Study Desk

Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Tell the Israelites to take for me an offering; from all whose hearts prompt them to give you shall receive the offering for me.

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

onyx stones and gems to be set in the ephod and for the breastpiece.

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

There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the covenant, I will deliver to you all my commands for the Israelites.

You shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

The rings that hold the poles used for carrying the table shall be close to the rim.

You shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

There shall be a calyx of one piece with it under the first pair of branches, a calyx of one piece with it under the next pair of branches, and a calyx of one piece with it under the last pair of branches—so for the six branches that go out of the lampstand.

You shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.

And see that you make them according to the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.

You shall also make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains.

You shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and an outer covering of fine leather.

You shall make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

There shall be two pegs in each frame to fit the frames together; you shall make these for all the frames of the tabernacle.

You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;

and you shall make forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under the first frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs;

and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,