< Exodus 39 >
1 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 the LORD commanded Moses.
All the gold that was employed for the works according to all the fabrication of the holy things, was of the gold of the offerings, twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and twenty shekels according to the holy shekel.
2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachm apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.
3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.
Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upwards to the [number of] six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.
And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred chapiters of the tabernacle, and to the chapiters of the veil;
5 The skilfully 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 the LORD commanded Moses.
a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.
6 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.
And the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he formed into hooks for the pillars, and he gilt their chapiters and adorned them.
7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the brass of the offering [was] seventy talents, and a thousand five hundred shekels;
8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skilful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
and they made of it the bases of the door of the tabernacle of witness,
9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double.
and the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court round about;
10 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
and the brazen appendage of the altar, and all the vessels of the altar, and all the instruments of the tabernacle of witness.
11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
And of the gold that remained of the offering they made vessels to minister with before the Lord.
13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
And the blue that was left, and the purple, and the scarlet they made [into] garments of ministry for Aaron, so that he should minister with them in the sanctuary;
14 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.
and they brought the garments to Moses, and the tabernacle, and its furniture, its bases and its bars and the posts;
15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
and the ark of the covenant, and its bearers, and the altar and all its furniture.
16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
And they made the anointing oil, and the incense of composition, and the pure candlestick,
17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
and its lamps, lamps for burning, and oil for the light,
18 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.
and the table of show bread, and all its furniture, and the show bread upon it,
19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was towards the side of the ephod inward.
and the garments of the sanctuary which belong to Aaron, and the garments of his sons, for the priestly ministry;
20 They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
and the curtains of the court, and the posts, and the veil of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court,
21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.
and all the vessels of the tabernacle and all its instruments: and the skins, even rams' skins dyed red, and the blue coverings, and the coverings of the other things, and the pins, and all the instruments for the works of the tabernacle of witness.
22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
Whatsoever things the Lord appointed Moses, so did the children of Israel make all the furniture.
23 The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
And Moses saw all the works; and they had done them all as the Lord commanded Moses, so had they made them; and Moses blessed them.
24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.
27 They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
28 the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
29 the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO THE LORD”.
31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they did.
33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
34 the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
35 the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat,
36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
37 the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,
39 the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,
41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.