Study Desk

They made four posts of acacia wood for it and covered them with gold. Then they made gold hooks for the posts, as well as four silver bases in which to set the posts.

For the entrance to the Tent, they made a curtain of blue, purple, and red thread, and fine linen. A person who sewed well sewed designs on it.

Then they made five posts and hooks for it. They covered the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and they made five bronze bases for the posts.

They used 50 pounds of silver to make the hooks for the posts and to cover the tops of the posts and to make the bands on them.

They used the bronze to make the bases at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to make the altar and the bronze screen, and to make all the tools for the altar.

They used blue, purple, and red thread to make woven clothes for the priests to wear when they served in the Holy Place. They made the holy clothes for Aaron as the Lord had commanded Moses.

They made the holy vest of gold, and blue, purple, and red thread, and fine linen.

They hammered the gold into sheets and then cut it into long, thin strips. They worked the gold into the blue, purple, and red thread, and fine linen. This was done by skilled craftsmen.

They made the shoulder straps for the holy vest, which were attached to the top corners of the vest and tied together over each shoulder.

They put gold around the onyx stones and then wrote the names of the sons of Israel on these gems, as a person carves words and designs on a seal.

Then they put four rows of beautiful jewels on it: In the first row there was a ruby, a topaz, and a yellow quartz;

The workers made two gold pieces and two gold rings. They put the two gold rings on the two upper corners of the chest covering.

and they fastened the other two ends of the chains to the two gold pieces. They attached these gold pieces to the two shoulder straps in the front of the holy vest.

They made two gold rings and put them at the lower corners of the chest covering on the inside edge next to the holy vest.

They used a blue ribbon and tied the rings of the chest covering to the rings of the holy vest, connecting it to the woven belt. In this way the chest covering would not swing out from the holy vest. They did all these things the way the Lord commanded.

Then they made balls like pomegranates of blue, purple, and red thread, and fine linen and hung them around the bottom of the outer robe.

They also made bells of pure gold and hung these around the bottom of the outer robe between the balls.

They wove inner robes of fine linen for Aaron and his sons,

and they made turbans, headbands, and underclothes of fine linen.

Then they made the cloth belt of fine linen, and blue, purple, and red thread, and designs were sewn onto it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.