24 Jesus departed from the temple ^[a]area and was going on His way when His disciples came up to Him to call His attention to the buildings of the temple and point them out to Him.

² But He answered them, Do you see all these? Truly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.

³ While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?

⁴ Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].

⁵ For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [^[b]appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.

⁶ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place;

⁸ All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the ^[c]birth pangs [of the ^[d]intolerable anguish].

⁹ Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.

¹⁰ And then many will be offended and repelled and will ^[e]begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.

¹¹ And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.

¹² And the love of ^[f]the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,

¹³ But he who endures to the end will be saved.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.

¹⁵ So when you see the appalling sacrilege [the abomination that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place—let the reader take notice and ^[g]ponder and consider and heed [this]—^(A)

¹⁶ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;

¹⁷ Let him who is on the housetop not come down and go into the house to take anything;

¹⁸ And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his overcoat.

¹⁹ And alas for the women who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!

²⁰ Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

²¹ For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now—no, and never will be [again].^(B)

²² And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God’s chosen ones) those days will be shortened.

²³ If anyone says to you then, Behold, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, There He is!—do not believe it.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (God’s chosen ones).

²⁵ See, I have warned you beforehand.

²⁶ So if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness (desert)—do not go out there; if they tell you, Behold, He is in the secret places or inner rooms—do not believe it.

²⁷ For just as the lightning flashes from the east and shines and ^[h]is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

²⁸ Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures (or eagles) will flock together.^(C)

²⁹ Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.^(D)

³⁰ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and ^[i]beat their breasts and lament in anguish, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory [in brilliancy and splendor].^(E)

³¹ And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect (His chosen ones) from the four winds, [even] from one end of the ^[j]universe to the other.^(F)

³² From the fig tree learn this lesson: as soon as its ^[k]young shoots become soft and tender and it puts out its leaves, you know ^[l]of a surety that summer is near.

³³ So also when you see these signs, ^[m]all taken together, coming to pass, you may know ^[n]of a surety that He is near, at the very doors.

³⁴ Truly I tell you, this generation (^[o]the whole multitude of people living at the same time, ^[p]in a definite, ^[q]given period) will not pass away till all these things ^[r]taken together take place.

^35 [s]Sky and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

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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.^(A)

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.^(B)

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.