Exodus 39
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1They#39:1. Referring to the craftsmen. made woven clothing from blue, purple, and crimson thread for serving in the sanctuary. They also made holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do. 2They made the ephod of finely-woven linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and crimson thread. 3They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to weave in with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, together with fine linen, all skillfully worked. 4Two shoulder pieces were attached to the front and back pieces. 5The waistband of the ephod was one piece made in the same way, using gold thread, with blue, purple, and crimson thread, and with finely-woven linen, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do. 6They placed the onyx stones in ornamental gold settings, engraved with the names of the Israelite tribes in the same way a jeweler engraves a personal seal. 7They attached both stones to the shoulder pieces of the ephod as reminders for the Israelite tribes, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
8They also made a breastpiece for decisions in the same skilful way as the ephod, to be used in determining the Lord's will. They made it using gold thread, with blue, purple, and crimson thread, and with finely-woven linen. 9It was square when folded, measuring around nine inches#39:9. “Nine inches”: literally, “a span,” the distance between thumb and little finger when the hand is stretched. in length and width. 10They attached an arrangement of precious stones in four rows as follows.#39:10. None of the following stones are identified with certainty. In the first row carnelian, peridot, and emerald. 11In the second row turquoise, lapis lazuli, and sardonyx. 12In the third row jacinth, agate, and amethyst. 13In the fourth row topaz, beryl, and jasper. They were all placed in ornamental gold settings. 14Each of the twelve stones were engraved like a personal seal with the name of one of the twelve Israelites tribes and represented them.
15They made cords of braided chains from pure gold to attach the breastpiece. 16They made two gold settings and two gold rings and fastened the rings to the two top corners of the breastpiece. 17They attached the two gold chains to the two gold rings on the corners of the breastpiece, 18and then fastened the opposite ends of the two chains to the ornamental gold settings on the shoulder pieces of the front side of the ephod. 19They made two more gold rings and attached them to the two lower corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod. 20They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the front side of the ephod, near where it joins its woven waistband. 21They tied the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue thread, so that the breastpiece wouldn't come loose from the ephod, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
22They made the robe that goes with the ephod exclusively from woven blue cloth, 23with an opening in the middle at the top. They stitched a woven collar around the opening to strengthen it so it wouldn't tear. 24They made pomegranates using blue, purple, and crimson thread and finely-woven linen and attached them all the way around its hem. 25They made pure gold bells and attached them between the pomegranates all the way around its hem, 26having the bells and the pomegranates alternate. The robe was to be used for priestly service, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
27They made tunics with finely-spun linen made by a weaver for Aaron and his sons. 28They also made turbans, headdresses, and headbands of fine linen, and finely-woven linen undershorts, 29as well as sashes of finely-woven linen embroidered with blue, purple, and crimson thread, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
30They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote on it, engraved like a seal, “Holy to the Lord.” 31They tied a blue cord to it to attach it to the front of the turban, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
32So all the work for the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything as the Lord had ordered Moses to do. 33Then they presented the Tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furniture, its clips, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and stands; 34the covering of tanned ram skins, the covering of fine leather, and the veil; 35the Ark of the Testimony with its poles and the atonement cover; 36the table with all its equipment and the Bread of the Presence; 37the pure gold lampstand with its lamps placed in a row, and all its equipment, as well as the olive oil for the lamps; 38the gold altar, the anointing oil, the aromatic incense, and the screen for the tent's entrance; 39the bronze altar with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin plus its stand; 40the curtains of the courtyard and its posts and stands; the curtain for the courtyard entrance, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the services of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting; 41and the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary, the holy clothes for Aaron the priest and for his sons to serve as priests.
42The Israelites did all the work that the Lord had ordered Moses to do. 43Moses inspected all the work and made sure they had done it as the Lord had ordered. Then Moses blessed them.
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