Exodus 39
New King James Version
Making the Garments of the Priesthood(A)
39 Of the (B)blue, purple, and scarlet thread they made (C)garments[a] of ministry, for ministering in the [b]holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, (D)as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Making the Ephod
2 (E)He made the (F)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 (G)And they set onyx stones, enclosed in [c]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 (H)memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Making the Breastplate
8 (I)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 (J)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 (K)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 (L)He made the (M)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 (N)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 [d]minister in, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
27 (O)They made tunics, artistically woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons, 28 (P)a turban of fine linen, exquisite hats of fine linen, (Q)short trousers of fine woven linen, 29 (R)and a sash of fine woven linen with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, made by a weaver, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
30 (S)Then they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving of a signet:
(T)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.
The Work Completed(U)
32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was (V)finished. And the children of Israel did (W)according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did. 33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; 34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of badger skins, and the veil of the covering; 35 the ark of the Testimony with its poles, and the mercy seat; 36 the table, all its utensils, and the (X)showbread; 37 the pure gold lampstand with its lamps (the lamps set in order), all its utensils, and the oil for light; 38 the gold altar, the anointing oil, and the sweet incense; the screen for the tabernacle door; 39 the bronze altar, its grate of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver with its base; 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pegs; all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 41 and the [e]garments of ministry, to [f]minister in the holy place: the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister as priests.
42 According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel (Y)did all the work. 43 Then Moses looked over all the work, and indeed they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, just so they had done it. And Moses (Z)blessed them.
Footnotes
- Exodus 39:1 Or woven garments
- Exodus 39:1 sanctuary
- Exodus 39:6 plaited work
- Exodus 39:26 serve
- Exodus 39:41 Or woven garments
- Exodus 39:41 serve
Exode 39
Louis Segond
39 Avec les étoffes teintes en bleu, en pourpre et en cramoisi, on fit les vêtements d'office pour le service dans le sanctuaire, et on fit les vêtements sacrés pour Aaron, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
2 On fit l'éphod d'or, de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi, et de fin lin retors.
3 On étendit des lames d'or, et on les coupa en fils, que l'on entrelaça dans les étoffes teintes en bleu, en pourpre et en cramoisi, et dans le fin lin; il était artistement travaillé.
4 On y fit des épaulettes qui le joignaient, et c'est ainsi qu'il était joint par ses deux extrémités.
5 La ceinture était du même travail que l'éphod et fixée sur lui; elle était d'or, de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi, et de fin lin retors, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
6 On entoura de montures d'or des pierres d'onyx, sur lesquelles on grava les noms des fils d'Israël, comme on grave les cachets.
7 On les mit sur les épaulettes de l'éphod, en souvenir des fils d'Israël, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
8 On fit le pectoral, artistement travaillé, du même travail que l'éphod, d'or, de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi, et de fin lin retors.
9 Il était carré; on fit le pectoral double: sa longueur était d'un empan, et sa largeur d'un empan; il était double.
10 On le garnit de quatre rangées de pierres: première rangée, une sardoine, une topaze, une émeraude;
11 seconde rangée, une escarboucle, un saphir, un diamant;
12 troisième rangée, une opale, une agate, une améthyste;
13 quatrième rangée, une chrysolithe, un onyx, un jaspe. Ces pierres étaient enchâssées dans leurs montures d'or.
14 Il y en avait douze, d'après les noms des fils d'Israël; elles étaient gravées comme des cachets, chacune avec le nom de l'une des douze tribus. -
15 On fit sur le pectoral des chaînettes d'or pur, tressées en forme de cordons.
16 On fit deux montures d'or et deux anneaux d'or, et on mit les deux anneaux aux deux extrémités du pectoral.
17 On passa les deux cordons d'or dans les deux anneaux aux deux extrémités du pectoral;
18 on arrêta par devant les bouts des deux cordons aux deux montures placées sur les épaulettes de l'éphod. -
19 On fit encore deux anneaux d'or, que l'on mit aux deux extrémités du pectoral, sur le bord intérieur appliqué contre l'éphod.
20 On fit deux autres anneaux d'or, que l'on mit au bas des deux épaulettes de l'éphod, sur le devant, près de la jointure, au-dessus de la ceinture de l'éphod.
21 On attacha le pectoral par ses anneaux aux anneaux de l'éphod avec un cordon bleu, afin que le pectoral fût au-dessus de la ceinture de l'éphod et qu'il ne pût pas se séparer de l'éphod, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
22 On fit la robe de l'éphod, tissée entièrement d'étoffe bleue.
23 Il y avait, au milieu de la robe, une ouverture comme l'ouverture d'une cotte de mailles, et cette ouverture était bordée tout autour, afin que la robe ne se déchirât pas.
24 On mit sur la bordure de la robe des grenades de couleur bleue, pourpre et cramoisi, en fil retors;
25 on fit des clochettes d'or pur, et on mit les clochettes entre les grenades, sur tout le tour de la bordure de la robe, entre les grenades:
26 une clochette et une grenade, une clochette et une grenade, sur tout le tour de la bordure de la robe, pour le service, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
27 On fit les tuniques de fin lin, tissées, pour Aaron et pour ses fils;
28 la tiare de fin lin, et les bonnets de fin lin servant de parure; les caleçons de lin, de fin lin retors;
29 la ceinture de fin lin retors, brodée, et de couleur bleue, pourpre et cramoisie, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
30 On fit d'or pur la lame, diadème sacré, et l'on y écrivit, comme on grave un cachet: Sainteté à l'Éternel.
31 On l'attacha avec un cordon bleu à la tiare, en haut, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
32 Ainsi furent achevés tous les ouvrages du tabernacle, de la tente d'assignation. Les enfants d'Israël firent tout ce que l'Éternel avait ordonné à Moïse; ils firent ainsi.
33 On amena le tabernacle à Moïse: la tente et tout ce qui en dépendait, les agrafes, les planches, les barres, les colonnes et les bases;
34 la couverture de peaux de béliers teintes en rouge, la couverture de peaux de dauphins, et le voile de séparation;
35 l'arche du témoignage et ses barres, et le propitiatoire;
36 la table, tous ses ustensiles, et les pains de proposition;
37 le chandelier d'or pur, ses lampes, les lampes préparées, tous ses ustensiles, et l'huile pour le chandelier;
38 l'autel d'or, l'huile d'onction et le parfum odoriférant, et le rideau de l'entrée de la tente;
39 l'autel d'airain, sa grille d'airain, ses barres, et tous ses ustensiles; la cuve avec sa base;
40 les toiles du parvis, ses colonnes, ses bases, et le rideau de la porte du parvis, ses cordages, ses pieux, et tous les ustensiles pour le service du tabernacle, pour la tente d'assignation;
41 les vêtements d'office pour le sanctuaire, les vêtements sacrés pour le sacrificateur Aaron, et les vêtements de ses fils pour les fonctions du sacerdoce.
42 Les enfants d'Israël firent tous ces ouvrages, en se conformant à tous les ordres que l'Éternel avait donnés à Moïse.
43 Moïse examina tout le travail; et voici, ils l'avaient fait comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné, ils l'avaient fait ainsi. Et Moïse les bénit.
Exodus 39
English Standard Version
Making the Priestly Garments
39 From the (A)blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made (B)finely woven garments,[a] for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, (C)as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2 (D)He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 3 And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design. 4 They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges. 5 And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
6 They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 7 And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
8 (E)He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 9 It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span[b] its length and a span its breadth when doubled. 10 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 11 and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 13 and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. 14 There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 15 And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold. 16 And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 17 And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. 18 They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. 19 Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 20 And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 21 And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22 (F)He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue, 23 and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear. 24 On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 25 They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates— 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe for ministering, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
27 (G)They also made the coats, woven of fine (H)linen, for Aaron and his sons, 28 and the (I)turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twined linen, 29 and the sash of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
30 (J)They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the Lord.” 31 And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the people of Israel did (K)according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did. 33 Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 34 the covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins, and the (L)veil of the screen; 35 the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat; 36 the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 37 (M)the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light; 38 (N)the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and (O)the screen for the entrance of the tent; 39 the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin and its stand; 40 (P)the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the (Q)screen for the gate of the court, its (R)cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their service as priests. 42 (S)According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work. 43 And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses (T)blessed them.
Footnotes
- Exodus 39:1 Or garments for worship
- Exodus 39:9 A span was about 9 inches or 22 centimeters
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