Exodus 38–40

¹And he maketh the altar of burnt-offering of shittim wood, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth (square), and three cubits its height; ²and he maketh its horns on its four corners; its horns have been of the same; and he overlayeth it with brass; ³and he maketh all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the sprinkling-pans, the forks, and the fire-pans; all its vessels he hath made of brass. ⁴And he maketh for the altar a brazen grate of net-work, under its border beneath, unto its midst; ⁵and he casteth four rings for the four ends of the brazen grate—places for bars; ⁶and he maketh the staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with brass; ⁷and he bringeth in the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with them; hollow with boards he made it. ⁸And he maketh the laver of brass, and its base of brass, with the looking-glasses of the women assembling, who have assembled at the opening of the tent of meeting.

⁹And he maketh the court; at the south side southward, the hangings of the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit, ¹⁰their pillars are twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are silver; ¹¹and at the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars are twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are silver; ¹²and at the west side are hangings, fifty by the cubit; their pillars are ten, and their sockets ten; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are silver; ¹³and at the east side eastward fifty cubits. ¹⁴The hangings on the side are fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three, ¹⁵and at the second side at the gate of the court, on this and on that, are hangings, fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three; ¹⁶all the hangings of the court round about are of twined linen, ¹⁷and the sockets for the pillars of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets of silver, and the overlaying of their tops of silver, and all the pillars of the court are filleted with silver. ¹⁸And the covering of the gate of the court is the work of an embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen; and twenty cubits is the length, and the height with the breadth five cubits, over-against the hangings of the court; ¹⁹and their pillars are four, and their sockets of brass four, their pegs are of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their fillets are of silver; ²⁰and all the pins for the tabernacle, and for the court round about, are of brass.

²¹These are the numberings of the tabernacle (the tabernacle of testimony), which hath been numbered by the command of Moses, the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. ²²And Bezaleel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, hath made all that Jehovah commanded Moses; ²³and with him is Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and designer, and embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in linen. ²⁴All the gold which is prepared for the work in all the work of the sanctuary (and it is the gold of the wave-offering) is twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary. ²⁵And the silver of those numbered of the company is a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary; ²⁶a bekah for a poll (half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary,) for every one who is passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, for six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty. ²⁷And a hundred talents of silver are to cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; a hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket; ²⁸and the thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy he hath made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them. ²⁹And the brass of the wave-offering is seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels; ³⁰and he maketh with it the sockets of the opening of the tent of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate which it hath, and all the vessels of the altar, ³¹and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

Chapter 39

¹And of the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, they made coloured garments, to minister in the sanctuary; and they make the holy garments which are for Aaron, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ²And he maketh the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, ³and they expand the plates of gold, and have cut off wires to work in the midst of the blue, and in the midst of the purple, and in the midst of the scarlet, and in the midst of the linen—work of a designer; ⁴shoulder-pieces they have made for it, joining; at its two ends it is joined. ⁵And the girdle of his ephod which is on it is of the same, according to its work, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ⁶And they prepare the shoham stones, set, embroidered with gold, opened with openings of a signet, by the names of the sons of Israel; ⁷and he setteth them on the shoulders of the ephod—stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ⁸And he maketh the breastplate, work of a designer, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen; ⁹it hath been square; double they have made the breastplate, a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled. ¹⁰And they fill in it four rows of stones; a row of a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle is the one row; ¹¹and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹²and the third row an opal, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper—set, embroidered with gold, in their settings. ¹⁴And the stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel, are twelve, according to their names, openings of a signet, each according to his name, for the twelve tribes. ¹⁵And they make on the breastplate wreathed chains, work of thick bands, of pure gold; ¹⁶and they make two embroidered things of gold, and two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate, ¹⁷and they put the two thick bands of gold on the two rings on the ends of the breastplate; ¹⁸and the two ends of the two thick bands they have put on the two embroidered things, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod, over-against its front. ¹⁹And they make two rings of gold, and set them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its border, which is on the side of the ephod within; ²⁰and they make two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulders of the ephod below, over-against its front, over-against its joining, above the girdle of the ephod; ²¹and they bind the breastplate by its rings unto the rings of the ephod, with a ribbon of blue, to be above the girdle of the ephod, and the breastplate is not loosed from off the ephod, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ²²And he maketh the upper robe of the ephod, work of a weaver, completely of blue; ²³and the opening of the upper robe is in its midst, as the opening of a habergeon, a border is to its opening round about, it is not rent; ²⁴and they make on the hems of the upper robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, twined. ²⁵And they make bells of pure gold, and put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates, on the hems of the upper robe, round about, in the midst of the pomegranates; ²⁶a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, are on the hems of the upper robe, round about, to minister in, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ²⁷And they make the coats of linen, work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons, ²⁸and the mitre of linen, and the beautiful bonnets of linen, and the linen trousers, of twined linen, ²⁹and the girdle of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, work of an embroiderer, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ³⁰And they make the flower of the holy crown of pure gold, and write on it a writing, openings of a signet, ‘Holy to Jehovah;’ ³¹and they put on it a ribbon of blue, to put it on the mitre above, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

³²And all the service of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting is completed; and the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done. ³³And they bring in the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all its vessels, its hooks, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets; ³⁴and the covering of rams’ skins, which are made red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering; ³⁵the ark of the testimony and its staves, and the mercy-seat; ³⁶the table, all its vessels, and the bread of the presence; ³⁷the pure candlestick, its lamps, the lamps of arrangement, and all its vessels, and the oil for the light. ³⁸And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the spice-perfume, and the covering of the opening of the tent; ³⁹the brazen altar and the brazen grate which it hath, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base. ⁴⁰The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets; and the covering for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pins; and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; ⁴¹the coloured clothes to minister in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to act as priest in. ⁴²According to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done all the service; ⁴³and Moses seeth all the work, and lo, they have done it as Jehovah hath commanded; so they have done. And Moses doth bless them.

Chapter 40

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘On the first day of the month, in the first month, thou dost raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, ³and hast…