Feb 18th

He made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

He made all the utensils of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the bowls, the flesh hooks and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway down.

He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

Moreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Then he made the court: for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits;

their twenty pillars, and their twenty bases, made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

For the east side toward the sunrise fifty cubits.

The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,

and so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.

All the hangings of the court all around were of fine twisted linen.

The bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver; and the overlaying of their tops were of silver, and all the pillars of the court were furnished with silver bands.

The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the weaver, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

Their four pillars and their four bases were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their bands were of silver.

All the pegs of the tabernacle and of the court all around were of bronze.

These are the things numbered for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Now Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman and a skillful designer and a weaver in blue and in purple and in scarlet material and fine linen.

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

The silver of those of the congregation who were numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

One hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; one hundred bases for one hundred talents, a talent for a base.

Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

The bronze of the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.

With it he made the bases to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar,

and the bases of the court all around and the bases of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.

Moreover, from the blue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely woven garments for ministering in the holy place as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

He made the ephod of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

Then they hammered out gold sheets and cut them into threads to be woven in with the blue and the purple and the scarlet material and the fine linen, the work of a skillful designer.

They made joining shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was joined at its two upper ends.

The skillfully woven band which was on it was like its workmanship, of the same material: of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

They made the onyx stones, set all around in filigree settings of gold; they were engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.

And he placed them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

He made the breastpiece, the work of a skillful designer, like the workmanship of the ephod: of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

It was square; they made the breastpiece, having been folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.

And they mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set in their filigree settings with gold filigree.

The stones were corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.

They made on the breastpiece chains of a twisted work of cords in pure gold.

They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.

Then they put the two gold cords in the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

They put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

They made two gold rings and placed them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.

Furthermore, they made two gold rings and placed them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it, close to the place where it joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Then he made the robe of the ephod of woven work entirely of blue;

and the opening of the robe was at the top in the center, as the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its opening, so that it would not be torn.

They made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material and twisted linen on the hem of the robe.

They also made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the hem of the robe,

alternating a bell and a pomegranate all around on the hem of the robe for the ministry, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

how he entered the house of God around the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?”

And Jesus was saying to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

And He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there with a withered hand.

And they were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

And He *said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!”

And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

And after looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

And the Pharisees went out and immediately began taking counsel together with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

And Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea,

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.

And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, “You are the Son of God!”

And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

And He *went up on the mountain and *summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.

And He appointed twelve (whom He also named apostles) to be with Him and to send them out to preach,

and to have authority to cast out the demons.

And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter),

and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”);

and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.