ifice a bull, and two rams, and seven lambs, and
a kid of the goats, for sins. And, besides these, they bring two kids of
the goats; the one of which is sent alive out of the limits of the camp
into the wilderness for the scapegoat, and to be an expiation for the
sins of the whole multitude; but the other is brought into a place of
great cleanness, within the limits of the camp, and is there burnt,
with its skin, without any sort of cleansing. With this goat was burnt
a bull, not brought by the people, but by the high priest, at his own
charges; which, when it was slain, he brought of the blood into the holy
place, together with the blood of the kid of the goats, and sprinkled
the ceiling with his finger seven times, as also its pavement, and again
as often toward the most holy place, and about the golden altar: he also
at last brings it into the open court, and sprinkles it about the great
altar. Besides this, they set the extremities, and the kidneys, and
the fat, with the lobe of the liver, upon the altar. The high priest
likewise presents a ram to God as a burnt-offering.

4. Upon the fifteenth day of the same month, when the season of the year
is changing for winter, the law enjoins us to pitch tabernacles in every
one of our houses, so that we preserve ourselves from the cold of that
time of the year; as also that when we should arrive at our own country,
and come to that city which we should have then for our metropolis,
because of the temple therein to be built, and keep a festival for eight
days, and offer burnt-offerings, and sacrifice thank-offerings, that
we should then carry in our hands a branch of myrtle, and willow, and a
bough of the palm-tree, with the addition of the pome citron: That
the burnt-offering on the first of those days was to be a sacrifice of
thirteen bulls, and fourteen lambs, and fifteen rams, with the addition
of a kid of the goats, as an expiation for sins; and on the following
days the same number of lambs, and of rams, with the kids of the goats;
but abating one of the bulls every day till they amounted to seven only.
On the eighth day all work was laid aside, and then, as we said before,
they sacrificed to God a bullock, a ram, and seven lambs, with a kid
of the goats, for an expiation of sins. And this is the accustomed
solemnity of the Hebrews, when they pitch their tabernacles.

5. In the month of Xanthicus, which is by us called Nisan, and is the
beginning of our year, on the fo