Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 78

EXODUS. 25-9 Me 2. Sanctuary, and I will dwell

g amongst them. _ Exa.c_tly according to the pattern I have shown ayou, yog IO II I2 16 18 2I shall form the dwelling, and form all its furniture,-—thus you shall make it. ‘You shall also make an ark of

acacia wood, of two cubits and a half long and two cubits and a half breadth, and a cubit and a half high, and you shall plate it with pure gold inside and out, and wreathe and make a border of gold around it. You shall also cast rings of pure gold, and place on the four corners of it. That is, two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. And you shall make staves of acacia. wood, and plate them with gold, and put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them. The staves shall remain in the rings ;——·they shall not be removed from them. You shall then put into the ark the evidences that I will give to you. You shall also make a cover of pure gold of two cubits in length and a cubit and a half in breadth. You shall besides make two covers of gold, shaped as dishes, in two divisions for the covers. Make the cases thus ;——one for each side, and a kerub for that division of the cover. You shall make it with kerubim upon the two divisions. Thus the kerubim will be stretching their wings as over- shadowing the covers with their wings with the wings of each towards his brother over the covers. The kerubim shall be face to face. ‘ Then you shall place the covers

upon the top of the ark, and you shall put into the ark the evidences that

22 I will give to you. Then I will instruct you there, and I will speak to you from off the covers, from between the 26 28 two kerubim, which are upon the ark, all that I command you for the children of Israel. ‘You shall also make a table of

acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit broad, and a cubit and a half high, and plate it with pure gold, and make a border of gold around it. Construct thus aborder like a coping around it, and make points of gold upon the surrounding border. Also make for it four staves of gold, and put the staves in the four sockets which are above the legs. These four sockets shall be above the border, for the staves to carry the table by.

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acacia wood, and plate them with gold, to carry the table. You shall also make dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and the cups in which the wine is, of pure gold, and place upon the table the shewbread before Me continually. 'You shall also make lamps of

pure gold; Make the lamp with spreading branches, with a stalk rising upwards like a blossom, with a bowl on it. Let there be six stalks going from the sides of it. Three stalks for lamps on one side of it, and three stalks for lamps on the other side of it. Three nobs with almonds on each stalk, a Bower and a bowl; the same for each of the three stalks that are provided for the lamps, and for the fourth lamp a nob with an almond, a nob and a bowl, and a nob under two of the stalks between them, and a nob under two of the stalks between them, and a nob under two of the stalks between them, for the six branches that come from the lamp. The nobs and the stalks between them shall be, all of them, each one, turned from pure gold. ‘ You shall also make seven re-

Hectors to throw the light in front of themselves. And dishes and snuffers of pure gold. You shall use a talent l of pure gold for it, and all its instru· ments. And be careful to make them according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain. ‘ You shall also make for the tent

ten curtains of twisted linen, and azure, purple, and blue, ornamented 33 34 35 37 39

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artistically with two kerubs. The 2 width of each curtain shall be eighteen cubits, and the height of it four cubits. The extent of each curtain shall be the same to all the curtains. Two curtains shall be 3 attached one to the other; and five curtains attached one to the other. You shall also make loops of azure 4 on the edge of each of the curtains in the selvage to join them; and make 5 the same in the selvage of the two curtains to join them. Make {ive loops to each curtain: thus make {ive loops on the selvage of the two curtains that arejoined by the opposite loops to the first one. And make tive 6 golden hooks to unite the curtains, 1 {5,475 sterlin, at {4 per oz. But th ge pun chasing powerp gold was at that period at

So you shall make the staves of l least forty or fifty times what it is now.·—F. F. 78