and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle.

This [is] the public service of the family of Gershon, to minister and to bear.

And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to.

This is the service of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

And he gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their ministrations.

And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gershon shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.

And of the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

Obadiah, son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

And [he was stationed] there in the king's gate eastward; these [are] the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.

And Phinehas son of Eleazar was head over them before the Lord, and these [were] with him.

All the chosen porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve, these [were] in their courts, [this was] their distribution: these David and Samuel the seer established in their charge.

The gates were toward the four winds, east, west, north, and south.

For four strong [men] have the charge of the gates; and the Levites were over the chambers, and they keep watch over the treasures of the house of God.

And [some] of them [were appointed] over the vessels of service, that they should carry them in by number, and carry them out by number.

And some of the priests were makers of the ointment, and [appointed to prepare] the spices.

And Banaiah the Kohathite[was set] over the showbread, from among his brethren, to prepare it every Sabbath.

And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

These [were] the sons of Laadan, the sons of the Gershonite: to Laadan [belonged] the heads of the families; [the son] of Laadan the Gershonite [was] Jehieli.

The sons of Jehieli [were] Zetham and Joel; brethren [who were] over the treasures of the house of the Lord.

And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites, and the courses of each one according to his ministry, to the priests and to the Levites, for the whole burnt offering, and for the peace offering, and to praise, and to give thanks, and to minister in the gates, [and] in the courts of the house of the Lord.

And Hezekiah told them yet farther to prepare chambers for the house of the Lord; and they prepared [them],

And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah and his sons, were appointed by Cononiah and Shimei his brother, as Hezekiah the king, and Azariah who was over the house of the Lord commanded.

by the hand of Eden, Benjamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, by the hand of the priests faithfully, to give to their brethren according to the courses, to the great as well as the small;

This [is] the distribution of the priests according to the houses of their families; and the Levites in their daily courses from twenty years old and upward [were] in [their] order,

And I said to them, You [are] holy to the Lord; and the vessels [are] holy; and the silver and the gold are freewill offerings to the Lord God of our fathers.

So the priests and the Levites took the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

It is like a man going away on a journey, having left his house and having given authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace having been given to us, [let us use them]: whether prophecy, [let us prophecy] according to the proportion of faith;

whether exhorting, in the exhortation; whether sharing, with simplicity; whether leading, with diligence; whether showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

And say to Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."

This charge I commit to you, [my] son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that you may war by them the good warfare,

And you shall make for Me according to all things which I show you in the mountain; even the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its furniture: so shall you make it.

And you shall make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains of fine spun linen, and blue and purple, and scarlet spun [with] cherubim; you shall make them with [the] work of a weaver.

And the five curtains shall be joined one to another, and [the other] five curtains shall be closely connected the one with the other.

Fifty loops shall you make for one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make on the part of the curtain answering to the coupling of the second, opposite [each other], corresponding to each other at each point.

And you shall make for a covering of the tabernacle skins with the hair on, you shall make them eleven skins.

And you shall join the five skins together, and the six skins together; and you shall double the sixth skin in front of the tabernacle.

And you shall make fifty bronze rings; and you shall join the rings by the loops, and you shall join the skins, and they shall be one.

A cubit on this side, and a cubit on that side of that which remains of the skins, of the length of the skins of the tabernacle: it shall be folding over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and that side, that it may cover it.

And every wise one among those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work;

They made it of the same material according to the making of it, of gold, blue, purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, as the Lord commanded Moses.

and he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, [as] stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.

They made the oracle square [and] double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, double.

and the second row a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;

And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.

And you shall make a screen for the door of the tabernacle of blue, purple, and spun scarlet and fine linen spun, the work of the embroiderer.

And you shall make for the veil five posts, and you shall overlay them with gold; and their hooks shall be gold; and you shall cast for them five bronze sockets.

and their sashes of fine linen, blue, purple, and scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold; [ 2:39] and he wrote upon it graven letters [as] of a seal, Holiness to the Lord. [ 2:40] And they put it on the border of blue, so that it should be on the turban above, as the Lord commanded Moses.

[This translation omits this verse.]