Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi’s life was 137 years.)

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.

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

You are to weave the tunic of fine linen and make the turban of fine linen, and make the sash the work of an embroiderer.

Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

Now the part that remains of the curtains of the tent – the half curtain that remains will hang over at the back of the tabernacle.

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.

He added, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.

The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zikri.

The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

“You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

and the coverings of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the protecting curtain;

Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

“You are to make a hanging for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.

They made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and twisted linen around the hem of the robe.

The length of one curtain was forty-two feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – the same size for each of the curtains.