Sirach 45 — WBMS
45Verse 1And he kept to him men of mercy, finding grace in the sight of each man [or all flesh]. Moses was loved of God and of men; whose mind is in blessing.Verse 2He made him like in the glory of saints, and he magnified him in the dread of enemies;Verse 3and in his words he made peace-able the wonders against kind. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and he commanded to him before his people, and showed his glory to him [or he showed to him his glory].Verse 4In the faith and mildness of him God made him holy; and chose him of all men.Verse 5For he heard him, and his voice; and led him in to a cloud. And gave to him an heart to commandments, and to the law of life, and to teaching; to teach Jacob a testament [or his testament], and Israel his dooms.Verse 6He made high Aaron, his brother, and like him of the lineage of Levi.Verse 7He ordained to him an ever-lasting testament, or covenant, and gave to him the priesthood of the folk. And he made him blessful in glory, and girt him with a girdle of rightfulness [or he girded him about with the girdle of rightwiseness]; and [he] clothed him with a stole of glory, and crowned him in the ornaments or adornments of virtue.Verse 8He setted on him sandals, and breeches, and a cloth on the shoulders, [Shoes, and breeches, and cape he put to him,]Verse 9and girt him about with full many small [or little] golden bells in com-pass; to give sound in his going, [and] to make sound heard in the temple, into mind to the sons of his folk.Verse 10God gave to him an holy stole, a woven work, with gold and jacinth, and purple, [or blue violet silk, and sanguine silk], the work of a wise man, made rich with doom and truth or Urim and Thummim;Verse 11the work of a craftsman, in writhed red thread [or with fire-red silk folded again], with precious gems engraved [or figured] in the binding of gold, and engraved by the work of a craftsman of stones [or the lapidary], into mind, by [or after] the number of the lineages of Israel.Verse 12A golden [or gold] crown on his mitre, set forth with the sign of holiness, the glory of honour, and the work of virtue, adorned to [the] desire of eyes.Verse 13Such things so fair were not before him, unto the east. None alien was clothed therein [or There is not clothed with it any alien], but only his sons, and his sons’ sons alone, by all time.Verse 14His sacrifices were ended each day by fire.Verse 15Moses filled his hands, that is, made sacred, and anointed him with holy oil. It was made to him into everlasting testament, and to his seed as the days of heaven, to use [the office of] priesthood, and to have praising, that is, to have the office to praise God, and to glorify his people in his name.Verse 16God chose him of each living man, to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and good odour, into mind, for to please [or to make peace] for his people.Verse 17And he gave to him power in his commandments, and in the testa-ments of dooms, to teach Jacob witnessings, and in his law to give light to Israel.Verse 18For aliens stood against him, and men that were with Dathan and Abiram, and the congregation of Korah, in wrathfulness [or full wrath] encompassed him for envy, in desert.Verse 19The Lord saw, and it pleased not him; and they were wasted in the fierceness of wrathfulness. He made to them wonders against kind, and in the flame of fire he wasted them, for the earth swallowed them, and they went down quick into hell.Verse 20And he increased glory to Aaron, and gave heritage to him; and he parted [or divided] to Aaron the first things of fruits of the earth. He made ready [or prepared] his bread in the first things, into fullness;Verse 21for why and they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, which he gave to him, and to his seed.Verse 22But in the land of his folk he shall not have heritage, and no part is to him among the folk; for why God is the part and heritage of him.Verse 23Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, was the third in glory, in pursuing [or following] him in the dread of God, and to stand in the reverence of the folk; in the goodness and gladness of his soul he pleased God of Israel.Verse 24Therefore God ordained to him the testament of peace, and made him prince of holy men, and of his folk; that the dignity of priesthood be to him and to his seed, without end.Verse 25And the testament of David, the son of Jesse, of the lineage of Judah, was heritage to him, and to his seed;Verse 26that he should give wisdom into our hearts, to deem his folk in rightfulness [or rightwiseness], lest their goods shall be done away; and he made the glory of them to be ever-lasting, in the folk of them.