They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,

You must purify each garment and everything that is made of skin, everything made of goat’s hair, and everything made of wood.”

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments.

I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high.

Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings.

In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.

They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

For they do not understand the Lord’s actions, or the way he carries out justice. The Lord will permanently demolish them.

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.

All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.

The exiles from Judah will say, ‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us! Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion what the Lord our God has done!’

ב (Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.

In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.”

“The tabernacle itself you are to make with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet; you are to make them with cherubim that are the work of an artistic designer.

“You are to make a special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer.

You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.

For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases.