25:1 ¹ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: 25:2 “Tell the Israelites to take ²  an offering ³  for me; from every person motivated by a willing ⁴  heart you ⁵  are to receive my offering. 25:3 This is the offering you ⁶  are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze, 25:4 blue, ⁷  purple, ⁸  scarlet, ⁹  fine linen, ¹⁰  goat’s hair, ¹¹  25:5 ram skins dyed red, ¹²  fine leather, ¹³  acacia ¹⁴  wood, 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense, 25:7 onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece. 25:8 Let them make ¹⁵  for me a sanctuary, ¹⁶  so that I may live among them. 25:9 According to all that I am showing you ¹⁷  – the pattern of the tabernacle ¹⁸  and the pattern of all its furnishings – you ¹⁹  must make it exactly so. ²⁰ 

25:10 ²¹ 

“They are to make an ark ²²  of acacia wood – its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. ²³  25:11 You are to overlay ²⁴  it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, ²⁵  and you are to make a surrounding border ²⁶  of gold over it. 25:12 You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 25:13 You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, 25:14 and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. 25:15 The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. 25:16 You are to put into the ark the testimony ²⁷  that I will give to you.

25:17 “You are to make an atonement lid ²⁸  of pure gold; ²⁹  its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches. 25:18 You are to make two cherubim ³⁰  of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid. 25:19 Make ³¹  one cherub on one end ³²  and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid ³³  you are to make the cherubim on the two ends. 25:20 The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing ³⁴  the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, ³⁵  looking ³⁶  toward the atonement lid. 25:21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you. 25:22 I will meet with you there, ³⁷  and ³⁸  from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.

25:23 ³⁹ 

“You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches. 25:24 You are to overlay it with ⁴⁰  pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it. 25:25 You are to make a surrounding frame ⁴¹  for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame. 25:26 You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach ⁴²  the rings at the four corners where its four legs are. ⁴³  25:27 The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places ⁴⁴  for the poles to carry the table. 25:28 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them. ⁴⁵  25:29 You are to make its plates, ⁴⁶  its ladles, ⁴⁷  its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; ⁴⁸  you are to make them of pure gold. 25:30 You are to set the Bread of the Presence ⁴⁹  on the table before me continually.

25:31 ⁵⁰ 

“You are to make a lampstand ⁵¹  of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, ⁵²  its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece. ⁵³  25:32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ⁵⁴  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ⁵⁵  25:33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next ⁵⁶  branch, and the same ⁵⁷  for the six branches extending from the lampstand. 25:34 On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 25:35 with a bud under the first ⁵⁸  two branches from it, and a bud under the next ⁵⁹  two branches from it, and a bud under the third ⁶⁰  two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. 25:36 Their buds and their branches will be one piece, ⁶¹  all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

25:37 “You are to make its seven lamps, ⁶²  and then set ⁶³  its lamps up on it, so that it will give light ⁶⁴  to the area in front of it. 25:38 Its trimmers and its trays ⁶⁵  are to be ⁶⁶  of pure gold. 25:39 About seventy-five pounds ⁶⁷  of pure gold is to be used for it ⁶⁸  and for all these utensils. 25:40 Now be sure to make ⁶⁹  them according to the pattern you were shown ⁷⁰  on the mountain. ⁷¹ 

26:1 ⁷² 

“The tabernacle itself ⁷³  you are to make with ⁷⁴  ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet; ⁷⁵  you are to make them with ⁷⁶  cherubim that are the work of an artistic designer. 26:2 The length of each ⁷⁷  curtain is to be forty-two feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet ⁷⁸  – the same size for each of the curtains. 26:3 Five curtains are to be joined, ⁷⁹  one to another, ⁸⁰  and the other ⁸¹  five curtains are to be joined, one to another. 26:4 You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops ⁸²  in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set. 26:5 You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another. ⁸³  26:6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit. ⁸⁴ 

26:7 “You are to make curtains of goats’ hair ⁸⁵  for a tent over the tabernacle; ⁸⁶  you are to make ⁸⁷  eleven curtains. 26:8 The length of each ⁸⁸  curtain is to be forty-five feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet – the same size for the eleven curtains. 26:9 You are to join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. You are to double over ⁸⁹  the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. 26:10 You are to make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joins the second set. 26:11 You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit. ⁹⁰  26:12 Now the part that remains of the curtains of the tent – the half curtain that remains will hang over at the back of the tabernacle. ⁹¹  26:13 The foot and a half ⁹²  on the one side and the foot and a half on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent will hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on one side and the other side, to cover it. ⁹³ 

26:14 “You are to make a covering ⁹⁴  for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather. ⁹⁵ 

26:15 “You are to make the frames ⁹⁶  for the tabernacle out of ⁹⁷  acacia wood as uprights. ⁹⁸  26:16 Each ⁹⁹  frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide, 26:17 with two projections ¹⁰⁰  per frame parallel one to another. ¹⁰¹  You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 26:18 So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side, ¹⁰²  26:19 and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise ¹⁰³  two bases under the next frame for its two projections; 26:20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty frames, 26:21 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame. 26:22 And for the back of the tabernacle on the west ¹⁰⁴  you will make six frames. 26:23 You are to make two frames for the corners ¹⁰⁵  of the tabernacle on the back. 26:24 At the two corners ¹⁰⁶  they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both. 26:25 So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

26:26 “You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 26:27 and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the back of the tabernacle on the west. 26:28 The middle bar in the center of the frames will reach from end to end. ¹⁰⁷  26:29 You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold. 26:30 You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan ¹⁰⁸  that you were shown on the mountain.

26:31 “You are to make a special curtain ¹⁰⁹  of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made ¹¹⁰  with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 26:32 You are to hang it ¹¹¹  with gold hooks ¹¹²  on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in ¹¹³  four silver bases. 26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. ¹¹⁴  The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. ¹¹⁵  26:34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. 26:35 You are to put the table outside the curtain and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table, and you are to place the table on the north side.

26:36 “You are to make a hanging ¹¹⁶  for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. ¹¹⁷  26:37 You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be ¹¹⁸  gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them. ¹¹⁹ 

27:1 “You are to make the ¹²⁰  altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, ¹²¹  and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, ¹²²  and its height is to be ¹²³  four feet six inches. 27:2 You are to make its four horns ¹²⁴  on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, ¹²⁵  and you are to overlay it with bronze. 27:3 You are to make its pots for the ashes, ¹²⁶  its shovels, its tossing bowls, ¹²⁷  its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all ¹²⁸  its utensils of bronze. 27:4 You are to make a grating ¹²⁹  for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners. 27:5 You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ¹³⁰  halfway up the altar. ¹³¹  27:6 You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze. 27:7 The poles are to be put ¹³²  into the rings so that the poles will be on two sides of the altar when carrying it. ¹³³  27:8 You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you ¹³⁴  on the mountain, so they must make it. ¹³⁵ 

27:9 “You are to make the courtyard ¹³⁶  of the tabernacle. For the south side ¹³⁷  there are to be hangings ¹³⁸  for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side, ¹³⁹  27:10 with ¹⁴⁰  twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 27:11 Likewise ¹⁴¹  for its length on the north side, there are to be ¹⁴²  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ¹⁴³  on the posts. 27:12 The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases. 27:13 The width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be seventy-five feet. 27:14 The hangings on one side ¹⁴⁴  of the gate are to be ¹⁴⁵  twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 27:15 On the second side ¹⁴⁶  there are to be ¹⁴⁷  hangings twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 27:16 For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases. 27:17 All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; ¹⁴⁸  their hooks are to be ¹⁴⁹  silver, and their bases bronze. 27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ¹⁵⁰  and the width seventy-five feet, ¹⁵¹  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ¹⁵²  is to be ¹⁵³  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases. 27:19 All ¹⁵⁴  the utensils of the tabernacle used ¹⁵⁵  in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. ¹⁵⁶ 

27:20 “You are to command the Israelites that they bring ¹⁵⁷  to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps ¹⁵⁸  will burn ¹⁵⁹  regularly. ¹⁶⁰  27:21 In the tent of meeting ¹⁶¹  outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening ¹⁶²  to morning before the Lord. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come. ¹⁶³ 

28:1 ¹⁶⁴ “And you, bring near ¹⁶⁵  to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests ¹⁶⁶  – Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 28:2 You must make holy garments ¹⁶⁷  for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty. ¹⁶⁸  28:3 You ¹⁶⁹  are to speak to all who are specially skilled, ¹⁷⁰  whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, ¹⁷¹  so that they may make ¹⁷²  Aaron’s garments to set him apart ¹⁷³  to minister as my priest. 28:4 Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, ¹⁷⁴  an ephod, ¹⁷⁵  a robe, a fitted ¹⁷⁶  tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests. 28:5 The artisans ¹⁷⁷  are to use ¹⁷⁸  the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

28:6 “They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer. 28:7 It is to have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be joined together. ¹⁷⁹  28:8 The artistically woven waistband ¹⁸⁰  of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod, ¹⁸¹  of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

28:9 “You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, ¹⁸²  28:10 six ¹⁸³  of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth. ¹⁸⁴  28:11 You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; ¹⁸⁵  you are to have them set ¹⁸⁶  in gold filigree ¹⁸⁷  settings. 28:12 You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial. ¹⁸⁸  28:13 You are to make filigree settings of gold 28:14 and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.

28:15 “You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, ¹⁸⁹  the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen. 28:16 It is to be square ¹⁹⁰  when ¹⁹¹  doubled, nine inches ¹⁹²  long and nine inches wide. 28:17 You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row; 28:18 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 28:19 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 28:20 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. ¹⁹³  They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings. 28:21 The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of ¹⁹⁴  their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like ¹⁹⁵  the engravings of a seal.

28:22 “You are to make for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold, 28:23 and you are to make for the breastpiece two gold rings and attach ¹⁹⁶  the two rings to the upper ¹⁹⁷  two ends of the breastpiece. 28:24 You are to attach the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece; 28:25 the other ¹⁹⁸  two ends of the two chains you will attach to the two settings and then attach them ¹⁹⁹  to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. 28:26 You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other ²⁰⁰  two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod. 28:27 You are to make two more ²⁰¹  gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod. 28:28 They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod. 28:29 Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of decision over his heart ²⁰²  when he goes into the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.

28:30 “You are to put the Urim and the Thummim ²⁰³  into the breastpiece of decision; and they are to be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord. Aaron is to bear the decisions ²⁰⁴  of the Israelites over his heart before the Lord continually.

28:31 “You are to make the robe ²⁰⁵  of the ephod completely blue. 28:32 There is to be an opening ²⁰⁶  in its top ²⁰⁷  in the center of it, with an edge all around the opening, the work of a weaver, ²⁰⁸  like the opening of a collar, ²⁰⁹  so that it cannot be torn. ²¹⁰  28:33 You are to make pomegranates ²¹¹  of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem ²¹²  and bells of gold between them all around. 28:34 The pattern is to be ²¹³  a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe. 28:35 The robe ²¹⁴  is to be on Aaron as he ministers, ²¹⁵  and his sound will be heard ²¹⁶  when he enters the Holy Place before the Lord and when he leaves, so that he does not die.

28:36 “You are to make a plate ²¹⁷  of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved: ²¹⁸  “Holiness to the Lord.” ²¹⁹  28:37 You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be ²²⁰  on the turban; it is to be ²²¹  on the front of the turban, 28:38 It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, ²²²  which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts; ²²³  it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance ²²⁴  before the Lord. 28:39 You are to weave ²²⁵  the tunic of fine linen and make the turban of fine linen, and make the sash the work of an embroiderer.

28:40 “For Aaron’s sons you are to make tunics, sashes, and headbands ²²⁶  for glory and for beauty.

28:41 “You are to clothe them – your brother Aaron and his sons with him – and anoint them ²²⁷  and ordain them ²²⁸  and set them apart as holy, ²²⁹  so that they may minister as my priests. 28:42 Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; ²³⁰  they must cover ²³¹  from the waist to the thighs. 28:43 These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter ²³²  to the tent of meeting, or when they approach ²³³  the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. ²³⁴  It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants ²³⁵  after him. ²³⁶ 

29:1 ²³⁷ 

“Now this is what ²³⁸  you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young ²³⁹  bull and two rams without blemish; ²⁴⁰  29:2 and ²⁴¹  bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread ²⁴²  with oil – you are to make them using ²⁴³  fine wheat flour. 29:3 You are to put them in one basket and present ²⁴⁴  them in the basket, along with ²⁴⁵  the bull and the two rams.

29:4 “You are to present ²⁴⁶  Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the tent of meeting. You are to wash ²⁴⁷  them with water 29:5 and take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, ²⁴⁸  the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece; you are to fasten the ephod on him by using the skillfully woven waistband. ²⁴⁹  29:6 You are to put the turban on his head and put the holy diadem ²⁵⁰  on the turban. 29:7 You are to take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. ²⁵¹  29:8 You are to present his sons and clothe them with tunics 29:9 and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons ²⁵²  and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate ²⁵³  Aaron and his sons.

29:10 “You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put ²⁵⁴  their hands on the head ²⁵⁵  of the bull. 29:11 You are to kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting 29:12 and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar ²⁵⁶  with your finger; all the rest of ²⁵⁷  the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar. 29:13 You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe ²⁵⁸  that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them ²⁵⁹  on the altar. 29:14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up ²⁶⁰  outside the camp. ²⁶¹  It is the purification offering. ²⁶² 

29:15 “You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head, 29:16 and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar. 29:17 Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head 29:18 and burn ²⁶³  the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering ²⁶⁴  to the Lord, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire ²⁶⁵  to the Lord. ²⁶⁶ 

29:19 “You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head, 29:20 and you are to kill the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, on the tip of the right ear of his sons, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, ²⁶⁷  and then splash the blood all around on the altar. 29:21 You are to take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it ²⁶⁸  on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, so that he may be holy, ²⁶⁹  he and his garments along with his sons and his sons’ garments.

29:22 “You are to take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe ²⁷⁰  of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh – for it is the ram for consecration ²⁷¹  – 29:23 and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord. 29:24 You are to put all these ²⁷²  in Aaron’s hands ²⁷³  and in his sons’ hands, and you are to wave them as a wave offering ²⁷⁴  before the Lord. 29:25 Then you are to take them from their hands and burn ²⁷⁵  them ²⁷⁶  on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord. 29:26 You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it is to be your share. 29:27 You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, ²⁷⁷  which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons. 29:28 It is to belong to Aaron and to his sons from the Israelites, by a perpetual ordinance, for it is a contribution. It is to be a contribution from the Israelites from their peace offerings, their contribution to the Lord.

29:29 “The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they may be anointed ²⁷⁸  in them and consecrated ²⁷⁹  in them. 29:30 The priest who succeeds him ²⁸⁰  from his sons, when he first comes ²⁸¹  to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, is to wear them for seven days. ²⁸² 

29:31 “You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ²⁸³  its meat in a holy place. ²⁸⁴  29:32 Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 29:33 They are to eat those things by which atonement was made ²⁸⁵  to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else ²⁸⁶  may eat them, for they are holy. 29:34 If any of the meat from the consecration offerings ²⁸⁷  or any of the bread is left over ²⁸⁸  until morning, then you are to burn up ²⁸⁹  what is left over. It must not be eaten, ²⁹⁰  because it is holy.

29:35 “Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them ²⁹¹  for ²⁹²  seven days. 29:36 Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering ²⁹³  for atonement. ²⁹⁴  You are to purge ²⁹⁵  the altar by making atonement ²⁹⁶  for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy. 29:37 For seven days ²⁹⁷  you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. ²⁹⁸  Anything that touches the altar will be holy. ²⁹⁹ 

29:38 “Now this is what you are to prepare ³⁰⁰  on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old. 29:39 The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown. ³⁰¹  29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah ³⁰²  of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin ³⁰³  of oil from pressed olives, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 29:41 The second lamb you are to offer around sundown; you are to prepare for it the same meal offering as for the morning and the same drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

29:42 “This will be a regular ³⁰⁴  burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet ³⁰⁵  with you to speak to you there. 29:43 There I will meet ³⁰⁶  with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory. ³⁰⁷ 

29:44 “So I will set apart as holy ³⁰⁸  the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons, that they may minister as priests to me. 29:45 I will reside ³⁰⁹  among the Israelites, and I will be their God, 29:46 and they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the Lord their God.

30:1 ³¹⁰ 

“You are to make an altar for burning incense; ³¹¹  you are to make it of ³¹²  acacia wood. ³¹³  30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half ³¹⁴  and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, ³¹⁵  with its horns of one piece with it. ³¹⁶  30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, ³¹⁷  its four walls, ³¹⁸  and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it. ³¹⁹  30:4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. ³²⁰  The rings ³²¹  will be places ³²²  for poles to carry it with. 30:5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

30:6 “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you. 30:7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense ³²³  on it morning by morning; when he attends ³²⁴  to the lamps he is to burn incense. ³²⁵  30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. 30:9 You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it. 30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; ³²⁶  once in the year ³²⁷  he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” ³²⁸ 

30:11 ³²⁹ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ³³⁰  30:12 “When you take a census ³³¹  of the Israelites according to their number, ³³²  then each man is to pay a ransom ³³³  for his life to the Lord when you number them, ³³⁴  so that there will be no plague among them when you number them. 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered ³³⁵  is to pay this: a half shekel ³³⁶  according to the shekel of the sanctuary ³³⁷  (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering ³³⁸  to the Lord. 30:14 Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the Lord. 30:15 The rich are not to increase it, ³³⁹  and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving ³⁴⁰  the offering of the Lord, to make atonement ³⁴¹  for your lives. 30:16 You are to receive the atonement money ³⁴²  from the Israelites and give it for the service ³⁴³  of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial ³⁴⁴  for the Israelites before the Lord, to make atonement ³⁴⁵  for your lives.”

30:17 ³⁴⁶ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ³⁴⁷  30:18 “You are also to make a large bronze ³⁴⁸  basin with a bronze stand ³⁴⁹  for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it, ³⁵⁰  30:19 and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it. ³⁵¹  30:20 When they enter ³⁵²  the tent of meeting, they must wash with ³⁵³  water so that they do not die. ³⁵⁴  Also, when they approach ³⁵⁵  the altar to minister by burning incense ³⁵⁶  as an offering made by fire ³⁵⁷  to the Lord, 30:21 they must wash ³⁵⁸  their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this ³⁵⁹  will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants ³⁶⁰  throughout their generations.” ³⁶¹ 

30:22 ³⁶² 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ³⁶³  30:23 “Take ³⁶⁴  choice spices: ³⁶⁵  twelve and a half pounds ³⁶⁶  of free-flowing myrrh, ³⁶⁷  half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane, 30:24 and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed ³⁶⁸  according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts ³⁶⁹  of olive oil. 30:25 You are to make this ³⁷⁰  into ³⁷¹  a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, ³⁷²  the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

30:26 “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, 30:27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense, 30:28 the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base. 30:29 So you are to sanctify them, ³⁷³  and they will be most holy; ³⁷⁴  anything that touches them will be holy. ³⁷⁵ 

30:30 “You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and ³⁷⁶  sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests. 30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations. 30:32 It must not be applied ³⁷⁷  to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. 30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest ³⁷⁸  will be cut off ³⁷⁹  from his people.’”

30:34 The Lord said to Moses: “Take ³⁸⁰  spices, gum resin, ³⁸¹  onycha, ³⁸²  galbanum, ³⁸³  and pure frankincense ³⁸⁴  of equal amounts ³⁸⁵  30:35 and make it into an incense, ³⁸⁶  a perfume, ³⁸⁷  the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, ³⁸⁸  and pure and sacred. 30:36 You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you. 30:37 And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord. 30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, ³⁸⁹  will be cut off from his people.”

31:1 ³⁹⁰ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ³⁹¹  31:2 “See, I have chosen ³⁹²  Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God ³⁹³  in skill, ³⁹⁴  in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds ³⁹⁵  of craftsmanship, 31:4 to make artistic designs ³⁹⁶  for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze, 31:5 and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship. 31:6 Moreover, ³⁹⁷  I have also given him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and I have given ability to all the specially skilled, ³⁹⁸  that they may make ³⁹⁹  everything I have commanded you: 31:7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings ⁴⁰⁰  of the tent, 31:8 the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, 31:9 the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils, the large basin with its base, 31:10 the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons, to minister as priests, 31:11 the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

31:12 ⁴⁰¹ 

The Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁰²  31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, ⁴⁰³  for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. ⁴⁰⁴  31:14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it ⁴⁰⁵  must surely be put to death; indeed, ⁴⁰⁶  if anyone does ⁴⁰⁷  any ⁴⁰⁸  work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his ⁴⁰⁹  people. 31:15 Six days ⁴¹⁰  work may be done, ⁴¹¹  but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, ⁴¹²  holy to the Lord; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death. 31:16 The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 31:17 It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days ⁴¹³  the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” ⁴¹⁴ 

31:18 He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. ⁴¹⁵