Good News Translation GNT
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1 With the blue, purple, and red wool they made the magnificent garments which the priests were to wear when they served in the Holy Place. They made the priestly garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
2 They made the ephod of fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; and gold thread.
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He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
3 They hammered out sheets of gold and cut them into thin strips to be worked into the fine linen and into the blue, purple, and red wool.
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They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
4 They made two shoulder straps for the ephod and attached them to its sides, so that it could be fastened.
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They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
5 The finely woven belt, made of the same materials, was attached to the ephod so as to form one piece with it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
6 They prepared the carnelians and mounted them in gold settings; they were skillfully engraved with the names of the twelve sons of Jacob.
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They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
7 They put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod to represent the twelve tribes of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8 They made the breastpiece of the same materials as the ephod and with similar embroidery.
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He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was square and folded double, 9 inches long and 9 inches wide.
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It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
10 They mounted four rows of precious stones on it: in the first row they mounted a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet;
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They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
11 in the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
12 in the third row, a turquoise, an agate, and an amethyst;
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and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
13 and in the fourth row, a beryl, a carnelian, and a jasper. These were mounted in gold settings.
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and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
14 Each of the twelve stones had engraved on it the name of one of the sons of Jacob, in order to represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
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The stones were 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, for the twelve tribes.
15 For the breastpiece they made chains of pure gold, twisted like cords.
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They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
16 They made two gold settings and two gold rings and attached the two rings to the upper corners of the breastpiece.
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They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
17 They fastened the two gold cords to the two rings
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They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
18 and fastened the other two ends of the cords to the two settings and in this way attached them in front to the shoulder straps of the ephod.
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The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the front of it.
19 They made two rings of gold and attached them to the lower corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.
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They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower part of the front of the two shoulder straps of the ephod, near the seam and above the finely woven belt.
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They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the front of it, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
21 Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, they tied the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that the breastpiece rested above the belt and did not come loose.
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They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
22 The robe that goes under the ephod was made entirely of blue wool.
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He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
23 The hole for the head was reinforced with a woven binding to keep it from tearing.
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The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
24 All around its lower hem they put pomegranates of fine linen and of blue, purple, and red wool, alternating with bells of pure gold, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
27 They made the shirts for Aaron and his sons,
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They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
28 and the turban, the caps, the linen shorts,
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and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
29 and the sash of fine linen and of blue, purple, and red wool, decorated with embroidery, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
30 They made the ornament, the sacred sign of dedication, out of pure gold, and they engraved on it "Dedicated to the Lord."
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They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO YAHWEH."
31 They tied it to the front of the turban with a blue cord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
32 All the work on the Tent of the Lord's presence was finally completed. The Israelites made everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
33 They brought to Moses the Tent and all its equipment, its hooks, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases;
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They brought the tent to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, its pillars, its sockets,
34 the covering of rams' skin dyed red; the covering of fine leather; the curtain;
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the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
35 the Covenant Box containing the stone tablets, its poles, and its lid;
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the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,
36 the table and all its equipment, and the bread offered to God;
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the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
37 the lampstand of pure gold, its lamps, all its equipment, and the oil for the lamps;
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the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
38 the gold altar; the anointing oil; the sweet-smelling incense; the curtain for the entrance of the Tent;
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the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,
39 the bronze altar with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its equipment; the washbasin and its base;
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the brazen altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
40 the curtains for the enclosure and its posts and bases; the curtain for the entrance of the enclosure and its ropes; the Tent pegs; all the equipment to be used in the Tent;
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the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the tent of meeting,
41 and the magnificent garments the priests were to wear in the Holy Place - the sacred clothes for Aaron the priest and for his sons.
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the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
42 The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
43 Moses examined everything and saw that they had made it all just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them.
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Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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