Terumah תרומה

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

And these are the gifts that you shall accept from them: gold, silver, and copper;

tanned ram skins,^atanned ram skins In contrast to others “rams’ skins dyed red.” dolphin^bdolphin Or “dugong,” or a certain hue of dyed cowhide leather; meaning of Heb. taḥash uncertain. skins, and acacia wood;

lapis lazuli^clapis lazuli Cf. Gen. 2.12 and note. and other stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

Exactly as I show you—the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings—so shall you make it.

Overlay it with pure gold—overlay it inside and out—and make upon it a gold molding round about.

Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold;

The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark: they shall not be removed from it.

You shall make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Make one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end; of one piece with the cover shall you make the cherubim at its two ends.

Place the cover on top of the Ark, after depositing inside the Ark the Pact that I will give you.

You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Make a rim of a hand’s breadth around it, and make a gold molding for its rim round about.

The rings shall be next to the rim, as holders for poles to carry the table.

Make its bowls, ladles, jars and jugs with which to offer libations; make them of pure gold.

You shall make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be made of hammered work; its base and its shaft, its cups, calyxes, and petals shall be of one piece.

On one branch there shall be three cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals, and on the next branch there shall be three cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals; so for all six branches issuing from the lampstand.

a calyx, of one piece with it, under a pair of branches; and a calyx, of one piece with it, under the second pair of branches, and a calyx, of one piece with it, under the last pair of branches; so for all six branches issuing from the lampstand.

Make its seven lamps—the lamps shall be so mounted as to give the light on its front side—

It shall be made, with all these furnishings, out of a talent of pure gold.

As for the tabernacle,^atabernacle Heb. mishkan refers here specifically to the lowest of the covers of the Tabernacle, and so its rendering is not capitalized. make it of ten strips of cloth; make these of fine twisted linen, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, with a design of cherubim worked into them.

Five of the cloths shall be joined to one another, and the other five cloths shall be joined to one another.

make fifty loops on the one cloth, and fifty loops on the edge of the end cloth of the other set, the loops to be opposite one another.

You shall then make cloths of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make the cloths eleven in number.

Join five of the cloths by themselves, and the other six cloths by themselves; and fold over the sixth cloth at the front of the tent.

Make fifty copper clasps, and fit the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together so that it becomes one whole.

while the extra cubit at either end of each length of tent cloth shall hang down to the bottom of the two sides of the tabernacle and cover it.

You shall make the planks for the Tabernacle of acacia wood, upright.

Each plank shall have two tenons, parallel^cparallel Meaning of Heb. meshullaboth uncertain. to each other; do the same with all the planks of the Tabernacle.

making forty silver sockets under the twenty planks, two sockets under the one plank for its two tenons and two sockets under each following plank for its two tenons;

with their forty silver sockets, two sockets under the one plank and two sockets under each following plank.

and make two planks for the corners of the Tabernacle at the rear.

Thus there shall be eight planks with their sockets of silver: sixteen sockets, two sockets under the first plank, and two sockets under each of the other planks.

five bars for the planks of the other side wall of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the planks of the wall of the Tabernacle at the rear to the west.

Overlay the planks with gold, and make their rings of gold, as holders for the bars; and overlay the bars with gold.

You shall make a curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen; it shall have a design of cherubim worked into it.

Hang the curtain under the clasps, and carry the Ark of the Pact there, behind the curtain, so that the curtain shall serve you as a partition between the Holy and the Holy of Holies.

Place the table outside the curtain, and the lampstand by the south wall of the Tabernacle opposite the table, which is to be placed by the north wall.

Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold—their hooks being of gold—and cast for them five sockets of copper.

Make its horns on the four corners, the horns to be of one piece with it; and overlay it with copper.

Make for it a grating of meshwork in copper; and on the mesh make four copper rings at its four corners.

And make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with copper.

Make it hollow, of boards. As you were shown on the mountain, so shall they be made.

with its twenty posts and their twenty sockets of copper, the hooks and bands of the posts to be of silver.

For the width of the enclosure, on the west side, fifty cubits of hangings, with their ten posts and their ten sockets.

fifteen cubits of hangings on the one flank, with their three posts and their three sockets;

and for the gate of the enclosure, a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, done in embroidery, with their four posts and their four sockets.

The length of the enclosure shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout; and the height five cubits—[with hangings] of fine twisted linen. The sockets shall be of copper: