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The Book of Exodus 39

39 Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other skilled workmen made the beautiful holy vestments for Aaron to wear while he served Yahweh as a priest in the Holy Place. They made them from blue, purple, and red woolen cloth, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

2 He made the sacred apron from finely twisted linen, blue, purple, and red thread, and with fine gold wire. 3 They hammered some thin sheets of gold and cut them into thin strips that they embroidered into the fine linen and into the blue, purple, and red cloth. 4 They made shoulder straps to attach the two sides of the ephod together. 5 They made a carefully woven belt that matched the sacred apron. They made it from the same piece of cloth as the apron. (That cloth was finely twisted linen with skillfully embroidered blue, purple, red thread, and fine gold thread.) They sewed it onto the apron, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 6 They cut two onyx stones and mounted them in decorative gold settings. They engraved the names of the twelve sons of Jacob on the stones like someone engraves a signet ring. 7 They fastened the stones onto the shoulder straps of the sacred apron to memorialize the names of the 12 tribes of Israel, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

8 He made the sacred pouch of the same materials as the sacred apron and skillfully embroidered it in the same way with gold, blue, purple, and red finely twisted linen. 9 They folded the material double so that they made the pouch a double-folded square 23 centimeters long and 23 centimeters wide. 10 They fastened four rows of valuable stones onto the pouch. In the first row, they put a red ruby, a yellow topaz, and a red garnet. 11 They put a green emerald, a blue sapphire, and a white diamond in the second row. 12 They put a red jacinth, a white agate, and a purple amethyst in the third row. 13 They put a yellow beryl, an onyx, and a green jasper in the fourth row. They put tiny gold frames around each of the stones. 14 They carved the name of one of the 12 sons of Jacob into each of these stones like they were making signet rings. These name-stones represented the 12 tribes of Israel.

15 They attached two chains that they made from purified gold and braided like cords to the sacred pouch. 16 They made two decorative gold settings and two gold rings and attached them to the upper corners of the sacred pouch. 17 They fastened one end of each gold cord to one of the rings on the top corner of the pouch. 18 They fastened the other end of each cord to the two decorative settings that enclose the stones. Then they put those on the front side of the shoulder straps of the sacred apron. 19 Then they made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower corners of the sacred pouch on the inside edges next to the sacred apron. 20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower part of the front of the shoulder straps near where the shoulder straps join with the sacred apron just above the sash. 21 They tied the rings on the sacred pouch to the rings on the sacred apron with a blue cord, so that the sacred pouch was above the sash and would not come loose from the sacred apron. They did these things exactly as Yahweh had instructed Moses to do.

22 Bezalel had a weaver make the robe that Aaron would wear underneath his sacred apron from only blue material. 23 It had an opening in the middle like other clothing. They made a border around this opening to prevent the material from tearing. 24 At the lower edge of the robe they fastened decorations that resembled pomegranate fruit. They wove the decorations from blue, purple, and red woolen yarn. 25 They made bells from purified gold and fastened them between each of the decorative pomegranates all around the bottom of the robe. 26 So the pattern was bell, pomegranate, bell, pomegranate, and so on all around the bottom of the robe. The robe was for Aaron to wear while he worked as a priest, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

27 For Aaron and his sons, a skilled weaver made long-sleeved tunics from fine linen, 28 the turban and the caps from fine linen, the undershorts from very finely twined linen, 29 and the sash from fine linen with blue, purple, and red woolen embroidery, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

30 They made a sacred ornamental decoration from purified gold and etched into it the words, ‘Dedicated to Yahweh,’ just like carving a signet ring. 31 They attached a blue cord to this for fastening it to the top of the turban, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

32 After this, they had finished all the work on the sacred tent where they would meet with Yahweh. The Israelites had done everything in exactly the way that Yahweh had commanded Moses to have it done. 33 The craftsmen brought Moses the whole sacred tent structure: the tent and all its equipment, the fasteners, frames, crossbars, posts, bases, 34 the red rams’ skin and fine leather hide coverings for the sacred tent, the curtain for hiding the holiest place, 35 the sacred chest, the poles, the chests’ lid, 36 the table and all its utensils, the sacred bread to present before God, 37 the pure gold lampstand with all its lamps in a line, and its utensils, and the oil to burn for light, 38 the golden altar for burning incense, the oil for anointing, the sweet-smelling incense, the curtain for the entrance to the sacred tent, 39 the bronze altar and its bronze grating, the poles, and all its implements, the washbasin and its base, 40 the curtains to surround the courtyard and the posts and bases, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard, the ropes and pegs and all the things for serving in the sacred tent where they would meet Yahweh, 41 and the beautiful, sacred vestments for Aaron and his sons to wear when they work as priests in the Holy Place. 42 The Israelites had done all the work in exactly the way that Yahweh had commanded Moses to have it done. 43 Then Moses examined everything they had made. Truly, they had done everything exactly as Yahweh had commanded them to do it. Then Moses blessed the workmen.

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