With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"

"Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form--only a voice.

"So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece.

Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants, And our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace;

And behold, one who resembled a human being was touching my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who was standing before me, "O my lord, as a result of the vision anguish has come upon me, and I have retained no strength.

I have also spoken to the prophets, And I gave numerous visions, And through the prophets I gave parables.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;