Exodus 35 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders. ² Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death. ³ No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day. ⁴ And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given: ⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass; ⁶ And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair, ⁷ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood, ⁸ And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning. ⁹ And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag. ¹⁰ And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord; ¹¹ The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases; ¹² The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it; ¹³ The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread; ¹⁴ And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light; ¹⁵ And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House; ¹⁶ The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base; ¹⁷ The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway; ¹⁸ The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords; ¹⁹ The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests. ²⁰ And all the children of Israel went away from Moses. ²¹ And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes. ²² They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord. ²³ And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them. ²⁴ Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it. ²⁵ And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen. ²⁶ And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth. ²⁷ And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag; ²⁸ And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes. ²⁹ The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done. ³⁰ And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; ³¹ And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort; ³² As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass; ³³ Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork. ³⁴ And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others. ³⁵ To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me. ³ And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass; ⁴ And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair; ⁵ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood; ⁶ Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning; ⁷ Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag. ⁸ And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them. ⁹ Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you. ¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high. ¹¹ It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it ¹² And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other. ¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. ¹⁶ Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. ¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel. ²³ And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high, ²⁴ Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; ²⁵ And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame. ²⁶ And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table; ²⁷ The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted. ²⁸ Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. ²⁹ And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold. ³⁰ And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread. ³¹ And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal. ³² It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other. ³³ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches. ³⁴ And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower: ³⁵ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it. ³⁶ The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold. ³⁷ Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it. ³⁸ And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold. ³⁹ A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels. ⁴⁰ And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: ³ And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork, ⁴ To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass; ⁵ In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork. ⁶ And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made; ⁷ The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent, ⁸ And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices, ⁹ And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base, ¹⁰ And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests, ¹¹ And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done.

³² And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. ²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? ²³ And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil. ²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; ²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; ²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

⁹ On six days do all your work: ¹⁰ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

¹² For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

¹³ Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy. ¹⁴ So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people. ¹⁵ Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. ¹⁶ And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

²¹ Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

³ On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

³² Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³ And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people. ³⁴ And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him. ³⁵ Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle. ³⁶ So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹² Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God. ¹³ On six days do all your work: ¹⁴ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. ¹⁵ And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

¹⁴ And the ruler of the Synagogue was angry because Jesus had made her well on the Sabbath, and he said to the people, There are six days in which men may do work: so come on those days to be made well, and not on the Sabbath. ¹⁵ But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?

¹⁶ And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

² Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; ³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: ²⁹ But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

¹⁶ And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

²³ And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.

¹³ If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

² Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me. ³ And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass; ⁴ And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair; ⁵ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood; ⁶ Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning; ⁷ Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.

⁹ Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

⁴¹ And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much. ⁴² And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing. ⁴³ And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box: ⁴⁴ Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.

¹¹ Then make the doing of it complete; so that as you had a ready mind, you may give effect to it as you are able. ¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

⁷ Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

¹ And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

⁷ And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains. ⁸ Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ⁹ Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent. ¹⁰ And you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of one group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the other group. ¹¹ Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one. ¹² And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House. ¹³ And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover. ¹⁴ And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.

³¹ And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

³⁶ And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

⁵ They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, ⁶ And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.

¹⁵ And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen.

³³ And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of gold between;

²⁰ Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

²³ Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

²⁸ And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.

⁵ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

⁹ You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut:

¹⁷ And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; ¹⁸ The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; ¹⁹ The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰ The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ²¹ The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.

⁶ Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel. ⁷ These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel, as the Lord had said to Moses. ⁸ The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red. ⁹ It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand; ¹⁰ And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; ¹¹ In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; ¹² In the third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³ In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold. ¹⁴ There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: ³ And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork, ⁴ To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass; ⁵ In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork. ⁶ And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;

¹ So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders. ² Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work: ³ And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning. ⁴ Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;

¹ And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman. ² Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ³ Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined together. ⁴ And you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group of five, and on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group of five; ⁵ Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the twists to be opposite one another. ⁶ Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made. ⁷ And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains. ⁸ Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ⁹ Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent. ¹⁰ And you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of one group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the other group. ¹¹ Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one. ¹² And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House. ¹³ And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover. ¹⁴ And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that. ¹⁵ And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House. ¹⁶ Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁷ Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House. ¹⁸ These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side, ¹⁹ With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues. ²⁰ And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north, ²¹ With their forty silver bases, two under every board. ²² And six boards for the back of the House on the west, ²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back. ²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles. ²⁵ So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board. ²⁶ And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side, ²⁷ And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back. ²⁸ And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to end. ²⁹ And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold. ³⁰ And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain. ³¹ And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: ³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy. ³⁴ You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place. ³⁵ And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the support for the lights opposite the table on the south side of the House; and the table is to be on the north side. ³⁶ And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red. ³⁷ And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

⁷ The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent, ⁸ And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices, ⁹ And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base,

⁸ Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers. ⁹ Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ¹⁰ And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together. ¹¹ And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group. ¹² Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another. ¹³ And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made. ¹⁴ And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made. ¹⁵ Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ¹⁶ Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group. ¹⁷ And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group, ¹⁸ And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent. ¹⁹ And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that. ²⁰ And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood. ²¹ The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide. ²² Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way. ²³ They made twenty boards for the south side of the House: ²⁴ And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues. ²⁵ And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards, ²⁶ With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board. ²⁷ And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards, ²⁸ And two boards for the angles at the back. ²⁹ These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles. ³⁰ So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board. ³¹ And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House, ³² And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west. ³³ The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other. ³⁴ All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high. ¹¹ It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it ¹² And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other. ¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. ¹⁶ Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. ¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

⁷ And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.

³¹ And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: ³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

³⁵ And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen. ³⁶ And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

¹ And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high; ² Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it. ³ And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other, ⁴ And rods of the same wood plated with gold. ⁵ These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ⁶ And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ⁷ And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover; ⁸ Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover. ⁹ And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

²³ And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high, ²⁴ Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; ²⁵ And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame. ²⁶ And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table; ²⁷ The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted. ²⁸ Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. ²⁹ And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold. ³⁰ And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

¹⁰ And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high; ¹¹ Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it. ¹² And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round. ¹³ And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet. ¹⁴ The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted. ¹⁵ The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold. ¹⁶ And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold.

⁵ And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. ⁶ And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.

³¹ And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal. ³² It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other. ³³ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches. ³⁴ And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower: ³⁵ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it. ³⁶ The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold. ³⁷ Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it. ³⁸ And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold. ³⁹ A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

¹⁷ Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal: ¹⁸ It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other; ¹⁹ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches; ²⁰ And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower; ²¹ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it. ²² The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold. ²³ And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold. ²⁴ A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

³ Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all. ¹⁵ And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house.

¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. ² The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. ³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. ⁴ Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it. ⁵ And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ⁶ And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. ⁷ And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. ⁸ And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever. ⁹ No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it. ¹⁰ And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.

²² And the Lord said to Moses, ²³ Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, ²⁴ And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin: ²⁵ And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil. ²⁶ This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law, ²⁷ And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices, ²⁸ And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base. ²⁹ And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy. ³⁰ And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me. ³¹ And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation. ³² It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy. ³³ Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people. ³⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights; ³⁵ And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy. ³⁶ And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy. ³⁷ You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord. ³⁸ Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

³⁷ And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red; ³⁸ And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

²⁵ And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same. ²⁶ The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it. ²⁷ And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two opposite sides under the edge, to take the rods for lifting it. ²⁸ The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.

² Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

¹ And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. ² Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. ³ And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. ⁴ And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. ⁵ And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. ⁶ And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. ⁷ And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it. ⁸ The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

¹⁸ You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it; ¹⁹ That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet; ²⁰ Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord, ²¹ Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.

¹ The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, ² And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass; ³ And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass ⁴ And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up; ⁵ And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods. ⁶ The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass. ⁷ He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood. ⁸ And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

⁹ And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver. ¹¹ And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver. ¹² And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; ¹³ And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. ¹⁴ On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases; ¹⁵ And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. ¹⁶ And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases. ¹⁷ All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass. ¹⁸ The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass. ¹⁹ All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

⁹ To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long: ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. ¹¹ And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands. ¹² And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands. ¹³ And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long. ¹⁴ The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases; ¹⁵ And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases. ¹⁶ All the hangings were of the best linen. ¹⁷ And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver. ¹⁸ And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides. ¹⁹ There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver. ²⁰ All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

¹⁹ All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

¹ Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons. ² And make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he may be clothed with glory and honour. ³ Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest. ⁴ This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress, and a linen band; they are to make holy robes for Aaron your brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work of priests for me. ⁵ They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, ⁶ And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer. ⁷ It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it together. ⁸ And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work. ⁹ You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut: ¹⁰ Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth. ¹¹ With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ¹² And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel: Aaron will have their names on his arms when he goes in before the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them. ¹³ And you are to make twisted frames of gold; ¹⁴ And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames. ¹⁵ And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen. ¹⁶ It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide. ¹⁷ And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; ¹⁸ The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; ¹⁹ The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰ The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ²¹ The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp. ²² And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag. ²³ And put two gold rings on the two ends of the bag. ²⁴ Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of the bag; ²⁵ Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the arms. ²⁶ Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod. ²⁷ And make two more gold rings and put them on the front of the ephod at the top of the arms, at the join, over the worked band: ²⁸ So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from the ephod. ²⁹ And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord. ³⁰ And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so that they may be on Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron may have the power of making decisions for the children of Israel before the Lord at all times. ³¹ The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue; ³² With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open. ³³ And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of gold between; ³⁴ A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of the robe. ³⁵ Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death. ³⁶ You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD. ³⁷ Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the twisted head-dress: ³⁸ And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord. ³⁹ The coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in squares; and you are to make a head-dress of linen, and a linen band worked in needlework. ⁴⁰ And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and honour. ⁴¹ These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me. ⁴² And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to the knee; ⁴³ Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.

¹⁰ And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests,

¹ And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. ² The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen; ³ Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer. ⁴ And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms. ⁵ And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ⁶ Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel. ⁷ These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel, as the Lord had said to Moses. ⁸ The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red. ⁹ It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand; ¹⁰ And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; ¹¹ In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; ¹² In the third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³ In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold. ¹⁴ There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp. ¹⁵ And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords. ¹⁶ And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag; ¹⁷ And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at the ends of the priest's bag; ¹⁸ And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the arm-holes. ¹⁹ And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod. ²⁰ And two other gold rings were put on the front of the ephod, over the arm-holes, at the join, and over the worked band. ²¹ And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ²² The robe which went with the ephod was made all of blue; ²³ With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong. ²⁴ The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen. ²⁵ And between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold bells, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ²⁶ All round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits in turn. ²⁷ The coats for Aaron and his sons they made of the best linen; ²⁸ And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful head-dresses of linen, and linen trousers, ²⁹ And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had said to Moses. ³⁰ The plate for the holy crown was made of the best gold, and on it were cut these words, HOLY TO THE LORD. ³¹ It was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

⁴¹ The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron and his sons when acting as priests.

⁵ When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ¹⁰ All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ¹⁴ Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

² Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

²² They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.

²⁶ And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.

²⁹ The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.

² Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

³ Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹² Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.

²⁷ For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.

² Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

⁹ And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

³ And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

⁵ Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work? ⁶ Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves;

⁹ Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.

¹⁴ But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

¹⁷ And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you. ¹⁸ O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

⁵ Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem. ⁶ And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.

²⁷ Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

²³ And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

²¹ And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.

³⁴ You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

³ And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

⁵⁰ And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.

⁶ Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves; ⁷ And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

⁹ And an order was sent out through all Judah and Jerusalem that payment was to be made to the Lord of the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had put on Israel in the waste land. ¹⁰ And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given. ¹¹ So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money. ¹² Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again. ¹³ So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again. ¹⁴ And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.

⁶⁸ And some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, gave freely of their wealth for the building up of the house of God in its place: ⁶⁹ Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.

⁷⁰ And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes. ⁷¹ And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver. ⁷² And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.

¹⁹ The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,

⁹ Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.

¹¹ And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

¹¹ And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

⁶ And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair, ⁷ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood, ⁸ And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning. ⁹ And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag. ¹⁰ And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;

⁸ And those who had stones of great price gave them to the store of the house of the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

³ Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.

⁶ And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;

¹ So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

⁷ And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

¹ Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

¹⁹ She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel. ²⁰ Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need. ²¹ She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red. ²² She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple. ²³ Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land. ²⁴ She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.

² And certain women who had been made free from evil spirits and diseases, Mary named Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had gone out, ³ And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.

³⁹ And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

¹ It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae: ² That you will take her in kindly, after the way of the saints, as one who is the Lord's, and give her help in anything in which she may have need of you: because she has been a help to a great number and to myself. ³ Give my love to Prisca and Aquila, workers with me in Christ Jesus, ⁴ Who for my life put their necks in danger; to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are in debt:

⁶ Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.

¹² Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.

²⁸ There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

³ And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.

²¹ And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

⁸ Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

⁹ And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.

⁶ Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves;

⁶⁸ And some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, gave freely of their wealth for the building up of the house of God in its place:

⁸ And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

⁴ And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:

²¹ And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes. ²² They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.

³ And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

² Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

³² And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

³² You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

² Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.

⁹ Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy. ¹⁰ So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.

¹⁷ And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.

²⁰ Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .If they do not say such things (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .For him there is no dawn (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

¹⁷ But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

¹⁶ And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: ¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

¹⁹ And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

¹³ Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre. ¹⁴ He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

²⁶ For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

¹⁰ In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

⁴ Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.

¹¹ But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹⁴ The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David.

² And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; ³ And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: ⁴ But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer. ⁵ And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again; ² To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad; ³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

⁴ Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all. ⁷ But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good. ⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit: ⁹ To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

³ In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁰ For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.

¹² And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.

²⁴ Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed? ²⁵ When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge? ²⁶ For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things. ²⁷ For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod. ²⁸ Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it. ²⁹ This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

⁵ So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort; ⁶ Even as the witness of the Christ has been made certain among you: ⁷ So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁷ But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.

¹⁶ Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. ¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

³ And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork,

³¹ And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

¹² I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

¹⁴ He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

⁶ My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

¹² My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

⁶ And when Paul had put his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they had the power of talking in tongues, and acting like prophets.

⁸ And he went into the Synagogue, and for three months he was preaching there without fear, reasoning and teaching about the kingdom of God.

⁵ So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;

⁷ So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:

¹² For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

² Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁵ He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹⁵ But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

¹⁶ Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

¹⁵ Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.