Exod 36
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And Beseleel wrought, and Eliab and every one wise in understanding, to whom was given
wisdom and knowledge, to understand to do all the works according to the holy offices,
according to all things which the Lord appointed.
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And Moses called Beseleel and Eliab, and all that had wisdom, to whom God gave knowledge
in their heart, and all who were freely willing to come forward to the works, to perform
them.
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And they received from Moses all the offerings, which the children of Israel brought
for all the works of the sanctuary to do them; and they continued to receive the gifts
brought, from those who brought them in the morning.
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And there came all the wise men who wrought the works of the sanctuary, each according
to his own work, which they wrought.
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And Another reading is eipan, but there is occasionally confusion of number in LXX; the
singular being several times used for the plural one said to Moses, The people bring an abundance too great in proportion
to all the
works which the Lord has appointed them to do.
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And Moses commanded, and proclaimed in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman
any longer labour for the offerings of the sanctuary; and the people were restrained
from bringing any more.
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And they had Gr. works materials sufficient for making the furniture, and they left some besides.
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And every wise one among those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which
belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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And Or, they he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen
twined.
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And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue
and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven
work;
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shoulder-pieces joined from both sides, a work woven by mutual twisting of the parts
into Gr. itself one another.
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They made it of the same material according to the making of it, of gold, and blue,
and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, as the Lord commanded Moses;
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and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and
cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;
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and he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial of the
children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.
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And they made the oracle, a work woven with embroidery, according to the work of the
ephod, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.
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They made the oracle square and double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a
span, —double.
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And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of
stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;
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and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;
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and the third row, a ligure and agate and amethyst;
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and the fourth row a chrysolite and beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and
fastened with gold.
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And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven
according to their names Gr. for seals like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.
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And they made on the oracle turned wreaths, wreathen work, of pure gold,
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and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.
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And they put the two golden rings on both the upper corners of the oracle;
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and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the
two wreaths into the two couplings.
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And they put them on the two circlets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod
opposite each other in front.
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And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two projections on the top of
the oracle, and on the top of the hinder part of the ephod within.
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And they made two golden rings, and put them on both the shoulders of the ephod under
it, in front by the coupling above the connexion of the ephod.
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And he fastened the oracle by the rings that were on it to the rings of the ephod,
which were fastened with a string of blue, joined together with the woven work of
the ephod; that the oracle should not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded
Moses.
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And they made the tunic under the ephod, woven work, all of blue.
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And the opening of the tunic in the midst woven closely together, the opening having
a fringe round about, that it might not be rent.
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And they made on the border of the tunic below pomegranates as of a flowering pomegranate
tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.
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And they made golden bells, and put the bells on the border of the tunic round about
between the pomegranates:
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a golden bell and a pomegranate on the border of the tunic round about, for the ministration,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
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And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,
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and the tires of fine linen, and the mitre of fine linen, and the drawers of fine
linen twined;
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and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet spun, the work
of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.
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And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold;
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and he wrote upon it graven letters as of a seal, Holiness to the Lord.
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And they put it on the border of blue, so that it should be on the mitre above, as
the Lord commanded Moses.