This week’s parashot are the 12th parashot in the book of Shemot also called Exodus, and are
called Vayak’hel-Pekudei which means ‘And Assembled/And He Lived’.
Bullet Point Summary
– Moshe gathers Yisra’el and repeats the sabbath command and teaches them not to kindle fire on the sabbath
– Moshe repeats the command of the freewill offering to build all the tabernacle
– The people brought forth and gave freely materials and work for the tabernacle
– Betzal’el and Oholi’av were given wisdom, understanding, and knowledge to teach and build the tabernacle
– The people brought so many freewill offerings Moshe had to tell them to stop because they had enough
– The wise hearted made the curtains and covering of the tent
– The wise hearted also made all the boards for the frame of the tabernacle
– The wise hearted also made the veils and pillars for the holy and most holy parts of the tent
– Betzal’el made the Ark, Mercy Seat and two Keruvim
– Betzal’el also made the Showbread Table and all its instruments
– Betzal’el also made the golden Menorah
– Betzal’el also made the Altar of Incense
– Betzal’el also made the Anointing Oil and Incense
– Betzal’el also made the Altar of Copper
– Betzal’el also made the Laver of Copper
– Betzal’el also made the pillars and hangings of the court
– Betzal’el also made the pillars and hangings of the gate of the court
– Moshe commands the sum of the tabernacle be counted that Betzal’el and Oholi’av made
– All the gold, silver, and copper was counted that was used to make the tabernacle
– The Ephod and Breastplate were made of cunning work
– The High Priest’s robe was made
– The coats, bonnets, breeches, and girdles were made
– The High Priest’s golden plate for the mitre saying “Kadosh YHWH” was made
– When finished they brought all the work of the tabernacle to Moshe to look over
– Moshe commanded to set up the tabernacle on the 1st day of the 1st month and anoint it and the priests
– Moshe set up the tabernacle and anointed it and the priests and finished his work
– The cloud covered the tabernacle and the glory of YHWH filled it and lead Yisra’el on their journeys
– Haftarah – Shlomo builds the temple and the glory of YHWH fills it in the seventh month at the feast
Parashot Text with Readers and Daily Portions (Reader 1 Starts on Saturday Evening)
Vayak’hel “And Assembled”/ Pekudei “To Take Account”
Ex 35:1 – 40:38 , 1 Kings 7:40 – 8:21
Reader 1 (Saturday Evening Portion)
Exo 35:1 And Moshe gathered all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el together, and
said unto them, These are the words which YHWH has commanded, that you should do
them.
Exo 35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy
day, a sabbath of rest to YHWH: whosoever does work therein shall be put to death.
Exo 35:3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
(Sunday Morning Portion)
Exo 35:4 And Moshe spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el, saying, This
is the thing which YHWH commanded, saying,
Exo 35:5 Take you from among you an offering unto YHWH: whosoever is of a willing heart,
let him bring it, an offering of YHWH; gold, and silver, and copper,
Exo 35:6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
Exo 35:7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and takh’ash skins, and shittim wood,
Exo 35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
Exo 35:9 And shoham stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
Exo 35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that YHWH has
commanded;
Exo 35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his tacks, and his boards, his bars, his
pillars, and his sockets,
Exo 35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
Exo 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the showbread,
Exo 35:14 The menorah also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for
the light,
Exo 35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense,
and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
Exo 35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his copper grate, his staves, and all his vessels,
the laver and his foot,
Exo 35:17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the
door of the court,
Exo 35:18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
Exo 35:19 The clothes of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for
Aharon the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
Exo 35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el departed from the presence of
Moshe.
Exo 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit made willing, and they brought YHWH’S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for all His service, and for the holy garments.
Exo 35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and
brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that
offered offered an offering of gold unto YHWH.
Exo 35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and takh’ash skins, brought them.
Exo 35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and copper brought YHWH’S
offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service,
brought it.
Exo 35:25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought
that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
Exo 35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.
Exo 35:27 And the rulers brought shoham stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and
for the breastplate;
Exo 35:28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense.
Exo 35:29 The children of Yisra’el brought a willing offering unto YHWH, every man and
woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which YHWH had
commanded to be made by the hand of Moshe.
Reader 2 (Sunday Evening Portion)
Exo 35:30 And Moshe said unto the children of Yisra’el, See, YHWH has called by name
Betzal’el the son of Uri, the son of Chur, of the tribe of Yahudah;
Exo 35:31 And he has filled him with the spirit of Elohim, in wisdom, in understanding, and
in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
Exo 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper,
Exo 35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any
manner of cunning work.
Exo 35:34 And He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholi’av, the son of
Achi’samakh, of the tribe of Dan.
Exo 35:35 Them has He filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the
engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in
scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that
devise cunning work.
Exo 36:1 Then wrought Betzal’el and Oholi’av, and every wise hearted man, in whom YHWH
put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of
the sanctuary, according to all that YHWH had commanded.
Exo 36:2 And Moshe called Betzal’el and Oholi’av, and every wise hearted man, in whose
heart YHWH had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the
work to do it:
Exo 36:3 And they received of Moshe all the offering, which the children of Yisra’el had
brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they brought yet unto
him free offerings every morning.
Exo 36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man
from his work which they made;
Exo 36:5 And they spoke unto Moshe, saying, The people bring much more than enough for
the service of the work, which YHWH commanded to make.
Exo 36:6 And Moshe gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the
sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exo 36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
(Monday Morning Portion)
Exo 36:8 And every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle
made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with keruvim of
cunning work made he them.
Exo 36:9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
Exo 36:10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he
coupled one unto another.
Exo 36:11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the edge in the
coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the
second.
Exo 36:12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the
curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
Exo 36:13 And he made fifty tacks of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with
the tacks: so it became one tabernacle.
Exo 36:14 And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven
curtains he made them.
Exo 36:15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one
curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
Exo 36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Exo 36:17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling,
and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupled the second.
Exo 36:18 And he made fifty tacks of copper to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
Exo 36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of
takh’ash skins above that.
Exo 36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
Exo 36:21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a
half.
Exo 36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make
for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exo 36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side
southward:
Exo 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under
one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exo 36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he
made twenty boards,
Exo 36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.
Exo 36:27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
Exo 36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
Exo 36:29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one
ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
Exo 36:30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver,
under every board two sockets.
Exo 36:31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle,
Exo 36:32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for
the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
Exo 36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the
other.
Exo 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places
for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exo 36:35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with
keruvim made he it of cunning work.
Exo 36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold:
their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
Exo 36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exo 36:38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and
their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of copper.
Exo 37:1 And Bezal’el made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of
it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
Exo 37:2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to
it round about.
Exo 37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two
rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
Exo 37:4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
Exo 37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
Exo 37:6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length
thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Exo 37:7 And he made two keruvim of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the
two ends of the mercy seat;
Exo 37:8 One keruv on the end on this side, and another keruv on the other end on that
side: out of the mercy seat made he the keruvim on the two ends thereof.
Exo 37:9 And the keruvim spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over
the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of
the keruvim.
Exo 37:10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a
cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
Exo 37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round
about.
Exo 37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of a handbreadth round about; and made a
crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
Exo 37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that
were in the four feet thereof.
Exo 37:14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
Exo 37:15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the
table.
Exo 37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons,
and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
Reader 3 (Monday Evening Portion)
Exo 37:17 And he made the menorah of pure gold: of beaten work made he the menorah; his
shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
Exo 37:18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the menorah
out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side
thereof:
Exo 37:19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a
flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so
throughout the six branches going out of the menorah.
Exo 37:20 And in the menorah were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his
flowers:
Exo 37:21 And 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 going
out of it.
Exo 37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of
pure gold.
Exo 37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
Exo 37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
(Tuesday Morning Portion)
Exo 37:25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and
the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns
thereof were of the same.
Exo 37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round
about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
Exo 37:27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners
of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
Exo 37:28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
Exo 37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices,
according to the work of the apothecary.
Reader 4 (Tuesday Evening Portion)
Exo 38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length
thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
Exo 38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of
the same: and he overlaid it with copper.
Exo 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons,
and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of copper.
Exo 38:4 And he made for the altar a copper grate of network under the compass thereof
beneath unto the midst of it.
Exo 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of copper, to be places for the
staves.
Exo 38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with copper.
Exo 38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he
made the altar hollow with boards.
Exo 38:8 And he made the laver of copper, and the foot of it of copper, of the lookingglasses
of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Exo 38:9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court
were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
Exo 38:10 Their pillars were twenty, and their copper sockets twenty; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exo 38:11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were
twenty, and their sockets of copper twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exo 38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exo 38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exo 38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
and their sockets three.
Exo 38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exo 38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
Exo 38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court
were filleted with silver.
Exo 38:18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the
breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
Exo 38:19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of copper four; their hooks of silver,
and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
Exo 38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of copper.
(Wednesday Morning Portion)
Exo 38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was
counted, according to the commandment of Moshe, for the service of the Levi’im, by the
hand of Itamar, son to Aharon the priest.
Exo 38:22 And Betzal’el the son of Uri, the son of Chur, of the tribe of Yahudah, made all
that YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 38:23 And with him was Oholi’av, son of Achi’samakh, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver,
and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine
linen.
Exo 38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even
the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exo 38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred
talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
Exo 38:26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for
every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred
three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
Exo 38:27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and
the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exo 38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy five shekels he made hooks for the
pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
Exo 38:29 And the copper of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four
hundred shekels.
Exo 38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the copper altar, and the copper grate for it, and all the vessels of the
altar,
Exo 38:31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and
all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
Exo 39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of service, to do service
in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aharon; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Reader 5 (Wednesday Evening Portion)
Exo 39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen.
Exo 39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the
blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Exo 39:4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it
coupled together.
Exo 39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to
the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as YHWH
commanded Moshe.
Exo 39:6 And they wrought shoham stones inclosed in settings of gold, graven, as signets
are graven, with the names of the children of Yisra’el.
Exo 39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a
memorial to the children of Yisra’el; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
(Thursday Morning Portion)
Exo 39:8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold,
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exo 39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof,
and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
Exo 39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a odem, a pitdah, and a
baraket: this was the first row.
Exo 39:11 And the second row, a nofek, a sappeer, and a yawhalome.
Exo 39:12 And the third row, a lahshem, a shebu, and a awklawmah.
Exo 39:13 And the fourth row, a tarsheesh, a shoham, and a yawshefhay: they were inclosed
in settings of gold in their inclosings.
Exo 39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Yisra’el, twelve,
according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according
to the twelve tribes.
Exo 39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure
gold.
Exo 39:16 And they made two settingss of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in
the two ends of the breastplate.
Exo 39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the
breastplate.
Exo 39:18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two settings,
and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
Exo 39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate,
upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
Exo 39:20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the
ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above
the curious girdle of the ephod.
Exo 39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a
lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate
might not be loosed from the ephod; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Reader 6 (Thursday Evening Portion)
Exo 39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
Exo 39:23 And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of a habergeon, with
a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
Exo 39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and twined linen.
Exo 39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates
upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
Exo 39:26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the
robe to minister in; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 39:27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aharon, and for his sons,
Exo 39:28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of
fine twined linen,
Exo 39:29 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of
needlework; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a
writing, like to the engravings of a signet, “Kodesh YHWH”.
Exo 39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as YHWH
commanded Moshe.
Exo 39:32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished:
and the children of Yisra’el did according to all that YHWH commanded Moshe, so did they.
Exo 39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moshe, the tent, and all his furniture, his
tacks, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
Exo 39:34 And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of takh’ash skins, and
the vail of the covering,
Exo 39:35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
Exo 39:36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the showbread,
Exo 39:37 The pure menorah, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order,
and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
Exo 39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the
hanging for the tabernacle door,
Exo 39:39 The copper altar, and his grate of copper, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver
and his foot,
Exo 39:40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the
court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the
tent of the congregation,
Exo 39:41 The clothes of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for
Aharon the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.
Exo 39:42 According to all that YHWH commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra’el made
all the work.
Exo 39:43 And Moshe did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as YHWH
had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moshe blessed them.
Reader 7 (6th Day Friday Morning Double Portion)
Exo 40:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe, saying,
Exo 40:2 On the first day of the first month shall you set up the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation.
Exo 40:3 And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
Exo 40:4 And you shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in
order upon it; and you shall bring in the menorah, and light the lamps thereof.
Exo 40:5 And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony,
and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
Exo 40:6 And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of
the tent of the congregation.
Exo 40:7 And you shall set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and
shall put water therein.
Exo 40:8 And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court
gate.
Exo 40:9 And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is
therein, and shall hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
Exo 40:10 And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and
sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Exo 40:11 And you shall anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
Exo 40:12 And you shall bring Aharon and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and wash them with water.
Exo 40:13 And you shall put upon Aharon the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify
him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
Exo 40:14 And you shall bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
Exo 40:15 And you shall anoint them, as you did anoint their father, that they may minister
unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
Exo 40:16 Thus did Moshe: according to all that YHWH commanded him, so did he.
Exo 40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the
month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Exo 40:18 And Moshe reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the
boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
Exo 40:19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the
tent above upon it; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and
put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
Exo 40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering,
and covered the ark of the testimony; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 40:22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the
tabernacle northward, outside the vail.
Exo 40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before YHWH; as YHWH had commanded
Moshe.
Exo 40:24 And he put the menorah in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on
the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exo 40:25 And he lighted the lamps before YHWH; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
Exo 40:27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 40:28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
Exo 40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of
the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the minkha; as YHWH
commanded Moshe.
Exo 40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put
water there, to wash.
Exo 40:31 And Moshe and Aharon and his sons washed their hands and their feet there:
Exo 40:32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto
the altar, they washed; as YHWH commanded Moshe.
Exo 40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up
the hanging of the court gate. So Moshe finished the work.
Exo 40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of YHWH filled
the tabernacle.
Exo 40:35 And Moshe was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the
cloud abode thereon, and the glory of YHWH filled the tabernacle.
Exo 40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of
Yisra’el went onward in all their journeys:
Exo 40:37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was
taken up.
Exo 40:38 For the cloud of YHWH was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by
night, in the sight of all the house of Yisra’el, throughout all their journeys.
Haftarah (Shabbat Evening Portion)
1Ki 7:40 And Chiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Chiram made an
end of doing all the work that he made king Shlomo for the house of YHWH:
1Ki 7:41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two
pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the
top of the pillars;
1Ki 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of
pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the
pillars;
1Ki 7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
1Ki 7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
1Ki 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Chiram
made to king Shlomo for the house of YHWH, were of bright copper.
1Ki 7:46 In the plain of Yarden did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Sukkot
and Tzaretan.
1Ki 7:47 And Shlomo left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many:
neither was the weight of the copper found out.
1Ki 7:48 And Shlomo made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of YHWH: the altar
of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the showbread was,
1Ki 7:49 And the menorah of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the
oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
1Ki 7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of
pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place,
and for the doors of the house, of the temple.
1Ki 7:51 So was ended all the work that king Shlomo made for the house of YHWH. And
Shlomo brought in the things which Dawid his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the
gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of YHWH.
1Ki 8:1 Then Shlomo assembled the elders of Yisra’el, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Yisra’el, unto king Shlomo in Yahrushalayim, that they
might bring up the ark of the covenant of YHWH out of the city of Dawid, which is Tziyon.
1Ki 8:2 And all the men of Yisra’el assembled themselves unto king Shlomo at the feast in
the month Etanim, which is the seventh month.
1Ki 8:3 And all the elders of Yisra’el came, and the priests took up the ark.
1Ki 8:4 And they brought up the ark of YHWH, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and
all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levi’im
bring up.
1Ki 8:5 And king Shlomo, and all the congregation of Yisra’el, that were assembled unto
him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor
numbered for multitude.
1Ki 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of YHWH unto his place, into the
oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the keruvim.
1Ki 8:7 For the keruvim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the
keruvim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
1Ki 8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy
place before the oracle, and they were not seen outside: and there they are unto this day.
1Ki 8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moshe put there at
Chorev, when YHWH made a covenant with the children of Yisra’el, when they came out of
the land of Mitzrayim.
1Ki 8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the
cloud filled the house of YHWH,
1Ki 8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of
YHWH had filled the house of YHWH.
1Ki 8:12 Then spoke Shlomo, YHWH said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.
1Ki 8:13 I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.
1Ki 8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Yisra’el:
(and all the congregation of Yisra’el stood;)
1Ki 8:15 And he said, Blessed be YHWH Elohim of Yisra’el, which spoke with His mouth
unto Dawid my father, and has with His hand fulfilled it, saying,
1Ki 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Yisra’el out of Mitzrayim, I chose no
city out of all the tribes of Yisra’el to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I
chose Dawid to be over my people Yisra’el.
1Ki 8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of YHWH
Elohim of Yisra’el.
1Ki 8:18 And YHWH said unto Dawid my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a
house unto my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
1Ki 8:19 Nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth out of
your loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
1Ki 8:20 And YHWH has performed His word that He spoke, and I am risen up in the room
of Dawid my father, and sit on the throne of Yisra’el, as YHWH promised, and have built a
house for the name of YHWH Elohim of Yisra’el.
1Ki 8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of YHWH, which
He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim.
Review Torah Summaries (Shabbat Morning Portion)