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For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven; neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase.
The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words, by which I have made a covenant both with thee and with Israel.
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.
And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.
And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them,
And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai.
And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.
But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him.
And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.
And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath commanded to be done:
Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.
You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.
And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:
Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass,
Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats' hair,
And rams' skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood,
And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet incense,
Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational.
Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the Lord hath commanded:
To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:
The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is drawn before it:
The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of proposition:
The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:
The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:
The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:
The curtains of the court, with the pillars and the sockets, the hanging in the doors of the entry.
The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little cords:
The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me.
And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from the presence of Moses,
Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was necessary to the service and to the holy vestments,
Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.
If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine linen and goats' hair, ramskins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,
Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and setim wood for divers uses.
The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
And goats' hair, giving all of their own accord.
But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,
And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.
All, both men and women, with devout mind offered gifts, that the works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the Lord.
And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold, the Lord hath called by name Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda,
And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge, and all learning,
To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,
And in engraving stones, and in carpenters' work. Whatsoever can be devised artificially,
He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan:
Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters' work, and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all new things.
Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded.
And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom the Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered themselves to the making of the work,
He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning offered their vows.
Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,
Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.
Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier's voice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the sanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,
Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too much.
And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.
And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five he coupled one to another.
He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,
That the loops might meet one against another, and might be joined each with the other.
Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.
He made also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the roof of the tabernacle:
One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all the curtains were of one measure.
Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.
And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another.
And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.
He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red; and another cover over that of violet skins.
He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood standing.
The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one cubit and a half.
There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Of which twenty were at the south side southward,
With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners.
At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the north, he made twenty boards,
With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.
But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,
And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:
Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went together into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners:
So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.
He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the boards of one side of the tabernacle,
And five others to join together the boards of the other side; and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle towards the sea.
He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the boards from corner to corner.
And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of gold.
He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:
And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.
He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an embroiderer.
And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of brass.
And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height was of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold within and without.
And he made to it a crown of gold round about,
Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in one side, and two in the other.
And he made bars of setim wood, which he overlaid with gold,
And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of the ark to carry it.
He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides of the propitiatory:
One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the top of the other side: two cherubims at the two ends of the propitiatory,
Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking one towards the other, and towards it.
He made also the table of setim wood, in length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, and in height it was a cubit and a half.
And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about,
And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of four fingers breadth, and upon the same another golden crown.
And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners at each foot of the table,
Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried.
The bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid them with gold.