Shemot, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {25:2} "Speak to the
children of Yisra'el, that they take an offering for me. From everyone
whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. {25:3} This
is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
{25:4} blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, {25:5} rams'
skins dyed red, sea cow hides, shittim wood, {25:6} oil for the light,
spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, {25:7}
[1>]shoham[<1] stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the
breastplate. {25:8} Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell
among them. {25:9} According to all that I show you, the pattern of
the tent, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall
make it.
{25:10} "They shall make a [2>]teivah[<2] of shittim wood. Its
length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half,
and a cubit and a half its height. {25:11} You shall overlay it with
pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a
gold molding around it. {25:12} You shall cast four rings of gold for
it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side
of it, and two rings on the other side of it. {25:13} You shall make
poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. {25:14} You shall
put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
{25:15} The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be
taken from it. {25:16} You shall put the testimony which I shall give
you into the [3>]teivah[<3]. {25:17} You shall make a mercy seat of
pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and
a half its breadth. {25:18} You shall make two Keruvim of hammered
gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. {25:19}
Make one Keruv at the one end, and one Keruv at the other end. You
shall make the Keruvim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy
seat. {25:20} The Keruvim shall spread out their wings upward,
covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one
another. The faces of the Keruvim shall be toward the mercy seat.
{25:21} You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark
you shall put the testimony that I will give you. {25:22} There I will
meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from
between the two Keruvim which are on the ark of the testimony, all
that I command you for the children of Yisra'el.
{25:23} "You shall make a table of shittim wood. Two cubits shall be
its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its
height. {25:24} You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold
molding around it. {25:25} You shall make a rim of a handbreadth
around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
{25:26} You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in
the four corners that are on its four feet. {25:27} the rings shall be
close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. {25:28}
You shall make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold,
that the table may be carried with them. {25:29} You shall make its
dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings
with. Of pure gold shall you make them. {25:30} You shall set bread of
the presence on the table before me always.
{25:31} "You shall make a menorah of pure gold. Of hammered work
shall the menorah be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its
buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. {25:32} There
shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the
menorah out of its one side, and three branches of the menorah out of
its other side; {25:33} three cups made like almond blossoms in one
branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms
in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going
out of the menorah; {25:34} and in the menorah four cups made like
almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; {25:35} and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one
piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for
the six branches going out of the menorah. {25:36} Their buds and
their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one
beaten work of pure gold. {25:37} You shall make its lamps seven, and
they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
{25:38} Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
{25:39} It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these
accessories. {25:40} See that you make them after their pattern, which
has been shown to you on the mountain.
{26:1} "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with Keruvim. The
work of the skillful workman you shall make them. {26:2} The length of
each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure. {26:3}
Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other
five curtains shall be coupled one to another. {26:4} You shall make
loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the
coupling; and likewise shall you make in the edge of the curtain that
is outmost in the second coupling. {26:5} You shall make fifty loops
in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the
curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite
one to another. {26:6} You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple
the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a
unit.
{26:7} "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over
the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them. {26:8} The length of
each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain
four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure. {26:9} You
shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront
of the tent. {26:10} You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one
curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge
of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. {26:11} You
shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops,
and couple the tent together, that it may be one. {26:12} The
overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half
curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tent. {26:13}
The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that
which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang
over the sides of the tent on this side and on that side, to cover it.
{26:14} You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed
red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
{26:15} "You shall make the boards for the tent of shittim wood,
standing up. {26:16} Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and
one and a half cubits the breadth of each board. {26:17} There shall
be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you
make for all the boards of the tent. {26:18} You shall make the boards
for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward. {26:19} You
shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two
sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under
another board for its two tenons. {26:20} For the second side of the
tent, on the north side, twenty boards, {26:21} and their forty
sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board. {26:22} For the far part of the tent westward you shall
make six boards. {26:23} Two boards shall you make for the corners of
the tent in the far part. {26:24} They shall be double beneath, and in
like manner they shall be entire to the top of it to one ring: thus
shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. {26:25}
There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen
sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another
board.
{26:26} "You shall make bars of shittim wood: five for the boards of
the one side of the tent, {26:27} and five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of
the tent, for the far part westward. {26:28} The middle bar in the
midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end. {26:29} You
shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for
places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold. {26:30}
You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown to
you on the mountain.
{26:31} "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, with Keruvim. The work of the skillful workman
shall it be made. {26:32} You shall hang it on four pillars of shittim
overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of
silver. {26:33} You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall
bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil
shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. {26:34} You
shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy
place. {26:35} You shall set the table outside the veil, and the
menorah over against the table on the side of the tent toward the
south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
{26:36} "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
embroiderer. {26:37} You shall make for the screen five pillars of
shittim, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and
you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
{27:1} "You shall make the altar of shittim wood, five cubits long,
and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height
shall be three cubits. {27:2} You shall make its horns on its four
corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall
overlay it with brass. {27:3} You shall make its pots to take away its
ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans:
all its vessels you shall make of brass. {27:4} You shall make a
grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four
brazen rings in its four corners. {27:5} You shall put it under the
ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the
altar. {27:6} You shall make poles for the altar, poles of shittim
wood, and overlay them with brass. {27:7} Its poles shall be put into
the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when
carrying it. {27:8} Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has
been shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
{27:9} "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side
southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen
one hundred cubits long for one side: {27:10} and the pillars of it
shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. {27:11} Likewise for the
north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long,
and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the
hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. {27:12} For the
breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty
cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. {27:13} The breadth
of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. {27:14}
The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three. {27:15} For the other
side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three. {27:16} For the gate of the court shall be a
screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and
their sockets four. {27:17} All the pillars of the court round about
shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their
sockets of brass. {27:18} The length of the court shall be one hundred
cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits,
of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. {27:19} All the
instruments of the tent in all its service, and all the pins of it,
and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
{27:20} "You shall command the children of Yisra'el, that they bring
to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
continually. {27:21} In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is
before the testimony, Aharon and his sons shall keep it in order from
evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute forever
throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el.
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Footnotes:
[1] {25:7} onyx
[2] {25:10} ark
[3] {25:16} ark
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