“You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,

“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook its meat in a holy place.

The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown.

Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.

When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”

Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.

I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.

But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Every skilled person among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the Bread of the Presence;

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled spun goats’ hair.

The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted for the ephod and the breastpiece,

He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.

He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit.