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29 This is what you shall do to consecrate (set them apart) that they may serve Me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams, all without blemish,

² And unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil; of fine flour shall you make them.

³ You shall put them in one basket and bring them in [it], and bring also the bull and the two rams;

⁴ And bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting [out where the laver is] and wash them with water.

⁵ Then take the garments and put on Aaron the long and sleeved tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven girding band of the ephod.

⁶ And you shall put the turban or miter upon his head and put the holy crown upon the turban.

⁷ Then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

⁸ And bring his sons and put long and sleeved tunics on them.

⁹ And you shall gird them with sashes or belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them; and the priest’s office shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. Thus you shall ordain and consecrate Aaron and his sons.

¹⁰ Then bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon its head.

¹¹ And you shall kill the bull before the Lord by the door of the Tent of Meeting.

¹² And you shall take of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

¹³ And take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage that is on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

¹⁴ But the flesh of the bull, its hide, and the contents of its entrails you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.^(A)

¹⁵ You shall also take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.

¹⁶ And you shall kill the ram and you shall take its blood and throw it against the altar round about.

¹⁷ And you shall cut the ram in pieces and wash its entrails and legs and put them with its pieces and its head,

¹⁸ And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a sweet and satisfying fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹⁹ And you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram;

²⁰ Then you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ears of Aaron and his sons and on the thumb of their right hands and on the great toe of their right feet, and dash the rest of the blood against the altar round about.

²¹ Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments; and he and his garments and his sons and their garments shall be sanctified and made holy.

²² Also you shall take the fat of the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the appendage on the liver, the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh; for it is a ram of consecration and ordination.

²³ Take also one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord.

²⁴ And put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and they shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.

²⁵ Then you shall take them from their hands, add them to the burnt offering, and burn them on the altar for a sweet and satisfying fragrance before the Lord; it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

²⁶ And take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration and ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be your portion [Moses].

²⁷ And you shall sanctify (set apart for God) the waved breast of the ram used in the ordination and the waved thigh of the priests’ portion, since it is for Aaron and his sons.

²⁸ It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their due portion from the Israelites perpetually, an offering from the Israelites of their peace and thanksgiving sacrifices, their offering to the Lord.

²⁹ The holy garments of Aaron shall pass to his descendants who succeed him, to be anointed in them and to be consecrated and ordained in them.

³⁰ And that son who is [high] priest in his stead shall put them on [each day for] seven days when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place.

³¹ You shall take the ram of the consecration and ordination and boil its flesh in a holy and set-apart place.

³² Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

³³ They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain and consecrate them; but a stranger (layman) shall not eat of them because they are holy (set apart to the worship of God).

³⁴ And if any of the flesh or bread for the ordination remains until morning, you shall burn it with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy (set apart to the worship of God).

³⁵ Thus shall you do to Aaron and to his sons according to all I have commanded you; during seven days shall you ordain them.

³⁶ You shall offer every day a bull as a sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

³⁷ Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it [set it apart for God]; and the altar shall be most holy; whoever or whatever touches the altar must be holy (set apart for God’s service).

³⁸ Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old shall be offered day by day continually.

³⁹ One lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb in the evening;

⁴⁰ And with the one lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering [to be poured out].

⁴¹ And the other lamb you shall offer at evening, and do with it as with the cereal offering of the morning and with the drink offering, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁴² This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak there to you.

⁴³ There I will meet with the Israelites, and the Tent of Meeting shall be sanctified by My glory [the Shekinah, God’s visible presence].

⁴⁴ And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar; I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me in the priest’s office.

⁴⁵ And I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

⁴⁶ And they shall know [from personal experience] that I am the Lord their God, Who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.

30 And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood you shall make it.

² A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its breadth; its top shall be square and it shall be two cubits high. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

³ And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns, and you shall make a crown (a rim or molding) of gold around it.

⁴ You shall make two golden rings under the rim of it, on the two ribs on the two opposite sides of it; and they shall be holders for the poles with which to carry it.

⁵ And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, overlaid with gold.

⁶ You shall put the altar [of incense] in front and outside of the veil that screens the ark of the Testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony (the Law, the tables of stone), where I will meet with you.

⁷ And Aaron shall burn on it incense of sweet spices; every morning when he trims and fills the lamps he shall burn it.^(B)

⁸ And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

⁹ You shall offer no unholy incense on the altar nor burnt sacrifice nor cereal offering; and you shall pour no libation (drink offering) on it.

¹⁰ Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement upon and for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹² When you take the census of the Israelites, every man shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord when you number them, that no plague may fall upon them when you number them.^(C)

¹³ This is what everyone shall give as he joins those already numbered: a half shekel, in terms of the sanctuary shekel, a shekel being twenty gerahs; a half shekel as an offering to the Lord.

¹⁴ Everyone from twenty years old and upward, as he joins those already numbered, shall give this offering to the Lord.^(D)

¹⁵ The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when [you] give this offering to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

¹⁶ And you shall take the atonement money of the Israelites and use it [exclusively] for the service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may bring the Israelites to remembrance before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁸ You shall also make a laver or large basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it [outside in the court] between the Tent of Meeting and the altar [of burnt offering], and you shall put water in it;

¹⁹ There Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.^(E)

²⁰ When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord,^(F)

²¹ So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die; it shall be a perpetual statute for [Aaron] and his descendants throughout their generations.

²² Moreover, the Lord said to Moses,

²³ Take the best spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, of sweet-scented cinnamon half as much, 250 shekels, of fragrant calamus 250 shekels,

²⁴ And of cassia 500 shekels, in terms of the sanctuary shekel, and of olive oil a hin.

²⁵ And you shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a sacred anointing oil.

²⁶ And you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting with it, and the ark of the Testimony,

²⁷ And the [showbread] table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

²⁸ And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver [for cleansing] and its base.

²⁹ You shall sanctify (separate) them, that they may be most holy; whoever and whatever touches them must be holy (set apart to God).

³⁰ And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify (separate) them, that they may minister to Me as priests.

³¹ And say to the Israelites, This is a holy anointing oil [symbol of the Holy Spirit], sacred to Me alone throughout your generations.^(G)

³² It shall not be poured upon a layman’s body, nor shall you make any other like it in composition; it is holy, and you shall hold it sacred.

³³ Whoever compounds any like it or puts any of it upon an outsider shall be cut off from his people.

³⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, an equal amount of each—

³⁵ And make of them incense, a perfume after the perfumer’s art, seasoned with salt and mixed, pure and sacred.

³⁶ You shall beat some of it very small and put some of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy.

³⁷ And the incense which you shall make according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be to you holy to the Lord.

³⁸ Whoever makes any like it for perfume shall be cut off from his people.

31 And the Lord said to Moses,

² See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

³ And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and ability, in understanding and intelligence, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,

⁴ To devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

⁵ And in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

⁶ And behold, I have appointed with him Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and to all who are wisehearted I have given wisdom and ability to make all that I have commanded you:

⁷ The Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent—

⁸ The table [of the showbread] and its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

⁹ The altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, the laver and its base—

¹⁰ The finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the [high] priest and for his sons to minister as priests,

¹¹ And the anointing oil and incense of sweet spices for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you shall they do.

¹² And the Lord said to Moses,

¹³ Say to the Israelites, Truly you shall keep My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you [set you apart for Myself].

¹⁴ You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you; everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does work on the Sabbath shall be cut off from among his people.

¹⁵ Six days may work be done, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, sacred to the Lord; whoever does work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

¹⁶ Wherefore the Israelites shall keep the Sabbath to observe it throughout their generations, a perpetual covenant.

¹⁷ It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased and was refreshed.

¹⁸ And He gave to Moses, when He had ceased communing with him on Mount Sinai, the two tables of the Testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

32 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, [they] gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

² So Aaron replied, Take the gold rings from the ears of your wives, your sons, and daughters, and bring them to me.

³ So all the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.

⁴ And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

⁵ And when Aaron saw the molten calf, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.

⁶ And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

⁷ The Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;

⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;

¹⁰ Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and that I may destroy them; but I will make of you a great nation.

¹¹ But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why does Your wrath blaze hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

¹² Why should the Egyptians say, For evil He brought them forth, to slay them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and change Your mind concerning this evil against Your people.

¹³ [Earnestly] remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

¹⁴ Then the Lord turned from the evil which He had thought to do to His people.

¹⁵ And Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, tables or tablets that were written on both sides.

¹⁶ The tables were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

¹⁷ And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

¹⁸ But Moses said, It is not the sound of shouting for victory, neither is it the sound of the cry of the defeated, but the sound of singing that I hear.

¹⁹ And as soon as he came near to the camp he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses’ anger blazed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

²⁰ And he took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?

²² And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord blaze hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil.

²³ For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

²⁴ I said to them, Those who have any gold, let them take it off. So they gave it to me; then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

²⁵ And when Moses saw that the people were unruly and unrestrained (for Aaron had let them get out of control, so that they were a derision and object of shame among their enemies),

²⁶ Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on the Lord’s side, let him come to me. And all the Levites [the priestly tribe] gathered together to him.

²⁷ And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Every man put his sword on his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

²⁸ And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about 3000 men.

²⁹ And Moses said [to the Levites, By your obedience to God’s command] you have consecrated yourselves today [as priests] to the Lord, each man [at the cost of being] against his own son and his own brother, that the Lord may restore and bestow His blessing upon you this day.

³⁰ The next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.

³¹ So Moses returned to the Lord, and said, Oh, these people have sinned a great sin and have made themselves gods of gold!

³² Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—and if not, blot me, I pray You, out of Your book which You have written!

³³ But the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him [not you] out of My book.^(H)

³⁴ But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have told you. Behold, My ^[a]Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish I will visit their sin upon them!^(I)

³⁵ And the Lord sent a plague upon the people because they made the calf which Aaron fashioned for them.

33 The Lord said to Moses, Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your descendants I will give it.

² I will send an ^[b]Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.^(J)

³ Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way.

⁴ When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned and no man put on his ornaments.

⁵ For the Lord had said to Moses, Say to the Israelites, You are a stiff-necked people! If I should come among you for one moment, I would consume and destroy you. Now therefore [penitently] leave off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.

⁶ And the Israelites left off all their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

⁷ Now Moses used to take [his own] tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting [of God with His own people]. And everyone who sought the Lord went out to [that temporary] tent of meeting which was outside the camp.

⁸ When Moses went out to the tent of meeting, all the people rose and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses until he had gone into the tent.

⁹ When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the Lord would talk with Moses.

¹⁰ And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the tent door, and all the people rose up and worshiped, every man at his tent door.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Moses returned to the camp, but his minister Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the [temporary prayer] tent.

¹² Moses said to the Lord, See, You say to me, Bring up this people, but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You said, I know you by name and you have also found favor in My sight.

¹³ Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You [progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with You, perceiving and recognizing and understanding more strongly and clearly] and that I may find favor in Your sight. And [Lord, do] consider that this nation is Your people.

¹⁴ And the Lord said, My Presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.

¹⁵ And Moses said to the Lord, If Your Presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here!

¹⁶ For by what shall it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight? Is it not in Your going with us so that we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the other people upon the face of the earth?

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have asked, for you have found favor, loving-kindness, and mercy in My sight and I know you personally and by name.^(K)

¹⁸ And Moses said, I beseech You, show me Your glory.

¹⁹ And God said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim My name, The Lord, before you; for I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy and loving-kindness on whom I will show mercy and loving-kindness.^(L)

²⁰ But, He said, You can not see My face, for no man shall see Me and live.

²¹ And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place beside Me, and you shall stand upon the rock,

²² And while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.

²³ Then I will take away My hand and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.

34 The Lord said to Moses, Cut two tables of stone like the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.

² Be ready and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

³ And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let flocks or herds feed before that mountain.

⁴ So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first, and he rose up early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took ^[c]in his hand two tables of stone.

⁵ And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord! the Lord! a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth,

⁷ Keeping mercy and loving-kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but Who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.

⁸ And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth and worshiped.

⁹ And he said, If now I have found favor and loving-kindness in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray You, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.

¹⁰ And the Lord said, Behold, I lay down [afresh the terms of the mutual agreement between Israel and Me] a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels (wonders, miracles) such as have not been wrought or created in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord; for it is a terrible thing [fearful and full of awe] that I will do with you.

¹¹ Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, Canaanite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.

¹² Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant or mutual agreement with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

¹³ But you shall destroy their altars, dash in pieces their pillars (obelisks, images), and cut down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah];

¹⁴ For you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, Whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (impassioned) God,

¹⁵ Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his food sacrificed to idols,

¹⁶ And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.

¹⁷ You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.

¹⁸ The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ All the males that first open the womb among your livestock are Mine, whether ox or sheep.

²⁰ But the firstling of a donkey [an unclean beast] you shall redeem with a lamb or kid, and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none of you shall appear before Me empty-handed.

²¹ Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].

²² You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

²³ Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

²⁴ For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire [and molest] your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵ You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

²⁶ The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.

²⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words, for after the purpose and character of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

²⁹ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone and sent forth beams by reason of his speaking with the Lord.

³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they feared to come near him.

³¹ But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and [he] talked with them.

³² Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all the Lord had said to him in Mount Sinai.

³³ And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

³⁴ But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, ^[d]he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and told the Israelites what he was commanded.

³⁵ The Israelites saw the face of Moses, how the skin of it shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with God.

35 Moses gathered all the congregation of the Israelites together and said to them, These are the things which the Lord has commanded that you do:

² Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever works [on that day] shall be put to death.

³ You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

⁴ And Moses said to all the congregation of the Israelites, This is what the Lord commanded:

⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing and generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

⁶ Blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], fine linen; goats’ hair;

⁷ And rams’ skins tanned red, and skins of dolphins or porpoises; and acacia wood;

⁸ And oil for the light; and spices for anointing oil and for fragrant incense;

⁹ And onyx stones and other stones to be set for the ephod and the breastplate.

¹⁰ And let every able and wisehearted man among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

¹¹ The tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets or bases;

¹² The ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;

¹³ The table and its poles and all its utensils, and the showbread (the bread of the Presence);

¹⁴ The lampstand also for the light, and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

¹⁵ And the incense altar and its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the hanging or screen for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;

¹⁶ The altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its base;

¹⁷ The court’s hangings, its pillars and their sockets or bases, and the hanging or screen for the gate of the court;

¹⁸ The pegs of the tabernacle and of the court, and their cords,

¹⁹ The finely wrought garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the [high] priest and for his sons to minister as priests.

²⁰ Then all the congregation of the Israelites left Moses’ presence.

²¹ And they came, each one whose heart stirred him up and whose spirit made him willing, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the [new] Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and the holy garments.

²² They came, both men and women, all who were willinghearted, and brought brooches, earrings or nose rings, signet rings, and armlets or necklaces, all jewels of gold, everyone bringing an offering of gold to the Lord.

²³ And everyone with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet [stuff], or fine linen, or goats’ hair, or rams’ skins made red [in tanning], or dolphin or porpoise skins brought them.

²⁴ Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s offering, and every man with whom was found any acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

²⁵ All the women who had ability and were wisehearted spun with their hands and brought what they had spun of blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] and fine linen;

²⁶ And all the women who had ability and whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

²⁷ The leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate,

²⁸ And spice, and oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

²⁹ The Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all men and women whose hearts made them willing and moved them to bring anything for any of the work which the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done.

³⁰ And Moses said to the Israelites, See, the Lord called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

³¹ And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and wisdom, with intelligence and understanding, and with knowledge and all craftsmanship,

³² To devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

³³ In cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, for work in every skilled craft.

³⁴ And God has put in Bezalel’s heart that he may teach, both he and Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

³⁵ He has filled them with wisdom of heart and ability to do all manner of craftsmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, of the embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do or design any skilled work.

36 Bezalel and Aholiab and every wisehearted man in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary shall work according to all that the Lord has commanded.

² And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab and every able and wisehearted man in whose mind the Lord had put wisdom and ability, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work;

³ And they received from Moses all the freewill offerings which the Israelites had brought for doing the work of the sanctuary, to prepare it for service. And they continued to bring him freewill offerings every morning.

⁴ And all the wise and able men who were doing the work on the sanctuary came, every man from the work he was doing,

⁵ And they said to Moses, The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the Lord commanded to do.

⁶ So Moses commanded and it was proclaimed in all the camp, Let no man or woman do anything more for the sanctuary offering. So the people were restrained from bringing,

⁷ For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work and more.

⁸ And all the able and wisehearted men among them who did the work on the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], with cherubim skillfully worked on them.

⁹ The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and its breadth four cubits; all the curtains were one size.

¹⁰ [Bezalel] coupled five curtains one to another and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.

¹¹ And he made loops of blue on the outer edge of the last curtain in the first set; this he did also on the inner edge of the first curtain in the second set.

¹² Fifty loops he made in the one curtain and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which was the second set; the loops were opposite one another.

¹³ And he made fifty clasps of gold and coupled the curtains together with the clasps so that the tabernacle became one unit.

¹⁴ And he made eleven curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle.

¹⁵ The length of one curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits was the breadth; the eleven curtains were of equal size.

¹⁶ And he coupled five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves.

¹⁷ And he made fifty loops on the outmost edge of the curtain to be coupled and fifty loops he made on the inner edge of the second curtain to be coupled.

¹⁸ He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together into one whole.

¹⁹ He made a covering for the tent of ^[e]rams’ skins tanned red, and above it a covering of dolphin or porpoise skins.

²⁰ He made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.

²¹ The length of a board was ten cubits and the breadth one cubit and a half.

²² Each board had two tenons (projections) to fit into a mortise to form a clutch; he did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³ And he made thus the boards [for frames] for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side,

²⁴ And he made under the twenty boards forty sockets or bases of silver, two sockets under one board for its two tenons or hands, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

²⁵ For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards

²⁶ And their forty sockets or bases of silver, two sockets under [the end of] each board.

²⁷ And for the rear or west side of the tabernacle he made six [frame] boards.

²⁸ And two boards he made for each corner of the tabernacle in the rear.

²⁹ They were separate below but linked together at the top with one ring; thus he made both of them in both corners.

³⁰ There were eight boards with sixteen sockets or bases of silver, and under [the end of] each board two sockets.

³¹ He made bars of acacia wood, five for the [frame] boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

³² And five bars for the boards of its other side, and five bars for the boards at the rear or west side.

³³ And he made the middle bar pass through halfway up the boards from one end to the other.

³⁴ He overlaid the boards and the bars with gold and made their rings of gold as places for the bars.

³⁵ And he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, with cherubim skillfully worked.^(M)

³⁶ For [the veil] he made four pillars of acacia [wood] and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four sockets or bases of silver.

³⁷ And he made a screen for the tent door of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, embroidered,

³⁸ And he made the five pillars of it with their hooks, and overlaid their ornamental tops and joinings with gold, but their five sockets were of bronze.

37 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood—two cubits and a half was the length of it, a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it.

² He overlaid it with pure gold within and without and made a molding or crown of gold to go around the top of it.

³ He cast four rings of gold for its four corners, two rings on either side.

⁴ He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

⁵ He put the poles through the rings at the sides of the ark to carry it.

⁶ [Bezalel] made the mercy seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length and one cubit and a half its breadth.

⁷ And he made two cherubim of beaten gold; on the two ends of the mercy seat he made them,

⁸ One cherub at one end and one at the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim at its two ends.

⁹ And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces to each other, looking down to the mercy seat.^(N)

¹⁰ Bezalel made the [showbread] table of acacia wood; it was two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

¹¹ He overlaid it with pure gold and made a molding of gold around its top.

¹² And he made a border around it [just under the top] a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the border.

¹³ And he cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.

¹⁴ Close to the border were the rings, the places for the poles to pass through to carry the [showbread] table.

¹⁵ [Bezalel] made the poles of acacia wood to carry the [showbread] table and overlaid them with gold.

¹⁶ He made of pure gold the vessels which were to be on the table, its plates and dishes [for bread], its bowls and flagons for pouring [liquid sacrifices].

¹⁷ And he made the lampstand of pure gold; its base and shaft were made of hammered work; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of one piece with it.

¹⁸ There were six branches going out of the sides of the lampstand, three branches out of one side of it and three branches out of the other side of it;

¹⁹ Three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, each with a [calyx] knob and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the [opposite] branch, each with a [calyx] knob and a flower; and so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

²⁰ On [the shaft of] the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, with knobs and flowers [one at the top].

²¹ And a knob under each pair of branches, of one piece with the lampstand, for the six branches going out of it.

²² Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it, all of it hammered work of pure gold.

²³ And he made of pure gold its seven lamps, its snuffers, and its ashtrays.

²⁴ Of a talent of pure gold he made the lampstand and all its utensils.^(O)

²⁵ And [Bezalel] made the incense altar of acacia wood; its top was a cubit square and it was two cubits high; the horns were one piece with it.

²⁶ He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides round about, and its horns; also he made a rim around it of gold.

²⁷ And he made two rings of gold for it under its rim, on its two opposite sides, as places for the poles [to pass through] to carry it.

²⁸ And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

²⁹ He also made the holy anointing oil [symbol of the Holy Spirit] and the pure, fragrant incense, after the perfumer’s art.

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.^(P)

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];^(Q)

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.

40 And the Lord said to Moses,

² On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting [of God with you].

³ And you shall put in it the ark of the Testimony and screen the ark [of God’s Presence] with the veil.^(R)

⁴ You shall bring in the [showbread] table and set in order the things that are to be upon it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up and light its lamps.^(S)

⁵ You shall set the golden altar for the incense before the ark of the Testimony [outside the veil] and put the hanging or screen at the tabernacle door.

⁶ You shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

⁷ And you shall ^[f]set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it.

⁸ And you shall set up the court [curtains] round about and hang up the hanging or screen at the court gate.

⁹ You shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it and all its furniture, and it shall be holy.

¹⁰ You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; and consecrate (set apart for God) the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

¹¹ And you shall anoint the laver and its base and consecrate it.

¹² You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.^(T)

¹³ You shall put on Aaron the holy garments, and anoint and consecrate him, so he may serve Me as priest.

¹⁴ And you shall bring his sons and put long and sleeved tunics on them,

¹⁵ And you shall anoint them as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

¹⁶ Thus did Moses; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷ And on the first day of the first month in the second year the tabernacle was erected.

¹⁸ Moses set up the tabernacle, laid its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and erected its pillars.

¹⁹ [Moses] spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded him.

²⁰ He took the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] and put it into the ark, and set the poles [in the rings] on the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.

²¹ [Moses] brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen and screened the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded him.

²² Moses put the table [of showbread] in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil;

²³ He set the bread [of the Presence] in order on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.^(U)

²⁴ And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.

²⁵ Moses set up and lighted the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

²⁶ He put the golden altar [of incense] in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

²⁷ He burned sweet incense [symbol of prayer] upon it, as the Lord commanded him.^(V)

²⁸ And he set up the hanging or screen at the door of the tabernacle.

²⁹ [Moses] put the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting and offered on it the burnt offering and the cereal offering, as the Lord commanded him.

³⁰ And Moses set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

³¹ And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.

³² When they went into the Tent of Meeting or came near the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses.

³³ And he erected the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging or screen at the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

³⁴ Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle!^(W)

³⁵ And Moses was not able to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud remained upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

³⁶ In all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the Israelites went onward;

³⁷ But if the cloud was not taken up, they did not journey on till the day that it was taken up.

³⁸ For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.