Study Desk

Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle

and make forty silver bases to go under them-two bases for each frame, one under each projection.

For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames

Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,

and make two frames for the corners at the far end.

"Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.

"For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen-the work of an embroiderer.

Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.

Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network.

Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

"Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen,

"For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen-the work of an embroiderer-with four posts and four bases.

All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.

"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.

Make sacred garments for your brother Aaron, to give him dignity and honor.

Tell all the skilled men to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest.

These are the garments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so they may serve me as priests.

and fasten them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear the names on his shoulders as a memorial before the LORD .