You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

The Levites did what Moses ordered, and that day about three thousand men of the people died.

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do.

and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than is needed for the completion of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!”

Moses instructed them to take his message throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more.

He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

with two projections per frame parallel one to another. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

At the two corners they were doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.

He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end. He made the cherubim from the atonement lid on its two ends.

He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it.

He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He also made two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, as places for poles to carry it with.