Quotes About Symbolism

Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.

The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.

and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.

The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.

They shall use gold, along with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.

They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.

It shall have two shoulder pieces attached at two of its corners, so it can be fastened.

And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod must be of one piece, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.

Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.

Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.

Fashion gold filigree settings

and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.

You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.

It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.

And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;

in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

in the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;