Study Desk

and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tables of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction."

And he said to the elders, "Tarry here for us, until we come to you again; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a cause, let him go to them."

"Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me an offering; from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive the offering for me.

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

onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

And 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 of it.

There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

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

Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

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

three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other branch--so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

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

And see that you make them after 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; eleven curtains shall you make.

And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins.

"And you shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together; so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.

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

and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons;