Exodus 32-37

New American Standard Bible

The Golden Calf

32 Now when the people saw that Moses ^(A)delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled around Aaron and said to him, “Come, ^(B)make us ^[a]a god who will go before us; for ^(C)this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.” ² Aaron said to them, “^(D)Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” ³ So all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. ⁴ Then he took the gold from their ^[b]hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a ^(E)cast metal calf; and they said, “^[c]This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” ⁵ Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.” ⁶ So the next day they got up early and ^(F)offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and ^(G)the people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up ^(H)to engage in lewd behavior.

⁷ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go ^[d]down at once, for your people, whom ^(I)you brought up from the land of Egypt, have ^(J)behaved corruptly. ⁸ They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. ^(K)They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and have worshiped it and ^(L)have sacrificed to it and said, ‘^[e](M)This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’” ^9 (N)Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are ^[f](O)an obstinate people. ¹⁰ So now ^(P)leave Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and ^(Q)I will make of you a great nation.”

Moses’ Plea

¹¹ Then ^(R)Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ¹² Why should ^(S)the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people. ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You ^(T)swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will ^(U)multiply your ^[g]descendants as the stars of the heavens, and ^(V)all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your ^[h]descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” ^14 (W)So the Lord relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.

^15 (X)Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, ^(Y)tablets which were written on both ^[i]sides; they were written on one side and the other. ¹⁶ The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing engraved on the tablets. ¹⁷ Now when Joshua heard the sound of the people ^[j]as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.” ¹⁸ But he said,

Moses’ Anger

¹⁹ And it came about, as soon as ^[k]Moses approached the camp, that ^(Z)he saw the calf and the people dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and ^(AA)he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them to pieces ^[l]at the foot of the mountain. ²⁰ Then ^(AB)he took the calf which they had made and completely burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

²¹ Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great sin upon them?” ²² And Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, ^(AC)that they are ^[m]prone to evil. ²³ For ^(AD)they said to me, ‘Make ^[n]a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.’ ²⁴ So I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ Then they gave it to me, and ^(AE)I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

²⁵ Now when Moses saw that the people were ^[o]out of control—for Aaron had ^(AF)let them ^[p]get out of control to the point of being an object of ridicule among ^[q]their enemies— ²⁶ Moses then stood at the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him. ²⁷ And he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Every man of you put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his ^[r]neighbor.’” ²⁸ So ^(AG)the sons of Levi did ^[s]as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day. ²⁹ Then Moses said, “^[t]Dedicate yourselves today to the Lord—for every man has been against his son and against his brother—in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today.”

³⁰ And on the next day Moses said to the people, “^(AH)You yourselves have ^[u]committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the Lord; perhaps I can ^(AI)make atonement for your sin.” ³¹ Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, this people has ^[v]committed a great sin, and they have made a ^(AJ)god of gold for themselves! ³² But now, if You will forgive their sin, very well; but if not, please wipe me out from Your ^(AK)book which You have written!” ³³ However, the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, ^(AL)I will wipe him out of My book. ³⁴ But go now, lead the people ^(AM)where I told you. Behold, ^(AN)My angel shall go before you; nevertheless ^(AO)on the day when I ^[w]punish, ^(AP)I will ^[x]punish them for their sin.” ^35 (AQ)Then the Lord struck the people with a plague, because of ^(AR)what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

The Journey Resumed

33 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which ^(AS)I swore to Abraham, ^(AT)Isaac, and ^(AU)Jacob, saying, ‘^(AV)To your ^[y]descendants I will give it.’ ² And I will send ^(AW)an angel before you and ^(AX)I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ³ Go up to a land ^(AY)flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are ^[z](AZ)an obstinate people, and ^(BA)I might destroy you on the way.”

⁴ When the people heard this ^[aa]sad word, ^(BB)they went into mourning, and none of them put on his jewelry. ⁵ For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are ^[ab](BC)an obstinate people; if I ^[ac]were to go up in your midst for just one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your ^[ad]jewelry that I may know what I shall do to you.’” ⁶ So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry, from Mount Horeb onward.

⁷ Now Moses used to take ^(BD)the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And ^(BE)everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp. ⁸ And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent. ⁹ Whenever Moses entered the tent, ^(BF)the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; ^(BG)and ^[ae]the Lord would speak with Moses. ¹⁰ When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would stand and worship, each at the entrance of his tent. ¹¹ So ^(BH)the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When ^[af]Moses returned to the camp, ^(BI)his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Moses Intercedes

¹² Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘^(BJ)Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know ^(BK)whom You will send with me. ^(BL)Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ ¹³ Now then, if I have found favor in Your sight in any way, please ^(BM)let me know Your ways so that I may know You, in order that I may find favor in Your sight. ^(BN)Consider too, that this nation is Your people.” ¹⁴ And He said, “^(BO)My presence shall go with you, and ^(BP)I will give you rest.” ¹⁵ Then he said to Him, “^(BQ)If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. ¹⁶ For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that ^(BR)we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the ^[ag]earth?”

¹⁷ The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; ^(BS)for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.” ^18 (BT)Then Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory!” ¹⁹ And He said, “^(BU)I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and ^(BV)I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.” ²⁰ He further said, “You cannot see My face, ^(BW)for mankind shall not see Me and live!” ²¹ Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place ^[ah]by Me, and ^(BX)you shall stand there on the rock; ²² and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and ^(BY)cover you with My hand until I have passed by. ²³ Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but ^(BZ)My face shall not be seen.”

The Two Tablets Replaced

34 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself ^(CA)two stone tablets like the former ones, and ^(CB)I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you smashed. ² So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to ^(CC)Mount Sinai, and ^[ai]present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. ³ And ^(CD)no one is to come up with you, nor let anyone be seen ^[aj]anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.” ⁴ So he cut out ^(CE)two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand. ⁵ And ^(CF)the Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he ^[ak]called upon the name of the Lord. ⁶ Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, ^(CG)compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and ^[al]truth; ⁷ who ^(CH)keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He ^(CI)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^(CJ)inflicting the ^[am]punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” ⁸ And Moses hurried ^[an](CK)to bow low toward the ground and worship. ⁹ Then he said, “^(CL)If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though ^[ao](CM)the people are so obstinate, and ^(CN)pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and ^(CO)take us as Your own ^[ap]possession.”

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰ Then ^[aq]God said, “Behold, ^(CP)I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people ^(CQ)I will perform miracles which have not been ^[ar]produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ^[as]among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

¹¹ “^[at]Be sure to comply with what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(CR)I am going to drive out the Amorite from you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^12 (CS)Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. ^13 (CT)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their ^[au](CU)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(CV)you shall not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and ^(CW)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(CX)might invite you ^[av]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(CY)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods. ^17 (CZ)You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

¹⁸ “You shall keep ^(DA)the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^(DB)seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, ^[aw]as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^(DC)month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ “^(DD)The ^[ax]firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the ^[ay]firstborn from ^[az]cattle and sheep. ^20 (DE)You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem ^(DF)all the firstborn of your sons. ^[ba](DG)None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

²¹ “You shall work ^(DH)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. ²² And you shall celebrate ^(DI)the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. ^23 (DJ)Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord ^[bb]God, the God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will ^[bc](DK)drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

²⁵ “^(DL)You shall not ^[bd]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, ^(DM)nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to ^[be]be left over until morning.

²⁶ “You shall bring ^(DN)the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²⁷ Then the Lord said to Moses, “^(DO)Write ^[bf]down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made ^(DP)a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸ So he was there with the Lord for ^(DQ)forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ^[bg](DR)He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^(DS)the Ten ^[bh]Commandments.

Moses’ Face Shines

²⁹ And it came about, when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the ^(DT)two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that ^(DU)the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. ³⁰ So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and ^(DV)they were afraid to approach him. ³¹ Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. ³² Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had spoken ^[bi]to him on Mount Sinai. ³³ When Moses had finished speaking with them, ^(DW)he put a veil over his face. ³⁴ But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, ^(DX)he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, ^35 (DY)the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with Him.

The Sabbath Emphasized

35 Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and said to them, “^(DZ)These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to ^[bj]do:

² “^(EA)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, ^(EB)a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; ^(EC)whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. ^3 (ED)You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

⁴ Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, saying, ⁵ ‘^(EE)Take from among you a ^[bk]contribution to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart is to bring it as the Lord’s ^[bl]contribution: gold, silver, and ^[bm]bronze, ⁶ and ^[bn]violet, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goats’ hair, ⁷ and rams’ skins ^[bo]dyed red, and ^[bp]fine leather, and acacia wood, ⁸ and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense, ⁹ and onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the ^[bq]breastpiece.

Tabernacle Artisans

¹⁰ ‘^(EF)Have every skillful person among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: ¹¹ the ^[br](EG)tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; ¹² the ^(EH)ark and its poles, the ^[bs]atoning cover, and the covering curtain; ¹³ the ^(EI)table and its poles, and all its ^[bt]utensils, and the bread of the ^[bu]Presence; ¹⁴ the ^(EJ)lampstand also for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light; ¹⁵ and the ^(EK)altar of incense and its poles, and the ^(EL)anointing oil and the ^(EM)fragrant incense, and the curtain for the doorway at the ^[bv]entrance of the tabernacle; ^16 (EN)the altar of burnt offering with its ^[bw]bronze grating, its poles, and all its ^[bx]utensils, the basin and its stand; ^17 (EO)the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard; ¹⁸ the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the courtyard and their ropes; ¹⁹ the ^[by](EP)woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests.’”

Gifts Received

²⁰ Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from Moses’ presence. ²¹ And ^(EQ)everyone whose heart ^[bz]stirred him and everyone whose spirit ^[ca]moved him came and brought the Lord’s ^[cb]contribution for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²² Then all ^[cc]whose hearts moved them, both men and women, came and brought brooches and ^[cd]earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold; so did everyone who ^[ce]presented an offering of gold to the Lord. ²³ Everyone ^[cf]who was in possession of violet, purple, or scarlet material or fine linen or goats’ hair, or rams’ skins ^[cg]dyed red or fine leather, brought them. ²⁴ Everyone who could make a ^[ch]contribution of silver and ^[ci]bronze brought the Lord’s ^[cj]contribution; and everyone ^[ck]who was in possession of acacia wood for any work of the service brought it. ²⁵ And all the ^[cl]skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in violet, purple, and scarlet material, and in fine linen. ²⁶ And all the women whose heart ^[cm]stirred with a skill spun the goats’ hair. ²⁷ The rulers, moreover, brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the ^[cn]breastpiece; ²⁸ and ^(ER)the spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. ²⁹ The ^[co]Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart ^[cp]moved them to bring material for all the work, which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a ^(ES)[cq]voluntary offering to the Lord.

^30 (ET)Then Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. ³¹ And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all ^[cr]craftsmanship; ³² to create ^[cs]designs for working in gold, in silver, and in ^[ct]bronze, ³³ and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to perform in every inventive work. ³⁴ He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and ^(EU)Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. ^35 (EV)He has filled them with ^[cu]skill to perform every work of an engraver, of a designer, and of an embroiderer, in violet, purple, and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs.

The Tabernacle Underwritten

36 “Now Bezalel, Oholiab, and every ^[cv]skillful person in whom the Lord has put ^[cw]skill and understanding to know how to perform all the work ^[cx]in the construction of the sanctuary, shall perform in accordance with everything that the Lord has commanded.”

² Then Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and every ^[cy]skillful person in ^[cz]whom the Lord had put ^[da]skill, ^(EW)everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to perform it. ³ They received from Moses every ^[db]contribution which the sons of Israel had brought to perform ^[dc]the work ^[dd]in the construction of the sanctuary. And they still continued bringing to him ^[de]voluntary offerings every morning. ⁴ And all the ^[df]skillful people who were performing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from ^[dg]the work which they were performing, ⁵ and they said to ^[dh]Moses, “^(EX)The people are bringing much more than enough for the ^[di]construction work which the Lord commanded us to ^[dj]perform.” ⁶ So Moses issued a command, and circulated a ^[dk]proclamation throughout the camp, saying, “No man or woman is to perform work any longer for the ^[dl]contributions of the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more. ^7 (EY)For the ^[dm]material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to perform it.

Construction Begins

^8 (EZ)All the ^[dn]skillful people among those who were performing the work made the ^[do]tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and ^[dp]violet, purple, and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer, ^[dq]Bezalel made them. ⁹ The length of each curtain was ^[dr]twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had ^[ds]the same measurements. ¹⁰ He ^[dt]joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he ^[du]joined to one another. ¹¹ And he made loops of violet on the edge of the ^[dv]outermost curtain in the first ^[dw]set; he did likewise on the edge of the curtain that was ^[dx]outermost in the second ^[dy]set. ¹² He made ^(FA)fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the ^[dz]edge of the curtain that was in the second ^[ea]set; the loops were opposite each other. ¹³ He also made ^(FB)fifty clasps of gold, and ^[eb]joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was ^[ec]a unit.

¹⁴ Then ^(FC)he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he ^[ed]made eleven curtains in all. ¹⁵ The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had ^[ee]the same measurements. ¹⁶ He ^[ef]joined five curtains by themselves, and the other six curtains by themselves. ¹⁷ Moreover, he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the first ^[eg]set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second ^[eh]set. ¹⁸ He also made fifty clasps of ^[ei]bronze to ^[ej]join the tent together so that it would be ^[ek]a unit. ¹⁹ And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins ^[el]dyed red, and a covering of ^[em]fine leather above.

^20 (FD)Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. ²¹ Ten cubits was the length of ^[en]each board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board. ²² There were two tenons for each board, ^[eo]fitted to one another; he did this to all the boards of the tabernacle. ²³ So he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards ^[ep]for the south side; ²⁴ and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons. ²⁵ Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, ²⁶ and their forty bases of silver; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board. ²⁷ And for the ^[eq]back of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six boards. ²⁸ He made two boards for the corners of the ^[er]tabernacle at the ^[es]back. ²⁹ They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its ^[et]top, ^[eu]to the first ring; he did this with both of them for the two corners. ³⁰ There were eight boards with their bases of silver, sixteen bases, two bases under every board.

³¹ Then he made ^(FE)bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, ³² and five bars for the boards of the ^[ev]other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the ^[ew]back side to the west. ³³ And he made the middle bar to pass through in the ^[ex]center of the boards from end to end. ³⁴ Then he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

^35 (FF)Moreover, he made the veil of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer. ³⁶ And he made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four bases of silver for them. ³⁷ He also made a ^(FG)curtain for the doorway of the tent, of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, the work of a ^[ey]weaver; ³⁸ and he made its ^(FH)five pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their ^[ez]bands with gold; but their five bases were of ^[fa]bronze.

Construction Continues

37 ^(FI)Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was ^[fb]two and a half cubits, its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits; ² and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around. ³ He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the ^[fc]other side of it. ⁴ And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. ⁵ He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry ^[fd]it. ⁶ He also made ^[fe]an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits ^[ff]long and one and a half cubits ^[fg]wide. ⁷ And he made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work ^[fh]at the two ends of the atoning cover: ⁸ one cherub ^[fi]at the one end and one cherub ^[fj]at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the atoning cover ^[fk]at the two ends. ⁹ And the cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the atoning cover.

^10 (FJ)Then he made the table of acacia wood, ^[fl]two cubits ^[fm]long, a cubit ^[fn]wide, and one and a half cubits ^[fo]high. ¹¹ He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding for it all around. ¹² And he made a rim for it of a ^[fp]hand width all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around. ¹³ He also cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four legs. ¹⁴ Close by the rim were the rings, the holders for the poles to carry the table. ¹⁵ And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. ¹⁶ He also made the utensils which were on the table, its dishes, its pans, its libation bowls, and its jars, with which to pour out drink offerings, of pure gold.

^17 (FK)Then he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base and its shaft; its cups, its ^[fq]bulbs, and its flowers were of one piece with it. ¹⁸ There were six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand from the one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the ^[fr]other side of it; ¹⁹ three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a ^[fs]bulb and a flower on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a ^[ft]bulb and a flower on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. ²⁰ And on the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its ^[fu]bulbs and its flowers; ²¹ and a ^[fv]bulb was under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a ^[fw]bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a ^[fx]bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand. ²² Their ^[fy]bulbs and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was a single hammered work of pure gold. ²³ And he made its seven lamps with its tongs and its trays of pure gold. ²⁴ He made it and all its utensils from a ^[fz]talent of pure gold.

^25 (FL)Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit ^[ga]long and a cubit ^[gb]wide, square, and two cubits ^[gc]high; its horns were of one piece with it. ²⁶ And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its ^[gd]sides all around, and its horns; and he made a gold molding for it all around. ²⁷ He also made two golden rings for it under its molding, on its two sides—on opposite sides—as holders for poles with which to carry it. ²⁸ And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. ^29 (FM)Then he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.