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9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by with gold. themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

31 ¶ And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine wined linen, of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made.

11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars brass, and put the taches into the loops, and of shittim-wood overlaid with gold: their couple the tent together, that it may be one. hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets 12 And the remnant that remaineth of the of silver. curtains of the tent, the half-curtain that re- 33 ¶ And thon shalt hang up the vail under maineth shall hang over the back-side of the the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither tabernacle. within the vail the ark of the testimony: and

13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cu- the vail shall divide unto you between the bit on the other side, of that which remain-holy place and the most holy. eth in the length of the curtains of the tent, 34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat uroi. it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table,

on this side, and on that side, to cover it. 14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a cov-on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; ering above of badgers' skins.

15 5 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim-wood, standing up.

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16 Ten cubits shall be the length of board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt lhou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36 ¶ And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work.

37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for

18 And thou shalt make the boards for the them tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side Southward.

CHAP. XXVII.

19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of sil-AND thou shalt make an altar of shittim

wood, five cubits long, and five cubits ver under the twenty boards: two sockets un-broad: the altar shall be four-square; and the der one board for his two tenons, and two height thereof shall be three cubits. Bockets under another board for his two tenons. And thou shalt make the horns of it up20 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the four corners thereof; his horns shall on the north side, there shall be twenty beards, be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it 21 And their forty sockets of silver: two with brass.

sockets under one board, and two sockets 3 And thou shalt make the pans to receive under another board. his ashes, and his shoveis, and his basons, and 22 And for the sides of the tabernacle west-his flesh-hooks, and his fire-pans: all the vesward thou shalt make six boards. sels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of net-work of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen ring> in the four corners thereof.

24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together alove the head of it unto one ring: thus 5 And thou shait put it under the compass shal! it be for them both; they shall be for of the altar beneath, that the ret may be even to the midst of the altar.

the two corners.

25 And they shall be eight boards, and 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, heir sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: two staves of shittim-wood, and overlay them sockets under one board, and two sockets with brass.

under another board.

the tabernacle,

7 And thestaves shall be put into the rings, 26 ¶ And thou shalt make bars of shittim- and the staves shall be upon the two sides of wood; five for the boards of the one side of the altar, to bear it. 8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it : 27 And five bars for the boards of the other as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the they make it. boards of the side of the tabernacle for the two sides westward.

And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there

28 And the mi dle bar in une midst of the shall be hangings for the court of fine twined boards shall reach from end to end. Jinen, of an hundred cubits long, for one side

40 And the twenty pillars thereof, and their of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fir twenty sockets, shall be of brass: the hooks of twined linen, with cunning work.

the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces 11 And likewise for the north side in length, thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits so it shall be joined together.

long, and his twenty pillars, and their twenty sockets of brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

12¶ And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one side of the gate shali he fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their pockets three.

15 And on the other side shall be hangings, fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cabits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver: their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx-stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod, for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD, upon his two shoulders, for a memorial.

13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

15 And thou shalt make the breastplate 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle, in all of judgment with cunning work; after the the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, work of the ephod thou shalt make it of and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass, gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, 201 And thou shalt command the children and of fine twined linen, thou shalt make it of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil-olive 16 Four-square it shall be, being doubled; beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to span shall be the length thereof, and a spar burn always. shall be the breadth thereof.

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21 In the tabernacle of the congregation 17 And thou shalt set it in settings of stones, without the vail, which is before the testi-even four rows of stones: the first row shali mony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this evening to morning before the LORD. It shall shall be the first row. be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

CHAP. XXVIII.

13 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

19 And the third row a ligure, an agate,

AND take thou unto thee Aaron thy bro- and an amethyst.

ther, and his sons with him, from among 20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, the children of Israel, that he may minister and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their anto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, inclosings. Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for Deauty.

3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

4. And these are the garinents which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

6 ¶ And they shall make the ephod of gold,

21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a sig net; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

23 And thou shalt make upon the breast plate two rings of gold, and shalt put the twe rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chairs of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod before it.

26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold,

and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of 42 And thou shalt make them ling the breastplate, in the border thereof, which in the side of the ephod inward.

breeches to cover their nakedness: from th loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.. 43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and up on his sons, when they come in unto the ta

27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the fore-part bernacle the congregation, or when the thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. 28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the

come near unto the altar to minister in the
holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and
die. It shall be a statute for ever unto him,
and his seed after him.
CHAP. XXIX.

Anto them, to hallow them, to minister

ND this is the thing that thou shalt do

breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the unto me in the priest's office: Take one young thi.dren of Israel in the breastplate of judg-bullock, and two rams without blemish, ent upon his heart, when he goeth in unto 2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unthe holy place, for a memorial before the leavened tempered with oil, and wafers unLORD continually. leavened anointed with oil; of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

30 ↑ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel apon his heart before the LORD continually. 31 And thou shalt make the robe of the prod all of blue.

32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

33¶ And beneath, upon the hem of it, thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purpie, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. 5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod ·

6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him 8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons,) and put the bonnets on them; and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetuai statute: and thou shalt con35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:secrate Aaron and his sons. and his sound shall be heard when he goeth 10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be in unto the holy place before the LORD, and brought before the tabernacle of the congrewhen he cometh out, that he die not. gation; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

36% And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre: upon the fore-front of the mitre it shall be.

11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the al38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, tar with thy finger, and pour all the blood that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy beside the bottom of the altar. things, which the children of Israel shall hal- 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that colow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be al-vereth the inwards, and the caul that is above ways upon his forehead, that they may be the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that accepted before the LORD.

39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of ucedle-work.

40 ¶ And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles. and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin-offering.

15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it roun! about upon the altar.

41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt 17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanc-wash the inwards of him, and his legs and tily them, that they may minister unto me in put them unto his pices, and unto his head Ne priest's office 18 And thou shalt barn the whole ram

33 And they shall eat those things where

apon ne altar: it is a burnt-offering unto the LORD: it as a sweet savour, an offering with the atonement was made, to consecrate made by fire unto the LORD. and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morn 20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and takeling, then thou shalt burn the remainder with of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the fire: shall not be eaten, because it is holy. right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the 35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of to his sons, according to all things which I their right hand, and upon the great toe of have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon consecrate them.

the altar round about.

36 And thou shalt offer every day a bul

21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is lock for a sin-offering for atonement: and upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his gar-made an atonement for it, and thou shalt ments, and upon his sons, and upon the gar-fanoint it to sanctify it.

ments of his sons with him: and he shall be 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonehallowed, and his garments, and his sons, ment for the altar, and sanctify it; and it and his sons' garments with him. shall be an altar most holy whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat, and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of conecration:

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33 ¶ Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer

23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of at even: ailed bread, and one wafer out of the basket of 40 And with the one lamb a tenth-deal of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD. four mingled with the fourth part of an hin 24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin Aaron, and in the hands of his sons, and shalt of wine for a drink-offering. wave them for a wave-offering before the 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the 25 And thou shalt receive them of their meat-offering of the morning, and according ands, and burn them upon the altar for a to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet saurnt-offering, for a sweet savcur before the vour,an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the 42 This shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations, at the door o 26 And thou shalt take the breast of the the tabernacle of the congregation, before ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for the LORD; where I will meet you, to speak a wave-offering before the LORD: and it there unto thee.

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hall be thy part.

43 And there I will meet with the children 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctithe wave-offering, and the shoulder of the fied by my glory.

heave-offering, which is waved, and which 44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, congregation, and the altar; I will sanctify even of that which is for Aaron, and of that also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to which is for his sons. me in the priest's office.

28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons by 45 And I will dwell among the children a statute for ever from the children of Is-of Israel, and will be their God. rael: for it is an heave-offering: and it shall 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD be an heave-offering from the children of Is- their God, that brought them forth out of rael of the sacrifice of their peace-offerings, the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among even their heave-offering unto the Lord. them: I am the LORD their God. CHAP. XXX.

29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall

ND thou shalt make an altar to burn in

be his son's after him, to be anointed therein, Ase upon; of shittim-wood shalt thon

and to be consecrated in them.

30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.

31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

make it.

2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cub it the breadth thereof, (four-square shall it be,) and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of the same.

3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold. the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt. make unto i a crown of gold round about.

4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two cur

Bers thereof; upon the two sides of it shalt tute for ever to them, even to him and to his o make it and they shall be four places seed throughout their generations. for the staves to bear it withai.

Moreover, the LORD spake unto Mo

5 And thou shalt make the staves of shit-ses, saying, Em-wood, and overlay them with gold.

23 Take thou also unto thee principal 6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, by the ark of the testimony, before the land of sweet cinnamon half so much, even mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet will meet with thee. calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet intense every morning; when he dresseth the amps, he shall burn incense upon it.

24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil-olive an hin.

8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at 25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy even, he shall burn incense upon it; a per-ointment, an ointment compound after the petual incense before the LORD throughout art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy your generations.

anointing oil.

26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony.

9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-sacrifice, nor meat-offering neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement 27 And the table and all his vessels, and apon the horns of it once in a year with the the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once of incense, In the year shall he make atonement upon "t, throughout your generations; it is most holy unto the LORD.

saying,

And the LORD spake unto Moses,

28 And the altar of burnt-offering with al his vessels, and the laver and his foot.

29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

12 When thou takest the sum of the chil- 30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his dren of Israel, after their number, then shall sons, and consecrate them, that they may they give every man a ransom for his soul minister unto me in the priest's office. into the LORD, when thou numberest them; 31 And thou shalt speak unto the children that there be no plague among them, when of Israel,saying, This shall be an holy anɔintthou numberest them. ing oil unto me throughout your generations, 13 This they shall give, every one that 32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured; asseth among them that are numbered, half neither shall ye make any other like it, after a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary: the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall (a shekel is twenty geralis:) an half shekel be holy unto you. shall be the offering of the LORD.

14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.

33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

341 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onychia 15 The rich shall not give more, and the and galbanum; these sweet spices, with pure poor shall not give less, than half a shekel, frankincense: of each shall there be a like when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

weight.

36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small,

35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a 16 And thou shalt take the atonement-confection after the art of the apothecary, money of the children of Israel, and shalt tempered together, pure and holy. appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of ne congregation; that it may be a memorial and put of it before the testimony in the taber unto the children of Israel before the LORD, nacle of the congregation, where I will meet to make an atonement for your souls. with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.

17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying

37 And as for the perfume which thot shali make, ye shall not make to yourselves 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, according to the composition thereof; it shall Bad his foot also cf brass, to wash withalbe unto thee holy for the LORD.

and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle 38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, of the congregation and the altar, and thou to sneli thereto, shall even be cut off from shalt put water therein :

19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their

hands and their feet thereat.

his people.

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CHAP. XXXI. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the 2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel congregation, they shali wash with water, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe o that they die not; or when they come near Judah :

to the altar to minister, to burn offering 3 And I have filled him with the spirit made by fire unto the LORD. God, in wisdom, and in understanding, an

21 So they shall wash their hands and their in knowledge, and in all manner of work feet, that they die not: and it shall be a sta-nanship,

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