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1 The workers made clothes from the blue, purple and bright red yarn. The clothes were worn by those who served in the holy tent. The workers also made sacred clothes for Aaron. They made them just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And of the blue and purple and scarlet they made clothes of service to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses.
2 The workers made the linen apron out of fine gold wire, and out of blue, purple and bright red yarn, and out of finely twisted linen.
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And he made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet, and finetwined linen.
3 They hammered out thin sheets of gold. They cut it into fine wire. They sewed it into the blue, purple and bright red yarn and fine linen. A skilled worker made it.
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And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires to work it in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen, with skillful work.
4 The workers made shoulder straps for the apron. The straps were joined to two of its corners.
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They made shoulder pieces for it to couple it together; by the two edges was it coupled together.
5 Its skillfully made waistband was made like it. The waistband was part of the apron itself. It was made out of fine gold wire, and out of blue, purple and bright red yarn, and out of finely twisted linen. The workers made it just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And the embroidered girdle of his ephod that was upon it was of the same, according to the work thereof: of gold, blue and purple and scarlet, and finetwined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses.
6 They put the onyx stones in fancy gold settings. They carved the names of the sons of Israel on them. They did it the way a person carves a seal.
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And they wrought onyx stones enclosed in clasps of gold, graven as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
7 Then they connected them to the shoulder straps of the linen apron. The stones stood for the sons of Israel and were a reminder for them. The workers did those things just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
8 Skilled workers made the chest cloth. They made it like the linen apron. They used fine gold wire, and blue, purple and bright red yarn, and finely twisted linen.
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And he made the breastplate of skillful work, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue and purple and scarlet, and finetwined linen.
9 The chest cloth was nine inches square. It was folded in half.
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It was foursquare. They made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
10 They put four rows of valuable jewels on it. A ruby, a topaz and a beryl were in the first row.
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And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz and a carbuncle; this was the first row;
11 A turquoise, a sapphire and an emerald were in the second row.
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and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
12 A jacinth, an agate and an amethyst were in the third row.
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and the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst;
13 And a chrysolite, an onyx and a jasper were in the fourth row. The workers put them in fancy gold settings.
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and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in clasps of gold in their enclosings.
14 They used a total of 12 stones. There was one stone for each of the names of the sons of Israel. Each stone was carved like a seal with the name of one of the 12 tribes.
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And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel -- twelve, according to their names like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name according to the twelve tribes.
15 The workers made braided chains out of pure gold for the chest cloth. They made them like ropes.
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And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathed work of pure gold.
16 They made two fancy gold settings and two gold rings. They connected them to two corners of the chest cloth.
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And they made two clasps of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
17 They joined the two gold chains to the rings at the corners of the chest cloth.
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And they put the two wreathed chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate;
18 They joined the other ends of the chains to the two settings. They joined them to the shoulder straps on the front of the linen apron.
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and the two ends of the two wreathed chains they fastened in the two clasps, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
19 The workers made two gold rings. They connected them to the other two corners of the chest cloth. They put them on the inside edge next to the apron.
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And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it which was on the side of the ephod inward;
20 They made two more gold rings. They connected them to the bottom of the shoulder straps on the front of the apron. They put them close to the seam right above the waistband of the apron.
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and they made two other golden rings and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it over against the other coupling thereof, above the embroidered girdle of the ephod.
21 They tied the rings of the chest cloth to the rings of the apron with blue cord. That connected it to the waistband. Then the chest cloth would not swing out from the linen apron. The workers did those things just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And they bound the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the embroidered girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 The workers made the outer robe of the linen apron completely from blue cloth. The cloth was made by a skillful person.
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And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
23 The workers made an opening like a collar in the center of the robe. They made an edge around the opening. Then it couldn't tear.
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And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of a jacket of mail, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
24 They made pomegranates out of blue, purple and bright red yarn and finely twisted linen. They sewed them around the hem of the robe.
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And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, and twined linen.
25 They made bells out of pure gold. They sewed them around the hem between the pomegranates.
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And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates:
26 They sewed a bell between every two pomegranates all around the hem of the robe. Aaron had to wear the robe when he served as priest. That's what the LORD commanded Moses.
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a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.
27 The workers made inner robes out of fine linen for Aaron and his sons. The linen cloth was made by a skillful person.
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And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
28 The workers also made the turban out of fine linen. And they made the headbands and the underwear out of finely twisted linen.
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and a miter of fine linen and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of finetwined linen,
29 The belt was made out of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and bright red yarn. A person who sewed skillfully made it. The workers did those things just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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and a girdle of finetwined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet needlework, as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 They made the plate out of pure gold. It was a sacred crown. They carved words on it as if it were a seal. They carved the words set apart for the Lord.
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And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: Holiness to the LORD.
31 Then they tied the plate to the turban with a blue cord. They did those things just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And they tied unto it a lace of blue to fasten it on high upon the miter, as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 So all of the work on the holy tent, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The people of Israel did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished, and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so did they.
33 Then they brought the holy tent to Moses along with everything that belonged to it. Here are the things they brought. hooks frames crossbars posts bases
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And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses: the tent and all his furniture, his clasps, his boards, his bars and his pillars and his sockets;
34 the covering of ram skins that were dyed red the covering of the hides of sea cows the curtain that screens the ark
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and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the veil of the covering;
35 the ark where the tablets of the covenant are kept the poles and cover for the ark
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the ark of the Testimony and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat;
36 the table for the holy bread with all of its articles the holy bread
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the table and all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;
37 the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and everything that is used with it the olive oil that gives light
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the pure candlestick with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light;
38 the gold altar for burning incense the anointing oil the sweet-smelling incense the curtain for the entrance to the tent
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and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door;
39 the bronze altar for burnt offerings with its bronze grate its poles and all of its tools the large bowl with its stand
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the brazen altar and his grate of brass, his staves and all his vessels, the laver and his foot;
40 the curtains of the courtyard with their posts and bases the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard the ropes and tent stakes for the courtyard
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the hangings of the court, his pillars and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords and his pegs, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation;
41 the sacred clothes for the priest Aaron the clothes for his sons when they serve as priests
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the clothes of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons' garments to minister in the priest's office.
42 The people of Israel had done all of the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
43 Moses looked over the work carefully. He saw that the workers had done it just as the LORD had commanded. So Moses gave them his blessing.
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And Moses looked upon all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded; even so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.
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