Quotes About Craftsmanship

Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.

Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.

Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.

Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.

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

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

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.

You are to instruct all the skilled craftsmen, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make garments for Aaronís consecration, so that he may serve Me as priest.

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.

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.

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;

and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.