Materials for the Tabernacle

²¹ These are the records of the tabernacle, ^(A)the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites ^(B)under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had ^(A)the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses ^(B)directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.

⁶ So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem ^(A)the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the congregation of Israel for ^(B)the tent of testimony?”

Israel Leaves Sinai

¹¹ In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, ^(A)the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

^15 (A)On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And ^(B)at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

⁵³ But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no ^(A)wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. ^(B)And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.”

^50 (A)But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it ^(B)and shall camp around the tabernacle.

² And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may ^(A)join you and ^(B)minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

⁷ And Moses deposited the staffs before the Lord in ^(A)the tent of the testimony.

⁸ On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

²³ Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of ^(A)Amminadab and the sister of ^(B)Nahshon, and she bore him ^(C)Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.