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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 all women who had ability spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen;

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

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

And all the able men among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains; they were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff, with cherubim skilfully worked.

And they were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; he made two of them thus, for the two corners.

And of the blue and purple and scarlet stuff they made finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place; they made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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;

and they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece;

and they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.

Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.

And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.

And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

On the skirts of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen.

They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates;

They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons,

And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, "Holy to the LORD."

And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above; as the LORD had commanded Moses.