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The Second Book of Moses: Exodus

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- Chapter 39 -

(Exodus 28:6–14)
1
Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other skilled workmen made the beautiful clothes for Aaron to wear while he did his work as a priest in the holy place. They made them from blue, purple, and red woolen cloth, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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They made the sacred apron from fine white linen and from blue, purple, and red woolen cloth.
3
They hammered some thin sheets of gold and cut them into thin strips that they embroidered into the fine linen and into the blue, purple, and red cloth.
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The sacred apron had two shoulder straps, to join the front part to the back part at its sides.
5
A carefully woven belt, which was made from the same materials as the sacred apron, was sewn onto the sacred apron. This was made exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
6
Bezalel and his men cut two onyx stones and enclosed them in a tiny frame, and a skilled gem cutter engraved on the stones the names of the twelve sons of Jacob.
7
They fastened the stones to the shoulder straps of the sacred apron to represent the twelve tribes of Israel, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

The Breastpiece

(Exodus 28:15–30)
8
They made the sacred chest pouch with the same materials as the sacred apron and embroidered it in the same way.
9
It was square, and the material was folded double, so that it was twenty-three centimeters on each side.
10
They fastened four rows of valuable stones onto the pouch. In the first row, they put a red ruby, a yellow topaz, and a red garnet.
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In the second row, they put a green emerald, a blue sapphire, and a white diamond.
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In the third row they put a red jacinth, a white agate, and a purple amethyst.
13
In the fourth row, they put a yellow beryl, a red carnelian, and a green jasper. They put tiny gold frames around each of the stones.
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On each of the twelve stones they engraved the name of one of the sons of Jacob, to represent one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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They made two chains from pure gold and braided them like cords, to attach the sacred pouch to the sacred apron.
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They made two gold rings, and they attached them to the upper corners of the sacred pouch.
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They fastened one end of each gold chain to a ring.
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They fastened the other end of each chain to one of the two settings that enclosed the stones and then attached the sacred pouch to the shoulder straps of the sacred apron.
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Then they made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower corners of the sacred pouch, on the inside edges, next to the sacred apron.
20
They made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower part of the front of the shoulder straps, near to where the shoulder straps were joined to the sacred apron, just above the carefully woven sash.
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They tied the rings on the sacred pouch to the rings on the sacred apron with a blue cord, so that the sacred pouch was above the sash and would not come loose from the sacred apron. They did these things just as Yahweh had instructed Moses to do.

Additional Priestly Garments

(Exodus 28:31–43)
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They made the robe that was to be worn underneath the priest’s sacred apron; they used only blue cloth.
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It had an opening through which the priest would put his head. They sewed a border around this opening to prevent the material from tearing.
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At the lower edge on the robe they fastened decorations that resembled pomegranate fruit. The decorations were woven from blue, purple, and red woolen yarn.
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Between each of these decorations, they fastened a tiny bell made from pure gold
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for Aaron to wear while he did his work as a priest. They made all these things exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
27
They wove long-sleeved tunics from fine linen for Aaron and his sons.
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They also made a turban of fine linen for Aaron to wear around his head. They made the caps and the undershorts for Aaron’s sons from fine linen.
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They made the embroidered sash for Aaron from fine linen and from blue, purple, and red woolen cloth, and they embroidered designs on it using blue, purple, and red woolen yarn, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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They also made the tiny ornament of pure gold and had a skilled workman engrave on it the words, “Dedicated to Yahweh.”
31
They fastened this to the front of the turban by a blue cord, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Moses Approves the Work

32
Finally, they finished all the work of making the sacred tent and brought everything to Moses. They had made them exactly as Yahweh had commanded them to.
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They brought to him the sacred tent and all the things that were used with it, the hooks, the frames, the crossbars, the posts and their bases;
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the coverings for the sacred tent that were made of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins; the curtains;
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the sacred chest that contained the stone slabs on which the commandments were written and the lid for the chest.
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The workers also finished these items for the sacred tent: The table with all the things to be used with it and the bread to display before God;
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the lampstand made of pure gold with all its lamps and the things that were used to take care of it, and the oil for the lamps;
38
the golden altar for burning incense, the oil for anointing, the sweet-smelling incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the sacred tent;
39
the bronze altar for burning sacrifices with its bronze grating, the poles for carrying it, and all the other things that were used with it, as well as the washbasin and its base.
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They also brought the curtains that would surround the courtyard, the posts and bases that supported them, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard and its ropes, the tent pegs, and all the other things that would be used in the sacred tent;
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the beautiful sacred clothes for Aaron and his sons to wear when they did their work in the holy place, and the clothes for his sons to wear as they did their work as priests.
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The people of Israel had done all this work exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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Then Moses saw all the work that they had done. Truly, they had done everything exactly as Yahweh had commanded that it should be done. Then Moses blessed the workmen.
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(Exodus 28:6–14)
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.
2
He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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 skillful workman.
4
They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.
5
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 the LORD commanded Moses.
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.
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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.

The Breastpiece

(Exodus 28:15–30)
8
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.
9
It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span,(a) and its width a span, being double.
10
They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
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and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire,(b) and an emerald;
12
and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
13
and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
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.
15
They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
16
They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
17
They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
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.
19
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.
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 skillfully woven band of the ephod.
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 skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Additional Priestly Garments

(Exodus 28:31–43)
22
He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
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.
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;
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a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
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the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
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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.

Moses Approves the Work

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,
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the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
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the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,
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the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
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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,
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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.
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According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
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Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

Footnotes

(a)39:9 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)
(b)39:11 or, lapis lazuli
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