it me; they took and gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and thereof came out this calf.  And then said Moses:  All they that be of God’s part and have not sinned in this calf let them join to me; and the children of Levi joined to him, and he bade each man take a sword on his side and take vengeance and slay every each his brother, friend, and his neighbor that have trespassed.  And so the children of Levi went and slew thirty-three thousand of the children of Israel.  And then said Moses:  Ye have hallowed this day your hands unto our Lord, and ye shall be therefore blessed.  The second day Moses spake to the people and said:  Ye have committed and done the greatest sin that may be.  I shall ascend unto our Lord again, and shall pray him for your sin.  Then Moses ascended again, and received afterward two tables again, which our Lord bade him make.  And therein our Lord wrote the commandments.  And after, our Lord commanded him to make an ark and a tabernacle:  in which ark was kept three things.  First the rod with which he did marvels, a pot full of manna, and the two tables with commandments.  And then after Moses taught them the law; how each man should behave him against other and what he should do, and what he should not do, and departed them into twelve tribes, and commanded that every man should bring a rod into the Tabernacle.  And Moses wrote each name on the rod, and Moses shut fast the tabernacle.  And on the morn there was found one of the rods that burgeoned and bare leaves and fruit, and was of an almond tree.  That rod fell to Aaron.

And after this, long time, the children desired to eat flesh and remembered of the flesh that they ate in Egypt, and grudged against Moses, and would have ordained to them a duke for to have returned into Egypt.  Wherefore Moses was so woe that he desired of our Lord to deliver him from this life, because he saw them so unkind against God.  Then God sent to them so great plenty of curlews that two days and one night they flew so thick by the ground that they took great number, for they flew but the height of two cubits.  And they had so many that they dried them hanging on their tabernacles and tents.  Yet were they not content, but ever grudging, wherefore God smote them and took vengeance on them by a great plague and many died and were buried there.  And then from thence they went into Hazeroth and dwelt.  After this Miriam and Aaron, brother and sister of Moses, began to speak against Moses, because of his wife which was of Ethiopia, and said:  God hath not spoken only by Moses, hath he not also spoken to us?  Wherefore our Lord was wroth.  Moses was the humblest and the meekest man that was in all the world.  Anon then, our Lord said to him, and to Aaron and to Miriam:  Go ye three only unto the tabernacle; and there our Lord said that there was none like to Moses, to whom he had spoken mouth to mouth, and reproved Aaron and Miriam because they spake so to Moses, and being wroth, departed from