rings to house the bars. Cover the bars with gold. 30Then set up the dwelling according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
31Make a veil of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and of fine twisted linen. Work figures of winged heavenly creatures into its design. 32Hang it on four acacia-wood posts covered in gold. They should have gold hooks and stand on four silver bases. 33Hang the veil under the clasps, and put the chest containing the covenant there behind the veil. The veil will separate for you the holy from the holiest space. 34Place the gold cover on the chest containing the covenant in the holiest space. 35Place the table outside the veil, and set the lampstand opposite the table by the south wall of the dwelling. Place the table by the north wall.
36Make a screen for the tent's entrance of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and of fine twisted linen, decorated with needlework. 37Make five acacia-wood posts for the screen. Cover the posts with gold. Their hooks should be gold. Cast five copper bases for the posts.
Instructions for the altar
Exodus 27Make an acacia-wood altar. The altar should be square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide. It should be four and a half feet high. 2Make horns for the altar and attach them to it, one horn on each of its four corners. Cover it with copper. 3Make pails for removing its ashes and its shovels, bowls, meat forks, and trays. Make all its equipment out of copper. 4Make for the altar a grate made of copper mesh. Make four copper rings for each of the four corners of the mesh. 5Slide the mesh underneath the bottom edge of the altar and then extend the mesh halfway up to the middle of the altar. 6Make acacia-wood poles for the altar and cover them with copper. 7Put the poles through the rings so that the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8Make the altar with planks but hollow inside. All these should be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
Instructions for the dwelling's courtyard
9You should also set up the dwelling's courtyard. The courtyard's south side should have drapes of fine twisted linen stretching one hundred fifty feet on that side, 10with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. 11Likewise along the north side the drapes should stretch one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. 12The courtyard's width on the west side should consist of seventy-five feet of drapes with their ten posts and their ten bases. 13The courtyard's width on the front, facing east, should be seventy-five feet. 14There should be twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on one side with three posts and three bases for them. 15There should be twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on the other side with three posts and three bases for them. 16For the gate into the courtyard there will be a screen thirty feet long, made of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and of fine twisted linen, decorated with needlework. It will have four posts with their four bases. 17All the posts around the courtyard will have silver bands, silver hooks, and copper bases. 18The courtyard will be one hundred fifty feet long and seventy-five feet wide. Its walls' height will be seven and a half feet of fine twisted linen and its copper bases. 19All the dwelling's equipment for any use and all its tent pegs and all the courtyard's tent pegs will be made of copper.
Olive oil for the lampstand
20You must require the Israelites to bring you pure oil of crushed olives for the light so that the lamp may be set up to burn continually. 21In the meeting tent, outside the veil that hangs in front of the covenant document, Aaron and his sons will tend the lamp from evening to morning in the LORD's presence. It will be a permanent regulation for the Israelites in every generation.
Instructions for the priests' clothing
Exodus 28Summon to you your brother Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites to serve me as priests--Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, and Eleazar and Ithamar. 2Make holy clothing that will give honor and dignity to your brother Aaron. 3Tell all who are skilled, to whom I have given special abilities, to make clothing for Aaron for his dedication to serve me as a priest. 4These are the articles of clothing that they should make: a chest pendant, a vest, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. When they make this holy clothing for your brother Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests, 5they should use gold, blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine linen.
Priest's ornamental vest
6They should make the vest of gold, of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and of fine twisted linen with embroidered designs. 7The vest will have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges so that they may be joined together. 8The vest's belt should be attached to it and made in the same way of gold, of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen. 9Take two gemstones and engrave on them the names of Israel's sons, 10six names on one stone and the other six names on the other stone, in the order of their birth. 11Like a gem cutter who engraves official seals, you will engrave the two stones with the names of Israel's sons. Mount them in gold settings. 12Attach the two stones to the vest's shoulder pieces as stones of reminder for the Israelites. Aaron will carry into the LORD's presence their names on his two shoulders as a reminder. 13Then make gold settings 14along with two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords. Attach the corded chains to the gold settings.
Priest's chest pendant used for making decisions
15Make an embroidered chest pendant used for making decisions. Make it in the style of the vest, using gold, blue and purple and deep red yarns, and fine twisted linen. 16It will be square and doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide. 17Set in it four rows of gemstone settings. The first row will be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald stones. 18The second row will be a turquoise, a sapphire, and a moonstone. 19The third row will be a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. 20The fourth row will be a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Their settings will be made of decorative gold. 21There will be twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of Israel's sons. They will be engraved like official seals, each with its name for the twelve tribes.
22Make chains of pure gold twisted like cords for the chest pendant. 23Make two gold rings for the chest pendant and attach the two rings to the two edges of the chest pendant. 24Attach the two gold cords to the two rings at the edges of the chest pendant. 25Then fasten the two ends of the cords to the two settings, which you should attach to the vest's two front shoulder pieces. 26Make two gold rings and attach them to the two ends of the chest pendant on its inside edge facing the vest. 27Make two gold rings and fasten them on the front of the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the vest, at its seam just above the vest's belt. 28The chest pendant should be held in place by a blue cord binding its rings to the vest's rings so that the chest pendant rests on the vest's belt and won't come loose from the vest. 29In this way, Aaron will carry the names of Israel's sons on the chest pendant for making decisions over his heart when he goes into the sanctuary as a reminder before the LORD at all times. 30Put into the chest pendant used for making decisions the Urim and the Thummim, so they will be over Aaron's heart when he goes into the LORD's presence. In this way, Aaron will carry the means to make decisions for the Israelites over his heart when in the LORD's presence at all times.
Instructions for other priestly clothing
31You will make the robe for the vest all of blue. 32The opening for the head should be in the middle of it. The opening should be reinforced by a woven binding, a strong border so that it doesn't tear. 33On its lower hem add pomegranates made of blue, purple, and deep red yarns all around the lower hem, with gold bells between the pomegranates all around it. 34A gold bell and a pomegranate should alternate all around the lower hem of the robe. 35Aaron will wear the robe when he ministers as a priest. Its sound will