As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud,

You are to put the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

He has filled him with the Spirit of God – with skill, with understanding, with knowledge, and in all kinds of work,

The length of one curtain was forty-five feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – one size for all eleven curtains.

They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates.

It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

You are to make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem and bells of gold between them all around.

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

“You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on the head of the bull.

and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones – according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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.

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

He put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.

The sash was of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei.

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.