Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. Take from among you a contribution to HaShem. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair, tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins, acacia wood, oil […]

HaShem said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets…So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as HaShem had commanded

Thus HaShem used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend (33:11). Moses said, “Please show me your glory” and He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘I Am.’HaShem. And I will be gracious to whom I will

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has

HaShem said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting

And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy oil (30:25). And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be holy to HaShem (29:37). God gave the exact recipe for the anointing oil

Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests (29:1). God instructed that the Levites were to be priests. They were set apart for the service of God. Their jobs were very practical such as setting up, taking down and carrying the tabernacle and its

Bring near to you Aaron your brother and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests – Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and beauty (28:1-2). The garments that God’s priests were

You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad (27:1). We now move from the instructions regarding the tabernacle and its furnishings to the court of the tabernacle. There was to be a bronze altar, an item of utmost importance. On this altar, the priests would sacrifice all types

Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them (26:1). This chapter gives detailed instructions on the building of the tabernacle: the materials to be used, the measurements, how and with what it was