Study Desk

So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction."

So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.

And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.

Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases-two under each frame.

So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

And you are to hang the veil from the clasps and place the Ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

You are to instruct all the skilled craftsmen, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make garments for Aaron's consecration, so that he may serve Me as priest.

These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.

It shall have two shoulder pieces attached at two of its corners, so it can be fastened.

The rings of the breastpiece shall be tied to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the waistband of the ephod and does not swing out from the ephod.