Exodus 24–31

Chapter 24

And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.

²And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.

³So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.

⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.

⁶Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.

⁷And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.

⁸And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

⁹Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:

¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

¹¹Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

¹²And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

¹³Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,

¹⁴Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

¹⁵And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.

¹⁶And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.

Chapter 25

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

²Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

³And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and brass,

⁴Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

⁵And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:

⁶Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:

⁷Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.

⁸And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:

⁹According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:

¹⁰Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half; the breadth, a cubit and a half; the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.

¹¹And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, within and without; and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:

¹²And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.

¹³Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

¹⁴And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:

¹⁵And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them.

¹⁶And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

¹⁷Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

¹⁸Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.

¹⁹Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.

²⁰Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.

²¹In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

²²Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.

²³Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.

²⁴And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.

²⁵And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and over the same another little golden crown.

²⁶Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in the four corners of the same table, over each foot.

²⁷Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be put through them, and the table may be carried.

²⁸The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.

²⁹Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.

³⁰And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.

³¹Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and the lilies going forth from it.

³²Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of one side, and three out of the other.

³³Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six branches, that are to come out from the shaft:

³⁴And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.

³⁵Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six, coming forth out of one shaft.

³⁶And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten work of the purest gold.

³⁷Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.

³⁸The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.

³⁹The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.

⁴⁰Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

Chapter 26

And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.

²The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits; the breadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure.

³Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five shall be coupled together in like manner.

⁴Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of the curtains, that they may be joined one to another.

⁵Every curtain shall have fifty loops on both sides, so set on, that one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the other.

⁶Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of the curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.

⁷Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats’ hair, to cover the top of the tabernacle.

⁸The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty cubits; and the breadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal.

⁹Five of which thou shalt couple by themselves, and the six others thou shalt couple one to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in the front of the roof.

¹⁰Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, that it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of the other curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow.

¹¹Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops may be joined, that of all there may be made one covering.

¹²And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared for the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half thereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle.

¹³And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another on the other side, which is over and above in the length of the curtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle.

¹⁴Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of rams’ skins dyed red: and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins.

¹⁵Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing upright of setim wood.

¹⁶Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth one cubit and a half.

¹⁷In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby one board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall all the boards be prepared.

¹⁸Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.

¹⁹For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners.

²⁰In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the north, there shall be twenty boards,

²¹Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put under each board.

²²But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six boards.

²³And again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the back of the tabernacle.

²⁴And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, and one joint shall hold them all. The like joining shall be observed for the two boards also that are to be put…