Study Desk

But to the elders he said, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them."

The glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

"Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart moves him you shall raise My contribution.

oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

"Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them.

"You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

"There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel.

"You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

"You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

"The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

"Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms in the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bulb and a flower—so for six branches going out from the lampstand;

"A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

"See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.

"Then you shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all.

"You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.

"Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

"There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.

"You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side.

"You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons;