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They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
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Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us.
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
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This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.”
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Isn’t this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.’”
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So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.
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Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the Lord our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the Lord.”
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If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
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The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
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A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
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Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
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All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
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Have them use gold, and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
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Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it.
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Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord, making atonement for your lives.”
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Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law,
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The Tent of Meeting
Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.
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Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.
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The rings were put close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
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They made two gold rings below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it.
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The Materials Used
These are the amounts of the materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law, which were recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
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The total amount of the gold from the wave offering used for all the work on the sanctuary was 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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The 100 talents of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and for the curtain—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent for each base.
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They used the 1,775 shekels to make the hooks for the posts, to overlay the tops of the posts, and to make their bands.
