Sinai & The Law

five crossbars for the planks of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the planks at the side of the tabernacle at the rear toward the west.

He made the middle crossbar so that it extended from one end of the planks to the other, halfway up.

He overlaid the planks with gold, made gold rings for them through which the crossbars could pass and overlaid the crossbars with gold.

He made the curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. He made them with k'ruvim worked in that had been crafted by a skilled artisan.

He made for it four posts of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold, and gold hooks; and cast for them four silver sockets.

For the entrance to the tent he made a screen of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen, in colors, the work of a weaver;

with its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their attached rings for hanging with gold, while their five sockets were of bronze.

B'tzal'el made the ark of acacia-wood three-and-three-quarters feet long, two-and-a-quarter feet wide and two-and-a-quarter feet high.

He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside and put a molding of gold for it around the top.

He cast four gold rings for it at its four feet, two rings on each side.

He made poles of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold.

He put the carrying-poles for the ark in the rings on the sides of the ark.

He made a cover for the ark of pure gold, three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet wide.

He made two k'ruvim of gold; he made them of hammered work for the two ends of the ark-cover -

one keruv for one end and one keruv for the other end; he made the k'ruvim of one piece with the ark-cover at its two ends.

The k'ruvim had their wings spread out above, so that their wings covered the ark; their faces were toward each other and toward the ark-cover.

He made the table of acacia-wood, three feet long, eighteen inches wide and eighteen inches high.

He overlaid it with pure gold and put a molding of gold around the top of it.

He made around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a molding of gold around the rim.

He cast for it four gold rings and attached the rings to the four corners, near its four legs.

The rings to hold the carrying-poles for the table were placed close to the rim.

He made the carrying-poles for the table of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold.

He made the utensils to be put on the table -its dishes, pans, bowls and pitchers - of pure gold.

He made the menorah of pure gold. He made it of hammered work; its base, shaft, cups, rings of outer leaves and flowers were a single unit.

There were six branches extending from its sides, three branches of the menorah on one side of it and three on the other.