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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1They made specially woven garments for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron from the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They hammered out thin sheets of gold, and he cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and the fine linen in a skillful design. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They made shoulder pieces for attaching it; it was joined together at its two edges. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The artistically woven waistband that was on the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel's sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He also made the embroidered breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They mounted four rows of gemstones on it. The first row was a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The 12 stones corresponded to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the 12 tribes. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They also fashioned two gold filigree settings and two gold rings and attached the two rings to its two corners. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then they attached the two gold cords to the two gold rings on the corners of the breastpiece. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They attached the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings and, in this way, attached them to the ephod's shoulder pieces in front. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They made two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the ephod's two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam, above the ephod's woven waistband. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then they tied the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece was above the ephod's waistband and did not come loose from the ephod. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22They made the woven robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23There was an opening in the center of the robe like that of body armor with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They made pomegranates of finely spun blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on the lower hem of the robe. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe to be worn for ministry. They made it just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27They made the tunics of fine woven linen for Aaron and his sons. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They also made the turban and the ornate headbands of fine linen, the undergarments, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29and the sash of finely spun linen of embroidered blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30They also made a medallion, the holy diadem, out of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Then they attached a cord of blue yarn to it in order to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its planks, its crossbars, and its posts and bases; |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34the covering of ram skins dyed red and the covering of manatee skins; the veil for the screen; |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat; |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37the pure gold lampstand, with its lamps arranged and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light; |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38the gold altar; the anointing oil; the fragrant incense; the screen for the entrance to the tent; |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39the bronze altar with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand; |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting; |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41and the specially woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42The Israelites had done all the work according to everything the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the LORD commanded. Then Moses blessed them. |
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