¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.

³ `And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,

⁴ and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],

⁵ and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

⁶ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

⁷ shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

⁸ `And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;

⁹ according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it].

¹⁰ `And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

¹¹ and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about.

¹² `And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

¹³ and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold,

¹⁴ and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,

¹⁵ in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it;

¹⁶ and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee.

¹⁷ `And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

¹⁸ and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

¹⁹ and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends.

²⁰ `And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another -- towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

²¹ `And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee;

²² and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which [are] on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

²³ `And thou hast made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,

²⁴ and hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, and hast made for it a crown of gold round about,

²⁵ and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.

²⁶ `And thou hast made to it four rings of gold, and hast put the rings on the four corners, which [are] to its four feet;

²⁷ over-against the border are the rings for places for staves to bear the table;

²⁸ and thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold, and the table hath been borne with them;

²⁹ and thou hast made its dishes, and its bowls, and its covers, and its cups, with which they pour out; of pure gold thou dost make them;

³⁰ and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.

³¹ `And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same;

³² and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side;

³³ three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

³⁴ `And in the candlestick [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knops and its flowers;

³⁵ and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, [are] to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick;

³⁶ their knops and their branches are of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold;

³⁷ and thou hast made its seven lamps, and [one] hath caused its lights to go up, and it hath given light over-against its front.

³⁸ `And its snuffers and its snuff dishes [are] of pure gold;

³⁹ of a talent of pure gold he doth make it, with all these vessels.

⁴⁰ And see thou and do [them] by their pattern which thou art shewn in the mount.

¹ `And thou, bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for his being priest to Me, [even] Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron;

² and thou hast made holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for honour and for beauty;

³ and thou -- thou dost speak unto all the wise of heart, whom I have filled [with] a spirit of wisdom, and they have made the garments of Aaron to sanctify him for his being priest to Me.

⁴ `And these [are] the garments which they make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and an upper robe, and an embroidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle; yea, they have made holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and for his sons, for his being priest to Me.

⁵ `And they take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the linen,

⁶ and have made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of a designer;

⁷ it hath two shoulders joining at its two ends, and it is joined.

⁸ `And the girdle of his ephod which [is] on him, according to its work, is of the same, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

⁹ `And thou hast taken the two shoham stones, and hast opened on them the names of the sons of Israel;

¹⁰ six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the second stone, according to their births;

¹¹ the work of an engraver in stone, openings of a signet, thou dost open the two stones by the names of the sons of Israel; turned round, embroidered [with] gold, thou dost make them.

¹² `And thou hast set the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod -- stones of memorial to the sons of Israel -- and Aaron hath borne their names before Jehovah, on his two shoulders, for a memorial.

¹³ `And thou hast made embroidered things of gold,

¹⁴ and two chains of pure gold, wreathed work thou dost make them, work of thick bands, and thou hast put the thick chains on the embroidered things.

¹⁵ `And thou hast made a breastplate of judgment, work of a designer; according to the work of the ephod thou dost make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen thou dost make it;

¹⁶ it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth.

¹⁷ `And thou hast set in it settings of stone, four rows of stone; a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle [is] the first row;

¹⁸ and the second row [is] emerald, sapphire, and diamond;

¹⁹ and the third row [is] opal, agate, and amethyst;

²⁰ and the fourth row [is] beryl, and onyx, and jasper; embroidered with gold are they in their settings,

²¹ and the stones are according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, openings of a signet, each by his name are they for the twelve tribes.

²² `And thou hast made on the breastplate wreathed chains, work of thick bands, of pure gold;

²³ and thou hast made on the breastplate two rings of gold, and hast put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate;

²⁴ and thou hast put the two thick bands of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate;

²⁵ and the two ends of the two thick bands thou dost put on the two embroidered things, and thou hast put [them] on the shoulders of the ephod over-against its face.

²⁶ `And thou hast made two rings of gold, and hast set them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its border, which [is] over-against the ephod within;

²⁷ and thou hast made two rings of gold, and hast put them on the two shoulders of the ephod, beneath, over-against its front, over-against its joining, above the girdle of the ephod,

²⁸ and they bind the breastplate by its rings unto the rings of the ephod with a ribbon of blue, to be above the girdle of the ephod, and the breastplate is not loosed from the ephod.

²⁹ `And Aaron hath borne the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment, on his heart, in his going in unto the sanctuary, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.

³⁰ `And thou hast put unto the breastplate of judgment the Lights and the Perfections, and they have been on the heart of Aaron, in his going in before Jehovah, and Aaron hath borne the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before Jehovah continually.

³¹ `And thou hast made the upper robe of the ephod completely of blue,

³² and the opening for its head hath been in its midst, a border is to its opening round about, work of a weaver, as the opening of a habergeon there is to it; it is not rent.

³³ `And thou hast made on its hem pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, on its hem round about, and bells of gold in their midst round about;

³⁴ a bell of gold and a pomegranate, a bell of gold and a pomegranate [are] on the hems of the upper robe round about.

³⁵ `And it hath been on Aaron to minister in, and its sound hath been heard in his coming in unto the sanctuary before Jehovah, and in his going out, and he doth not die.

³⁶ `And thou hast made a flower of pure gold, and hast opened on it -- openings of a signet -- `Holy to Jehovah;'

³⁷ and thou hast put it on a blue ribbon, and it hath been on the mitre -- over-against the front of the mitre it is;

³⁸ and it hath been on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron hath borne the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel do hallow, even all their holy gifts; and it hath been on his forehead continually for a pleasing thing for them before Jehovah.

³⁹ `And thou hast embroidered the coat of linen, and hast made a mitre of linen, and a girdle thou dost make -- work of an embroiderer.

⁴⁰ `And for the sons of Aaron thou dost make coats, and thou hast made for them girdles, yea, bonnets thou dost make for them, for honour and for beauty;

⁴¹ and thou hast clothed Aaron thy brother with them, and his sons with him, and hast anointed them, and hast consecrated their hand, and hast sanctified them, and they have been priests to Me.

⁴² `And make thou for them linen trousers to cover the naked flesh: they are from the loins even unto the thighs;

⁴³ and they have been on Aaron and on his sons, in their going in unto the tent of meeting, or in their drawing nigh unto the altar to minister in the sanctuary, and they do not bear iniquity nor have they died; a statute age-during to him, and to his seed after him.