hwarapA - Pa`rasha
“hmAUrT4” - “Terumah” - “Heave Offering”
Exodus 25:1 -
27:19
Exodus 25:
1 Then HaShem spoke to Moses, saying:
2 "Speak to the son’s of Yisrael,
that they bring Me an Terumah (hmAUrT4 - “heave offering”- an obligation offering).
From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My Terumah.
3 "And this is the offering which you
shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
4 "blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine
linen, and goats' hair;
5 "ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and
acacia wood;
6 "oil for the light, and spices for the
anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
7 "onyx stones, and stones to be set in
the ephod (dOpxe) and in the
breastplate.
(A tallit katan looks something like a ephod.)
8 "And let them make Me a sanctuary (miq-dash
(wD!q4mi “a holy thing”), that I may
dwell among them.
9 "According to all that I show you, that
is, the pattern of the tabernacle (mish-kan (NKAw;mi “habitation, dwelling place”) and the pattern of all
its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
10 "And they shall make an ark (aron (NOrx3 “chest, ark”) of acacia wood (aze shit-tim MyFi0wi ycef3 “Spina wood, a black wood
from a thorn tree”); two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and
a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
[hm0Axa am-mah (cubit) = from hmAxA “handmaid”. The word means “Beginning of the arm” or
forearm. The Egyptian cubit was 6 hand breadths (palm of the hand, four fingers
wide). Therefore a cubit was about 18.5 inches long or 1'-6½”] .
[10 "And they shall make an
aron of shit-tim wood, 46-1/4 inches long, 27-3/4 inches wide, and 27-3/4
inches high.]
11 "And you shall overlay it with pure
gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and shall make on it a molding of
gold all around.
12 "You shall cast four rings of gold for
it, and put them in its four corners; two rings shall be on one side, and two
rings on the other side.
13 "And you shall make poles of acacia
wood, and overlay them with gold.
14 "You shall put the poles into the rings
on the sides of the Aron, that the Aron may be carried by them.
15 "The poles shall be in the rings of the
aron; they shall not be taken from it.
16 "And you shall put into the aron
the Testimony (tdufe “Precept”) which
I will give you.
17 "You shall make a mercy seat (tr@(Pka kap-poret “covering”) of
pure gold; two and a half cubits (46-1/4") shall be its length and
a cubit and a half (27-3/4") its width.
18 "And you shall make two cherubim (MybiruK; ke-ruvim - had the face of a man, ox, lion & eagle) of
gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the cover.
19 "Make one cherub at one end, and the
other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of
it of one piece with the cover (mercy seat).
20 "And the cherubim shall stretch out
their wings above, covering the cover with their wings, and they shall
face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the cover.
21 "You shall put the cover on top
of the Aron, and in the Aron you shall put the Testimony (Edut
tdufe “Precept”) that I will give
you.
22 "And there I will meet with you, and I
will speak with you from above the cover, from between the two cherubim
which are on the Aron of the Edut (Testimony tdufe
“Precept”), about everything which I will give you in commandment (hv!cA zavh “to appoint over”) to the
son’s of Yisrael.
23 "You shall also make a table of acacia
wood; two cubits (37") shall be its length, a cubit (18.5")
its width, and a cubit and a half (27-3/4")
its height.
24 "And you shall overlay it with pure
gold, and make a molding of gold all around.
25 "You shall make for it a frame of a
handbreadth (3") all around, and you shall make a gold molding for
the frame all around.
26 "And you shall make for it four rings
of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.
27 "The rings shall be close to the frame,
as holders for the poles to bear the table.
28 "And you shall make the poles of acacia
wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
29 "You shall make its dishes, its pans,
its pitchers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.
30 "And you shall set the showbread (MyniPA MH,l@ Lechem panim “face bread” from hn@PA “to turn and face anyone”) on the table before Me
always.
31 "You shall also make a lampstand (hr!Onm;
me-norah) of pure gold; the menorah shall be of hammered
work. Its shaft (TkArey4 Ye-rekat
“it’s butt”), its branches (hn@q! Qanah), its bowls (hAyf,ybiG; Ge-vieyha), its knobs (hAyr@Top;Ka kaph-toreyha “cover
crowns, chaplets, circlets”), and flowers (hAyH,r!p;
Pe-rache-yha “sprouts/shoots/blossoms”) shall be of one piece.
32 "And six branches shall come out of its
sides: three branches of the menorah out of one side, and three branches
of the menorah out of the other side.
33 "Three bowls shall be made like almond
blossoms on one branch, with a knob and a flower, and three bowls made like
almond blossoms on the other branch, with a knob and a flower__and so for the
six branches that come out of the menorah.
34 "On the menorah itself four
bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its knob and flower.
35 "And there shall be a knob under the
first two branches of the same, a knob under the second two branches of the
same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six
branches that extend from the menorah.
36 "Their knobs and their branches shall
be of one piece; all of it shall be one hammered piece of pure gold.
37 "You shall make seven lamps for it, and
they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it (rb,fe-lfa
Al-ever “on the other
side”).
38 "And its wick_trimmers and their trays
shall be of pure gold.
39 "It shall be made of a talent (131
lbs, worth over $30,000.00) of pure gold, with all these utensils.
40 "And see to it that you make them
according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
Exodus 26:
1 "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle
(NKAw;mi mish-kan dwelling place) with ten
curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with
artistic designs of cherubim (MybiruK;
ke-ruvim) you shall weave them.
2 "The length of each curtain shall be
twenty_eight cubits (46'-2'’)
and the width of each curtain four cubits (6'-6"). And every one of
the curtains shall have the same measurements.
3 "Five curtains shall be coupled to one
another (230'-10"), and the other five curtains shall be coupled to
one another (230'-10" for a
total of 461'-8") .
4 "And you shall make loops of blue yarn
on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set, and likewise you shall
do on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set.
5 "Fifty loops you shall make in the one
curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is on
the end of the second set, that the loops may be clasped to one another.
6 "And you shall make fifty clasps of
gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that it may be one mish-kan.
7 "You shall also make curtains of goats'
hair, to be a tent (lh,xo ohel)
over the mish-kan. You shall make eleven curtains.
8 "The length of each curtain shall be
thirty cubits (46.25 feet), and the width of each curtain four cubits (6.16
feet); and the eleven curtains shall all have the same measurements.
9 "And you shall couple five curtains by
themselves (231'-3") and six curtains by themselves (277'-6"),
and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the forefront of the tent
(for a total of 508'-9" or over a 169 yards of curtain. The whole top
was 61.6' x 46.25').
10 "You shall make fifty loops on the edge
of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain of the second set.
11 "And you shall make fifty bronze
clasps, put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it
may be one.
12 "The remnant that remains of the
curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back
of the mish-kan.
13 "And a cubit (18.5") on one
side and a cubit (18.5") on the
other side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the tent, shall
hang over the sides of the mish-kan, on this side and on that side, to
cover it (Otso0kal4 le-kas-soto).
14 "You shall also make a covering (hs,k;mi
mik-seh) of ram skins
dyed red for the tent, and a covering (hs,k;mi mik-seh) of badger skins above that.
15 "And for the mish-kan you shall
make the boards of acacia wood, standing upright.
16 "Ten cubits (15.41') shall be
the length of a board, and a cubit and a half
(2'-4")
shall be the width of each board.
17 "Two tenons
(tOdy! YTew4 she-te yadot “2
pins/nails) shall be in each board for binding one to another. Thus you shall
make for all the boards of the mish-kan.
18 "And you shall make the boards for the mish-kan,
twenty boards (46.7') for the south side.
19 "You shall make forty sockets of silver
under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two
tenons.
20 "And for the second side of the mish-kan,
the north side, there shall be twenty boards (46.7')
21 "and their
forty sockets of silver: two sockets under each of the boards.
22 "For the far
side of the mish-kan, westward, you shall make six boards (14').
23 "And you shall also make two boards for the two back
corners (4.7') of the mish-kan.
24 "They shall
be coupled together at the bottom and they shall be coupled together at the top
by one ring. Thus it shall be for both of them. They shall be for the two
corners.
25 "So there shall be eight boards with
their sockets of silver__sixteen sockets__two sockets under each board (18.7'
wide).
26 "And you shall make bars of acacia
wood: five for the boards on one side of the mish-kan (1 was bar was
3.7' long),
27 "five bars for the boards on the other
side of the mish-kan, and five bars for the boards of the side of the mish-kan,
for the far side westward.
28 "The middle bar shall pass through the
midst of the boards from end to end.
29 "You shall overlay the boards with
gold, make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlay the bars
with gold.
30 "And you shall raise up the mish-kan
according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
31"You shall make a veil (tk,ropA pha-ro-ket) woven of blue, purple, and scarlet
thread, and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of
cherubim (MybiruK; ke-ruvim .
32 "You shall hang it upon the four
pillars (ydeUm0fa am-mude
column/platform/scaffold) of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall
be gold, upon four sockets of silver.
33 "And you shall hang the veil from the
clasps. Then you shall bring the Aron of the Testimony (TUdf2 edut “a precept.” The hebrew hd!fe edah means “testimony”) in
there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy
place (wd@qo0ha haq-qodesh) and the
Most Holy (Mywid!q#0ha wd@qo qodesh
haq-qodashim).
34 "You shall put the cover upon
the Aron of the precept in the Most Holy.
35 "You shall set the table outside the
veil, and the menorah across from the table on the side of the mish-kan
toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.
36 "You shall make a screen (j`sAmA masak “covering/mix”) for the door (HtaP, petach “entrance”) of the mish-kan,
woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver.
37 "And you shall make for the screen five
pillars of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of
gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
Exodus 27:
1 "You shall
make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long (7.71ft) and five cubits
wide (7.71ft) __the altar shall
be square__and its height shall be three cubits (4.62 ft).
2 "You shall make its horns on its four
corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with
bronze.
3 "Also you shall make its pans to
receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its
firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
4 "You shall make a grate for it, a network
of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four
corners.
5 "You shall put it under the rim of the
altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar.
6 "And you shall make poles for the
altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
7 "The poles shall be put in the rings,
and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it.
8 "You shall make it hollow with boards;
as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
9 "You shall also make the court of the mish-kan.
For the south side there shall be hangings for the court made of fine
woven linen, one hundred cubits long (154.16 ft) for one side.
10 "And its twenty pillars and their
twenty sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall
be silver.
11 "Likewise along the length of the north
side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long (154.16 ft),
with its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of
the pillars and their bands of silver.
12 "And along the width of the
court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits (77 ft),
with their ten pillars (11' apart) and their ten sockets.
13 "The width of the court on the east
side shall be fifty cubits (77 ft).
14 "The hangings on one side of the
gate shall be fifteen cubits (23.12 ft), with their three pillars (about
8' apart) and their three sockets.
15 "And on the other side shall be
hangings of fifteen cubits (23.12 ft), with their three pillars and
their three sockets.
16 "For the gate (rf1wa shaar) of the court (rceHA chazer “enclosure”) there shall be a screen (j`sAmA masak “covering/mix”) twenty
cubits long (30.83 ft), woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and
fine woven linen, made by a weaver. It shall have four pillars (almost 8'
apart) and four sockets.
17 "All the pillars around the court shall
have bands of silver; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of
bronze.
18 "The length of the court shall
be one hundred cubits (154.16 ft), the width fifty (77')
throughout, and the height five cubits (7.71 ft), made of fine
woven linen, and its sockets of bronze.
19 "All the utensils of the mish-kan
for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of
bronze.