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[204]
Now when Moses had bestowed such honorary presents on the workmen,
as it was fit they should receive, who had wrought so well, he offered
sacrifices in the open court of the tabernacle, as God commanded him; a
bull, a ram, and a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering. Now I shall speak
of what we do in our sacred offices in my discourse about sacrifices; and
therein shall inform men in what cases Moses bid us offer a whole burnt-offering,
and in what cases the law permits us to partake of them as of food. And
when Moses had sprinkled Aaron's vestments, himself, and his sons, with
the blood of the beasts that were slain, and had purified them with spring
waters and ointment, they became God's priests. After this manner did he
consecrate them and their garments for seven days together. The same he
did to the tabernacle, and the vessels thereto belonging, both with oil
first incensed, as I said, and with the blood of bulls and of rams, slain
day by day one, according to its kind. But on the eighth day he appointed
a feast for the people, and commanded them to offer sacrifice according
to their ability. Accordingly they contended one with another, and were
ambitious to exceed each other in the sacrifices which they brought, and
so fulfilled Moses's injunctions. But as the sacrifices lay upon the altar,
a sudden fire was kindled from among them of its own accord, and appeared
to the sight like fire from a flash of lightning, and consumed whatsoever
was upon the altar.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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