He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.


He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.


He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.


He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;


and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.


Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.


He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.


He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.


He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.


He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.


He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.


He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat;


one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.


The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.


He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.


He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.


He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.


He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.


The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.


He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.


He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.


He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.


There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side:


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 lampstand.


In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;


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 it.


Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.


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


He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.


He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.


He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.


He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.


He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.


He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.


He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.


He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.


He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.


He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.


He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.


He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.


He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.


He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.


He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;


their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.


For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.


For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.


For the east side eastward fifty cubits.


The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;


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


All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.


The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.


The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.


Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.


All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.


This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.


With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.


All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:


a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.


The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.


Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.


The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.


With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,


the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.


Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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


They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.


They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.


The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.


They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.


He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.


It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.


They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;


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


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


and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.


The stones were 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, for the twelve tribes.


They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.


They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.


The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.


They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.


They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.


They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.


The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.


They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.


They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;


a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,


and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,


and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH.”


They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.


They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,


the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,


the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,