“You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

You are to speak to all who are specially skilled, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron’s garments to set him apart to minister as my priest.

The artisans are to use the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.

and you are to make for the breastpiece two gold rings and attach the two rings to the upper two ends of the breastpiece.

They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod.

Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of decision over his heart when he goes into the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.

and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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.

You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons.

“The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they may be anointed in them and consecrated in them.

Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

They are to eat those things by which atonement was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are holy.

If any of the meat from the consecration offerings or any of the bread is left over until morning, then you are to burn up what is left over. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.

“So I will set apart as holy the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons, that they may minister as priests to me.

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.

The rich are not to increase it, and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.

the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent,

Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!