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And Beseleel made the ark, ²and overlaid it with pure gold within and without; ³and he cast for it four golden rings, two on the one side, and two on the other, ⁴wide enough for the staves, so that men should bear ³ the ark with them. ⁵And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure gold, ⁶and the two cherubs of gold; ⁷one cherub on the one end of the propitiatory, and another cherub on the other end of the propitiatory, ⁸overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings. ⁹And he made the ⁴ set table of pure gold, and ¹⁰cast for it four rings: two on the one side and two on the other side, broad, so that men should lift it with the staves in them. ^{5 11}And he made the staves of the ark and of the table, and gilded them with gold. ¹²And he made the furniture of the table, both the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the bowls with which he ⁶ should offer drink-offerings, of gold. ¹³And he made the candlestick which gives light, of gold; ¹⁴the stem solid, and the branches from both its sides; ¹⁵and blossoms proceeding from its branches, three on this side, and three on the other, made equal to each other. ¹⁶And as to their lamps, which are on the ends, ⁷ knops proceeded from them; and sockets proceeding from them that the lamps might be upon them; and the seventh socket, on the top of the candlestick on the summit above entirely of solid gold. ¹⁷And on the ⁸candlestick seven golden lamps and its snuffers gold, and its ⁹ funnels gold. ¹⁸ He overlaid the posts with silver, and cast for ¹⁰ each post golden rings and gilded the bars with gold ; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold. ¹⁹He made also the rings of the tabernacle of gold; and the rings of

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it, in front by the coupling above the connection of the ephod. ²⁹And he fastened 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. ³⁰And they made the tunic under the ephod; woven work, all of blue. ³¹And the opening of the tunic in the midst woven closely together, the opening having a fringe round about, that it might not be rent. ³²And 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. ³³And they made golden bells, and put the bells on the border of the tunic round about between the pomegranates: ³⁴a golden bell and a pomegranate on the border of the tunic round about, for the ministration as the Lord commanded Moses. ³⁵And they made vestments of fine linen a woven work, for Aaron and his sons, ³⁶and the tires of fine linen, and the mitre of fine linen, and the drawers of fine linen twined; ³⁷and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, an scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer according as the Lord commanded Moses. ³⁸And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold; ³⁹and he wrote upon it graven letters as of a seal, Holiness to the Lord. ⁴⁰And they put it on the border of blue, so that it should be on the mitre above, as the Lord commanded Moses.