Day 23: Exodus 25-27
The Tabernacle, the Ark, the Table, the Lampstand, and the Altar
Exodus 25
Offerings for the Sanctuary
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From every man whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass, 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, 5 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furnishings, even so you shall make it.
The Ark of the Covenant
10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside you shall overlay it. You shall make a molding of gold around it. 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on its one side, and two rings on its other side. 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be removed from it. 16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half. 18 You shall make two cherubim of gold. You shall make them of beaten work at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim at the two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I will command you for the children of Israel.
The Table for the Bread of the Presence
23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height a cubit and a half. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. 25 You shall make a rim around it of a handbreadth, and you shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. 26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings on the four corners of its four feet. 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. 29 You shall make its dishes, its cups, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold. 30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
The Lampstand
31 “You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of beaten work, its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be one piece with it. 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side. 33 Three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower; so for the six branches going out of the lampstand; 34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand; 36 their buds and their branches shall be one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
37 You shall make its seven lamps, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. 38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these vessels. 40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
Exodus 26
The Tabernacle
1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them the work of a skillful workman. 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains shall have one measure. 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another. 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be one whole.
7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains. 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall have one measure. 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the one coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. 11 You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12 As for the overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board. 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another. You shall do so for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 19 You shall make forty sockets of silver to put under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards. 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be undivided above to one ring. It shall be for them both. They shall be for the two corners. 25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26 “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the far part westward. 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end. 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlay the bars with gold. 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
31 “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman. 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy. 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
36 “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. 37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus 27
The Altar of Burnt Offering
1 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with brass. 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of brass. 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. 8 You shall make it hollow with planks. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
The Courtyard
9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle.
“For the south side there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side. 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
11 “Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 “For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 13 The width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits. 14 The hangings for the one side shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15 For the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 “For the gate of the court shall be a screen twenty cubits wide, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. 17 All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass. 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
Oil for the Lamp
20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh. It shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Scripture: World English Bible (WEB), public domain.
