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Day 118: Building the Tabernacle and Sacred Offerings - Immerse Bible Reading Experience

Welcome to Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. Today's episode covers Day 118, where Moses gathers the community of Israel and relays God's commandments. The focus is on observing the Sabbath and preparing sacred offerings for the Lord. Moses instructs the Israelites to bring various precious materials and skilled craftsmanship to construct the tabernacle and its furnishings, including the ark, the table, and the sacred garments for the priests. Detailed descriptions of the materials and construction techniques emphasize the importance of purity and devotion in worship. The episode concludes with the people's overwhelming generosity, providing more than enough materials to complete the sanctuary as commanded by the Lord.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:04 Sabbath Instructions
00:40 Sacred Offerings and Gifts
01:14 Crafting the Tabernacle
02:34 Community Contributions
04:17 Bezalel and Oholiab's Skills
05:32 Construction of the Tabernacle
10:43 Making the Ark and Furnishings
12:43 Conclusion and Thanks

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Day 100 and 18

then Moses called together the
whole community of Israel and told

them These are the instructions the
Lord has commanded you to follow.

You have six days each week for your
ordinary work, but the seventh day

must be a Sabbath day of complete
rest, a holy day dedicated to the Lord.

Anyone who works on that
day must be put to death.

You must not even light a fire in
any of your homes on the Sabbath,

then Moses said to the whole
community of Israel, this is

what the Lord has commanded.

Take a sacred offering for the Lord.

Let those with generous hearts, present
the following gifts to the Lord.

Gold, silver, and bronze.

Blue, purple and scarlet Thread.

Fine linen and goat hair for cloth,
tanned rams skins, and fine goat skin

leather, acacia wood olive oil for the
lamps, spices for the anointing oil

and the fragrant incense, onyx stones,
and other gemstones to be set in the

ephod and the priest's chess piece.

Come all of you who are gifted
craftsmen construct everything

that the Lord has commanded, the
tabernacle and its sacred tent.

It's covering clasps frames,
crossbars, posts, and bases,

the ark and its carrying poles.

The arks cover the place of atonement,
the inner curtain, to shield the arc.

The table, it's carrying
poles and all its utensils.

The bread of the presence for light, the
lamp stand, its accessories, the lamp

cups, and the olive oil for lighting,
the incense alter and its carrying poles.

The anointing oil and fragrant
incense, the curtain for the

entrance of the tabernacle.

The altar of burnt offering, the
bronze grading of the altar, and

its carrying poles and utensils.

The wash basin with its stand,
the curtains for the walls of the

courtyard, the posts and their bases.

The curtain for the entrance to
the courtyard, the tent pegs of the

tabernacle and courtyard in their ropes.

The beautifully stitched garments
for the priests to wear while

ministering in the holy place.

The sacred garments for Aaron, the
priest, and the garments for his sons

to wear as they minister as priests.

So the whole community of Israel left
Moses and returned to their tents.

All whose hearts were stirred and whose
spirits were moved, came and brought

their sacred offerings to the Lord.

They brought all the materials needed for
the tabernacle, for the performance of

its rituals and for the sacred garments.

Both men and women came all
whose hearts were willing.

They brought to the Lord their offerings
of gold, roaches, earrings, rings

from their fingers and necklaces.

They presented gold objects of every
kind as a special offering to the Lord.

All those who owned the following
items willingly brought them blue,

purple and scarlet thread, fine linen
and goat hair for cloth and tanned ram

skins and fine goat skin leather, and
all who had silver and bronze objects,

gave them as a sacred offering to the
Lord and those who had a Keisha wood

brought it for use in the project.

All the women who were skilled in sewing
and spinning prepared blue, purple, and

scarlet thread and fine linen cloth.

All the women who were willing use their
skills to spin the goat hair and to yarn.

The leaders brought Ony stones in
the special gemstones to be set in

the EOD and the priests chest piece.

They also brought spices and olive
oil for the light, the anointing

oil, and the fragrant incense.

So the people of Israel, every man
and woman who was eager to help in

the work the Lord had given them
through Moses, brought their gifts

and gave them freely to the Lord.

Then Moses told the people of
Israel, the Lord has specifically

chosen Beel, son of Yuri, grandson
of her, of the tribe of Judah.

The Lord has filled beel with the spirit
of God, giving him great wisdom, ability,

and expertise in all kinds of crafts.

He is a master craftsman expert in
working with gold, silver, and bronze.

He is skilled in an engraving and
mounting gemstones and eng carving wood.

He is a master at every craft.

The Lord has given both him and Oab,
son of a hisac of the tribe of Dan, the

ability to teach their skills to others.

The Lord has given them special skills
as engravers designers, embroiders

and blue, purple and scarlet thread
on fine line and cloth and weavers.

They excel as craftsmen and as designers.

The Lord has gifted beel, a holy ab,
and the other skilled craftsman with

wisdom and ability to perform any task
involved in building the sanctuary.

Let them construct and furnish the
tabernacle just as the Lord has commanded.

So Moses summoned Beel and Oab and all
the others who were specially gifted by

the Lord and were eager to get to work.

Moses gave them the materials donated
by the people of Israel as sacred

offerings for the completion of the
sanctuary, but the people continued to

bring additional gifts each morning.

Finally, the craftsmen who were working
on the sanctuary left their work.

They went to Moses and reported
the people have given more than

enough materials to complete the
job the Lord has commanded us to do.

So Moses gave the command and this
message was sent throughout the camp.

Men and women don't prepare any
more gifts for the sanctuary.

We have enough.

So the people stopped bringing
their sacred offerings, their

contributions were more than enough
to complete the whole project.

The skilled craftsman made 10 curtains
of finely woven linen for the tabernacle.

Then Beel decorated the curtains with
blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and

with skillfully embroidered cherubim.

All 10 curtains were exactly the same
size, 42 feet long and six feet wide.

Five of these curtains were joined
together to make one long curtain, and

the other five were joined To make a
second long curtain, he made 50 loops

of blue yarn and put them along the
edge of the last curtain in each set.

The 50 loops along the edge of one
curtain matched the 50 loops along

the edge of the other curtain.

Then he made 50 gold clasps
and fastened the long curtains

together with the clasps.

In this way, the tabernacle was
made of one continuous piece.

He made 11 curtains of goat
hair cloth to serve as a tent

covering for the tabernacle.

These 11 curtains were all exactly the
same size, 45 feet long and six feet wide.

Meel joined five of these curtains
together to make one long curtain,

and the other six were joined
to make a second long curtain.

He made 50 loops for the
edge of each large curtain.

He also made 50 bronze clasps to
fasten the long curtains together.

In this way, the tent covering
was made of one continuous piece.

He completed the tent covering with
a layer of tanned ram skins and the

layer of fine goat skin leather for
the framework of the tabernacle Bezel

constructed frames of a Keisha would.

Each frame was 15 feet high and 27 inches
wide with two pegs under each frame.

All the frames were identical.

He made 20 of these frames to
support the curtains on the

south side of the tabernacle.

He also made 40 silver bases, two
bases under each frame with the

pegs fitting securely into the base

for the north side of the tabernacle.

He made another 20 frames with
their forties silver bases,

two bases under each frame.

He made six frames for the rear, the
west side of the tabernacle, along

with two additional frames to reinforce
the rear corners of the tabernacle.

These corner frames were matched
at the bottom and firmly attached

at the top with a single ring
forming a single corner unit.

Both of these corner units were
made the same way, so there were

eight frames at the rear of the
tabernacle set in 16 silver bases.

Two bases under each frame.

Then he made crossbars of Acacia wood
to link the frames, five crossbars

for the north side of the tabernacle
and five for the south side.

He also made five crossbars for the rear
of the tabernacle, which faced west.

He made the middle crossbar to
attach halfway up the frames.

It ran all the way from one end
of the tabernacle to the other.

He overlaid the frames with gold and
made gold rings to hold the crossbars.

Then he overlaid the
crossbars with gold as well.

For the inside of the tabernacle
bezel made a special curtain

of finely woven linen.

He decorated it with blue, purple,
and scarlet thread, and with

skillfully embroidered cherubim for
the curtain, he made four posts of

acacia wood and four gold hooks.

He overlaid the posts with gold
and set them in four silver bases.

Then he made another curtain for
the entrance to the sacred tent.

He made it a finely woven linen
and embroidered it with exquisite

designs using blue, purple and scarlet
thread, this curtain was hung on

gold hooks attached to five posts.

The posts with their decorated tops
and hooks were overlaid with gold, and

the five bases were cast from bronze.

Next Beel made the arc of Acacia
Wood, a sacred chest, 45 inches long,

27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

He overlayed it inside and outside
with pure gold, and he ran a

molding of gold all around it.

He cast four gold rings and attached them
to its four feet, two rings on each side.

Then he made poles from a Keisha
wood and overlaid them with gold.

He inserted the poles into the rings
at the sides of the arc to carry it.

Then he made the arcs cover the
place of atonement from pure gold.

It was 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

He made two cherubim from hammered
gold and placed them on the two

ends of the atonement cover.

He molded the cherubim on each
end of the atonement cover, making

it all of one piece of gold.

The cherubim faced each other and
looked down on the atonement cover

with their wings spread above it.

They protected it.

Then Beel made the table of a Keisha wood.

36 inches long, 18 inches
wide and 27 inches high.

He overlaid it with pure gold and
ran a gold molding around the edge.

He decorated it with a three inch
border all around, and he ran a

gold molding along the border.

Then he cast four gold rings for
the table and attached them at the

four corners next to the four legs.

The rings were attached near the
border to hold the poles that

were used to carry the table.

He made these polls from Acaia
wood and overlaid them with gold.

Then he made special containers
of pure gold for the table bowls,

ladles jars, and pitchers to be used
in pouring out liquid offerings.

This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.

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