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| [1]And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
[1]And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide, Speke thou to the sones of Israel, |
| [2]Speak to 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. |
[2]that thei take to me the firste fruytis; of ech man that offrith wilfuli, ye schulen take tho. |
| [3]And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver and brass, |
[3]Forsothe these thingis it ben, whiche ye schulen take, gold, and siluer, and bras, iacynt, |
| [4]And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair. |
[4]and purpur, and reed silk twies died, and bijs, heeris of geet, and `skynnes of wetheris maad reed, |
| [5]And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood. |
[5]and skynnes of iacynt, |
| [6]Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, |
[6]and trees of Sechym, and oile to liytis to be ordeyned, swete smellynge spiceries in to oynement, and encensis of good odour, |
| [7]Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breast-plate. |
[7]onochym stoonys, and gemmes to ourne ephod, and the racional. |
| [8]And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. |
[8]And thei schulen make a seyntuarie to me, and Y schal dwelle in the myddis of hem, bi al the licnesse of the tabernacle, |
| [9]According to all that I show thee after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its instruments, even so shall ye make it. |
[9]which Y schal schewe to thee, and of alle the vessels of ournyng therof. |
| [10]And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight. |
[10]And thus ye schulen make it; ioyne ye to gidere an arke of the trees of Sechym, whos lengthe haue twey cubitis and an half, the broodnesse haue a cubit and half, the hiynesse haue `in lijk maner a cubit and half. |
| [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 around it. |
[11]And thou schalt ouergilde it with clenneste gold with ynne and with out forth; and thou schalt make a goldun crowne aboue `bi cumpas, |
| [12]And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. |
[12]and foure goldun cerclis, whiche thou schalt sette bi foure corneris of the arke; twei ceerclis be in o syde, and twei cerclis in the tother side. |
| [13]And thou shalt make staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. |
[13]Also thou schalt make barris of the trees of Sechym, and thou schalt hile tho with gold, |
| [14]And thou shalt put the staffs into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. |
[14]and thou schalt brynge yn bi the cerclis that ben in the sidis of the arke, |
| [15]The staffs shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. |
[15]that it be borun in tho, whiche schulen euere be in the ceerclis, nether schulen ony tyme be drawun out of thoo. |
| [16]And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. |
[16]And thou schalt putte in to the arke the witnessing, which Y schal yyue to thee. |
| [17]And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. |
[17]And thou schalt make a propiciatorie of clenneste gold; `that is a table hilinge the arke; the lengthe therof schal holde twei cubitis and an half, the broodnesse schal holde a cubit and half. |
| [18]And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. |
[18]Also thou schalt make on euer eithir side of `Goddis answeryng place twei cherubyns of gold, and betun out with hamer; |
| [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 cherubim on its two ends. |
[19]o cherub be in o syde of `Goddis answeryng place, and the tother in the tother side; |
| [20]And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; towards the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. |
[20]hele thei euer either side of the propiciatorie, and holde thei forth wyngis, and hile thei `Goddis answeryng place; and biholde thei hem silf to gidere, while the faces ben turned in to the propiciatorie, with which the arke of the Lord schal be hilid, |
| [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. |
[21]in which arke thou schalt putte the `witnessyng, which Y schal yyue to thee. |
| [22]And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment to the children of Israel. |
[22]Fro thennus Y schal comaunde, and schal speke to thee aboue the propiciatorie, that is, fro the myddis of twei cherubyns, that schulen be on the arke of witnessyng, alle thingis whiche Y schal comaunde `bi thee to the sones of Israel. |
| [23]Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: its length shall be two cubits, and its breadth a cubit, and its hight a cubit and a half. |
[23]Also thou schalt make a boord of the trees of Sechym, hauinge twei cubitis of lengthe, and a cubit in broodnesse, and a cubit and half in hiyenesse. |
| [24]And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make to it a crown of gold around it. |
[24]And thou schalt ouergilde the bord with purest gold, and thou schalt make to it a goldun brynke `bi cumpas; |
| [25]And thou shalt make to it a border of an hand-breadth around it, and thou shalt make a golden crown to its border around it. |
[25]and `thou schalt make to that brynke a coroun rasid bitwixe foure fyngris hiy, and `thou schalt make on that another lytil goldun coroun. |
| [26]And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. |
[26]And thou schalt make redi foure goldun cerclis, and thou schalt put thoo in foure corners of the same boord, bi alle feet. |
| [27]Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staffs to bear the table. |
[27]Vndur the coroun schulen be goldun cerclis, that the barris be put thorou tho, and that the boord may be borun. |
| [28]And thou shalt make the staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. |
[28]Thou schalt make tho barris of the trees of Sechym, and thou schalt cumpas with gold to bere the boord. |
| [29]And thou shalt make its dishes, and its spoons, and its covers, and its bowls, to cover it with: of pure gold shalt thou make them. |
[29]And thou schalt make redi vessels of vynegre, and viols, cenceris, and cuppis of pureste gold, in whiche fletynge sacrifices schulen be offrid. |
| [30]And thou shalt set upon the table show-bread before me always. |
[30]And thou schalt sette on the boord looues of proposicioun, in my siyt euere. |
| [31]And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be of the same. |
[31]And thou schalt make a candilstike `betun forth with hamer, of clenneste gold, and thou schalt make the schaft therof, and yerdis, cuppis, and litle rundelis, and lilies comynge forth therof. |
| [32]And six branches shall extend from the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick from the one side, and three branches of the candlestick from the other side: |
[32]Sixe yerdis schulen go out of the sidis, thre of o side, and thre of the tother. |
| [33]Three bowls made like to almonds, with a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that project from the candlestick. |
[33]Thre cuppis as in the maner of a note bi ech yerde, and litle rundelis to gidere, and a lilie, and in lijk maner thre cuppis at the licnesse of a note in the tother, and litle rundelis togidere, and a lilie; this schal be the werk of sixe yerdis, that schulen be brouyt forth of the schaft. |
| [34]And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like to almonds, with their knobs and their flowers. |
[34]Forsothe in thilke candilstik e schulen be foure cuppis in the maner of a note, and litle rundels and lilies by ech cuppe; |
| [35]And there shall be a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that project from the candlestick. |
[35]and litle rundelis schulen be vndir twey yerdis bi thre places, whiche yerdis to gidere ben maad sixe, comynge forth of o schaft; and therfor the litle rundelis and yerdis |
| [36]Their knobs and their branches shall be of the same: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. |
[36]therof schulen be alle betun out with hamer, of clenneste gold. |
| [37]And thou shalt make its seven lamps: and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it. |
[37]And thou schalt make seuene lanternes, and thou schalt sette tho on the candilstike, that tho schyne euene ayens. |
| [38]And its tongs, and its snuff-dishes, shall be of pure gold. |
[38]Also tongis to `do out the snottis, and where tho thingis, that ben snottid out, ben quenchid, be maad of clenneste gold. |
| [39]Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. |
[39]Al the weiyt of the candilstike with alle hise vesselis schal haue a talent of clennest gold. |
| [40]And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shown thee on the mount. |
[40]Biholde thou, and make bi the saumpler, which ys schewide to thee in the hil. |