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And Aaron said, "Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold.

When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord 's contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord .

And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,

for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked.

And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.

From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments, for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design.

They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.

It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled.

And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;

and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree.

And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.