Exodus 26–28

1“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.

2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.

3Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

4You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.

5You 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 another.

6You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.

7“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.

8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.

9You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.

10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.

11You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

12The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

13The 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 tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

14You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

15“You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

17There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

18You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.

19You 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.

20For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,

21and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

22For the far side of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.

23You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.

24They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

25There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

26“You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

27and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side westward.

28The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

29You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.

30You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

31“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.

32You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.

33You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.

34You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.

35You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.

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.

37You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

1“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.

2You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.

3You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.

4You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

5You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

6You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

7Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.

8You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

9“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.

10Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

11Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

12For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

13The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

15For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

16For 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.

17All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.

18The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.

19All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.

20“You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

21In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

1“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

2You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

3You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

4These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

5They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

6“They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.

7It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.

8The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.

10Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

12You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.

13You shall make settings of gold,

14and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.

15“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.

16It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length, and a span its width.

17You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

18and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

19and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

20and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

21The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

22You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

23You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

25The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.

26You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.

27You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

28They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.

29Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.

30You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

31“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

32It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.

33On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:

34a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

35It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.

36“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’

37You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.

38It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

39You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

40“You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.

41You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

42You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.

43They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.