19 T'rumah

Torah

Sh'mot (Exodus) 25:1-27:19

^25:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^25:2"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. ^25:3This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass, ^25:4blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, ^25:5rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, shittim wood, ^25:6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, ^25:7 shoham stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the breastplate. ^25:8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. ^25:9According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

^25:10"They shall make a teivah of shittim wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. ^25:11You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it. ^25:12You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ^25:13You shall make poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. ^25:14You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. ^25:15The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it. ^25:16You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the teivah.

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Sheni [2nd]

^25:17You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. ^25:18You shall make two Keruvim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. ^25:19Make one Keruv at the one end, and one Keruv at the other end. You shall make the Keruvim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. ^25:20The Keruvim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the Keruvim shall be toward the mercy seat. ^25:21You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. ^25:22There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two Keruvim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Yisra'el.

^25:23"You shall make a table of shittim wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height. ^25:24You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. ^25:25You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. ^25:26You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. ^25:27the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. ^25:28You shall make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. ^25:29You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them. ^25:30You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

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Shlishi [3rd]

^25:31"You shall make a menorah of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the menorah be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. ^25:32There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the menorah out of its one side, and three branches of the menorah out of its other side; ^25:33three 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 menorah; ^25:34and in the menorah four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; ^25:35and 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 menorah. ^25:36Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. ^25:37You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. ^25:38Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. ^25:39It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. ^25:40See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

^26:1"Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with Keruvim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them. ^26:2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure. ^26:3Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. ^26:4You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. ^26:5You 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. ^26:6You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.

^26:7"You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them. ^26:8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure. ^26:9You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. ^26:10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. ^26:11You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. ^26:12The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tent. ^26:13The 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 tent on this side and on that side, to cover it. ^26:14You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

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R'vi'i [4th]

^26:15"You shall make the boards for the tent of shittim wood, standing up. ^26:16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board. ^26:17There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent. ^26:18You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward. ^26:19You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ^26:20For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards, ^26:21and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ^26:22For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards. ^26:23Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in the far part. ^26:24They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. ^26:25There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

^26:26"You shall make bars of shittim wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tent, ^26:27and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward. ^26:28The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end. ^26:29You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold. ^26:30You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

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Chamishi [5th]

^26:31"You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with Keruvim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made. ^26:32You shall hang it on four pillars of shittim overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. ^26:33You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. ^26:34You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. ^26:35You shall set the table outside the veil, and the menorah over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.

^26:36"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. ^26:37You shall make for the screen five pillars of shittim, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.

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Shishi [6th]

^27:1"You shall make the altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits. ^27:2You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass. ^27:3You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass. ^27:4You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four brazen rings in its four corners. ^27:5You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. ^27:6You shall make poles for the altar, poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. ^27:7Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. ^27:8Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

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Shvi'i [7th]

^27:9"You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side: ^27:10and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. ^27:11Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. ^27:12For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. ^27:13The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. ^27:14The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. ^27:15For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. ^27:16For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

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Maftir [Concluding]

^27:17All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. ^27:18The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. ^27:19All the instruments of the tent in all its service, and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

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Haftarah
(Melakhim Aleph [1 Kings] 5:26-6:13)

^5:12⁽²⁶⁾Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. ^5:13⁽²⁷⁾King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. ^5:14⁽²⁸⁾He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor. ^5:15⁽²⁹⁾Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; ^5:16⁽³⁰⁾besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work. ^5:17⁽³¹⁾The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. ^5:18⁽³²⁾Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

^6:1It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra'el were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Shlomo's reign over Yisra'el, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. ^6:2The house which king Shlomo built for the LORD, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. ^6:3The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house. ^6:4For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work. ^6:5Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about. ^6:6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. ^6:7The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. ^6:8The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third. ^6:9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. ^6:10He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. ^6:11The word of the LORD came to Shlomo, saying, ^6:12Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my mitzvot to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. ^6:13I will dwell among the children of Yisra'el, and will not forsake my people Yisra'el.

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B'rit Chadashah
2 Corinthians 9:15

^9:1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the holy ones, ^9:2for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. ^9:3But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, ^9:4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting. ^9:5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. ^9:6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ^9:7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for G-d loves a cheerful giver. ^9:8And G-d is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. ^9:9As it is written,

"He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor.
His righteousness remains forever."

^9:10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; ^9:11you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to G-d. ^9:12For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the holy ones, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to G-d; ^9:13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify G-d for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Messiah, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; ^9:14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of G-d in you. ^9:15Now thanks be to G-d for his unspeakable gift!

Additional B'rit Chadashah readings:

Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 8:1-6; 9:23-24; 10:1

^8:1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a kohen gadol, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, ^8:2a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. ^8:3For every kohen gadol is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this kohen gadol also have something to offer. ^8:4For if he were on earth, he would not be a kohen at all, seeing there are kohanim who offer the gifts according to the law; ^8:5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moshe was warned by G-d when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain." ^8:6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

^9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ^9:24For Messiah hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of G-d for us;

^10:1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

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Torah

Sh'mot (Exodus) 25:1-27:19

Haftarah (Melakhim Aleph [1 Kings] 5:26-6:13)

B'rit Chadashah 2 Corinthians 9:15

Additional B'rit Chadashah readings:

Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 8:1-6; 9:23-24; 10:1

Haftarah
(Melakhim Aleph [1 Kings] 5:26-6:13)

B'rit Chadashah
2 Corinthians 9:15