24And to Moses he said, “Go up to Yahweh—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel—and you will worship at a distance. ²And Moses alone^a will come near to Yahweh, and they will not come near, and the people will not go up with him.”

³And Moses came, and he told the people all the words of Yahweh and all the regulations. And all the people answered with one voice, and they said, “All the words that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”

⁴And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and he rose early in the morning, and he built an altar at the base of the mountain and set up twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent young men from the Israelites,^b and they offered burnt offerings, and they sacrificed sacrifices as fellowship offerings to Yahweh using bulls. ⁶And Moses took half of the blood, and he put it in bowls, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷And he took the scroll of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will listen.”^c ⁸And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and he said, “Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

⁹And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel went up. ¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel, and what was under his feet was like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness. ¹¹And toward the leaders of the Israelites^d he did not stretch out his hand, and they beheld God, and they ate, and they drank.

The Start of Forty Days and Nights on Mount Sinai

¹²And Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and the commandments that I have written to instruct them.” ¹³And Moses got up, and Joshua, his assistant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

¹⁴And to the elders he said, “Wait for us here until we return to you. And look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute^e will bring it to you.”

¹⁵And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. ¹⁶And the glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days, and he called to Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of^f the Israelites.^g ¹⁸And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Instruction to Collect Materials

25And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the Israelites,^a and let them bring to me a contribution. You will receive my contribution from every man whose heart prompts him. ³And this is the contribution that you will receive from them—gold and silver and bronze, ⁴blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine linen and goat hair, ⁵and red-dyed ram skins, and fine leather,^b and acacia wood, ⁶oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, ⁷onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece. ⁸And make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell in the midst of them, ⁹according to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its equipment—and so you will do.

Instructions for Making the Ark of the Covenant

¹⁰“And they will make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. ¹¹And you will overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you will overlay it, and you will make on it a gold molding all around. ¹²And you will cast for it four gold rings, and you will put them on its four feet, with two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side. ¹³And you will make poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold. ¹⁴And you will put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark with them. ¹⁵In the rings of the ark will be the poles; they will not be removed from it.^c ¹⁶And you will put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

¹⁷“And you will make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. ¹⁸And you will make two cherubim of gold; you will make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. ¹⁹And make one cherub at one end^d and one cherub at the other end^e of the atonement cover; you will make the cherubim on its two ends. ²⁰And the cherubim will be with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover and facing each other;^f the faces of the cherubim will be toward the atonement cover. ²¹And you will put the atonement cover above onto the ark, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. ²²And I will meet you there, and I will speak with you from over the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim that are to be on the ark of the testimony—all that I will command you to the Israelites.^g

Instructions for Making a Table and a Lampstand

²³“And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. ²⁴And you will overlay it with pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. ²⁵And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around. ²⁶And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four legs^h are. ²⁷The rings will be near the rim as holdersⁱ for poles to carry the table. ²⁸And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them. ²⁹And you will make its plates and its ladles^j and its pitchers and its bowls with which libations will be poured; of pure gold you will make them. ³⁰And you will put on the table the bread of presence to be before me continually.

³¹“And you will make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand will be made of hammered work—its base and its branch,^k its cups, its buds, and its blossoms will be from it. ³²And six branches will be going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. ³³Three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom—likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. ³⁴And on the lampstand will be four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms. ³⁵And a bud will be under the two branches that come from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. ³⁶Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one piece of pure gold hammered work. ³⁷And you will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up, and it will give light in the space in front of it.^l ³⁸And its snuffers and its fire pans will be pure gold. ³⁹It will be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these pieces of equipment. ⁴⁰And see and make all according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain.

Instructions for Making the Tabernacle

26“And the tabernacle you will make with ten curtains; you will make them of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. ²The length of the one curtain will be twenty-eight cubits, and the width will be four cubits for the one curtain; one measure will be for all the curtains. ³Five curtains will be joined to one another,^a and five curtains joined to one another.^b ⁴And you will make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; and you will do so on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. ⁵You will make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the end of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops are to be opposite^c to one another.^d ⁶And you will make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains to one another^e with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be one.

⁷“And you will make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you will make them eleven curtains. ⁸The length of the one curtain will be thirty cubits, and the width will be four cubits for the one curtain; one measure will be for the eleven curtains. ⁹And you will join five curtains together and six curtains together, and you will fold double the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. ¹⁰And you will make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. ¹¹And you will make fifty bronze clasps, and you will put the clasps in the loops and join the tent, so that it will be one.

¹²“And the surplus in the curtains of the tent will be an overhang; the surplus half curtain will hang over the back of the tabernacle. ¹³And a cubit from one side^f and a cubit from the other side^g in the surplus in the length of the curtains of the tent will be hung over the sides of the tabernacle equally^h to cover it.

¹⁴“And you will make a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skins and a covering of fine leather to go above.

¹⁵“And you will make the framesⁱ for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.^j ¹⁶The length of the frame^k will be ten cubits, and the width of the one frame^l will be one and a half cubits. ¹⁷You will make two pegs^m for the one frameⁿ for joining each to another^o and likewise for all the frames^p of the tabernacle. ¹⁸And you will make the frames^q for the tabernacle with twenty frames^r for the south^s side. ¹⁹And you will make forty silver bases under the twenty frames,^t with two bases under the one frame^u for its two pegs^v and two bases under the next^w frame^x for its two pegs.^y ²⁰And for the second…

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Footnotes

aOr “by himself”; literally “to the solitude of him”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cOr “we will attentively do” or “we will obediently do”
dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eLiterally “is owner of words”
fOr “in the sight of”
gLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
aLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
bThe particular kind of leather is uncertain
cLiterally “they will not turn aside from it”
dLiterally “from end from this”
eLiterally “from end from this”
fLiterally “and their faces a man to his brother”
gLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
hLiterally “feet”
iLiterally “houses”
jOr “bowls”
kOr “reed”
lLiterally “on beyond its face”
aLiterally “a woman to her sister”
bLiterally “a woman to her sister”
cOr “interlinked” or “matching”
dLiterally “a woman to her sister”
eLiterally “a woman to her sister”
fLiterally “from this”
gLiterally “from this”
hLiterally “from this and from this”
iOr “boards” or “planks”
jLiterally “standing”
kOr “board” or “plank”
lOr “board” or “plank”
mLiterally “hands”
nOr “board” or “plank”
oLiterally “a woman to her sister”
pOr “boards” or “planks”
qOr “boards” or “planks”
rOr “boards” or “planks”
sLiterally “south southward”
tOr “boards” or “planks”
uOr “board” or “plank”
vLiterally “hands”
wLiterally “one”
xOr “board” or “plank”
yLiterally “hands”