¹ And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath commanded to be done.

² Six days you shall do work: the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath, and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

³ You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

⁴ And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:

⁵ Set aside with you firstfuits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass,

⁶ Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats' hair,

⁷ And rams' skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood,

⁸ And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet incense.

⁹ Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational.

¹⁰ Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the Lord hath commanded:

¹¹ To wit, the tabernacle and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board work with the oars, the pillars, and the sockets:

¹² The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is drawn before it:

¹³ The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of proposition:

¹⁴ The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:

¹⁵ The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:

¹⁶ The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:

¹⁷ The curtains of the court with the pillars and the sockets, the hanging in the doors of the entry,

¹⁸ The pins of the tabernacle and of the court with their little cords:

¹⁹ The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me.

²⁰ And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from the presence of Moses,

²¹ Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatsoever was necessary to the service, and to the holy vestments,

²² Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.

²³ If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine linen and goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,

²⁴ Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and setim wood for divers uses.

²⁵ The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,

²⁶ And goats' hair, giving all of their own accord.

²⁷ But the princes offered onyx stone, and precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,

²⁸ And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.

²⁹ All both men and women with devout mind offered gifts, that the works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the Lord.

³⁰ And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold the Lord hath called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda.

³¹ And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding and knowledge and all learning.

³² To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,

³³ And in engraving stones, and in carpenters' work. Whatsoever can be devised artificially,

³⁴ He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan:

³⁵ Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters' work and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all new things.

¹ And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses.

² So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

³ With embroidered work: and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the aforesaid colours,

⁴ And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,

⁵ And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁶ He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:

⁷ And he set them in the sides of the ephod for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁸ He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,

⁹ Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.

¹⁰ And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and emerald.

¹¹ In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.

¹² In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.

¹³ In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.

¹⁴ And the twelve stones were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.

¹⁵ They made also in the rational little chains linked one to another of the purest gold,

¹⁶ And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings on either side of the rational,

¹⁷ On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put into the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod.

¹⁸ These both before and behind so answered one another, that the ephod and the rational were bound together,

¹⁹ Being fastened to the girdle and strongly coupled with rings, which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁰ They made also the tunick of the ephod all of violet,

²¹ And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven border round about the hole:

²² And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen:

²³ And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunick round about:

²⁴ To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁵ They made also fine linen tunicks with woven work for Aaron and his sons:

²⁶ And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:

²⁷ And linen breeches of fine linen:

²⁸ And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁹ They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest gold, and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary, The Holy of the Lord:

³⁰ And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³¹ So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the testimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.

³² And they offered the tabernacle and the roof and the whole furniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars, and their sockets,

³³ The cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the other cover of violet skins,

³⁴ The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,

³⁵ The table, with the vessels thereof, and the loaves of proposition:

³⁶ The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them with the oil:

³⁷ The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:

³⁸ And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:

³⁹ The altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and all the vessels thereof: the laver with the foot thereof: the hangings of the court, and the pillars with their sockets:

⁴⁰ The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and the pins thereof. Nothing was wanting of the vessels, that were commanded to be made for the ministry of the tabernacle, and for the roof of the covenant.

⁴¹ The vestments also, which the priests, to wit, Aaron and his sons, used in the sanctuary,

⁴² The children of Israel offered as the Lord had commanded.

⁴³ And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them.