Bible Reading
March 22
The World English Bible
Mar.
22
Exodus
38 – 40
Exo
38:1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was
square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and
its height was three cubits.
Exo
38:2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one
piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
Exo
38:3 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels,
the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of
brass.
Exo
38:4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under
the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
Exo
38:5 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be
places for the poles.
Exo
38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.
Exo
38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with
which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
Exo
38:8 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the
mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the
Tent of Meeting.
Exo
38:9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of
the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
Exo
38:10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exo
38:11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and
their fillets, of silver.
Exo
38:12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars
ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets, of silver.
Exo
38:13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exo
38:14 The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three;
Exo
38:15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the
gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars
three, and their sockets three.
Exo
38:16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
Exo
38:17 The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the
pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their
capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted
with silver.
Exo
38:18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the
embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty
cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits,
like to the hangings of the court.
Exo
38:19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass;
their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and
their fillets, of silver.
Exo
38:20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of
brass.
Exo
38:21 This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even
the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to
the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand
of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
Exo
38:22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
38:23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue,
in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
Exo
38:24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the
sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents,
and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exo
38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was
one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exo
38:26 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered,
from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five
hundred fifty men.
Exo
38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets
of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets
for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exo
38:28 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made
hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for
them.
Exo
38:29 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two
thousand four hundred shekels.
Exo
38:30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels
of the altar,
Exo
38:31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the
court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the
court.
Exo
39:1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked
garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy
garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
Exo
39:3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to
work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine
linen, the work of the skillful workman.
Exo
39:4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two
ends it was joined together.
Exo
39:5 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten
it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue,
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold,
engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of
the children of Israel.
Exo
39:7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones
of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like
the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
Exo
39:9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was
a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
Exo
39:10 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and
beryl was the first row;
Exo
39:11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
Exo
39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exo
39:13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They
were enclosed in gold settings.
Exo
39:14 The stones were according to the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a
signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Exo
39:15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided
work of pure gold.
Exo
39:16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put
the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exo
39:17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at
the ends of the breastplate.
Exo
39:18 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the
two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in
its front.
Exo
39:19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of
the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod
inward.
Exo
39:20 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder
straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling,
above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
Exo
39:21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the
ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven
band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from
the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
Exo
39:23 The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a
coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not
be torn.
Exo
39:24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue,
purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
Exo
39:25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the
pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
Exo
39:26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the
skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:27 They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and
for his sons,
Exo
39:28 and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine
linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
Exo
39:29 and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote
on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO
YAHWEH."
Exo
39:31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban
above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
39:32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was
finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses; so they did.
Exo
39:33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its
furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its
sockets,
Exo
39:34 the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow
hides, the veil of the screen,
Exo
39:35 the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,
Exo
39:36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
Exo
39:37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in
order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
Exo
39:38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the
screen for the door of the Tent,
Exo
39:39 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its
vessels, the basin and its base,
Exo
39:40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the
screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the
instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of
Meeting,
Exo
39:41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place,
the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons,
to minister in the priest's office.
Exo
39:42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children
of Israel did all the work.
Exo
39:43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh
had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
Exo
40:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
40:2 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up
the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
Exo
40:3 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall
screen the ark with the veil.
Exo
40:4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that
are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.
Exo
40:5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of
the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
Exo
40:6 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of
the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
Exo
40:7 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the
altar, and shall put water therein.
Exo
40:8 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of
the gate of the court.
Exo
40:9 You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle,
and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture:
and it will be holy.
Exo
40:10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its
vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
Exo
40:11 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
Exo
40:12 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
Exo
40:13 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint
him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's
office.
Exo
40:14 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
Exo
40:15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they
may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be
to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
Exo
40:16 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so
he did.
Exo
40:17 It happened in the first month in the second year, on the
first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.
Exo
40:18 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set
up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
Exo
40:19 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the
tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
40:20 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles
on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
Exo
40:21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of
the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Exo
40:22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the
tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.
Exo
40:23 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Exo
40:24 He put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the
table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exo
40:25 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
40:26 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the
veil;
Exo
40:27 and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Exo
40:28 He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
Exo
40:29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the
tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt
offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
40:30 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar,
and put water therein, with which to wash.
Exo
40:31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet
there.
Exo
40:32 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came
near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exo
40:33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar,
and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the
work.
Exo
40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of
Yahweh filled the tabernacle.
Exo
40:35 Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because
the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.
Exo
40:36 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
Exo
40:37 but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel
until the day that it was taken up.
Exo
40:38 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and
there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house
of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
