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The Epistle of Barnabas
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[1]And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [No book]
[2]Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. [No book]
[3]And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, [No book]
[4]And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, [No book]
[5]And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, [No book]
[6]Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, [No book]
[7]Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. [No book]
[8]And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. [No book]
[9]According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. [No book]
[10]And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. [No book]
[11]And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. [No book]
[12]And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. [No book]
[13]And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. [No book]
[14]And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. [No book]
[15]The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. [No book]
[16]And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. [No book]
[17]And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. [No book]
[18]And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. [No book]
[19]And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. [No book]
[20]And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. [No book]
[21]And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. [No book]
[22]And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. [No book]
[23]Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. [No book]
[24]And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. [No book]
[25]And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. [No book]
[26]And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. [No book]
[27]Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. [No book]
[28]And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. [No book]
[29]And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them. [No book]
[30]And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway. [No book]
[31]And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. [No book]
[32]And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: [No book]
[33]Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. [No book]
[34]And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. [No book]
[35]And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick. [No book]
[36]Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. [No book]
[37]And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. [No book]
[38]And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. [No book]
[39]Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. [No book]
[40]And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. [No book]
Source: sacred-texts.com
Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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