Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.

I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.

But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Every skilled person among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the Bread of the Presence;

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled spun goats’ hair.

The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted for the ephod and the breastpiece,

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

He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit.

So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.

He made the middle bar to reach from end to end in the center of the frames.

He made the table of acacia wood; its length was three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

The rings were close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

He made the courtyard. For the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long,

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