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PARASHAT
TERUMAH - Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
25:1
Now YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying:
2 Speak to the Children
of Israel,
that they may take
me a raised-contribution;
from every man whose
heart makes-him-willing, you are to take my contribution.
3 And this is the
contribution that you are to take from them:
gold, silver, and
bronze,
4 blue-violet, purple,
and worm-scarlet (yarn), byssus, and goats'-hair,
5 rams' skins dyed-red,
tanned-leather skins,
acacia wood,
6 oil for lighting,
spices for oil of
anointing and for fragrant smoking-incense,
7 onyx stones, stones
for setting
for the efod
and for the breastpiece.
8 Let them make me
a Holy-Shrine
that I may dwell
amidst them.
9 According to all
that I grant you to see,
the building-pattern
of the Dwelling and the building-pattern of all its implements,
thus are you to make
it.
10 They are to make
a coffer of acacia
wood,
two cubits and a
half its length,
a cubit and a half
its width,
and a cubit and a
half its height.
11 You are to overlay
it with pure gold,
inside and outside
you are to overlay it,
and are to make upon
it a rim of gold all around.
12 You are to cast
for it four rings of gold
and are to put them
upon its four feet,
with two rings on
its one flank
and two rings on
its second flank.
13 You are to make
poles of acacia wood
and are to overlay
them with gold
14 and are to bring
the poles into the rings on the flanks of the coffer,
to carry the coffer
by (means of) them.
15 In the rings of
the coffer are the poles to remain,
they are not to be
removed from it.
16 And you are to
put in the coffer
the Testimony that
I give you.
17 You are to make
a purgation-cover of pure gold,
two cubits and a
half its length
and a cubit and a
half its width.
18 You are to make
two winged-sphinxes of gold,
of hammered-work
are you to make them,
at the two ends of
the purgation-cover.
19 Make one sphinx
at the end here
and one sphinx at
the end there;
from the purgation-cover
are you to make the two sphinxes,
at its two ends.
20 And the sphinxes
are to be spreading (their) wings upward
with their wings
sheltering the purgation-cover,
their faces, each-one
toward the other;
toward the purgation-cover
are the sphinxes' faces to be.
21 You are to put
the purgation-cover on the coffer, above it,
and in the coffer
you are to put
the Testimony that
I give you.
22 I will appoint-meeting
with you there
and I will speak
with you
from above the purgation-cover,
from between the
sphinxes that are on the coffer of Testimony-
all that I command
you
concerning the Children
of Israel.
23 You are to make
a table of acacia wood,
two cubits its length,
a cubit its width,
and a cubit and a
half its height;
24 you are to overlay
it with pure gold.
You are to make a
rim of gold for it, all around,
25 you are to make
for it a border, a handbreadth all around,
thus you are to make
a rim of gold for its border, all around.
26 You are to make
for it four rings of gold
and are to put the
rings at the four edges, where its four legs (are).
27 Parallel to the
border are the rings to be,
as holders for the
poles, to carry the table.
28 You are to make
the poles of acacia wood, and are to overlay them with gold,
that the table may
be carried by (means of) them.
29 You are to make
its plates and its ladles,
its jars and its
jugs, from which (offerings) are poured;
of pure gold are
you to make them.
30 And you are to
put on the table
the Bread of the
Presence, before my presence, regularly.
31 You are to make
a lampstand of pure gold;
of hammered-work
is the lampstand to be made, its shaft and its stem;
its goblets, its
knobs and its blossoms are to be from it.
32 Six stems issue
from its sides,
three lamp-stems
from the one side,
and three lamp-stems
from the second side:
33 three almond-shaped
goblets on the one stem, with knobs and blossoms,
and three almond-shaped
goblets on the other stem, with knobs and blossoms-
thus for the six
stems that issue from the lampstand;
34 and on the lampstand
(itself) four almond-shaped goblets, with their knobs and their blossoms,
35 a knob beneath
two stems, from it,
a knob beneath two
stems, from it,
and a knob beneath
two stems, from it,
for the six stems
that issue from the lampstand.
36 Their knobs and
their stems are to be from it,
all of it hammered-work,
of pure gold.
37 You are to make
its lamps, seven (of them),
you are to draw up
its lampwicks so that they light up (the space) across from it.
38 And its tongs
and its trays (shall be) of pure gold.
39 (From) an ingot
of pure gold they are to make it, together with all these implements.
40 Now see
and make,
according to their
building-pattern which you are granted to see upon the mountain.
26:1 Now the dwelling
you are to make
from ten tapestries
of twisted byssus,
blue-violet, purple and worm-scarlet (yarn),
with sphinxes, of
designer's making, you are to make it.
2 The length of each
one tapestry (shall be) twenty-eight by the cubit,
and the width, four
by the cubit
of each one tapestry,
one measure for all
of the tapestries.
3 Five of the tapestries
are to be joined, each-one to the other,
and five tapestries
joined, each-one to the other.
4 You are to make
loops of blue-violet
on the edge of one
tapestry, at the end of the one joint;
and thus you are
to make at the edge of the end tapestry, at the second joint.
5 Fifty loops are
you to make on the first tapestry,
and fifty loops are
you to make at the end of the tapestry that is at the second joint,
the loops opposite,
each-one from the other.
6 You are to make
fifty clasps of gold
and you are to join
the tapestries, each-one to the other, with the clasps,
so that the dwelling
may be one-piece.
7 You are to make
the tapestries of goats'-hair for a tent over the dwelling,
eleven tapestries
you are to make them.
8 The length of each
one tapestry (shall be) thirty by the cubit,
and the width, four
by the cubit,
for each one tapestry,
one measure for the
eleven tapestries.
9 You are to join
five of the tapestries separately
and six of the tapestries
separately,
but you are to double
over the sixth tapestry, facing the tent.
10 You are to make
fifty loops at the edge of the one tapestry, the end-one, at the joint,
and fifty loops at
the end of the second joining tapestry.
11 You are to make
clasps of bronze, fifty,
and you are to bring
the clasps into the loops, so that you join the tent together,
that it may become
one-piece.
12 And as for the
extension that overlaps in the tapestries of the tent,
half of the overlapping
tapestry you are to extend over the back of the dwelling.
13 The cubit over
here and the cubit over there of the overlap, in the long-part of the
tapestries of the tent,
is to be extended
over the sides of the tent over here and over there, in order to cover
it.
14 You are to make
a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed-red,
and a covering of
tanned-leather skins, above it.
15 You are to make
boards for the Dwelling
of acacia wood, standing-upright;
16 ten cubits, the
length of a board,
and a cubit and a
half, the width of each one board;
17 with two pegs
for each one board, parallel one to the other,
thus are you to make
for all the boards of the Dwelling.
18 And you are to
make the boards for the Dwelling:
twenty as boardwork
on the Negev border, southward,
19 and forty sockets
of silver are you to make beneath twenty of the boards,
two sockets beneath
each one board for its two pegs
and two sockets beneath
each other board for its two pegs;
20 and for the second
flank of the Dwelling, on the northern border, twenty as boardwork,
21 with their forty
sockets of silver,
two sockets beneath
each one board,
and two sockets beneath
each other board.
22 And for the rear
of the Dwelling, toward the sea, you are to make six boards,
23 and two boards
you are to make for the corners of the Dwelling, at the rear,
24 so that they may
be of twin-use, (seen) from the lower-end,
and together may
be a whole-piece, at the top, toward the first ring;
thus shall it be
for the two of them,
for the two corners
shall they be.
25 Then there are
to be eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets,
two sockets beneath
each one board,
and two sockets beneath
each other board.
26 You are to make
running-bars of acacia wood,
five for the boards
of Dwelling's one flank
27 and five bars
for the boards of the Dwelling's second flank,
and five bars for
the Dwelling's flank at the rear, toward the sea.
28 And the middle
bar (shall be) in the midst of the boards, running from end to end.
29 Now the boards
you are to overlay with gold,
their rings you are
to make of gold, as holders for the bars,
and are to overlay
the bars with gold.
30 So erect the Dwelling,
according to its plan,
as you have been
granted to see upon the mountain.
31 You are to make
a curtain
of blue-violet, purple,
worm-scarlet and twisted byssus;
of designer's making
they are to make it, with winged-sphinxes.
32 You are to put
it on four columns of acacia,overlaid with gold, their hooks of gold,
upon four sockets
of silver;
33 and you are to
put the curtain beneath the clasps.
You are to bring
there, inside the curtain,
the coffer of Testimony;
the curtain shall
separate for you
the Holy-Shrine from
the Holiest Holy-Shrine.
34 You are to put
the purgation-cover
on the coffer of
Testimony;
in the Holiest Holy-Shrine.
35 You are to place
the table outside the curtain,
and the lampstand
opposite the table on the south flank of the Dwelling,
but the table you
are to put on the north flank.
36 You are to make
a screen for the entrance to the tent,
of blue-violet, purple,
worm-scarlet and twisted byssus,
of embroiderer's
making;
37 you are to make
for the screen five columns of acacia,
you are to overlay
them with gold, their hooks of gold,
and are to cast for
them five sockets of bronze.
27:1 You are to make
the slaughter-site of acacia wood,
five cubits in length
and five cubits in
width;
square is the slaughter-site
to be,
and three cubits
its height.
2 You are to make
its horns on its four points,
from it are its horns
to be;
and you are to overlay
it with bronze.
3 You are to make
its pails for removing-its-ashes,
its scrapers, its
bowls, its flesh-hooks and its pans-
all of its implements,
you are to make of bronze.
4 You are to make
for it a lattice,
as a netting of bronze
is made,
and are to make on
the netting four rings of bronze
on its four ends;
5 you are to put
it beneath the ledge of the slaughter-site, below,
so that the netting
(reaches) to the halfway-point of the slaughter-site,
6 You are to make
poles for the slaughter-site,
poles of acacia wood,
and are to overlay
them with bronze.
7 Its poles are to
be brought through the rings,
so that the poles
are on the two flanks of the slaughter-site when they carry it.
8 Hollow, of planks,
are you to make it;
as he has granted
you to see it on the mountain, thus are they to make it.
9 You are to make
the courtyard of the Dwelling:
on the Negev border,
southward,
hangings for the
courtyard, of twisted byssus,
a hundred by the
cubit, the length on one border;
10 with its columns,
twenty, their sockets, twenty, of bronze,
the hooks of the
columns and their binders, of silver.
11 And thus on the
northern border, lengthwise,
hangings a hundred
(cubits) in length,
with its columns,
twenty, their sockets, twenty, of bronze,
the hooks of the
columns and their binders, of silver.
12 And (along) the
width of the courtyard on the sea border
hangings of fifty
cubits,
with its columns,
ten, their sockets, ten.
13 And (along) the
width of the courtyard on the eastern border, toward sunrise,
fifty cubits,
14 namely: fifteen
cubits of hangings for the shoulder-piece,
their columns, three,
their sockets, three,
15 and for the second
shoulder-piece, fifteen (cubits) of hangings,
their columns, three,
their sockets, three,
16 and for the gate
of the courtyard, a screen of twenty cubits,
of blue-violet, purple,
worm-scarlet and twisted byssus, of embroiderer's making,
their columns, four,
their sockets, four.
17 All the columns
of the courtyard all around are attached with silver, their hooks of
silver,
their sockets of
bronze,
18 -the length of
the courtyard, a hundred by the cubit, the width, fifty by fifty, the
height, five cubits of twisted byssus,
their sockets of
bronze.
19 All the implements
of the Dwelling for all its service (of construction),
and all its pins,
and all the pins of the courtyard,
-bronze.
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