Exodus Chapter 37

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Exodus, chapter thirty seven. After this, Bezilel built the Covenant
chest out of a kasu wood. It was forty five
inches long, twenty seven inches wide, and twenty seven inches high.
He overlaid the entire thing inside and out with pure
gold and decorated it with gold trim all the way
around it. He cast four gold rings and attached them

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to its four corners, two rings on each side of
the chest. He made poles out of a kastu wood
and overlaid them with gold. He slid the poles through
the rings on the sides of the chest in order
to carry it without touching it. The poles were never
to be removed. He built a cover for the chest
out of pure gold. It is known as the Seat
of Mercy where sins are atoned, and it was forty

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five inches long and twenty seven inches wide. He also
fashioned two winged guardians out of hammered gold and placed
them at both ends of the Seat of Mercy. He
placed one winged creature at each end of the Seat
of Mercy. He had it made so that the winged
guardians appeared as one solid piece with the cover. The
guardians faced one another with bowed heads, their wings spread

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so that they were reaching up and covering the seed
of mercy. Bezilel then built the table out of akashi wood,
thirty six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty seven
inches high. He overlaid it with pure gold and decorated
it with gold trim around the edge. He put a
three inch wide rim around it and placed the gold
trim around the rim. Then he cast four gold rings

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and attached them to each of the table's four corners.
At its four legs. The rings were placed just beneath
the rim so that they could hold the poles in
order to carry the table. He made the poles out
of acasu wood and overlaid them with gold. He had
his artisans make different kinds of vessels for use at
the table, platters, pans, pitchers, and bowls out of pure

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gold for use with the offerings of incense and drink.
Then Bezilel fashioned a lamp stand out of pure hammered gold.
He made its base, trunk, branches, decorative buds and blossoms,
and lamp cups out of one solid piece. Six branches
extended from the trunk sides, three on one side and

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three on the other Each of the six branches had
three decorative cups shaped like almond blossoms whose buds have
just flowered. On the trunk of the lamp stand, there
were four cups shaped like almond blossoms whose buds have
just flowered. A single almond bud sat beneath each pair
of six branches extended out from the trunk of the
lamp stand. All the buds and branches were crafted out

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of pure hammered gold of one solid piece. Bezilel had
his artisans make seven lamps, trays, and tongs out of
pure gold. He made the lamp stand and all its
accessories out of seventy five pounds of pure gold. Bezilel
then built the altar of incense out of more accostu wood.
He made it in the shape of a square eighteen

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inches long, eighteen inches wide, and thirty six inches high.
He carved the horns and the top of the altar
out of one piece of wood, over laid the whole thing,
the top, the sides, and the horns with pure gold,
and attached a gold trim around its edges. He fashioned
two gold rings and attached them beneath the trim. On
the two opposite sides to hold the poles used to

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carry the altar. He made the poles out of acostu
wood and overlaid them with gold. With the skill of
a master perfumer, he blended the ingredients to make the
sacred anointing oil and fragrant incense.