35 And there shall be a knop under two B. C. 1491. branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same; all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

37 And thou shalt make the "

seven a Zec.4.2.
Re.1.4,12.

39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he 3 the face of it. make it, with all these vessels.

40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, 4 which was shewed

5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is 7 twined. in the coupling of the second, that the & loops may take hold one of another.

6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold," and couple the curtains together with the taches; and it shall be one tabernacle.

7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats'

hair, i to be a covering upon the taber-i c.36.14, &c. two sockets under one board, and two

the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of s or covering. with gold, and make their rings of gold

The vail of the tabernacle.

EXODUS, XXVIII.

31 And thou shalt make a a vail of blue, B. C. 1491. and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined. linen, of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made.

32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim-wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

b

34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

a c.36.35.
Le.16.2.
2 Ch.3.14.

Mat.27.51.
He.9.38.

10.20.

b1 Ki.8.8-10.
2 Ch.5.7-10.

35 And thou shalt set the table without c c.40.22. the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

d c.36.37.

c.36.37.

fc.28.39.

36 And thou shalt make and hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought, with needle-work.

37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

CHAP. XXVII.

39.29.

Ps.45.14.
fifty by fifty
Ch.4.1.
He.13.10.

g c.38.1.

Eze.43.13.

h c.29.12.
Le.4.7,18.
16.18.
1 Ki.1.50.
2.28.
Ps.118.27.
He.6.18.

AND thou shalt make & an altar of shit-; ver-3.

Le.24.2.

2 to ascend up.

tim-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-k c.30.8. square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

1 Sa.3.3.

2 Ch.13.11.
Lu.12.35.

I 1 Ki.7.45.
Je.52.20.

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns m c.28.43. shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his flesh-hooks, and his fire-n pans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of net-work of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

29.9,28.

Le.3.17.

16.34.
24.9.
Nu.18.23.

19.21.
1 SB.30.25.

Le.8.2.
2

Nu.18.7.

The altar of burnt-offering

10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

e

16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth 1 fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee j pure oil-olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp 2 to burn always.

21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testiCh.26.18-mony, Aaron and his sons shall order it 21. from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

9 And thou shalt make the court of Ep.6.14. the tabernacle: for the south side south-w ver.31. ward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side.

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2 And thou shalt make ? holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty.

3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted," whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office 4 And these are the garments which they shall make; "a breastplate, and lephod, and a robe, and a broidered

an

Aaron separated for the priesthood. EXODUS, XXVIII.

coat, "a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall B. C. 1491.
make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, a c.39.28.
and his sons, that he may minister unto me
in the priest's office.

5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereo!'; and so it shall be joined together.

1

Zec.3.5. b Is.11.5.

1

broidered.

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, or, emwhich is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx-stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

c

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou ver.36. engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the d ver.29. LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

c.39.6,7.

Jos.4.7.

Zec.6.14. f ver.12.

13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen-work shalt thou make g Le.8.8. them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make

it.

Nu.27.21.
De.33.8.
1 Sa.28.6.
Ezr.2.63.

Ne.7.65.
c.39.8.
He.9.24

Le.8.8.

j Ne.4.16.

2

3

The Urim and Thummim.

plate chains at the ends of wreathen-work of pure gold.

23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.

26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.

27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for af memorial before the LORD continually.

30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

i

31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an j haberfill it in fill-geon, that it be not rent. ings of stone. skirts. or, or, ruby.

Job 41.26.

k Re.4.3.
21.19,20.

5 fillings.
1 Re.21.12.
m He.9.12.

21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engrav-Zec.14.20. ings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

22 And thou shalt make

upon the breast

n c.39.30.
He.7.26.
12 14.
Re.21.27.

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33 And beneath, upon the 3 hem of it, thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister; and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die

not.

36 And thou shalt make a " plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

a ver.28,31.
Nu.15.38.

of.

fill the hand
ver.43.

Le.10.17.
22.9.
Nu.18.1.
Is.53.6,11.
Eze.4.4-6.
Jno.1.29.

37 And thou shalt put it on a "blue lace, B. C. 1491. that it may be upon the mitre: upon the fore-front of the mitre it shall be. 38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitrec Le.1.4. of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle off needle-work.

2 Cor.5.21.
He.9.28.

1 Pe.2.24.

3.2.
8.14.
Is.53.8.
2 Cor.5.21.

22.27.
23.11.

40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt maked Le.1.4. coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Is.56.7.

60.7.
Ep.1.6.
1 Pe.2.5.

f Ps.45.14.

2

41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and Le.8.15. shalt anoint them, and 3 consecrate them, or, midriff. ' and sanctify them, that they may minister. unto me in the priest's office.

30.30.

40.15.

hand.

42 And thou shalt make them linen Is.61.1. breeches to cover their nakedness; from 3 fill their the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach. 5

i Le.4.11,12. j Le.8.

He.13.11.

He.5.4. k Le.16.4.

Consecration of the priests.

shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

c

10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and 2 the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin-offering.

15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his 4 flesh of their legs, and put them unto his pieces, and 6

Eze.44.18.

Z ver. 10.

nakedness.

43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die. It shall be am c.20.26. statute for ever unto him, and his seed 20.19,20. after him.

CHAP. XXIX.

5 be.

6 or, upon.
n Le.5.1,17.

22.9.
Nu.9.13.

18.22.

AND this is the thing that thou shalt 177.

do unto them to hallow them, top minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

t

2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

Le.17.7.

Ge.8.21.
Ep.5.2.
Ph.4.18.

ver.3.

Le.8.2, &c. s Le.8.24. He.9.22.

t Le.2.4.

3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the a c.30.25. bullock and the two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

5 And thou shalt take the w garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod.

unto his head.

18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering unto the LORD: it is a P sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

19 And thou shalt take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it' upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon 6.20-22. the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing" oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and the upon garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration.

vc.30.19-21.

40.12. Le.8.6. He.10.22.

1 Pe.3.21. 20 c.28.2-3.

23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is be

6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his
head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil,
and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and..40, &c. fore the LORD:
put coats upon them.

1

EXODUS, XXX. hands, and burn them upon the altar for B. C. 1491. a burnt-offering, for a "sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.