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Sheni [2nd]

^39:2He made the efod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ^39:3They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. ^39:4They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together. ^39:5The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

^39:6They worked the shoham (onyx) stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Yisra'el. ^39:7He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Yisra'el, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

^39:8He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the efod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ^39:9It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double. ^39:10They set in it four rows of stones. A row of odem (ruby), pitdah (topaz), and bareket was the first row; ^39:11and the second row, a nofek (turquoise), a sappir, and an yahalom (emerald); ^39:12and the third row, a lehshem (jacinth), an shebu, and an akhlamah; ^39:13and the fourth row, a tarshish, an shoham (onyx), and a yashefay (jasper). They were enclosed in gold settings. ^39:14The stones were according to the names of the children of Yisra'el, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. ^39:15They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. ^39:16They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ^39:17They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ^39:18The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, in the front of it. ^39:19They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the efod inward. ^39:20They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the efod underneath, in the front of it, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the efod. ^39:21They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the efod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the efod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the efod, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Shlishi [3rd]

^39:22He made the robe of the efod of woven work, all of blue. ^39:23The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn. ^39:24They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen. ^39:25They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates; ^39:26a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

^39:27They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aharon, and for his sons, ^39:28and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, ^39:29and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

^39:30They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO THE LORD." ^39:31They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

^39:32Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. The children of Yisra'el did according to all that the LORD commanded Moshe; so they did.

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R'vi'i [4th]

^39:33They brought the tent to Moshe, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, its pillars, its sockets, ^39:34the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, ^39:35the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, ^39:36the table, all its vessels, the show bread, ^39:37the pure menorah, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, ^39:38the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, ^39:39the brazen altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, ^39:40the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the tent of meeting, ^39:41the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aharon the kohen, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the kohen's office. ^39:42According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did all the work. ^39:43Moshe saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moshe blessed them.

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Chamishi [5th]

^40:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^40:2"On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting. ^40:3You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. ^40:4You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the menorah, and light the lamps of it. ^40:5You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent. ^40:6You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting. ^40:7You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein. ^40:8You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. ^40:9You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy. ^40:10You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy. ^40:11You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it. ^40:12You shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. ^40:13You shall put on Aharon the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the kohen's office. ^40:14You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. ^40:15You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the kohen's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. ^40:16Thus did Moshe: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.

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Shishi [6th]

^40:17It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up. ^40:18Moshe raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised up its pillars. ^40:19He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ^40:20He took and put the testimony into the teivah (ark), and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. ^40:21He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ^40:22He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil. ^40:23He set the bread in order on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ^40:24He put the menorah in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tent southward. ^40:25He lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ^40:26He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil; ^40:27and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Shvi'i [7th]

^40:28He put up the screen of the door to the tent. ^40:29He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ^40:30He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash. ^40:31Moshe, Aharon, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. ^40:32When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ^40:33He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moshe finished the work.

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Maftir [Concluding]

^40:34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tent. ^40:35Moshe wasn't able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the LORD's glory filled the tent. ^40:36When the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the children of Yisra'el went onward, throughout all their journeys; ^40:37but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up. ^40:38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tent by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Yisra'el, throughout all their journeys.