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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He cast four gold rings for it, for its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark for carrying the ark. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat, |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At each end, he made a cherub of one piece with the mercy seat. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They had wings spread out. They faced each other and covered the mercy seat with their wings. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He constructed the table of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding all around it. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He made a three-inch frame all around it and made a gold molding all around its frame. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings to the four corners at its four legs. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The rings were next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He made the poles for carrying the table from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He also made the utensils that would be on the table out of pure gold: its plates and cups, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold. He made it all of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its buds and petals. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Six branches extended from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on the next branch. It was this way for the six branches that extended from the lampstand. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20There were four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand shaft along with its buds and petals. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the six branches that extended from it, a bud was under the first pair of branches from it, a bud under the second pair of branches from it, and a bud under the third pair of branches from it. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Their buds and branches were of one piece with it. All of it was a single hammered piece of pure gold. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He also made its seven lamps, snuffers, and firepans of pure gold. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He made it and all its utensils of seventy-five pounds of pure gold. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide; it was thirty-six inches high. Its horns were of one piece with it. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He overlaid it, its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold. Then he made a gold molding all around it. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He made two gold rings for it under the molding on two of its sides; he put these on opposite sides of it to be holders for the poles to carry it with. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant, and expertly blended incense. |
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