Exodus 38:20-39:31

New King James Version

²⁰ All the ^(A)pegs of the tabernacle, and of the court all around, were bronze.

Materials of the Tabernacle

^21 [a]This is the inventory of the tabernacle, ^(B)the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, ^(C)by the hand of ^(D)Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

^22 (E)Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord had commanded Moses. ²³ And with him was ^(F)Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and ^[b]designer, a weaver of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine linen.

²⁴ All the gold that was used in all the work of the holy place, that is, the gold of the ^(G)offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to ^(H)the shekel of the sanctuary. ²⁵ And the silver from those who were ^(I)numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary: ^26 (J)a bekah for ^[c]each man (that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone included in the numbering from twenty years old and above, for ^(K)six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men. ²⁷ And from the hundred talents of silver were cast ^(L)the sockets of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil: one hundred sockets from the hundred talents, one talent for each socket. ²⁸ Then from the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and ^(M)made bands for them.

²⁹ The offering of bronze was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels. ³⁰ And with it he made the sockets for the door of the tabernacle of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils for the altar, ³¹ the sockets for the court all around, the bases for the court gate, all the pegs for the tabernacle, and all the pegs for the court all around.

Making the Garments of the Priesthood^(N)

39 Of the ^(O)blue, purple, and scarlet thread they made ^(P)garments^[d] of ministry, for ministering in the ^[e]holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, ^(Q)as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Making the Ephod

^2 (R)He made the ^(S)ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen. ³ And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into threads, to work it in with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and the fine linen, into artistic designs. ⁴ They made shoulder straps for it to couple it together; it was coupled together at its two edges. ⁵ And the intricately woven band of his ephod that was on it was of the same workmanship, woven of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^6 (T)And they set onyx stones, enclosed in ^[f]settings of gold; they were engraved, as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel. ⁷ He put them on the shoulders of the ephod as ^(U)memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Making the Breastplate

^8 (V)And he made the breastplate, artistically woven like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen. ⁹ They made the breastplate square by doubling it; a span was its length and a span its width when doubled. ^10 (W)And they set in it four rows of stones: a row with a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald was the first row; ¹¹ the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹² the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³ the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold in their mountings. ¹⁴ There were ^(X)twelve stones according to the names of the sons of Israel: according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes. ¹⁵ And they made chains for the breastplate at the ends, like braided cords of pure gold. ¹⁶ They also made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ¹⁷ And they put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate. ¹⁸ The two ends of the two braided chains they fastened in the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in the front. ¹⁹ And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was on the inward side of the ephod. ²⁰ They made two other gold rings and put them on the two shoulder straps, underneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod. ²¹ And they bound the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would be above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate would not come loose from the ephod, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Making the Other Priestly Garments

^22 (Y)He made the ^(Z)robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. ²³ And there was an opening in the middle of the robe, like the opening in a coat of mail, with a woven binding all around the opening, so that it would not tear. ²⁴ They made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet, and of fine woven linen. ²⁵ And they made ^(AA)bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates: ²⁶ a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to ^[g]minister in, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^27 (AB)They made tunics, artistically woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons, ^28 (AC)a turban of fine linen, exquisite hats of fine linen, ^(AD)short trousers of fine woven linen, ^29 (AE)and a sash of fine woven linen with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, made by a weaver, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^30 (AF)Then they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving of a signet:

^(AG)HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

³¹ And they tied to it a blue cord, to fasten it above on the turban, as the Lord had commanded Moses.