[15] And thou shalt make the posts of the tabernacle of incorruptible wood. [16] Of ten cubits shalt thou make one post, and the breadth of one post of a cubit and a half. [17] Two joints shalt thou make in one post, answering the one to the other: so shalt thou do to all the posts of the tabernacle. [18] And thou shalt make posts to the tabernacle, twenty posts on the north side. [19] And thou shalt make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides. [20] And for the next side, toward the south, twenty posts, [21] and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides. [22] And on the back of the tabernacle at the part which is toward the west thou shalt make six posts. [23] And thou shalt make two posts on the corners of the tabernacle behind. [24] And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal. [25] And there shall be eight posts, and their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post. [26] And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood; five to one post on one side of the tabernacle, [27] and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea. [28] And let the bar in the middle between the posts go through from the one side to the other side. [29] And thou shalt gild the posts with gold; and thou shalt make golden rings, into which thou shalt introduce the bars, and thou shalt gild the bars with gold. [30] And thou shalt set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shewed thee in the mount.
[31] And thou shalt make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet woven, and fine linen spun: thou shalt make it cherubs in woven work. [32] And thou shalt set it upon four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their tops shall be gold, and their four sockets shall be of silver. [33] And thou shalt put the veil on the posts, and thou shalt carry in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a separation for you between the holy and the holy of holies. [34] And thou shalt screen with the veil the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies. [35] And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the candlestick opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle; and thou shalt put the table on the north side of the tabernacle. [36] And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the tabernacle of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet and fine linen spun, the work of the embroiderer. [37] And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.
Chapter 27
[1] And thou shalt make an altar of incorruptible wood, of five cubits in the length, and five cubits in the breadth; the altar shall be square, and the height of it shall be of three cubits. [2] And thou shalt make the horns on the four corners; the horns shall be of the same piece, and thou shalt overlay them with brass. [3] And thou shalt make a rim for the altar; and its covering and its cups, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pan, and all its vessels shalt thou make of brass. [4] And thou shalt make for it a brazen grate with net-work; and thou shalt make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides. [5] And thou shalt put them below under the grate of the altar, and the grate shall extend to the middle of the altar. [6] And thou shalt make for the altar staves of incorruptible wood, and thou shalt overlay them with brass. [7] And thou shalt put the staves into the rings; and let the staves be on the sides of the altar to carry it. [8] Thou shalt make it hollow with boards: according to what was shewed thee in the mount, so thou shalt make it. [9] And thou shalt make a court for the tabernacle, curtains of the court of fine linen spun on the south side, the length of a hundred cubits for one side. [10] And their pillars twenty, and twenty brazen sockets for them, and their rings and their clasps of silver. [11] Thus shall there be to the side toward the north curtains of a hundred cubits in length; and their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass, and the rings and the clasps of the pillars, and their sockets overlaid with silver. [12] And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the west curtains of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. [13] And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the south, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. [14] And the height of the curtains shall be of fifty cubits for the one side of the gate; their pillars three, and their sockets three. [15] And for the second side the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. [16] And a veil for the door of the court, the height of it of twenty cubits of blue linen, and of purple, and spun scarlet, and of fine linen spun with the art of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. [17] All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets. [18] And the length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty on each side, and the height five cubits of fine linen spun, and their sockets of brass. [19] And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass.
[20] And do thou charge the children of Israel, and let them take for thee refined pure olive-oil beaten to burn for light, that a lamp may burn continually [21] in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is before the ark of the covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the children of Israel.
Chapter 28
[1] And do thou take to thyself both Aaron thy brother, and his sons, even them of the children of Israel; so that Aaron, and Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron, may minister to me. [2] And thou shalt make holy apparel for Aaron thy brother, for honour and glory. [3] And speak thou to all those who are wise in understanding, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom and perception; and they shall make the holy apparel of Aaron for the sanctuary, in which apparel he shall minister to me as priest. [4] And these are the garments which they shall make: the breast-plate, and the shoulder-piece, and the full-length robe, and the tunic with a fringe, and the tire, and the girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron and his sons to minister to me as priests. [5] And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen. [6] And they shall make the shoulder-piece of fine linen spun, the woven work of the embroiderer. [7] It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined together, fastened on the two sides. [8] And the woven work of the shoulder-pieces which is upon it, shall be of one piece according to the work, of pure gold and blue and purple, and spun scarlet and fine twined linen. [9] And thou shalt take the two stones, the stones of emerald, and thou shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel. [10] Six names on the first stone, and the other six names on the second stone, according to their births. [11] It shall be the work of the stone-engraver’s art; as the graving of a seal thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. [12] And thou shalt put the two stones on the shoulders of the shoulder-piece: they are memorial-stones for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders, a memorial for them. [13] And thou shalt make circlets of pure gold; [14] and thou shalt make two fringes of pure gold, variegated with flowers wreathen work; and thou shalt put the wreathen fringes on the circlets, fastening them on their shoulder-pieces in front.
[15] And thou shalt make the oracle of judgment, the work of the embroiderer: in keeping with the ephod, thou shalt make it of gold, and blue and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun. [16] Thou shalt make it square: it shall be double; of a span the length of it, and of a span the breadth. [17] And thou shalt interweave with it a texture of four rows of stone; there shall be a row of stones, a sardius, a topaz, and emerald, the first row. [18] And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. [19] And the third row, a ligure, an agate, an amethyst: [20] and the fou
rth row, a chrysolite, and a beryl, and an onyx stone, set round with gold, bound together with gold: let them be according to their row. [21] And let the stones of the names of the children of Israel be twelve according to their names, engravings as of seals: let them be for the twelve tribes each according to the name. [22] And thou shalt make on the oracle woven fringes, a chain-work of pure gold. [23] And Aaron shall take the names of the children of Israel, on the oracle of judgment on his breast; a memorial before God for him as he goes into the sanctuary. [24] And thou shalt put the fringes on the oracle of judgment; thou shalt put the wreaths on both sides of the oracle, [25] and thou shalt put the two circlets on both the shoulders of the ephod in front. [26] And thou shalt put the Manifestation and the Truth on the oracle of judgment; and it shall be on the breast of Aaron, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord; and Aaron shall bear the judgments of the children of Israel on his breast before the Lord continually. [27] And thou shalt make the full-length tunic all of blue. [28] And the opening of it shall be in the middle having a fringe round about the opening, the work of the weaver, woven together in the joining of the same piece that it might not be rent. [29] And under the fringe of the robe below thou shalt make as it were pomegranates of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun, under the fringe of the robe round about: golden pomegranates of the same shape, and bells round about between these. [30] A bell by the side of a golden pomegranate, and flower-work on the fringe of the robe round about. [31] And the sound of Aaron shall be audible when he ministers, as he goes into the sanctuary before the Lord, and has he goes out, that he die not. [32] And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and thou shalt grave on it as the graving of a signet, Holiness of the Lord. [33] And thou shalt put it on the spun blue cloth, and it shall be on the mitre: it shall be in the front of the mitre. [34] And it shall be on the forehead of Aaron; and Aaron shall bear away the sins of their holy things, all that the children of Israel shall sanctify of every gift of their holy things, and it shall be on the forehead of Aaron continually acceptable for them before the Lord.
[35] And the fringes of the garments shall be of fine linen; and thou shalt make a tire of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer. [36] And for the sons of Aaron thou shalt make tunics and girdles, and thou shalt make for them tires for honour and glory. [37] And thou shalt put them on Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, and thou shalt anoint them and fill their hands: and thou shalt sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. [38] And thou shalt make for them linen drawers to cover the nakedness of their flesh; they shall reach from the loins to the thighs. [39] And Aaron shall have them, and his sons, whenever they enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when they shall advance to the altar of the sanctuary to minister, so they shall not bring sin upon themselves, lest they die: it is a perpetual statute for him, and for his seed after him.
Chapter 29
[1] And these are the things which thou shalt do to them: thou shalt sanctify them, so that they shall serve me in the priesthood; and thou shalt take one young calf from the herd, and two unblemished rams; [2] and unleavened loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil: thou shalt make them of fine flour of wheat. [3] And thou shalt put them on one basket, and thou shalt offer them on the basket, and the young calf and the two rams. [4] And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and thou shalt wash them with water. [5] And having taken the garments, thou shalt put on Aaron thy brother both the full-length robe and the ephod and the oracle; and thou shalt join for him the oracle to the ephod. [6] And thou shalt put the mitre on his head; and thou shalt put the plate, even the Holiness, on the mitre. [7] And thou shalt take of the anointing oil, and thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt anoint him, [8] and thou shalt bring his sons, and put garments on them. [9] And thou shalt gird them with the girdles, and put the tires upon them, and they shall have a priestly office to me for ever; and thou shalt fill the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons. [10] And thou shalt bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the calf, before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. [11] And thou shalt slay the calf before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. [12] And thou shalt take of the blood of the calf, and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger, but all the rest of the blood thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar. [13] And thou shalt take all the fat that is on the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt put them upon the altar. [14] But the flesh of the calf, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp; for it is an offering on account of sin.
[15] And thou shalt take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. [16] And thou shalt kill it, and take the blood and pour it on the altar round about. [17] And thou shalt divide the ram by his several limbs, and thou shalt wash the inward parts and the feet with water, and thou shalt put them on the divided parts with the head. [18] And thou shalt offer the whole ram on the altar, a whole burnt-offering to the Lord for a sweet-smelling savour: it is an offering of incense to the Lord. [19] And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. [20] And thou shalt kill it, and take of the blood of it, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet. [21] And thou shalt take of the blood from the altar, and of the anointing oil; and thou shalt sprinkle it upon Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; and he shall be sanctified and his apparel, and his sons and his sons’ apparel with him: but the blood of the ram thou shalt pour round about upon the altar. [22] And thou shalt take from the ram its fat, both the fat that covers the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, for this is a consecration. [23] And one cake made with oil, and one cake from the basket of unleavened bread set forth before the Lord. [24] And thou shalt put them all on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and thou shalt separate them as a separate offering before the Lord. [25] And thou shalt take them from their hands, and shalt offer them up on the altar of whole burnt-offering for a sweet-smelling savour before the Lord: it is an offering to the Lord. [26] And thou shalt take the breast from the ram of consecration which is Aaron’s, and thou shalt separate it as a separate offering before the Lord, and it shall be to thee for a portion. [27] And thou shalt sanctify the separated breast and the shoulder of removal which has been separated, and which has been removed from the ram of consecration, of the portion of Aaron and of that of his sons. [28] And it shall be a perpetual statute of the children of Israel to Aaron and his sons, for this is a separate offering; and it shall be a special offering from the children of Israel, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel, a special offering to the Lord.
[29] And the apparel of the sanctuary which is Aaron’s shall be his son’s after him, for them to be anointed in them, and to fill their hands. [30] The priest his successor from among his sons who shall go into the tabernacle of witness to minister in the holies, shall put them on seven days. [31] And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and thou shalt boil the flesh in the holy place. [32] And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the loaves in the basket, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. [33] They shall eat the offerings with which they were sanctified to fill their hands, to sanctify them; and a stranger shall not eat of them, for they are holy. [34] And if aught be left of the flesh of the sacrifice of consecration and of the loaves until the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is a holy thing.
[35] And thus shalt thou do
for Aaron and for his sons according to all things that I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou fill their hands. [36] And thou shalt sacrifice the calf of the sin-offering on the day of purification, and thou shalt purify the altar when thou dost perform consecration upon it, and thou shalt anoint it so as to sanctify it. [37] Seven days shalt thou purify the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy, every one that touches the altar shall be hallowed. [38] And these are the offerings which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two unblemished lambs of a year old daily on the altar continually, a constant offering.
[39] One lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the second lamb thou shalt offer in the evening. [40] And a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil, and a drink-offering the fourth part of a hin of wine for one lamb. [41] And thou shalt offer the second lamb in the evening, after the manner of the morning-offering, and according to the drink-offering of the morning lamb; thou shalt offer it an offering to the Lord for a sweet-smelling savour, [42] a perpetual sacrifice throughout your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord; wherein I will be known to thee from thence, so as to speak to thee. [43] And I will there give orders to the children of Israel, and I will be sanctified in my glory. [44] And I will sanctify the tabernacle of testimony and the altar, and I will sanctify Aaron and his sons, to minister as priests to me. [45] And I will be called upon among the children of Israel, and will be their God. [46] And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, to be called upon by them, and to be their God.
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