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³⁵He has taught both of them wisdom, in order to do the work of carpentry, tapestry, and embroidery, from hyacinth, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen, and every textile, and to discover whatever may be new.”

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, ³and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge in every craft, ⁴in order to design whatever must be fabricated from gold, and silver, and brass, ⁵from marble, and precious stones, and various woods.

¹³The maker of wood has extended his ruler. He has formed it with a plane. He has made it with corners, and he has smoothed its curves. And he has made the image of a man, a seemingly beautiful man, dwelling in a house.

⁵Also, he covered the greater house with wooden panels of spruce, and he affixed layers of refined gold through it all. And he engraved in them palm trees, and the likeness of little chains interlaced with one another. ⁶Also, he paved the floor of the temple with the most precious marble, of great beauty. ⁷Now the gold, with which he covered in layers the house and its beams and posts and walls and doors, was highly refined. And he engraved cherubim on the walls.

²⁹And all the walls of the temple all around he engraved with diverse carvings and turnings. And he made in them cherubim, and palm trees, and various images, as if these were projecting out, and going forth from, the wall.

¹⁴And she increased her fornications. And when she had seen men depicted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans, expressed in colors,

¹⁴how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God?

³⁰And Moses said to the sons of Israel: “Behold, the Lord has called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, ³¹and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge, and all teaching, ³²to design and to fashion, with gold and silver and brass, ³³and with engraving stones, and with the skill of a carpenter. Whatever can be skillfully invented, ³⁴he has given to his heart. It is likewise with Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach from the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has taught both of them wisdom, in order to do the work of carpentry, tapestry, and embroidery, from hyacinth, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen, and every textile, and to discover whatever may be new.”

¹⁴And he says: ‘I will build a broad house for myself, with spacious upper rooms.’ He makes windows for himself, and he builds the roof out of cedar, and he paints it with red ocher.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, ³and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge in every craft, ⁴in order to design whatever must be fabricated from gold, and silver, and brass, ⁵from marble, and precious stones, and various woods. ⁶And I have given to him, as his associate, Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan. And I have placed wisdom in the heart of every artisan, so that they may make everything as I have instructed you:

¹⁸Of what benefit is the graven image? For its maker has formed it, a molten and imaginary deception. For its maker has hoped in a figment of his own creation, so as to make a dumb likeness.

¹⁸And the structure of its wall was of jasper stone. Yet truly, the city itself was of pure gold, similar to pure glass. ¹⁹And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was of jasper, the second was of sapphire, the third was of chalcedony, the fourth was of emerald, ²⁰the fifth was of sardonyx, the sixth was of sardius, the seventh was of chrysolite, the eighth was of beryl, the ninth was of topaz, the tenth was of chrysoprasus, the eleventh was of jacinth, the twelfth was of amethyst. ²¹And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one for each, so that each gate was made from a single pearl. And the main street of the city was of pure gold, similar to transparent glass.

¹⁰And entering, I saw, and behold, every kind of image of reptiles and animals, the abominations, and all of the idols of the house of Israel were depicted on the wall all around, throughout the entire place.

⁶Also, he paved the floor of the temple with the most precious marble, of great beauty. ⁷Now the gold, with which he covered in layers the house and its beams and posts and walls and doors, was highly refined. And he engraved cherubim on the walls.

²⁹Therefore, since we are of the family of God, we must not consider gold or silver or precious stones, or the engravings of art and of the imagination of man, to be a representation of what is Divine.

³⁵And he carved cherubim, and palm trees, and very prominent engravings. And he covered everything with gold plates, worked to be perfectly square.

¹⁴And she increased her fornications. And when she had seen men depicted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans, expressed in colors, ¹⁵with belts wrapped around the waist, and with dyed headdresses on their heads, having seen the appearance of all the rulers, the likenesses of the sons of Babylon and of the land of the Chaldeans in which they were born, ¹⁶she became mad for them with the desire of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them in Chaldea. ¹⁷And when the sons of Babylon had gone to her, to the bed of breasts, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was gorged by them.

¹⁴the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knows how to work with gold and silver, with brass and iron, and with marble and timber, as well as with purple, and hyacinth, and fine linen, and scarlet. And he knows how to carve every kind of engraving, and how to devise prudently whatever may be necessary to the work, with your artisans and with the artisans of my lord David, your father.

⁷Now the gold, with which he covered in layers the house and its beams and posts and walls and doors, was highly refined. And he engraved cherubim on the walls.