39:1 AND OF the blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] they made finely wrought garments for serving in the Holy Place; they made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses. |
39:2 And Bezalel made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen. |
39:3 And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into wires to work into the blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and the fine linen, in skilled design. |
39:4 They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, joined to it at its two edges. |
39:5 And the skillfully woven band on it, to gird it on, was of the same piece and workmanship with it, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses. |
39:6 And they prepared the onyx stones enclosed in settings of gold filigree and engraved as signets are engraved with the names of the sons of Israel. |
39:7 And he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of memorial {or} remembrance for the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded Moses. |
39:8 And [Bezalel] made the breastplate skillfully, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen. |
39:9 The breastplate was a [hand's] span square when doubled over. |
39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones; a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle made the first row; |
39:11 The second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; |
39:12 The third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; |
39:13 And the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. |
39:14 There were twelve stones with their names according to those of the sons of Israel, engraved like a signet, each with its name, according to the twelve tribes. |
39:15 And they made [at the ends] of the breastplate twisted chains like cords, of pure gold. |
39:16 And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings which they put on the two ends of the breastplate. |
39:17 And they put the two twisted cords {or} woven chains of gold in the two rings on the end edges of the breastplate. |
39:18 And the other two ends of the twisted cords {or} chains of gold they put on the two settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, in front. |
39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the inside edge of it next to the ephod. |
39:20 And they made two [other] gold rings and attached them to the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, in front, at its joining above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. |
39:21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to those of the ephod with a blue lace, that it might lie upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses. |
39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work all of blue. |
39:23 And there was an opening [for the head] in the middle of the robe like the hole in a coat of mail, with a binding around it, that it should not be torn. |
39:24 On the skirts of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet [stuff] and twined linen. |
39:25 And they made bells of pure gold and put [them] between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe; |
39:26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe for ministering, as the Lord commanded Moses. |
39:27 And they made the long {and} sleeved tunics woven of fine linen for Aaron and his sons, |
39:28 And the turban, and the ornamental caps of fine linen, and the breeches of fine twined linen, |
39:29 The girdle {or} sash of fine twined linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet embroidery, as the Lord commanded Moses. |
39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO THE LORD. |
39:31 They tied to it a lace of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the Lord commanded Moses. |
39:32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites had done. |
39:33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, its [frame] boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets {or} bases; |
39:34 And the covering of rams' skins made red, and the covering of dolphin {or} porpoise skins, and the veil of the screen; |
39:35 The ark of the Testimony, its poles, and the mercy seat; |
39:36 The table and all its utensils, and the showbread (bread of the Presence); |
39:37 The pure [gold] lampstand and its lamps, with the lamps set in order, all its utensils, and the oil for the light; |
39:38 The golden altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the hanging for the door of the tent; |
39:39 The bronze altar and its grate of bronze, its poles and all its utensils; the laver and its base; |
39:40 The hangings of the court, its pillars and sockets {or} bases, and the screen for the court gate, its cords, and pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people]; |
39:41 The finely worked vestments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to minister as priests. |
39:42 According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites had done all the work. |
39:43 And Moses inspected all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, so had they done it. And Moses blessed them. |