Exodus
Chapter 37
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1Bezalel made the chest of acacia wood, two and a half Lengths of about a forearm each. long, a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. and a half wide, and a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. and a half high.
2He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and outside, and he made a gold molding for it all around.
3He cast for it four gold rings, on its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.
4He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
5He brought the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest, to carry the chest.
6He made a cover of pure gold, two and a half Lengths of about a forearm each. long and a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. and a half wide.
7He made two Winged beings that serve near God. of gold. He made them of hammered work, from the two ends of the cover.
8One A winged being that serves near God. at this end, and one A winged being that serves near God. at that end. From the cover he made the Winged beings that serve near God., from its two end.
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The written form is קצותו, “its end,” singular. The Masoretic reading is קצותיו, “its ends.” The written singular is printed. The number in the phrase is two.
9The Winged beings that serve near God. had their wings spread upward, screening the cover with their wings, their faces each toward the other. The faces of the Winged beings that serve near God. were toward the cover.
10He made the table of acacia wood, two Lengths of about a forearm each. long, a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. wide, and a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. and a half high.
11He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding for it all around.
12He made a rim for it a A short length, about the width of a palm. all around, and he made a gold molding for its rim all around.
13He cast for it four gold rings and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.
14The rings were close to the rim, holders for the poles, to carry the table.
15He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
16He made the utensils that are on the table, its plates, its ladles, its jars, and its bowls, with which it is poured, of pure gold.
17He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
18Six branches came out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.
19Three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a knob and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on one branch, a knob and a flower. So for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.
20On the lampstand, four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers.
21A knob under two of the branches, out of it, a knob under two of the branches, out of it, and a knob under two of the branches, out of it, for the six branches that come out of it.
22Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it. All of it was one hammered work of pure gold.
23He made its seven lamps, its tongs, and its fire-pans, of pure gold.
24He made it, and all its utensils, of a A very large weight of gold or silver. of pure gold.
25He made the incense altar of acacia wood, a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. long and a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. wide, square, and two Lengths of about a forearm each. high. Its horns were of one piece with it.
26He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its walls all around, and its horns. He made a gold molding for it all around.
27He made two gold rings for it, under its molding, on its two sides, on its two ends, as holders for poles, to carry it with them.
28He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
29He made the holy Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil and the pure spiced incense, the work of a perfumer.