Exodus 24-27

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

24 God said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu [Aaron’s sons], and seventy of Israel’s elders, and worship at a distance.

² Moses alone shall come near the Lord; the others shall not come near, and neither shall the people come up with him.

³ Moses came and told the people all that the Lord had said and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, All that the Lord has spoken we will do.

⁴ Moses ^[a]wrote all the words of the Lord. He rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve pillars representing Israel’s twelve tribes.

⁵ And he sent young Israelite men, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.

⁶ And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he dashed against the altar.

⁷ Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people; and they said, All that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.

⁸ And Moses took the [remaining half of the] blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.^(A)

⁹ Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside].

¹⁰ And they saw the God of Israel [that is, a convincing manifestation of His presence], and under His feet it was like pavement of bright sapphire stone, like the very heavens in clearness.^(B)

¹¹ And upon the nobles of the Israelites He laid not His hand [to conceal Himself from them, to rebuke their daring, or to harm them]; but they saw [the manifestation of the presence of] God, and ate and drank.^(C)

¹² And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to Me into the mountain and be there, and I will give you tables of stone, with the law and the commandments which ^[b]I have written that you may teach them.^(D)

¹³ So Moses rose up with Joshua his attendant; and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

¹⁴ And he said to the elders, Tarry here for us until we come back to you; remember, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a cause, let him go to them.

¹⁵ Then Moses went up into the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

¹⁶ The glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day [God] called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷ And the glory of the Lord appeared to the Israelites like devouring fire on the top of the mountain.

¹⁸ Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and nights.

25 And the Lord said to Moses,

² Speak to the Israelites, that they take for Me an offering. From every man who gives it willingly and ungrudgingly with his heart you shall take My offering.

³ This is the offering you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

⁴ Blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen and goats’ hair,

⁵ Rams’ skins tanned red, goatskins, dolphin or porpoise skins, acacia wood,

⁶ Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense,

⁷ Onyx stones, and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastplate.

⁸ Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.^(E)

⁹ And you shall make it according to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle or dwelling and the pattern of all the furniture of it.

¹⁰ They shall 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.

¹¹ You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold crown, a rim or border, around its top.

¹² You shall cast four gold rings and attach them to the four lower corners of it, two rings on either side.

¹³ You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,

¹⁴ And put the poles through the rings on the ark’s sides, by which to carry it.

¹⁵ The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [that the ark be not touched].

¹⁶ And you shall put inside the ark the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] which I will give you.

¹⁷ And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.

¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.

¹⁹ Make one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it.

²⁰ And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, facing each other and looking down toward the mercy seat.

²¹ You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] that I will give you.

²² There I will meet with you and, from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the Testimony, I will speak intimately with you of all which I will give you in commandment to the Israelites.

²³ Also, make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high [for the showbread].

²⁴ You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a crown, a rim or molding, of gold around the top of it;

²⁵ And make a frame of a handbreadth around and below the top of it and put around it a gold molding as a border.

²⁶ You shall make for it four rings of gold and fasten them at the four corners that are on the table’s four legs.

²⁷ Close against the frame shall the rings be as places for the poles to pass to carry the table [of showbread].

²⁸ You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

²⁹ And you shall make its plates [for showbread] and cups [for incense], and its flagons and bowls [for liquids in sacrifice]; make them of pure gold.

³⁰ And you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always.^(F)

³¹ You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of beaten and turned work shall the lampstand be made, both its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

³² Six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches out of its other side;

³³ Three cups made like almond blossoms, each with a knob and a flower on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch with a knob and a flower; so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand;

³⁴ And on the [center shaft] itself you shall [make] four cups like almond blossoms with their knobs and their flowers.

³⁵ Also make a knob [on the shaft] under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand and one piece with it;

³⁶ Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

³⁷ And you shall make the lamps of the [lampstand] to include a ^[c]seventh one [at the top of the shaft]. [The priests] shall set up the [seven] lamps of it so they may give light in front of it.

³⁸ Its snuffers and its ashtrays shall be of pure gold.

³⁹ Use a talent of pure gold for it, including all these utensils.

⁴⁰ And see to it that you copy [exactly] their pattern which was shown you on the mountain.^(G)

26 Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet [stuff], with cherubim skillfully embroidered shall you make them.

² The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; each of the curtains shall measure the same.

³ The five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

⁴ And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and likewise in the second set.

⁵ Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the last curtain that is in the second coupling or set, so that the loops on one correspond to the loops on the other.

⁶ And you shall make fifty clasps of gold and fasten the curtains together with the clasps; then the tabernacle shall be one whole.

⁷ And make curtains of goats’ hair to be a [second] covering over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.

⁸ One curtain shall be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; and the eleven curtains shall all measure the same.

⁹ You shall join together five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the front of the tabernacle [to make a closed door].

¹⁰ And make fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the second set.

¹¹ You shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together, that it may be one whole.

¹² The surplus that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

¹³ And the cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.

¹⁴ You shall make a [third] covering for the tent of rams’ skins tanned red, and a [fourth] covering above that of dolphin or porpoise skins.

¹⁵ And you shall make the upright frame for the tabernacle of boards of acacia wood.

¹⁶ Ten cubits shall be the length of a board and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

¹⁷ Make two tenons in each board for dovetailing and fitting together; so shall you do for all the tabernacle boards.

¹⁸ And make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;

¹⁹ And you shall make forty silver sockets under the twenty boards, two sockets under each board for its two tenons.

²⁰ And for the north side of the tabernacle there shall be twenty boards

²¹ And their forty silver sockets, two sockets under each board.

²² For the back or west side of the tabernacle you shall make six boards.

²³ Make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear on both sides.

²⁴ They shall be coupled down below and coupled together on top with one ring. Thus shall it be for both of them; they shall form the two corners.

²⁵ And that will be eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under each board.

²⁶ And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of one side,

²⁷ And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the rear end of the tabernacle, for the back wall to the west.

²⁸ And the middle bar halfway up the boards shall pass through from end to end.

²⁹ You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold to hold the bars and overlay the bars with gold.

³⁰ You shall erect the tabernacle after the plan of it shown you on the mountain.

³¹ And make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, skillfully worked with cherubim on it.

³² You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, on four sockets of silver.

³³ And you shall hang the veil from the clasps and bring the ark of the Testimony into place within the veil; and the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

³⁴ And you shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.

³⁵ And you shall set the table [for the showbread] outside the veil [in the Holy Place] on the north side and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.

³⁶ You shall make a hanging [to form a screen] for the door of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, embroidered.^(H)

³⁷ You shall make five pillars of acacia wood to support the hanging curtain and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five [base] sockets of bronze for them.

27 And make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits square and three cubits high [within reach of all].

² Make horns for it on its four corners; they shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

³ You shall make pots to take away its ashes, and shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.

⁴ Also make for it a grate, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.

⁵ And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the net will extend halfway down the altar.

⁶ And make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood overlaid with bronze.

⁷ The poles shall be put through the rings on the two sides of the altar, with which to carry it.^(I)

⁸ You shall make [the altar] hollow with slabs or planks; as shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.

⁹ And you shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;

¹⁰ Their pillars shall be twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their joinings shall be of silver;

¹¹ Likewise for the north side hangings, a hundred cubits long, and their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their joinings shall be of silver.

¹² And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten sockets.

¹³ The breadth of the court to the front, the east side, shall be fifty cubits.

¹⁴ The hangings for one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three sockets.

¹⁵ On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three sockets.

¹⁶ And for the gate of the court there shall be a hanging [for a screen] twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, embroidered. It shall have four pillars and four sockets for them.

¹⁷ All the pillars round about the court shall be joined together with silver rods; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.

¹⁸ The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits and the breadth fifty and the height five cubits, [with hangings of] fine twined linen and sockets of bronze.

¹⁹ All the tabernacle’s utensils and instruments used in all its service, and all its pegs and all the pegs for the court, shall be of bronze.

²⁰ You shall command the Israelites to provide you with pure oil of crushed olives for the light, to cause it to burn continually [every night].

²¹ In the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people], outside the veil which sets apart the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it burning from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute to be observed on behalf of the Israelites throughout their generations.