Exodus 25-31

Modern English Version

Offerings for the Tabernacle^(A)

25 The Lord said to Moses: ² Tell the children of Israel to bring Me an offering. From every man who gives willingly with his heart you shall receive My offering. ³ This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze, ⁴ blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, ⁵ rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood, ⁶ oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for fragrant incense, ⁷ onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.

⁸ Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. ⁹ According to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture—you shall make it just so.

The Ark of the Covenant^(B)

¹⁰ They shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.^{[a] 11} You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out shall you overlay it, and you shall make a gold border around it. ¹² You shall cast four gold rings for it and put them on the four feet with two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it. ¹³ You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴ You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. ¹⁵ The poles must remain in the rings of the ark. They must not be removed from it. ¹⁶ You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

¹⁷ You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. ¹⁸ You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹ Make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end. From the mercy seat you shall make the cherubim on its two ends. ²⁰ The cherubim shall stretch forth their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another. The faces of the cherubim are to face toward the mercy seat. ²¹ You shall put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. ²² I will meet with you there, and I will meet with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony. I will speak with you all that I will command you for the children of Israel.

The Table for the Showbread^(C)

²³ You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a half cubit high.^{[b] 24} You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it. ²⁵ You shall make a border around it of a handbreadth, and you shall make a gold molding for the frame all around. ²⁶ You shall make four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that are on its four feet. ²⁷ The rings shall be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table. ²⁸ You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them. ²⁹ You shall make the dishes, its spoons, its pitchers, and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings. You shall make them of pure gold. ³⁰ You shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.

The Gold Lampstand^(D)

³¹ You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base and its shaft are to be made of hammered metal. Its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece. ³² Six branches shall go out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side. ³³ Three cups shall be made shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms on one branch, and three cups made like almond flowers in the other branch, with buds and blossoms, and the same for the six branches that come out of the lampstand. ³⁴ On the lampstand shall be four cups shaped like almond flowers, with their buds and their blossoms. ³⁵ There shall be a bud under two branches of the same, and a bud under two branches of the same, and a bud under the next two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the lampstand. ³⁶ Their buds and their branches shall be of the same piece, all of it shall be one hammered work of pure gold.

³⁷ You shall make its seven lamps, and they shall light its lamps so that they may give light to the area in front of it. ³⁸ Its snuffers and their snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. ³⁹ It shall be made from a talent^[c] of pure gold along with all these utensils. ⁴⁰ See that you make them according to their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.

The Tabernacle^(E)

26 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled workman. ² The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits.^[d] All of the curtains shall have the same measurements. ³ Five curtains shall be joined together, one to another. And the other five curtains are to be joined, one to another. ⁴ You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the end curtain in one set, and likewise you shall make loops in the outermost edge of the end curtain in the second set. ⁵ You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second set. The loops are to be opposite to one another. ⁶ You shall make fifty clasps of gold and join the curtains together with the clasps so that the tabernacle shall be one unit.

⁷ You shall make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains. ⁸ The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits,^[e] and the eleven curtains shall all have the same measure. ⁹ You shall join five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. You shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tabernacle. ¹⁰ You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that joins the second set. ¹¹ You shall make fifty bronze clasps, and put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together so that it may be one unit. ¹² The part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. ¹³ A cubit^[f] on the one side and a cubit on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side to cover it. ¹⁴ You shall make a covering for the tent out of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering above of porpoise skins.

¹⁵ You shall make boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. ¹⁶ Ten cubits^[g] shall be the length of each board, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of each board. ¹⁷ There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another. You shall make all the boards of the tabernacle in this way. ¹⁸ You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side. ¹⁹ You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ²⁰ For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, there shall be twenty boards, ²¹ and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²² For the back of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards. ²³ You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the back. ²⁴ They shall be doubled together beneath and finished together at the top of it into one ring. So it shall be for both of them. They shall form the two corners. ²⁵ There shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

²⁶ You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷ and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the back to the west. ²⁸ The middle bar in the center of the boards shall reach from end to end. ²⁹ You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

³⁰ You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan which you have been shown on the mountain.

³¹ You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim, the skillful work of a workman. ³² You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks also shall be of gold on four sockets of silver. ³³ You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, so that you may bring in the ark of the testimony within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the Most Holy. ³⁴ You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy. ³⁵ You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south, and you shall put the table on the north side.

³⁶ You shall make a screen for the doorway of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. ³⁷ You shall make five pillars of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold, with their hooks also made of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

The Altar of Burnt Offering^(F)

27 You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide.^[h] The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.^{[i] 2} You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be part of it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. ³ You shall make its pots for its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all of its vessels out of bronze. ⁴ You shall make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. ⁵ You shall put it under the ledge of the altar beneath, so that the net will reach halfway up the altar. ⁶ You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. ⁷ The poles shall be put into the rings, so that the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. ⁸ You shall make it hollow with boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

The Court of the Tabernacle^(G)

⁹ You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be curtains for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long^[j] for one side; ¹⁰ and it shall have twenty pillars with twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver. ¹¹ Likewise for the north side in length there shall be curtains one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

¹² For the width of the court on the west side shall be curtains of fifty cubits^[k] with their ten pillars and their ten sockets. ¹³ The width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits. ¹⁴ The curtains on one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits^[l] with their three pillars and their three sockets. ¹⁵ On the other side shall be curtains fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three sockets.

¹⁶ For the gate of the court there shall be a curtain of twenty cubits,^[m] of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with their four pillars and their four sockets. ¹⁷ All the pillars around about the court shall be furnished with silver bands. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of bronze. ¹⁸ The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty^[n] throughout, and the height five cubits^[o] of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze. ¹⁹ All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the court shall be of bronze.

The Oil for the Lamp^(H)

²⁰ You shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of olive pressed for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually. ²¹ In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a perpetual statute for the children of Israel for generations to come.

The Priestly Garments

28 And bring near to yourself Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him from among the children of Israel, so that they may minister to Me as priests—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. ² You shall make holy garments for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty. ³ You shall speak to all who are specially skilled, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as a priest. ⁴ These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and an embroidered coat, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest. ⁵ They shall take the gold, the blue, the purple, and the scarlet, and fine linen.

The Ephod^(I)

⁶ They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of a skilled workman. ⁷ It shall have the two shoulder pieces attached to its two corners, so it shall be joined together. ⁸ The skillfully woven waistband of the ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, of the same material: of gold, of blue and purple, and scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

⁹ You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel, ¹⁰ six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. ¹¹ With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. You shall set them in filigree of gold. ¹² You shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod as stones of memorial for the children of Israel, and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders as a memorial. ¹³ You shall make filigree settings of gold, ¹⁴ and two chains of pure gold. You shall make them of twisted cord and fasten the braided chains to the filigree settings.

The Breastplate^(J)

¹⁵ You shall make the breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman. You shall make it in the same manner as the ephod. Of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twisted linen you shall make it. ¹⁶ It is to be square when doubled: a span^[p] in length and a span in width. ¹⁷ You shall set in it four rows of stones. The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle; ¹⁸ the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹⁹ the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰ and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold filigree. ²¹ The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, each like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name for the twelve tribes.

²² You shall make for the breastplate braided chains of pure gold. ²³ You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴ You shall put the two braided chains of gold on the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate. ²⁵ You shall fasten the other two ends of the two braided chains in the two filigree settings and put them on the front of the shoulder pieces of the ephod. ²⁶ You shall make two rings of gold and shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it which is toward the inner side of the ephod. ²⁷ You shall make two other rings of gold and shall put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath toward the front, close to the place where it is joined above the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod. ²⁸ They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it may be above the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastplate will not come loose from the ephod.

²⁹ Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel on the breastplate of judgment over his heart when he goes into the holy place, as a memorial before the Lord continually. ³⁰ You shall put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate of judgment, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord. And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually.

Other Priestly Garments^(K)

³¹ You shall make the robe of the ephod completely blue. ³² There shall be a hole at the top of it, in the middle of it. Around its opening it shall have a binding of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn. ³³ You shall make on its hem pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem, and bells of gold between them all around: ³⁴ a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, all around on the hem of the robe. ³⁵ It shall be on Aaron when he ministers. And its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.

³⁶ You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet,

HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

³⁷ You shall put it on a blue cord, so that it may be upon the turban. It is to be on the front of the turban. ³⁸ It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, so that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel shall consecrate in regard to all their holy gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be accepted before the Lord.

³⁹ You shall embroider the tunic of fine linen, and you shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make the sash, the work of an embroiderer. ⁴⁰ For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics. You shall make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty. ⁴¹ You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.

⁴² You shall make linen undergarments for them to cover their naked skin. They shall reach from the waist to the thighs. ⁴³ They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tent of meeting or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they may not bear iniquity and die.

It shall be a perpetual statute to him and his descendants after him.

Consecration of the Priests^(L)

29 Now this is the thing that you shall do to them to consecrate them, to minister as priests to Me: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish, ² and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil—you shall make them of wheat flour. ³ You shall put them into one basket and bring them in the basket with the bull and the two rams. ⁴ Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. ⁵ You shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod. ⁶ And you shall put the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban. ⁷ Then shall you take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. ⁸ You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them. ⁹ You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the headbands on them, and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute.

Thus you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

¹⁰ Then you shall bring a bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bull. ¹¹ You shall kill the bull before the Lord by the door of the tent of meeting. ¹² You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. ¹³ You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. ¹⁴ But the flesh of the bull, its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.

¹⁵ You shall also take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁶ You shall slay the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar. ¹⁷ Then you shall cut the ram in pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head. ¹⁸ You shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹⁹ Then you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram. ²⁰ You shall kill the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar. ²¹ You shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. So he and his garments shall be consecrated, along with his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

²² Also you shall take the fat and the rump of the ram, and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them and the right shoulder (for it is a ram of consecration), ²³ and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord. ²⁴ And you shall put all of these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. ²⁵ Then you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord. ²⁶ You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion.

²⁷ You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priest’s portion that is contributed from the ram of the consecration, from that which was for Aaron and from that which was for his sons. ²⁸ It shall be for Aaron and his sons by a statute forever, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the children of Israel from their peace offerings, their contributions to the Lord.

²⁹ The holy garments belonging to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they may be anointed in them and be consecrated in them. ³⁰ The son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

³¹ You shall take the ram of the consecration and boil its flesh in a holy place. ³² Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the tent of meeting. ³³ They shall eat those things by which the atonement was made in order to consecrate and sanctify them, but no one else shall eat them, because they are holy. ³⁴ If any of the flesh from the consecrations or from the bread remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

³⁵ Thus shall you do to Aaron and his sons according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them for seven days. ³⁶ Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you must cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You must anoint it to consecrate it. ³⁷ For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches the altar will be holy.

The Daily Offerings

³⁸ Now this is what you are to offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs every day, continually. ³⁹ The one lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer at sundown. ⁴⁰ And with the first lamb will be a tenth of an ephah^[q] of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin^[r] of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹ The other lamb you must offer at sundown and must offer with it the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁴² This will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. ⁴³ I will meet there with the children of Israel, and it will be consecrated by My glory.

⁴⁴ I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister as priests to Me. ⁴⁵ I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. ⁴⁶ Then they will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

The Altar of Incense^(M)

30 Also, you must make an altar for burning incense. You must make it of acacia wood. ² It must be a cubit in length, and its width a cubit. It will be square. Its height will be two cubits;^[s] the horns shall be of one piece with it. ³ You must overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides all around, and its horns; and you must make a molding of gold all around it. ⁴ You must make two golden rings for it under its molding. You must make them on its two sides, on opposite sides of it, and they will be holders for the poles with which to carry it. ⁵ Then you must make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ⁶ You must put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

⁷ Aaron must burn sweet incense on it. Every morning, when he trims the lamps, he must burn incense. ⁸ When Aaron lights the lamps at sundown, he must burn incense on it. It is to be a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. ⁹ You must offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor grain offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it. ¹⁰ Aaron must make atonement on its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. Once a year he must make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.

The Atonement Money

¹¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹² When you take the census of the children of Israel according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the Lord when you count them, so that there be no plague among them when you number them. ¹³ This is what everyone who is counted must give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary^[t] (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half shekel will be the offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and above, must give an offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ The rich must not give more and the poor must not give less than half a shekel when they give the offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your lives. ¹⁶ You must take the atonement money of the children of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, so that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.

The Bronze Basin

¹⁷ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁸ You must also make a basin of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing, and you must put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you must put water in it. ¹⁹ For Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it. ²⁰ When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the Lord, they must wash with water so that they will not die. ²¹ So they must wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die. And it will be a perpetual statute for them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

The Anointing Oil

²² Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²³ Take for yourself choice spices: five hundred shekels^[u] of pure myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels^[v]), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane, ²⁴ five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin^[w] of olive oil. ²⁵ And you must make with it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil. ²⁶ And you must anoint the tent of meeting with it, along with the ark of the testimony, ²⁷ and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, ²⁸ and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand. ²⁹ You must consecrate them, so that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them must be holy.

³⁰ You must anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them, so that they may minister as priests to Me. ³¹ You must speak to the children of Israel, saying, “This will be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations. ³² It must not be poured out on anyone’s body, nor shall you make any other like it in composition. It is holy, and it will be holy to you. ³³ Whoever makes anything like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman will be cut off from his people.”

The Incense

³⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses: Take for yourself sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense of equal amounts. ³⁵ You shall make of these an incense, a compound expertly blended, mingled with salt, pure and holy. ³⁶ You must beat some of it very fine and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you. It will be most holy to you. ³⁷ As for the perfume which you will make, you may not make it for yourselves using the same recipe. It must be holy for the Lord to you. ³⁸ Whoever makes anything like it in order to use it as perfume must be cut off from his people.

The Tabernacle Artisans^(N)

31 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. ³ I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of craftsmanship ⁴ to devise artistic works for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze, ⁵ and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of craftsmanship. ⁶ I, indeed, I have given him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, and I have given skill to all who are specially skilled, that they may make everything that I have commanded you: ⁷ the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tent, ⁸ the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, ⁹ the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, ¹⁰ the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests, ¹¹ the anointing oil and sweet incense for the holy place. They must make them according to all that I have commanded you.

The Sabbath Law

¹² The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹³ Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, “You must surely keep My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

¹⁴ “You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who defiles it will surely be put to death. For whoever does any work on it, that person will be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵ Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death. ¹⁶ Therefore the children of Israel must keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷ It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever, for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”

¹⁸ When He had made an end of communing with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.