So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: "Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

"Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.

These [are the same] Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies."

Then the prophet Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews who [were] in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, [who was] over them.

So Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God which [is] in Jerusalem; and the prophets of God [were] with them, helping them.

Two [are] better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor.

Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm [alone?]

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus;

but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God.

"And He has put in his heart the ability to teach, [in] him and Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

"And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded."

"So you shall speak to all [who are] gifted artisans, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments, to consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as priest.

' All [who are] gifted artisans among you shall come and make all that the LORD has commanded:

All the women [who were] gifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun, of blue , purple, [and] scarlet, and fine linen.

And all the women whose heart stirred with wisdom spun yarn of goats' [hair.]

"He has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in blue, purple, and scarlet [thread,] and fine linen, and of the weaver -- those who do every work and those who design artistic works.

"And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded."

Then all the gifted artisans among them who worked on the tabernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of blue, purple, and scarlet [thread; with] artistic designs of cherubim they made them.

"behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.

For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth [come] knowledge and understanding;

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to those who walk uprightly;

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Then Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits [was] its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

And he cast for it four rings of gold [to be set] in its four corners: two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side of it.

And he put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

He made two cherubim of beaten gold; he made them of one piece at the two ends of the mercy seat:

The cherubim spread out [their] wings above, [and] covered the mercy seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold all around it.

And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that [were] at its four legs.

And he made the poles of acacia wood to bear the table, and overlaid them with gold.

He also made the lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work he made the lampstand. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its [ornamental] knobs, and its flowers were of the same piece.

There were three bowls made like almond [blossoms] on one branch, with an [ornamental] knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond [blossoms] on the other branch, with an [ornamental] knob and a flower -- and so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

[There was] a knob under the [first] two branches of the same, a knob under the [second] two branches of the same, and a knob under the [third] two branches of the same, according to the six branches extending from it.

And he made its seven lamps, its wick-trimmers, and its trays of pure gold.

He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length [was] a cubit and its width a cubit -- [it was] square -- and two cubits [was] its height. Its horns were [of one piece] with it.

He made two rings of gold for it under its molding, by its two corners on both sides, as holders for the poles with which to bear it.

He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the perfumer.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

"from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.

"When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.

"On the table of showbread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring; and the showbread shall be on it.

"And they shall take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.

"Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.

"Also they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.

"And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry [them;] but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These [are] the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

"but do this in regard to them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his task.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

"From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who enter to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.

"They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting [with] its covering, the covering of badger skins that [is] on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

"Aaron and his sons shall assign all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, all their tasks and all their service. And you shall appoint to them all their tasks as their duty.

" [As for] the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers' house.

"And this [is] what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

"This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."

from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting;

These [were] the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting --

These [are] the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting --

These [are] the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of meeting --

According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, each according to his service and according to his task; thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

The vestibule in front of the sanctuary of the house [was] twenty cubits long across the width of the house, [and] the width of [the vestibule extended] ten cubits from the front of the house.

Against the wall of the temple he built chambers all around, [against] the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it.

And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel [or] any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [the] [Lord] had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

This is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length [was] sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits.

Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.

[It was] like the appearance of the vision which I saw -- like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions [were] like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.

The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

And He said to me, "Son of man, [this is] the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

"Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

"And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write [it] down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.

" These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the [cubit is] one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This [is] the height of the altar:

"The altar hearth [is] four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth.

"the ledge, fourteen [cubits] long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east."

'You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.

'Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

'When you have finished cleansing [it,] you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

'Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat [for] a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.

'When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,' says the Lord GOD."