Old/New Testament

Instructions for Making the Bronze Altar

27 “And you will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar will be square, and its height will be three cubits. ² And you will make its horns on its four corners; its horns will be of one piece with it,^[a] and you will overlay it with bronze. ³ And you will make its pots for removing its fat-soaked ashes and its shovels and its sprinkling bowls and its forks^[b] and its fire pans; you will make all its equipment with bronze. ⁴ And you will make for it a grating, a work of bronze network, and you will make on the network four bronze rings on its four ends. ⁵ And you will put it under the ledge of the altar, below, and the network will be up to the middle of the altar. ⁶ And you will make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with bronze. ⁷ And the poles will be put into the rings, and the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. ⁸ You will make it hollow with boards. As it was shown you on the mountain, so they will do.

Instructions for Making the Courtyard

⁹ “You will make the courtyard of the tabernacle; for the south^[c] side will be hangings for the courtyard of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits long for the one side. ¹⁰ And its twenty pillars and their twenty bases will be bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be silver. ¹¹ And likewise for the north side along the length will be hangings one hundred cubits long; and its twenty pillars and their bases will be bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be silver. ¹² And the width of the courtyard for the west^[d] side will be hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars and their ten bases. ¹³ And the width of the courtyard for the east side, toward sunrise, will be fifty cubits. ¹⁴ And hangings for the shoulder^[e] will be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three bases. ¹⁵ And fifteen cubits of hangings will be for the second shoulder^[f] with their three pillars and their three bases. ¹⁶ And for the gate of the courtyard there will be a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer; with their four pillars and their four bases.

¹⁷ “All the pillars of the courtyard all around will be banded with silver, and their hooks will be silver, and their bases will be bronze. ¹⁸ The length of the courtyard will be one hundred cubits and the width fifty cubits^[g] and the height five cubits, of finely twisted linen, with their bronze bases. ¹⁹ Bronze will be for all the equipment of the tabernacle in all its service and all its pegs^[h] and all the pegs^[i] of the courtyard.

Instructions for Making Oil for the Lampstand

²⁰ “And you will command the Israelites,^[j] and they will bring to you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. ²¹ In the tent of assembly outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will arrange it, from evening until morning, before Yahweh as a lasting statute throughout their generations from the Israelites.^[k]

Instructions for Making Garments for Priests

28 “And bring near to you Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him from the midst of the Israelites^[l] to serve as priests for me—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. ² And you will make holy garments^[m] for Aaron, your brother, for glory and for splendor.^{[n] 3} And you will speak to all the skilled of heart, whom I have given a gift of skill,^[o] and they will make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him for his serving as my priest. ⁴ And these are the garments that they will make: A breast piece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of specially woven fabric,^[p] a turban and a sash. And they will make holy garments^[q] for Aaron your brother, and for his sons to serve as priests for me.

⁵ “And they will take the gold and the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns and the fine linen, ⁶ and they will make the ephod of gold, blue and purple, and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman. ⁷ It will have two joining shoulder pieces at its two edges, so that it can be fastened. ⁸ And the waistband of his ephod, which is on it, will be of like work to it—gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen.

⁹ “And you will take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the Israelites,^{[r] 10} with six of their names on the one stone and the remaining six on the second, according to their genealogies.^{[s] 11} As the work of a skilled stone craftsman, with seal engravings you will engrave on the two stones the names of the Israelites;^[t] you will make them mounted in gold filigree settings. ¹² And you will set the two stones on the ephod’s shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the Israelites,^[u] and Aaron will bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulder pieces for remembrance.

¹³ “And you will make gold filigree settings. ¹⁴ And you will make two braided chains of pure gold ornamental cord work, and you will put the chains of the ornamental cords on the filigree settings. ¹⁵ And you will make a breast piece of judgment, a work of a skilled craftsman; you will make it like the work of the ephod; you will make it of gold, blue and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. ¹⁶ It will be squared, doubled, a span its length and a span its width. ¹⁷ And you will fill it with stone mounting, four rows of stone, a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald is the first row; ¹⁸ and the second row is a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; ¹⁹ and the third row is a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰ and the fourth row is a turquoise and an onyx and a jasper. Their settings will be woven with gold. ²¹ The stones will be according to the names of the Israelites,^[v] twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name they will be for the twelve tribes.

²² “And you will make on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. ²³ And you will make on the breast piece two gold rings, and you will put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. ²⁴ And you will put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. ²⁵ And you will put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and you will put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. ²⁶ And you will make two gold rings, and you will place them on the two ends of the breast piece, on its edge that is on the other side^[w] of the ephod, to the inside.^{[x] 27} And you will make two rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. ²⁸ And they will tie the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord to be on the waistband of the ephod, and the breast piece will not come loose from the ephod. ²⁹ And Aaron will bear the names of the Israelites^[y] in the breast piece of judgment on his heart, when he comes to the sanctuary, for a remembrance before Yahweh continually. ³⁰ And you will put the Urim and the Thummim on the breast piece of judgment, and they will be on the heart of Aaron when he comes before Yahweh, and Aaron will bear the judgment of the Israelites^[z] on his heart before Yahweh continually.

³¹ “And you will make the robe of the ephod totally of blue yarn. ³² And the opening for his head will be in the middle of it; its opening will have an edge all around, the work of a weaver; it will be like the opening of a sturdy garment for it, so that it will not be torn. ³³ And you will make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and crimson yarns on its hem all around and bells of gold in the midst of them all around, ³⁴ a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around. ³⁵ And it will be on Aaron for serving, and its sound will be heard at his coming into the sanctuary before Yahweh and at his going out, so that he will not die.

³⁶ “And you will make a pure gold rosette,^[aa] and you will engrave on it with seal engravings: “A holy object for Yahweh.” ³⁷ And you will place it on a blue cord, and it will be on the turban, at the front of the turban it will be. ³⁸ And it will be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron will bear the guilt of the holy objects that the Israelites^[ab] will consecrate for all their holy gifts, and it will be on his forehead continually for acceptance for them before Yahweh.

³⁹ “And you will weave the tunic of fine linen, and you will make a turban of fine linen, and you will make a sash, the work of an embroiderer. ⁴⁰ And for the sons of Aaron you will make tunics, and you will make for them sashes and headdresses; you will make them for glory and for splendor.^{[ac] 41} And you will clothe them—Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him—and you will anoint them and ordain them^[ad] and consecrate them, and they will serve as priests for me. ⁴² And make for them undergarments of linen to cover naked flesh; they will be from loins to thigh. ⁴³ And they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they come to the tent of assembly or when they approach the altar to serve in the sanctuary, so that they will not bear guilt and die. It is a lasting statute for him and for his offspring after him.

The Triumphal Entry

21 And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, ² saying to them, “Go into the village before you, and right away you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Untie them^[a] and^[b] bring them^[c] to me. ³ And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, ‘The Lord needs them,’^[d] and he will send them at once.” ⁴ Now this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,

⁶ So the disciples went^[g] and did^[h] just as Jesus directed them, ⁷ and^[i] brought the donkey and the colt and put their^[j] cloaks on them, and he sat on them. ⁸ And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them^[k] on the road. ⁹ And the crowds who went ahead of him and the ones who followed were shouting, saying,

¹⁰ And when^[n] he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” ¹¹ And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!”

The Cleansing of the Temple

¹² And Jesus entered the temple courts^[o] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. ¹³ And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’^[p] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

¹⁴ And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts^[q] and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when^[r] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts^[s] and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant. ¹⁶ And they said to him, “Do you hear what these children^[t] are saying?” So Jesus said to them, “Yes, have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise’?”^{[u] 17} And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

A Barren Fig Tree Cursed

¹⁸ Now early in the morning, as he^[v] was returning to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, “May there be no more fruit from you forever,^[w] and the fig tree withered at once. ²⁰ And when they^[x] saw it,^[y] the disciples were astonished, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” ²¹ And Jesus answered and^[z] said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will do not only what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” it will happen! ²² And whatever you ask in prayer, if you^[aa] believe, you will receive.”