Terumah
Exodus 25:1-27:19 1
"The Lord spoke to Moses saying:
"Speak to the children of Israel, and have them take for Me an
offering from every person whose heart inspires him to
generosity, you shall take My offering.
And this is the offering that you shall take from them: gold, silver, and copper
blue, purple, and crimson wool linen and goat hair
ram skins dyed red, tachash skins, and acacia wood
oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the incense
shoham stones and filling stones for the ephod and for the choshen.
And they shall make Me a sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst
according to all that I show you, the pattern of the Mishkan and the pattern of all its vessels and so shall you do.
They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its
length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its
height.
And you shall overlay it with pure gold from inside and from
outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make upon it a golden crown
all around.
And you shall cast four golden rings for it, and you shall place them
upon its four corners, two rings on its one side, and two rings on its
other side.
And you shall make poles of acacia wood and you shall overlay them with gold.
And you shall bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.
The poles of the ark shall be in the rings they shall not be removed from it.
And you shall place into the ark the testimony, which I will give you.
And you shall make an ark cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width.
And you shall make two golden cherubim you shall make them of hammered work, from the two ends of the ark cover.
And make one cherub from the one end and the other cherub from the
other end from the ark cover you shall make the cherubim on its
two ends.
The cherubim shall have their wings spread upwards, shielding the ark
cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another
turned toward the ark cover shall be the faces of the cherubim.
And you shall place the ark cover on the ark from above, and into the ark you shall place the testimony, which I will give you.
I will arrange My meetings with you there, and I will speak with you
from atop the ark cover from between the two cherubim that are upon the
Ark of the Testimony, all that I will command you unto the children of
Israel.
And you shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length, one cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and you shall make for it a golden crown all around.
And you shall make for it a frame a handbreadth wide all
around, and you shall make a golden crown for its frame all around.
And you shall make for it four golden rings, and you shall place the rings on the four corners that are on its four legs.
The rings shall be opposite the frame as holders for the poles with which to carry the table.
And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.
And you shall make its forms, its spoons, its half pipes, and its
supports with which it will be covered of pure gold you shall
make them.
And you shall place on the table showbread before Me at all times.
And you shall make a menorah of pure gold. The menorah shall be made of
hammered work its base and its stem, its goblets, its knobs, and
its flowers shall all be one piece with it.
And six branches coming out of its sides: three menorah branches from
its one side and three menorah branches from its second side.
Three decorated goblets on one branch, a knob and a flower, and three
decorated goblets on one branch, a knob and a flower so for the
six branches that come out of the menorah.
And on the stem of the menorah shall be four decorated goblets, its knobs and its flowers.
And a knob under the two branches from it, and a knob under the two
branches from it, and a knob under the two branches from it so
for the six branches that come out of the menorah.
Their knobs and their branches shall all be one
piece with it all of it shall be one hammered
mass of pure gold.
And you shall make its lamps seven, and he shall kindle its lamps so that they shed light toward its face.
And its tongs and its scoops shall be of pure gold.
He shall make it of a talent of pure gold, with all these implements.
Now see and make according to their pattern, which you are shown on the mountain.
"And the Mishkan you shall make out of ten curtains
consisting of twisted fine linen, and blue, purple, and crimson
wool. A cherubim design of the work of a master weaver you shall make
them.
"The length of one curtain shall be twenty eight cubits,
and the width of one curtain shall be four cubits the
same measure for all the curtains.
"Five of these curtains shall be joined to one another, and the
other five curtains shall also be joined to one
another.
"And you shall make loops of blue wool on the edge of one curtain
that is at the edge of the first set, and so shall
you do on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.
"You shall make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain, and
you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second
set the loops shall correspond to one another.
"And you shall make fifty golden clasps, and you shall fasten the
curtains to one another with the clasps so shall the Mishkan
become one.
"And then you shall make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the Mishkan you shall make eleven curtains.
"The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the
width of one curtain four cubits the same measure for the eleven
curtains.
"And you shall join the five curtains by themselves, and the
other six curtains by themselves and you shall fold the
sixth curtain before the front of the tent.
"And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain, which
is at the edge of the first set, and fifty loops on
the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.
"And you shall make fifty copper clasps you shall bring the
clasps into the loops, and you shall fasten the tent together so that
it will become one.
"And the overhanging excess in the curtains of the tent half of the extra curtain shall hang over the rear of the Mishkan.
"And the cubit from here and the cubit from there of the excess in the
length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the
Mishkan from here and from there to cover it.
"And you shall make a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering of tachash skins above.
"And you shall make the planks for the Mishkan of acacia wood, upright.
"Ten cubits shall be the length of each plank, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of each plank.
"Each plank shall have two square pegs, rung like, one even with the
other so shall you make all the planks of the Mishkan.
"And you shall make the planks for the Mishkan, twenty planks for the southern side.
"And you shall make forty silver sockets under the twenty planks
two sockets under one plank for its two square pegs, and two sockets
under one plank for its two square pegs.
"And for the second side of the Mishkan on the northern side twenty planks.
"And their forty silver sockets: two sockets under one plank and two sockets under one plank.
"And for the western end of the Mishkan you shall make six planks.
"And you shall make two planks at the corners of the Mishkan at the end.
"And they shall be matched evenly from below, and together they shall
match at its top, to be put into the one ring so
shall it be for both of them they shall be for the two corners.
"And there shall be eight planks and their silver sockets, sixteen
sockets two sockets under one plank and two sockets under one plank.
"And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the planks of one side of the Mishkan,
"and five bars for the planks of the second side of the Mishkan, and
five bars for the planks of the rear side of the Mishkan,
on the westward end.
"And the middle bar in the midst of the planks shall extend and penetrate from one end to the other end.
"And you shall overlay the planks with gold, and their rings you shall
make of gold as holders for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars
with gold.
"And you shall erect the Mishkan according to its proper manner, as you will have been shown on the mountain.
"And you shall make a dividing curtain of blue, purple, and crimson
wool, and twisted fine linen the work of a master weaver he shall
make it, in a woven cherubim design.
"And you shall place it on four pillars of acacia wood, overlaid with
gold, their hooks shall be gold, on four silver sockets.
"And you shall place the dividing curtain beneath the clasps. You shall
bring there on the inner side of the dividing curtain the Ark of the
Testimony, and the dividing curtain shall separate for you between the
Holy and the Holy of Holies.
"And you shall place the ark cover over the Ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies.
"And you shall place the table on the outer side of the dividing
curtain and the menorah opposite the table, on the southern side of the
Mishkan, and you shall place the table on the northern side.
36. "And you shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue,
purple, and crimson wool, and twisted fine linen the work of an
embroiderer.
"You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them
with gold, their hooks shall be gold, and you shall cast
for them five copper sockets.
And 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.
And you shall make its horns on its four corners its horns shall be from it, and you shall overlay it with copper.
And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and
its sprinkling basins and its flesh hooks and its scoops you
shall make all its implements of copper.
And you shall make for it a copper grating of netting work, and you
shall make on the netting four copper rings on its four ends.
And you shall place it beneath the ledge of the altar from below, and
the net shall extend downward until the middle of the
altar.
And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with copper.
And its poles shall be inserted into the rings, and the poles shall be on both sides of the altar when it is carried.
You shall make it hollow, out of boards as He showed you on the mountain, so shall they do.
And you shall make the courtyard of the Mishkan on the southern
side there shall be hangings for the courtyard of twisted
fine linen, one hundred cubits long on one side.
And its pillars shall be twenty and their sockets twenty of
copper the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be
of silver.
And so for the northern end in the length hangings one hundred
cubits long, its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of
copper the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.
The width of the courtyard on the western side, hangings fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten.
The width of the courtyard on the eastern side, fifty cubits.
The hangings on the shoulder shall be fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.
And on the second shoulder there shall be fifteen hangings, their pillars three and their sockets three.
And at the gate of the courtyard shall be a screen of twenty
cubits, made of blue, purple, and crimson wool, and twisted
fine linen, the work of an embroiderer their pillars four and
their sockets four.
All the pillars around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and copper sockets.
The length of the courtyard shall be one hundred cubits and
the width fifty by fifty cubits . The height of the
hangings shall be five cubits of twisted fine linen, and their
sockets shall be of copper.
All the implements of the Mishkan for all its labor, and all its pegs
and all the pegs of the courtyard shall be copper.