With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.

"Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, "O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.

I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.