Daily
Feast
(27th
Day)
Exodus 26:01 - 28:28
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
Exodus
26
1
“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen,
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the
work of a skillful workman. 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight
cubits,† and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have
one measure. 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the
other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. 4 You shall make loops of
blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you
shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second
coupling. 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make
fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The
loops shall be opposite one another. 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and
couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a
unit.
7
“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You
shall make eleven curtains. 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty
cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall
have one measure. 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the
forefront of the tent. 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one
curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain which is outermost in the second coupling. 11 You shall make fifty
clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent
together, that it may be one. 12 The overhanging part that remains of the
curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of
the tabernacle. 13 The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side,
of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang
over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14
You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering
of sea cow hides above.
15
“You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the
width of each board. 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one
another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 You shall
make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward. 19 You
shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under
one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two
tenons. 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty
boards, 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and
two sockets under another board. 22 For the far side of the tabernacle westward
you shall make six boards. 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the
tabernacle in the far side. 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same
way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both;
they shall be for the two corners. 25 There shall be eight boards, and their
sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
26
“You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle, 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the
far side westward. 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass
through from end to end. 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make
their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with
gold. 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown
to you on the mountain.
31
“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman. 32 You shall hang it
on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on
four sockets of silver. 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and
shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall
separate the holy place from the most holy for you. 34 You shall put the mercy
seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place. 35 You shall set the table
outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the
tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
36
“You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. 37 You shall make
for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks
shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
Exodus
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†26:2
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s
arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
27
1
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits† long, and five cubits
wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.‡ 2 You shall
make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
You shall overlay it with bronze. 3 You shall make its pots to take away its
ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You
shall make all its vessels of bronze. 4 You shall make a grating for it of
network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four
corners. 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the
net may reach halfway up the altar. 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles
of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7 Its poles shall be put into the
rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. 8
You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you
on the mountain.
9
“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there
shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long
for one side. 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze.
The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 Likewise for
the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long,
and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12 For the width of the court on the
west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten. 13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty
cubits. 14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15 For the other side shall be
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16
For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their
pillars four, and their sockets four. 17 All the pillars of the court around
shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of
bronze. 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width
fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their
sockets of bronze. 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service,
and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
20
“You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive
oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 21 In the Tent
of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons
shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a
statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of
Israel.
†27:1
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s
arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
‡27:1
The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.
28
1
“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the
children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron,
with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 2 You shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3 You shall speak to
all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that
they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the
priest’s office. 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate,
an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the
priest’s office. 5 They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and
the scarlet, and the fine linen.
6
“They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen, the work of the skillful workman. 7 It shall have two shoulder straps
joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together. 8 The skillfully
woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of
gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 You shall take two onyx
stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel. 10 Six of
their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other
stone, in the order of their birth. 11 With the work of an engraver in stone,
like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to
the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in
settings of gold. 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the
ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear
their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial. 13 You shall
make settings of gold, 14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like
cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
15
“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman;
like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it. 16 It shall be square and
folded double; a span† shall be its length, and a span its width. 17 You shall
set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and
beryl shall be the first row; 18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire,‡
and an emerald; 19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 20
and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed
in gold in their settings. 21 The stones shall be according to the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a
signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. 22
You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure
gold. 23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the
two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24 You shall put the two braided
chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. 25 The other
two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put
them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart. 26 You shall make two
rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on
its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward. 27 You shall make two
rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod
underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven
band of the ephod. 28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band
of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
†28:16
A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little
finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8
cm.)
‡28:18
or, lapis lazuli
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