So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”

If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

“You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be on the turban; it is to be on the front of the turban,

“You are to clothe them – your brother Aaron and his sons with him – and anoint them and ordain them and set them apart as holy, so that they may minister as my priests.

You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it is to be your share.

Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering for atonement. You are to purge the altar by making atonement for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy.

For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it.

“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

“You are also to make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it,

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

He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

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.”

After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.

Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather brought them.

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.