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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
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and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
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And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
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“Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
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The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
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(The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)
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The Song of Moses and Miriam
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.
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Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”
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The Ark
“Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
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The Table
“Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
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Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
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Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.
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The Altar of Burnt Offering
“Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
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The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
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For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
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It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high—its horns of one piece with it.
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Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the Lord.”
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You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.
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Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
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The Ark
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
