Exodus 39–40

CHAPTER 39

Making the Holy Garments

¹Moreover, from the ^1ablue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely ^bwoven garments for ministering in the holy place ²as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^2aHe made the ephod of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

³Then they hammered out gold sheets and cut them into threads ¹to be woven in with the blue and the purple and the scarlet material and the fine linen, the work of a skillful designer.

⁴They made joining shoulder pieces for ¹the ephod; it was joined at its two upper ends.

⁵The skillfully woven band which was on it was like its workmanship, ¹of the same material: of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^6aThey made the onyx stones, set all around in filigree settings of gold; they were engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.

⁷And ^ahe placed them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^8aHe made the breastpiece, the work of a skillful designer, like the workmanship of the ephod: of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

⁹It was square; they made the breastpiece, having been folded double, a ¹span ²long and a span ³wide when folded double.

¹⁰And they ¹mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

¹¹and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

¹²and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

¹³and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set in their filigree settings with gold filigree.

¹⁴The stones were corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.

¹⁵They made on the breastpiece chains of a twisted work of cords in pure gold.

¹⁶They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.

¹⁷Then they put the two gold cords in the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

¹⁸They put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

¹⁹They made two gold rings and placed them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.

²⁰Furthermore, they made two gold rings and placed them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it, close to the place where it joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

²¹They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^22aThen he made the robe of the ephod of woven work entirely of blue;

^23aand the opening of the robe was at the top in the center, as the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its opening, so that it would not be torn.

²⁴They made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material and twisted linen on the hem of the robe.

²⁵They also made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the hem of the ¹robe,

²⁶¹alternating a bell and a pomegranate all around on the hem of the robe for the ministry, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^27aThey made the tunics of finely woven linen for Aaron and his sons,

²⁸and the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of the ¹caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twisted linen,

²⁹and the sash of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the ¹weaver, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^30aThey made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and ¹wrote upon it with engraved writing as found on a signet, “Holy to Yahweh.”

³¹They ¹fastened a blue cord to it, to ²fasten it on the turban above, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³²Thus all the service of constructing the ¹tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ^acompleted; and the sons of Israel did according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did.

³³They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its ¹furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its bases;

³⁴and the covering of rams’ skins ¹dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the screening veil;

³⁵the ark of the testimony and its poles and the ¹mercy seat;

³⁶the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the ¹Presence;

³⁷the pure gold lampstand, ¹with its arrangement of lamps and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

³⁸and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;

³⁹the ¹bronze altar and its ²bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its stand;

⁴⁰the hangings for the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs, and all the ¹equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

⁴¹the woven garments for ministering in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.

⁴²Thus, according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did in all their service.

⁴³And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; just as Yahweh had commanded, so they had done. Then Moses ^ablessed them.

CHAPTER 40

Setting Up the Tabernacle

¹Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²“^aOn the first day of the first month you shall set up the ¹tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

³“^aYou shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

⁴“You shall ^abring in the table and ^1barrange what belongs on it; and you shall ^cbring in the lampstand and ²mount its lamps.

⁵“Moreover, you shall ^aset the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.

⁶“You shall set the altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

⁷“You shall ^aset the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water ¹in it.

⁸“You shall set up the court all around and ¹hang up the screen for the gateway of the court.

⁹“Then you shall take the anointing oil and ^aanoint the tabernacle and all that is in it and set it apart as holy and all its ¹furnishings; and it shall be holy.

¹⁰“You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and set the altar apart as holy, and ^athe altar shall be most holy.

¹¹“You shall anoint the laver and its stand, and set it apart as holy.

¹²“Then you shall ^abring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

¹³“^aYou shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and set him apart as holy, that he may minister as a priest to Me.

¹⁴“You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them;

¹⁵and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father, that they may minister as priests to Me; and their anointing will be for them for a ^aperpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

¹⁶Thus Moses did; according to all that Yahweh had commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷Now ^ait happened, in the first month ¹of the second year, on the first day of the month, the ²tabernacle was erected.

¹⁸Moses erected the tabernacle and ¹laid its bases and set up its boards and ²inserted its bars and erected its pillars.

¹⁹He spread the tent over the tabernacle and placed the covering of the tent ¹on top of it, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁰Then he took ^athe testimony and put it into the ark and ¹attached the poles to the ark and put the ²mercy seat ³on top of the ark.

²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle and ^aplaced the veil of the screen and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²²Then he ^aput the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

²³He set the arrangement of ^abread in order on it before Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁴Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

²⁵He ^alighted the lamps before Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁶Then he ^aplaced the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the veil;

²⁷and he ^aburned fragrant incense on it, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁸Then he placed the screen at the doorway of the tabernacle.

²⁹He ^aplaced the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and he ^boffered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁰He placed the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

^31aFrom it Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.

³²When they entered the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³³He ^aerected the court all around the ¹tabernacle and the altar, and he put up the screen for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.

The Glory of Yahweh

^34aThen the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the ^bglory of Yahweh ^cfilled the tabernacle.

³⁵And Moses ^awas not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had dwelt on it, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.

³⁶Now throughout all their journeys ^awhenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;

³⁷but ^aif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.

³⁸For throughout all their journeys, ^athe cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.