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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about how the Israelites when they felt that Moses was taking too long,

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they turned to idolatry and how Moses interceded for them so God would have mercy on them.

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Today we're going to hear about their repentance and how they begin to gather the material

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required for the building of the tabernacle.

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Alright, let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Exodus chapters 34, 35 and 36.

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Chapter 34

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And the LORD said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write

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on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.

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So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself

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to me there on the top of the mountain.

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And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain.

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Let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.

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So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones.

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Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him,

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and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

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Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of

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the LORD.

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And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious,

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long-suffering and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving

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iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity

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of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation.

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So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshipped.

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Then he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray, go

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among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin,

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and take us as your inheritance.

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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant, before all your people I will do marvels, such as

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have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation, and all the people among whom

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you are shall see the work of the LORD.

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For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.

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Observe what I command you this day.

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Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite

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and the Perizzite and the Heavite and the Jebusite.

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Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you

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are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

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But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden

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images.

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For you shall worship no other God, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a Jealous

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God.

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Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with

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their gods, and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat of

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his sacrifice, and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the

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harlot with their gods, and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

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You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

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The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep.

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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, in the appointed time

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of the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

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All that open the womb are mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether

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ox or sheep.

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But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, and if you will not redeem him,

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then you shall break his neck.

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All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and none shall appear before me empty-handed.

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Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest.

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In plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.

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Then you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and

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the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

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Three times in a year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel.

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For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders.

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Neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God

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three times in a year.

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You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the

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feast of the Passover be left until morning.

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The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your

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God.

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You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words

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I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

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So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights.

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He neither ate bread nor drank water.

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And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

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Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai and the two tablets of the testimony

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were in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that

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the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

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So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone,

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and they were afraid to come near him.

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Then Moses called to them and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to

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him and Moses talked with them.

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Afterward all the children of Israel came near and he gave them as commandments all

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that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

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And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

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But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil

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off until he came out.

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And he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.

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And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face

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shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with

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him.

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Chapter 35

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Then Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together and said to

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them, These are the words which the Lord has commanded you to do.

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Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath

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of rest to the Lord.

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Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

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You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

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And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel saying, This is the

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thing which the Lord commanded, saying, Take from among you an offering to the Lord.

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Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord, gold, silver

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and bronze, blue, purple and scarlet thread, fine linen and goat's hair, ram skins dyed

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red, badger skins and acacia wood, oil for the light and spices for the anointing oil

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and for the sweet incense, onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.

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All who are gifted artisans among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded,

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the tabernacle, its tents, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars

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and its sockets, the ark and its poles, with the mercy seed and the veil of the covering,

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the table and its poles, all its utensils and the showbread.

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Also the lampstand for the light, its utensils, its lamps and the oil for the light, the incense

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altar, its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense and the screen for the door at the

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entrance of the tabernacle, the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles,

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all its utensils and the laver and its base, the hangings of the court, its pillars, their

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sockets and the screen for the gate of the court, the pegs of the tabernacle, the pegs

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of the court and their cords, the garments of ministry for ministering in the holy place,

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the holy garments for air in the priest and the garments of his sons to minister as priests.

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And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

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When everyone came whose heart was stirred and everyone whose spirit was willing, and

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they brought the Lord's offering for the work of the tabernacle of meeting, for all

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its service and for the holy garments.

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They came both men and women, as many as had a willing heart and brought earrings and nose

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rings, rings and necklaces, all jewelry of gold, that is every man who made an offering

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of gold to the Lord.

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And every man with whom was found blue, purple and scarlet thread, fine linen and goats'

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hair, red skins of rams and badger skins, brought them.

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Everyone who offered an offering of silver or bronze brought the Lord's offering, and

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everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

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All the women who were gifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they

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had spun of blue, purple and scarlet and fine linen, and all the women whose hearts stirred

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with wisdom spun yarn of goats' hair.

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The rulers brought onyx stones and the stones to be set in the afad and in the breastplate,

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and spices and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

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The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the Lord.

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All the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring material for all kinds of work which

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the Lord by the hand of Moses had commanded to be done.

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And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel,

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the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled them with the

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Spirit of God in wisdom and understanding, in knowledge and all manner of workmanship,

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to design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting jewels for

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setting, in carving wood and to work in all manner of artistic workmanship.

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And he has put in his heart the ability to teach, in him and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamak,

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of the tribe of Dan.

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He has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and

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the tapestry maker, in blue, purple and scarlet thread, and fine linen and of the weaver,

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those who do every work and those who design artistic works.

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Chapter 36 And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted

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artisan, in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner

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of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the Lord has

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commanded.

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Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan, in whose heart the Lord

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has put wisdom, everyone whose heart was stirred, to come and do the work.

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And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for

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the work of the service of making the sanctuary.

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So they continued bringing to him free will offerings every morning.

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Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from

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the work he was doing.

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Then they spoke to Moses saying, the people bring much more than enough for the service

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of the work which the Lord commanded us to do.

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So Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying,

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let neither man nor woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.

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And the people were restrained from bringing, for the material they had was sufficient for

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all the work to be done, indeed too much.

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Then all the gifted artisans among them, who worked on the tabernacle, made ten curtains

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woven of fine linen and of blue-purple and scarlet thread.

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With artistic designs of Cherubim they made them.

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The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four

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cubits.

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The curtains were all the same size.

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And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to

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one another.

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He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain, on the selvage of one set, likewise

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he did on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set.

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Fifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain on

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the end of the second set.

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The loops held one curtain to another.

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And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps,

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that it might be one tabernacle.

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He made curtains of gold's hair for the tent over the tabernacle.

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He made eleven curtains.

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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits.

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The eleven curtains were the same size.

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He coupled five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.

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And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outer most in one set, and

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fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain of the second set.

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He also made fifty bronze clasps to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

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Then he made a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of badger skins

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above that.

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For the tabernacle he made boards of acacia wood, standing upright.

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The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board a cubit and a half.

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Each board had two tenons for binding one to another.

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Thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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And he made boards for the tabernacle twenty boards for the south side.

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Forty sockets of silver he made to go under the twenty boards.

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Two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.

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And for the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards.

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And there forty sockets of silver.

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Two sockets under each of the boards.

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For the west side of the tabernacle he made six boards.

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He also made two boards for the two back corners of the tabernacle.

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And they were coupled at the bottom, and coupled together at the top by one ring.

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Thus he made both of them for the two corners.

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So there were eight boards and their sockets.

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Sixteen sockets of silver.

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Two sockets under each of the boards.

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And he made bars of acacia wood.

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Five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle.

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Five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle.

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And five bars for the boards of the tabernacle on the far side westward.

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And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other.

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He overlaid the boards with gold, made the rings of gold to be holders for the bars,

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and overlaid the bars with gold.

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And he made a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen.

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It was worked with an artistic design of sherabim.

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He made for it four pillars of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

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With their hooks of gold and he cast four sockets of silver for them.

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He also made a screen for the tabernacle door of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine

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woven linen, made by a weaver, and its five pillars with their hooks.

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And he overlaid their capitals and the rings with gold.

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But their five sockets were bronze.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.