Catholic Public Domain Version

Sirach 45:14-25 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

14. He provided him with a crown of gold upon his headdress, on which was written a symbol of holiness, a mark of honor. This was a work of virtue and a delight to the eyes in its beauty.

15. Prior to him, there was no one of such beauty, even from the beginning.

16. No foreigner was ever clothed with these things, but only his sons and his descendents alone, for all time.

17. His sacrifices were consumed by fire daily.

18. Moses filled his hands and anointed him with holy oil.

19. An eternal covenant was made, with him and with his offspring, like the days of heaven, to execute the office of the priesthood, and to give praise and to glorify his people, in his name.

20. He chose him from among all living men to offer to God sacrifice, incense, and a pleasing fragrance, as a memorial of appeasement on behalf of his people.

21. And he gave him authority by his precepts, in the covenants of his judgments, to teach Jacob his testimonies, and to give light by his law to Israel.

22. Then strangers stood up against him, and, because of envy, the men who were with Dathan and Abiram surrounded him in the desert, along with the congregation of Korah, in their anger.

23. The Lord God saw this, and it did not please him, and so they were consumed by the force of his anger.

24. He wrought great portents among them, and he consumed them with a flame of fire.

25. And he added glory to Aaron, and he gave him an inheritance, and he allotted to him the first-fruits of the earth.