Exodus 37-40

Jubilee Bible 2000

37 ¶ Bezaleel also made the ark of cedar wood; two cubits and a half was the length of it, a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it;

² and he covered it with pure gold within and without and made a moulding of gold to it round about.

³ And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it: even two rings upon the one side of it and two rings upon the other side of it.

⁴ He also made the staves of cedar wood and covered them with gold.

⁵ And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

⁶ He made the seat of reconciliation likewise of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and one cubit and a half its breadth.

⁷ He also made the two cherubim of gold, beaten out of one piece he made them, on the two ends of the seat of reconciliation;

⁸ one cherub on the end on this side and another cherub on the other end on that side of the seat of reconciliation; he made the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

⁹ And the cherubim spread out their wings above, covering with their wings the seat of reconciliation, with their faces one to another; the faces of the cherubim were facing the covering.

¹⁰ ¶ And he made the table of cedar wood; two cubits was the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof;

¹¹ and he covered it with pure gold and made it a moulding of gold round about.

¹² He also made it a border of a handbreadth round about and made a moulding of gold for the border thereof round about.

¹³ And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings upon the four corners that correspond to the four feet thereof.

¹⁴ Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

¹⁵ And he made the staves of cedar wood and covered them with gold, to bear the table.

¹⁶ He also made the vessels which were upon the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its covers to cover the bread, of pure gold.

¹⁷ He made the lampstand likewise of pure gold; of beaten work he made the lampstand, its shaft and its branch, its bowls, its knops, and its flowers were of the same.

¹⁸ Out of the sides thereof went six branches, three branches out of one side of the lampstand and three branches out of the other side of the lampstand;

¹⁹ in one branch there were three bowls made after the fashion of almonds, a knop and a flower; and in the other branch there were three bowls made like almonds, a knop and a flower, so throughout the six branches going out of the lampstand.

²⁰ And in the lampstand were four bowls made like almonds, their knops, and their flowers,

²¹ and a knop under the two branches of the same and another knop under two branches of the same and a knop under the two other branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

²² Their knops and their branches were of the same; all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

²³ He made likewise its seven lamps and its snuffers and its snuff dishes of pure gold.

²⁴ Of a talent of pure gold he made it and all its vessels.

²⁵ ¶ He also made the altar of incense of cedar wood: the length of it was a cubit and the breadth of it a cubit; it was square; and two cubits was the height of it; its horns were of the same piece.

²⁶ And he covered it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns; and he made it a moulding of gold round about.

²⁷ He also made two rings of gold for it under the moulding thereof, by the two corners of it, upon its two sides, to be places for the staves to bear it with.

²⁸ And he made the staves of cedar wood and covered them with gold.

²⁹ He made likewise the oil of the holy anointing and the pure aromatic incense, according to the work of the apothecary.

38 ¶ And he made the altar of burnt offering of cedar wood: five cubits was its length and five cubits its breadth; it was square, and its height was three cubits.

² And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same piece; and he covered it with brass.

³ He made likewise all the vessels of the altar: the pots and the shovels and the basins and the fleshhooks, and the firepans; all its vessels he made of brass.

⁴ And he made for the altar the brasen grate of network under the circumference thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

⁵ He also cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

⁶ And he made the staves of cedar wood and covered them with brass.

⁷ And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards.

⁸ He also made the laver of brass and the base of it of brass, of the looking glasses of the women who were vigilant at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁹ ¶ He made the court likewise; on the south side towards the Negev the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;

¹⁰ their pillars were twenty with their twenty brasen sockets; the capitals of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

¹¹ And for the side of the Aquilon, the hangings were one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty with their twenty sockets of brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

¹² On the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets of silver,

¹³ and for the east side eastward fifty cubits

¹⁴ the hangings of the one side fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three;

¹⁵ and for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.

¹⁶ All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

¹⁷ And the sockets for the pillars were of brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets of silver and the coverings of their heads of silver; likewise all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

¹⁸ And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, the same as the hangings of the court.

¹⁹ And its pillars were four with its four sockets of brass, their capitals of silver, and the coverings of their heads and their fillets of silver.

²⁰ And all the stakes of the tabernacle and of the court round about were of brass.

²¹ ¶ This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the ministry of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

²² And Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.

²³ And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a master workman, an engineer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and fine linen.

²⁴ All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, which was gold of offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

²⁵ And the silver of those that were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

²⁶ A half per head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, which were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

²⁷ And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

²⁸ And of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made the capitals for the pillars and covered their heads and filleted them.

²⁹ And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels,

³⁰ with which he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it and all the vessels of the altar

³¹ and the sockets of the court round about and the sockets of the court gate and all the stakes of the tabernacle, and all the stakes of the court round about.

39 ¶ And of the blue and purple and scarlet, they made the clothing of the ministry, to minister in the sanctuary, and in the same manner they made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

² He also made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

³ And they beat the gold into thin plates and cut it into wires to work it in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen, with cunning work.

⁴ They made the shoulder pieces for it to couple it together; by the two edges was it coupled together.

⁵ And the special girdle of his ephod, that was over it, was of the same, according to the work thereof: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁶ And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in settings of gold, graven, as seals are graven, with the names of the sons of Israel.

⁷ And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod that they should be stones for a memorial to the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁸ He also made the pectoral of cunning work, like the work of the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

⁹ It was square; they made the pectoral double; a span was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

¹⁰ And they set in it four orders of stones. The order was a ruby, an emerald, and a chrysolite: this was the first order.

¹¹ The second order, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond.

¹² The third order, a topaz, a turquoise, and an amethyst.

¹³ And the fourth order, a tarshish (or beryl), an onyx, and a jasper; they were set and inclosed in their settings of gold.

¹⁴ The stones were in agreement with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, in agreement with their names, like the engravings of a seal, each one in agreement with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

¹⁵ They also made the small chains upon the pectoral of wreathen work of pure gold.

¹⁶ In the same manner they made two settings of gold and two gold rings and put the two rings in the two ends of the pectoral.

¹⁷ And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in those two rings on the ends of the pectoral.

¹⁸ And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two settings, which they put on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front part of it.

¹⁹ And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the pectoral upon the border of it, which was on the lower side of the ephod.

²⁰ And they made two other golden rings and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath toward the front part of it, in the front of its coupling, above the special girdle of the ephod.

²¹ And they bound the pectoral by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue lace, that it might be above the special girdle of the ephod and that the pectoral might not be loosed from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²² And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue,

²³ with its collar in the midst of the robe, as the collar of a habergeon, with a band round about the collar that it should not rend.

²⁴ And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.

²⁵ They also made the bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;

²⁶ A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.

²⁷ And they made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,

²⁸ likewise the mitre of fine linen and the decorations of the tiaras of fine linen and the linen underwear of fine twined linen,

²⁹ also the girdle of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet of needlework, as the LORD commanded Moses.

³⁰ And they made the open flower, the crown of holiness, of pure gold and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a seal, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.

³¹ And they tied unto it a lace of blue to fasten it over the mitre, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³² ¶ Thus was all the work of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony finished, and the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so did they.

³³ And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tabernacle and all its furniture, its hooks, its boards, its bars and its pillars and its sockets,

³⁴ and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red and the covering of badgers’ skins and the veil of the curtain,

³⁵ the ark of the testimony and its staves, and the seat of reconciliation,

³⁶ the table and all its vessels, and the showbread,

³⁷ the pure lampstand with its lamps, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels and the oil for light,

³⁸ the golden altar and the anointing oil and the aromatic incense and the hanging for the tabernacle door.

³⁹ The brasen altar with its grate of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, and the laver and its base.

⁴⁰ The hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, its cords and its stakes, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tabernacle of the testimony,

⁴¹ the clothing of service for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priesthood.

⁴² According to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel made all the work.

⁴³ And Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it; and Moses blessed them.

40 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² In the day of the first month, the first of the month shalt thou set up the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony.

³ And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony and cover the ark with the veil.

⁴ And thou shalt bring in the table and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it, and thou shalt bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.

⁵ And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

⁶ Then thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle, of the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁷ And thou shalt set the laver between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar and shalt put water therein.

⁸ Last, thou shalt set up the court round about and hang up the hanging at the court gate.

⁹ And thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it and shalt sanctify it with all its vessels, and it shall be holy.

¹⁰ And thou shalt also anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its vessels and sanctify the altar, and it shall be an altar most holy.

¹¹ In the same manner thou shalt anoint the laver and its base and sanctify it.

¹² And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and wash them with water.

¹³ And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments and anoint him and sanctify him, that he may be my priest.

¹⁴ And thou shalt bring his sons and clothe them with coats.

¹⁵ And thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father, and they shall be my priests; and it shall be that their anointing shall be unto them for a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.

¹⁶ ¶ Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.

¹⁷ And it came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was raised up.

¹⁸ And Moses caused the tabernacle to be raised up and fastened its sockets and set up its boards and put in its bars and caused its pillars to be raised up.

¹⁹ And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁰ And he took and put the testimony into the ark and set the staves on the ark and put the seat of reconciliation upon the ark above,

²¹ and he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the curtain and covered the ark of the testimony, as the LORD commanded Moses.

²² And he put the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, upon the side of the Aquilon of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

²³ And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁴ And he put the lampstand in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table, on the side of the Negev of the tabernacle.

²⁵ And he lighted the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁶ He also put the golden altar in the tabernacle of the testimony before the veil.

²⁷ And he burnt aromatic incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁸ In the same manner he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

²⁹ And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle, of the tabernacle of the testimony, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the present, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁰ And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar and put water in it, to wash with.

³¹ And Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet in it.

³² When they would enter into the tabernacle of the testimony and when they would come near unto the altar, they washed themselves, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³³ Last he raised up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging of the court gate. Thus Moses finished the work.

³⁴ ¶ Then a cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

³⁵ And Moses was not able to enter into the tabernacle of the testimony because the cloud was upon it, and the glory of the LORD had it full.

³⁶ And when the cloud lifted itself up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel went onward in all their journeys;

³⁷ but if the cloud did not lift itself up, then they did not journey until the day that it lifted itself up.

³⁸ For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and the fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.