27 When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a consultation against Jesus to put Him to death;

² And they bound Him and led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

³ When Judas, His betrayer, saw that [Jesus] was condemned, [Judas was ^[a]afflicted in mind and troubled for his former folly; and] with remorse [with little more than a selfish dread of the consequences] he brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,^(A)

⁴ Saying, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. They replied, What is that to us? See to that yourself.

⁵ And casting the pieces of silver [forward] into the [Holy Place of the ^[b]sanctuary of the] temple, he departed; and he went off and hanged himself.

⁶ But the chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, It is not legal to put these in the [consecrated] treasury, for it is the price of blood.

⁷ So after consultation they bought with them [the pieces of silver] the potter’s field [as a place] in which to bury strangers.

⁸ Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to the present day.

⁹ Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,^(B)

¹⁰ And they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.

¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the governor [Pilate], and the governor asked Him, Are you the King of the Jews? Jesus said to him, You have stated [the fact].

¹² But when the charges were made against Him by the chief priests and elders, He made no answer.^(C)

¹³ Then Pilate said to Him, Do You not hear how many and how serious are the things they are testifying against You?

¹⁴ But He made no reply to him, not even to a single accusation, so that the governor marveled greatly.

¹⁵ Now at the Feast [of the Passover] the governor was in the habit of setting free for the people any one prisoner whom they chose.

¹⁶ And at that time they had a notorious prisoner whose name was Barabbas.

¹⁷ So when they had assembled for this purpose, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to set free for you, Barabbas, or Jesus Who is called Christ?

¹⁸ For he knew that it was because of envy that they had handed Him over to him.

¹⁹ Also, while he was seated on the judgment bench, his wife sent him a message, saying, Have nothing to do with that just and upright Man, for I have had a painful experience today in a dream because of Him.

²⁰ But the chief priests and the elders prevailed on the people to ask for Barabbas, and put Jesus to death.

²¹ Again the governor said to them, Which of the two do you wish me to release for you? And they said, Barabbas!

²² Pilate said to them, Then what shall I do with Jesus Who is called Christ?

²³ They all replied, Let Him be crucified! And he said, Why? What has He done that is evil? But they shouted all the louder, Let Him be crucified!

²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather that a riot was about to break out, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, I am not guilty of nor responsible for this ^[c]righteous Man’s blood; see to it yourselves.^(D)

²⁵ And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children!^(E)

²⁶ So he set free for them Barabbas; and he [had] Jesus whipped, and delivered Him up to be crucified.

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38 Bezalel made the burnt offering altar of acacia wood; its top was five cubits square and it was three cubits high.

² He made its horns on the four corners of it; the horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

³ He made all the utensils and vessels of the altar, the pots, shovels, basins, forks or fleshhooks, and firepans; all its utensils and vessels he made of bronze.

⁴ And he made for the altar a bronze grate of network under its ledge, extending halfway down it.

⁵ He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating to be places for the poles [with which to carry it].

⁶ And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

⁷ And he put the poles through the rings on the altar’s sides with which to carry it; he made it hollow with planks.

⁸ He made the laver and its base of bronze from the mirrors of the women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

⁹ And he made the court: for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;

¹⁰ Their pillars and their bronze sockets or bases were twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their joinings were silver.

¹¹ And for the north side the hangings were [also] a hundred cubits; their pillars and their sockets or bases of bronze were twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their joinings were of silver.

¹² But for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars and their sockets or bases were ten; the hooks of the pillars and their joinings were of silver.

¹³ And for the front, the east side, fifty cubits.

¹⁴ The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three and their sockets or bases three.

¹⁵ Also for the other side of the court gate, left and right, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three and their sockets or bases three.

¹⁶ All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.

¹⁷ The sockets for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their joinings of silver, the overlaying of their tops of silver, and all the pillars of the court were joined with silver.

¹⁸ The hanging or screen for the gate of the court was embroidered in blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen; the length was twenty cubits and the height in the breadth was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

¹⁹ Their pillars were four and their sockets of bronze four; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their joinings were of silver.

²⁰ All the pegs for the tabernacle and around the court were of bronze.

²¹ This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle of the Testimony, as counted at the command of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the [high] priest.

²² Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses.

²³ With him was Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, a skillful craftsman, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and in fine linen.

²⁴ All the gold that was used for the work in all the building and furnishing of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was 29 talents and 730 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

²⁵ And the silver from those numbered of the congregation was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, by sanctuary standards:

²⁶ A beka for each man, that is, half a shekel, by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who was counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

²⁷ The 100 talents of silver were for casting the sockets or bases of the sanctuary and of the veil; 100 sockets for the 100 talents, a talent for a socket.

²⁸ Of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and made joinings for them.

²⁹ The bronze of the offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.

³⁰ With it Bezalel made the sockets for the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the bronze altar and the bronze grate for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

³¹ The sockets of the court round about and of the court gate, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and around the court.

39 And of the blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] they made finely wrought garments for serving in the Holy Place; they made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

² And Bezalel made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen.

³ And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into wires to work into the blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and the fine linen, in skilled design.

⁴ They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, joined to it at its two edges.

⁵ And the skillfully woven band on it, to gird it on, was of the same piece and workmanship with it, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁶ And they prepared the onyx stones enclosed in settings of gold filigree and engraved as signets are engraved with the names of the sons of Israel.

⁷ And he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of memorial or remembrance for the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁸ And [Bezalel] made the breastplate skillfully, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen.

⁹ The breastplate was a [hand’s] span square when doubled over.

¹⁰ And they set in it four rows of stones; a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle made the first row;

¹¹ The second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

¹² 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 those of the sons of Israel, engraved like a signet, each with its name, according to the twelve tribes.

¹⁵ And they made [at the ends] of the breastplate twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

¹⁶ And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings which they put on the two ends of the breastplate.

¹⁷ And they put the two twisted cords or woven chains of gold in the two rings on the end edges of the breastplate.

¹⁸ And the other two ends of the twisted cords or chains of gold they put on the two settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, in front.

¹⁹ They made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the inside edge of it next to the ephod.

²⁰ And they made two [other] gold rings and attached them to the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, in front, at its joining above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

²¹ They bound the breastplate by its rings to those of the ephod with a blue lace, that it might lie upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²² And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work all of blue.

²³ And there was an opening [for the head] in the middle of the robe like the hole in a coat of mail, with a binding around it, that it should not be torn.

²⁴ On the skirts of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] and twined linen.

²⁵ And they made bells of pure gold and put [them] between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe;

²⁶ A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe for ministering, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁷ And they made the long and sleeved tunics woven of fine linen for Aaron and his sons,

²⁸ And the turban, and the ornamental caps of fine linen, and the breeches of fine twined linen,

²⁹ The girdle or sash of fine twined linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet embroidery, as the Lord commanded Moses.

³⁰ And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet, holy to the lord.^(A)

³¹ They tied to it a lace of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the Lord commanded Moses.

³² Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites had done.

³³ And they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, its [frame] boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets or bases;

³⁴ And the covering of rams’ skins made red, and the covering of dolphin or porpoise skins, and the veil of the screen;

³⁵ The ark of the Testimony, its poles, and the mercy seat;

³⁶ The table and all its utensils, and the showbread (bread of the Presence);

³⁷ The pure [gold] lampstand and its lamps, with the lamps set in order, all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

³⁸ The golden altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the hanging for the door of the tent;

³⁹ The bronze altar and its grate of bronze, its poles and all its utensils; the laver and its base;

⁴⁰ The hangings of the court, its pillars and sockets or bases, and the screen for the court gate, its cords, and pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people];^(B)

⁴¹ The finely worked vestments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to minister as priests.

⁴² According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites had done all the work.

⁴³ And Moses inspected all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.