Study Desk

So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work they were doing

Moses instructed them to take his message throughout the camp, saying, "Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing any more.

He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit.

So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.

At the two corners they were doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.

So there were eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.

They made shoulder pieces for it, attached to two of its corners, so it could be joined together.

They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

There was an opening in the center of the robe, like the opening of a collar, with an edge all around the opening so that it could not be torn.

So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses—they did it exactly so.

Then you are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments and anoint him and sanctify him so that he may minister as my priest.

and anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may minister as my priests; their anointing will make them a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations."

This is what Moses did, according to all the Lord had commanded him—so he did.

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year.

And he set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

"‘If the high priest sins so that the people are guilty, on account of the sin he has committed he must present a flawless young bull to the Lord for a sin offering.

"‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not noticed by the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord's commandments, which must not be violated, so they become guilty,

He must do with the rest of the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; this is what he must do with it. So the priest will make atonement on their behalf and they will be forgiven.

Then the priest must offer all of its fat up in smoke on the altar like the fat of the peace offering sacrifice. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin and he will be forgiven.