Building the Tabernacle

Chapter 24

¹⁵When Moses had ascended the mountain, the cloud covered the mountain. ¹⁶The Presence of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud hid it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud. [ . . . ] ¹⁸Moses went inside the cloud and ascended the mountain; and Moses remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Chapter 25

¹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him. ³And these are the gifts that you shall accept from them: gold, silver, and copper; ⁴blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats’ hair; ⁵tanned ram skins, dolphin skins, and acacia wood; ⁶oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense; ⁷lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breast-piece. ⁸And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. ⁹Exactly as I show you—the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings— so shall you make it.

¹⁰They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. ¹¹Overlay it with pure gold—overlay it inside and out [ . . . ]. ¹⁶And deposit in the Ark [the tablets of] the Pact which I will give you.

¹⁷You shall make a cover of pure gold [ . . . ]. ¹⁸Make two cherubim of gold—make them of hammered work— at the two ends of the cover [ . . . ]. ²⁰The cherubim shall have their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings. They shall confront each other [ . . . ]. ²¹Place the cover on top of the Ark, after depositing inside the Ark the Pact that I will give you. ²²There I will meet with you, and I will impart to you—from above the cover, from between the two cherubim that are on top of the Ark of the Pact—all that I will command you concerning the Israelite people.

²³You shall make a table of acacia wood [ . . . ]. ²⁴Overlay it with pure gold [ . . . ]. ³⁰And on the table you shall set the bread of display, to be before Me always. ³¹You shall make a lampstand of pure gold [ . . . ]. ³²Six branches shall issue from its sides; three branches from one side of the lampstand and three branches from the other side of the lampstand. [ . . . ] ³⁷Make its seven lamps—the lamps shall be so mounted as to give the light on its front side—³⁸and its tongs and fire pans of pure gold. [ . . . ] ⁴⁰Note well, and follow the patterns for them that are being shown you on the mountain. [ . . . ]

Chapter 29

³⁸Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two yearling lambs each day, regularly. ³⁹You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at twilight. ⁴⁰There shall be a tenth of a measure of choice flour with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil mixed in, and a libation of a quarter hin of wine for one lamb; ⁴¹[ . . . ] an offering by fire for a pleasing odor to the Lord, ⁴²a regular burnt offering throughout the generations, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before the Lord. [ . . . ]

Chapter 31

¹²And the Lord said to Moses: ¹³Speak to the Israelite people and say: Nevertheless, you must keep My sab-baths, for this is a sign between Me and you throughout the ages, that you may know that I the Lord have consecrated you. ¹⁴You shall keep the sabbath, for it is holy for you. He who profanes it shall be put to death: whoever does work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his kin. ¹⁵Six days may work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. ¹⁶The Israelite people shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout the ages as a covenant for all time: ¹⁷it shall be a sign for all time between Me and the people of Israel. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and was refreshed.

¹⁸When He finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the Pact, stone tablets inscribed with the finger of God.