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Making the Ark
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37:1 |
Betzalel made the ark of acacia wood, 2 and a half cubits long, 1 and a half cubits wide, and 1 and a half cubits high. |
37:2 |
He covered it with a layer of pure gold on the inside, and made a gold rim for it all around. |
37:3 |
He cast four gold rings for its four corners, two rings for one side, and two for the other. |
37:4 |
He made carrying poles of acacia wood and covered them with a layer of gold. |
37:5 |
He then placed the carrying poles in the rings on the ark's sides, so that the ark could be carried with them. |
37:6 |
He made a pure gold cover, 2 and a half cubits long and 1 and a half cubits wide. |
37:7 |
He made two golden cherubs, hammering them out from the two ends of the cover. |
37:8 |
The cherubs were made on both ends from the same piece of metal as the cover itself, one cherub on one end, and one on the other. |
37:9 |
The cherubs had their wings outstretched upward so as to shield the ark-cover with their wings. They faced one another, with their faces [somewhat inclined downward] toward the cover. |
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Making the Table
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37:10 |
He made the table out of acacia wood, 2 cubits long, one cubit wide, and 1 and a half cubits high. |
37:11 |
He covered it with a layer of pure gold, and made it a gold rim all around. |
37:12 |
He made a frame for it, one handbreadth wide, and placed [the] gold rim on the frame. |
37:13 |
He cast four gold rings for [the table], placing the rings on the corners of its four legs. |
37:14 |
The rings were adjacent to the frame, and were meant to hold the poles used to carry the table. |
37:15 |
He made acacia poles to carry the table, and covered them with a layer of gold. |
37:16 |
He made the utensils to go on the table, bread forms and incense bowls, as well as half tubes and side frames to serve as dividers [for the bread], all out of pure gold. |
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Making the Lamp
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37:17 |
He made the menorah out of pure gold, hammering the menorah along with its base, stem, and decorative cups, spheres and flowers, out of a single piece of metal. |
37:18 |
Six branches extended from the menorah's sides, three on one and three on the other. |
37:19 |
There were three embossed cups, a sphere, and a flower on each branch. This was true of all six branches extending from the menorah. |
37:20 |
The menorah's [shaft] had four embossed cups, along with its own spheres and flowers. |
37:21 |
There was a sphere at the base of each of the three pairs of branches extending from [the stem]. This was true of all six of [the menorah's] branches. |
37:22 |
The spheres and branches were all made from the same [ingot] as the [menorah itself]. It was all hammered from a single piece of pure gold. |
37:23 |
He thus made the menorah with seven lamps. [He also made] its wick tongs and ash scoops out of pure gold. |
37:24 |
The [menorah] and all its parts were made from a talent of gold. |
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Making the Incense Altar
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37:25 |
He made the incense altar of acacia wood, one cubit square, and, including its horns, two cubits high. |
37:26 |
He covered its top, its walls all around, and its horns, with a layer of pure gold, and made it a gold rim all around. |
37:27 |
He made two rings [for the altar] below its rim on its two opposite sides, so as to hold the poles with which [the altar] was carried. |
37:28 |
He made the carrying poles out of acacia wood, and covered them with a layer of gold. |
37:29 |
Using the techniques of a perfumer, he made the sacred anointing oil and the pure perfume incense. |