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The 36th Chapter
And
Bezaleel wrought and Ahaliab and all wise hearted men to whom the
Lord had given wisdom and understanding, to know how to work all
manner work for the holy service, in all that the Lord commanded.
And Moses called for Bezaleel, Ahaliab and all the wise hearted men
in whose hearts the Lord had put wisdom, even as many as their
hearts couraged to come unto the work to work it. And they received
of Moses all the heave offerings which the children of Israel had
brought for the work of the holy service to make it withal. And they
brought beside that, willing offerings every morning.
And all the wise men that wrought all the holy work, came
every man from his work which they made, and spake unto Moses
saying: the people bring too much and above that is enough to serve
for the work which the Lord hath commanded to make. And then Moses
gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the host saying: see that neither man nor woman prepare any more
work for the holy heave offering, and so the people were forbidden
to bring: for the stuff they had, was sufficient for them unto all
the work, to make it and too much.
And all the wise hearted men among them that wrought in the
work of the habitation made: even ten curtains of twined byss,
Jacinth, scarlet and purple, and made them full of Cherubins with
broidered work. The length of one curtain was twenty eight cubits
and the breadth four and were all of one size. And they coupled five
curtains by themselves, and other five by themselves. And they made
fifty loops of Jacinth along by the edge of the utmost curtain, even
in the selvedge of the coupling curtain: and likewise they made on
the side of the utmost coupling curtain on the other side, fifty
loops they made in the one curtain, and fifty in the edge of the
coupling curtain on the other side: so that the loops were one over
against another.
And they made fifty rings of gold, and coupled the curtains
one to another with the rings: and so was it made a dwelling place.
And they made eleven curtains of goats hair to be a tent over
the tabernacle thirty cubits long apiece and four cubits broad, and
they all eleven of one size. And they coupled five by themselves,
and six by themselves, and they made fifty loops along by the border
of the utmost coupling curtain on the one side, and fifty in the
edge of the coupling curtain on the other side. And they made fifty
rings of brass to couple the tent together that it might be one. And
they made a covering unto the tent of rams skins red, and yet
another of taxus skins above all.
And they made boards for the dwelling place of sethim wood
that stood upright, every board ten cubits long and a cubit and an
half broad. And they made two feet to every board of the dwelling
place joining one to another. And they made twenty boards for the
south side of the habitation, and forty sockets of silver under the
twenty boards, two sockets under every board, even for the two feet
of them. And for the other side of the dwelling toward the north,
they made other twenty boards with forty sockets of silver two
sockets under every board. And behind in the end of the tabernacle
toward the west, they made six boards and two other boards for the
corners of the habitation behind, and they were joined close both
beneath and also above with clamps, and thus they did to both the
corners: so they were in all eight boards and sixteen sockets, under
every board two sockets.
And they made bars of Sethim wood five for the boards of the
one side of the habitation and five for the other, and five for the
boards of the west end of the habitation. And they made the middle
bar to shoot through the boards: even from the one end to the other,
and overlaid the boards with gold, and made them rings of gold to
thrust the bars through, and covered the bars with gold. And they
made an hanging of Jacinth, of scarlet, purple and twined byss with
Cherubins of broidered work. And made thereunto four pillars of
Sethim wood and overlaid them with gold. Their knobs were also of
gold, and they cast for them four sockets of silver. And they made
an hanging for the tabernacle door: of Jacinth, scarlet, purple and
twined byss of needle work, and the pillars of it were five with
their knobs, and overlaid the heads of them and the hoops with gold,
with their five sockets of brass.
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The 37th Chapter
And
Bezaleel made the ark of sethim wood two cubits and an half long and
a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high: and overlaid
it with fine gold both within and without, and made a crown of gold
to it round about, and cast for it four rings of gold for the four
corners of it: two rings for the one side and two for the other, and
made staves of Sethim wood, and covered them with gold, and put the
staves in the rings along by the side of the ark to bear it withal.
And he made the mercyseat of pure gold two cubits and a half
long and one cubit and a half broad, and made two Cherubins of thick
gold upon the two ends of the mercy seat: One Cherub on the one end,
and another Cherub on the other end of the mercyseat. And the
Cherubins spread out their wings above on high, and covered the
mercyseat therewith. And their faces were one to another: even to
the mercyseat ward, were the faces of the Cherubins.
And he made the table of sethim wood two cubits long and a
cubit broad, and a cubit and an half high, and overlaid it with fine
gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about, and made thereto
an hoop of an hand breadth round about, and made unto the hoop a
crown of gold round about, and cast for it four rings of gold and
put the rings in the four corners by the feet: even under the hoop
to put staves in to bear the table withal. And he made staves of
Sethim wood and covered them with gold to bear the table withal, and
made the vessels that were on the table of pure gold, the dishes,
spoons, flat pieces and pots to pour withal.
And he made the candlestick of pure thick gold: both the
candlestick and his shaft: with branches, bowls, knobs and flowers
proceeding out of it. Six branches proceeding out of the sides
thereof, three out of the one side and three out of the other. And
on every branch were three cups like unto almonds, with knobs and
flowers throughout the six branches that proceeded out of the
candlestick. And upon the candlestick self, were four cups after the
fashion of almonds with knobs and flowers: under every two branches
a knob. And the knobs and the branches proceeded out of it, and were
all one piece of pure thick gold. And he made seven lamps thereto,
and the snuffers thereof, and firepans of pure gold. An hundred
weight of pure gold, made both it and all that belonged thereto.
And he made the cense altar of Sethim wood of a cubit long and
a cubit broad: even four square, and two cubits high with horns
proceeding out of it. And he covered it with pure gold both the top
and the sides round about and the horns of it, and made unto it a
crown of gold round about. And he made two rings of gold unto it,
even under the crown upon either side of it, to put staves in for to
bear it withal: and made staves of Sethim wood, and overlaid them
with gold. And he made the holy anointing oil and the sweet pure
incense after the apothecarys craft.
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The 38th Chapter
And he made the burnt offering
altar of Sethim wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad: even
four square, and three cubits high. And he made horns in the four
corners of it proceeding out of it, and overlaid it with brass. And
he made all the vessels of the altar: the cauldrons, shovels,
basins, fleshhooks and coalpans all of brass.
And he made a brazen gridiron of network unto the altar round
about a low beneath, under the compass of the altar: so that it
reached unto half the altar, and cast four rings of brass for the
four ends of the gridiron to put staves in. And he made staves of
sethim wood and covered them with brass, and put the staves in the
rings along by the altar side to bear it withal, and made the altar
hollow with boards. And he made the laver of brass and the foot of
it also of brass, in the sight of them that did watch before the
door of the tabernacle of witness.
And he made the court with hangings of twined byss of an
hundred cubits long upon the south side, and twenty pillars with
twenty sockets of brass: but the knobs of the pillars, and the hoops
were silver. And on the north side the hangings were an hundred
cubits long with twenty pillars and twenty sockets of brass, but the
knobs and the hoops of the pillars were of silver. And on the west
side, were hangings of fifty cubits long, and ten pillars with their
ten sockets, and the knobs and the hoops of the pillars were silver.
And on the east side toward the *son rising, were hangings of fifty
cubits: the hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits
long, and their pillars three with their three sockets. And of the
other side of the court gate, were hangings also of fifteen cubits
long, and their pillars three with three sockets. Now all the
hangings of the court round about, were of twined byss, and the
sockets of the pillars were brass: but the knobs and the hoops of
the pillars were silver, and the heads were overlaid with silver,
and all the pillars of the court were hooped about with silver. And
the hanging of the gate of the court was needlework: of jacinth,
scarlet, purple, and twined byss twenty cubits long and five in the
breadth, according to the hangings of the court. And the pillars
were four with four sockets of brass, and the knobs of silver, and
the heads overlaid with silver and hooped about with silver, and all
the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about were brass.
This is the sum of the habitation of witness, which was
counted at the commandment of Moses: and was the office of the
Levites by the hand of Ithamar son to Aaron the priest. And Bezaleel
son of Uri son to Hur of the tribe of Juda, made all that the Lord
commanded Moses, and with him Ahaliab son of Ahisamach of the tribe
of Dan, a cunning graver and a worker of needle work in jacinth,
scarlet, purple and byss.
All the gold that was occupied upon all the work of the holy
place (which was the gold of the wave offering) was, twenty nine
hundred weight and seven hundred and thirty sickles, according to
the holy sickle. And the sum of silver that came of the multitude,
was five score hundred weight and a thousand seven hundred and
seventy five sickles of the holy sickle. Every man offering half a
sickle after the weight of the holy sickle among them that went to
be numbered from twenty year old and above, among six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
And the five score hundred weight of silver went to the
casting of the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil:
an hundred sockets of the five score hundred weight, an hundred
weight to every socket. And the thousand seven hundred and seventy
five sickles, made knobs to the pillars and overlaid the heads and
hooped them.
And the brass of the wave offering was seventy hundred weight
and two thousand, and four hundred sickles. And therewith he made
the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the brazen
altar, and the brazen gridiron that longeth thereto, and all the
vessels of the altar, and the sockets of the court round about, and
the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the habitation,
and all the pins of the court round about.
*exact spelling sonne, sun is sunne
elsewhere in the text.
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The 39th Chapter
And of the
jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss, they made the vestments of
ministration to do service in that holy place, and made the holy
garments that pertained to Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made the Ephod of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple, and
twined byss. And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it
into wires: to work it in the jacinth, scarlet, purple, and the byss,
with broidered work. And they made the sides come together, and
closed them up by the two edges. And the broidering of the girdle
that was upon it, was of the same stuff and after the same work of
gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss, as the Lord
commanded Moses.
And they wrought Onyx stones closed in ouches of gold and
graved as signets are graven with the names of the children of
Israel, and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod that they should
be a remembrance of the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded
Moses.
And they made the breastlap of cunning work, after the work of
the Ephod: even of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss.
And they made it four square and double, an hand breadth long and an
hand breadth broad. And they filled it with four rows of stones (the
first row: Sardios, a Topas and Smaragdus: the second row: a Ruby, a
Sapphire and a Diamond: the third row: Ligurius, an Achat and an
Amethyst: the fourth row: a Turquoise, an onyx and a Jasper) closed
in ouches of gold in their enclosures. And the twelve stones were
graven as signets with the names of the children of Israel: every
stone with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
And they made upon the breastlap, two fastening chains of
wreathen work and pure gold. And they made two hooks of gold and two
gold rings, and put the two rings upon the two corners of the
breastlap. And they put the two chains of gold in the two rings, in
the corners of the breastlap. And the two ends of the two chains
they fastened in the two hooks, and put them on the shoulders of the
Ephod upon the forefront of it.
And they made two other rings of gold and put them on the two
other corners of the breastlap along upon the edge of it, toward the
inside of the Ephod that is over against it. And they made yet two
other gold rings, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod,
beneath on the fore side of it: even where the sides go together,
above upon the broidering of the Ephod, and they strained the
breastlap by his rings unto the rings of the Ephod, with laces of
jacinth, that it might lie fast upon the broidering of the Ephod,
and should not be loosed from off the Ephod: as the Lord commanded
Moses.
And he made the tunicle unto the Ephod of woven work and all
together of jacinth, and the head of the tunicle was in the midst of
it as the collar of a partlet, with a band round about the collar,
that it should not rent. And they made beneath upon the hem of the
tunicle: pomegranates of jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined byss.
And they made little bells of pure gold, and put them among the
pomegranates round about upon the edge of the tunicle, a bell and a
pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about the hems of the
tunicle to minister in, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made coats of byss of woven work for Aaron and his
sons, and a mitre of byss, and goodly bonnets of byss, and linen
breaches of twined byss, and a girdle of twined byss, jacinth,
scarlet and purple: even of needle work, as the Lord commanded
Moses. And they made the plate of the holy crown of fine gold, and
wrote upon it with graven work: the holiness of the Lord: and tied
it to a lace of jacinth to fasten it on high upon the mitre, as the
Lord commanded Moses.
Thus was all the work of the habitation of the tabernacle of
witness, finished. And the children of Israel did according to all
that the Lord had commanded Moses. And they brought the habitation
unto Moses: the tent and all his apparel thereof: the buttons,
boards, bars, pillars and sockets: and the covering of rams skins
red, and the covering of taxus skins, and the hanging veil, and the
ark of witness with the staves thereof, and the mercyseat: the table
and all the ordinance thereof, and the shewbread, and the pure
candlestick, and the lamps prepared thereunto with all the vessels
thereof, and the oil for lights, and the golden altar, and the
anointing oil and the sweet cense, and the hanging of the tabernacle
door, and the brasen altar, and the gridiron of brass longing
thereunto with his bars and all his vessels, and the laver with his
foot, and the hangings of the court with his pillars and sockets,
and the hanging to the court gate, his boards and pins, and all the
ordinance that serveth to the habitation of the tabernacle of
witness, and the ministering vestments to serve in the holy place,
and the holy vestments of Aaron the priest and his sons raiments to
minister in: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: even so
the children of Israel made all the work. And Moses beheld all the
work: and see, they had done it even as the Lord commanded: and then
Moses blessed them.
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The 40th Chapter
And the
Lord spake unto Moses saying: In the first day of the first month
shalt thou set up the habitation of the tabernacle of witness and
put therein the ark of witness, and cover the ark with the veil, and
bring in the table and apparel it, and bring in the candlestick and
put on his lamps, and set the cense altar of gold before the ark of
witness, and put the hanging of the door unto the habitation. And
set the burnt offering altar before the door of the tabernacle of
witness, and set the laver between the tabernacle of witness, and
the altar, and put water therein, and make the court round about,
and set up the hanging of the court gate.
And take the anointing oil and anoint the habitation and all
that is therein, and hallow it and all that belong thereto: that it
may be holy. And anoint the altar of the burntofferings and all his
vessels, and sanctify the altar that it may be most holy. And anoint
also the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
Then bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle
of witness, and wash them with water. And put upon Aaron the holy
vestments. And anoint him and sanctify him that he may minister unto
me, that their anointing may be an everlasting priesthood unto them
throughout their generations. And Moses did according to all that
the Lord commanded him.
Thus was the tabernacle reared up the first day of the first
month in the second year. And Moses reared up the tabernacle and
fastened his sockets, and set up the boards and put in their bars,
and reared up the pillars, and spread abroad the tent over the
habitation and put the covering of the tent on high above it: as the
Lord commanded Moses.
And he took and put the testimony in the ark, and set the
staves to the ark and put the mercy seat on high upon the ark, and
brought the ark into the habitation and hanged up the veil and
covered the ark of witness, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness in the north
side of the habitation without the veil, and set the bread in order
before the Lord, even as the Lord had commanded Moses.
And he put the candlestick in the tabernacle of witness over
against the table in the south side of the habitation, and set up
the lamps before the Lord: as the Lord commanded Moses. And he put
the golden altar in the tabernacle of witness before the veil, and
burnt sweet cense theron as the Lord commanded Moses. And set up the
hanging in the door of the habitation, and set the burnt offering
altar before the door of the tabernacle of witness, and offered
burnt offerings and meat offerings theron as the Lord commanded
Moses.
And he set the laver between the tabernacle of witness and the
altar, and poured water therein to wash with all. And both Moses,
Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: both
when they went into the tabernacle of witness, or when they went to
the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses. And he reared up the court
round about the habitation and the altar, and set up the hanging of
the court gate: and so Moses finished the work.
And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the glory
of the Lord filled the habitation: so that Moses could not enter
into the tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode therein, and
the glory of the Lord filled the habitation.
When the cloud was taken up from off the habitation, the
children of Israel took their journeys as oft as they journeyed. And
if the cloud departed not, they journeyed not till it departed: for
the cloud of the Lord was upon the habitation by day, and fire by
night: in the sight of all the house of Israel in all their
journeys.
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