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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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