unable to believe the outrageous stories!
It was very easy to show how the coke deliveries to a certain alleged notorious "death camp" could only suffice to vaporize away half the water in a typical corpse, with absolutely no remaining energy to calcinate the bones. It was very easy to show how the cyanide concentrations in the walls of the actual gas chambers - which were used to save human lives by killing typhus lice in clothes and bedding - averaged 2,500 times higher than the trace levels in the basement morgues that were falsely claimed to be homicidal "gas chambers".
When the libelous, money-grabbing, power-grabbing, parasitic hoaxers came up with a lame excuse about it being very easy to kill humans but very hard to kill lice, it was very easy to show the utter contradiction in the so-called murderers using 99.9% of their Zyklon B to save their prisoners' lives at the very same time that they were allegedly using the remaining 0.1% to murder them. It was very easy to show the utter stupidity of a novel brand of arithmetic, in which an addend could be reduced from four million to less than two million yet the "six million" total remained unchanged, starting from 1921 AD and even earlier, continuing over a time spanning in excess of a hundred years, even until decades after the collapse of communist regimes that were initially set up by Yahweh followers who were financed by pro-Yahweh so-called 'bankers' that, only four years previously, had just set up a private central bank that could print (i.e., steal) money out of nothing.
And all of this was so, because all the evidence converged on what had really happened - the true total who died in the camp was ~100,000 as opposed to the various false claims coming from the money-obsessed and power-crazed Yahweh followers that ranged from more than 1.1 million to 9 million, depending on how gullible they regarded the people to whom they peddled their accusations. The deaths were due to natural causes and factors beyond the control of those running the camps, such as typhus deaths, and a breakdown of the supply chain of food and medications to the camp at the end of the war due to carpet bombing by pro-Yahweh, anti-humanity, anti-freedom forces.
The evidence included the fact that the coke and wood deliveries could provide energy to cremate only ~100,000 bodies (~2,000 tonnes of coke, if taking the least outrageous claim of 1.1 million murdered, is ~1.8kg of coke and ~54MJ of energy per body, compared to the nearly 1GJ that would actually be required per corpse), the death books that extrapolated to ~100,000 over the three years of the alleged 'genocide', the 2,500-fold difference in cyanide concentrations between walls of delousing chambers compared to basement morgues falsely dubbed homicidal gas chambers, the lack of any written evidence of orders or budget or blueprint for such a genocide, the lack of any discussion of a genocide overheard in decrypted communications intercepts, the lack of any photographic or topographic evidence, the fact that legislation had to be introduced to prop up the narrative by jailing its critics, and so much more too numerous to include here.
Yahweh came up with another scheme from his childish numerology, which involved what he called "7 Sabbaths" of years, or 49 years. After these had passed, the 50th year had to be set apart as a Jubilee year, proclaiming liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. Of course, this was Yahweh's definition of 'liberty', in which people could be killed for disliking him, or for entering the Most Holy Place without authorization. In a Jubilee year they had to sound the ram's horn across the land on the Day of Atonement, the 10th day of the 7th month of that year.
Yahweh claimed that the land was his: "And the land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with Me." Originally, to entice his servants to mutilate their eight-day-old baby boys and obey his other crackpot 'laws', he had promised to give them a land (which in any case was not his to give away). Now it turned out that he would declare himself as the landowner, and his minions would merely be his tenants, aliens, whom he regarded with contempt.
After setting out some of his latest commandments to Moses - once they were ten, then they became hundreds or thousands, Yahweh made clear where the Israelites stood. "For the sons of Israel are servants to Me. They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your Elohim."
Having his own servants to obey his every command had been Yahweh's goal, since soon after he won the comet-spotting competition. But no doubt he had totted up and begrudged the expenditure of every kilogram of his deuterium/helium3 fuel that he had used for his plagues, to bring these people out of Egypt.
Yahweh continued by reiterating his ban on any competition to himself. The people were prohibited from making any idols, carved images, standing images, or any image of stone, in order to bow down to them.
He claimed that if the people walked in his statutes and obeyed his commandments, he would give them rain at the appropriate time so that the land would yield its produce, and the trees would yield their fruit. Funnily, there were plenty of other societies that managed to survive without having to submit to a Type II being with mental disease, a devil posing as a 'god'.
Yahweh told Moses that he would give them peace in their land, would clear out malevolent beasts out of their land, and would allow them to chase their enemies and the enemies would fall before them by the sword. He even asserted that five of them would be able to chase away a hundred, and a hundred of them could put tens of thousands to flight. He would walk along them and be their Elohim, and they would be his people.
That was the carrot, and now for the stick. If the Israelites did not listen to him, and did not carry out all his commandments, and despised his statutes, or abhorred his judgments, he would appoint over them terror, consumption, and a burning fever that would cause the eyes to fail, all causing sorrow. And they would sow their seed in vain; their enemies would eat it.
He would set his face against them so that they would be killed in front of their enemies. Those who hated them would rule over them, and they would flee even when nobody pursued them. And if they still did not listen to him, he would punish them seven more times for their sins. He would make their skies like iron and their ground like brass, so that their land would not yield its produce, nor the trees their fruits. He would bring seven times more plagues on them in keeping with their sins.
Yahweh's stick was much larger than his carrot. He kept up a long rant about all the horrors that would befall them if they would not listen to him and obey him, so that they caused him to walk contrary to them in fury. He claimed they would even eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. And they would perish among the nations.
Eventually, Yahweh switched back to some 'benefits' of obeying him. He said that if those who were left declared their perversity, and they accepted the punishment of their perversity, then he would remember his Covenant with Jacob, Isaac and Abraham, and he would not cast them away nor abhor them as to completely destroy them.
Next, Yahweh wanted to do some bookkeeping, in establishing the value of his assets, and from this he would be able to compare it with his expenditure of the deuterium/helium3 fuel.
He spoke to Moses, saying that if a person made a special vow to dedicate himself to Yahweh, Moses could set a valuation for him according to a certain scale. If it was a male from 20 to 60 years old, the valuation would be 60 shekels of silver, by the shekel of the Sanctuary. (This compares with 301,775 shekels or 3,470kg of silver used to build the Sanctuary, the vast majority of which was used to make 100 sockets.)
For a female, Yahweh's recommended valuation was 30 shekels. If from 5 years old to 20 years old it would be 20 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female. If from a month old to 5 years old a male was 5 shekels and a female 3 shekels of silver. If from 60 years and above a male was worth 15 shekels and a female 10 shekels.
If the person was poorer than Moses' valuation, then that person had to stand in front of the priest, who would set the value for him.
Animals and houses could be dedicated, with the priest setting the value if necessary. If he who dedicated his house wanted to buy it back, then he had to add a fifth part of the valuation, and it would be his.
A field of barley seed for example would be valued at 50 shekels of silver, and if he who had dedicated it wanted to buy it back, he had to add a fifth part of the money.
Yahweh at some points contradicted himself by saying that no thing devoted to Yahweh, whether man, animal, or of the field, could be bought back, and it should not be redeemed, on pain of death. However, if a man wanted at all to redeem anything out of his tithes, he had to add a fifth part.
These were commandments that Yahweh commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai.