Names כה

Donation

1and Hashem has spoken to Moshe, thus to say:

2speak to the children of Israel, they shall take for me a separation of a portion/contribution; from every man who his heart will it allocate/grant, shall you (PL) take my separation of a portion/contribution.

3and this is the separation/contribution which you (PL) shall take from them: gold, and silver, and bronze;

4and blue wool, and purple, and vermilion red, and linen, and goat's hair;

5and dyed red ram skins, and tachash skins, and acacia wood;

6oil for the lighting, spices for the oil of anointing, and for the incense of fragrant incense;

7onyx gems, and stones/gems for the to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastpiece.

8and they shall for me make a mikdash/holy place, so that I shall dwell among them.

9just as all that which I show you(SG), the form of the tabernacle, and the form of all its utensils, behold thus shall you (PL) make.

10and they shall make an aron/ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

11and you(SG) must it overlay with pure gold – in inner and in outer shall you (sg) it overlay; and you(SG) must make on it a gold border/garland around about.

12and you(SG) must pour out/cast(mould) for it four golden rings, and put on its four feet; and two rings shall be on its one side, and two rings on its second side.

13and you(SG) must make bars from acacia wood, and them overlay with gold.

14and you(SG) must pass through the bars in the rings by the sides of aron/ark, to carry on them the aron/ark.

15in the rings of aron/ark shall the bars be, they shall not removed become from it.

16and you(SG) must put in the aron/ark this testimony which I will to you(SG) give.

17and you(SG) must make a cover of pure gold; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

18and you(SG) must make two golden Keruvim; hammered shall you (sg) them make, at both ends of the cover.

19and make one keruv at end of the side, and one keruv at end of the other side; from the cover itself shall you (PL) make the Keruvim at its two ends.

20and the Keruvim shall spread out the wings toward the upward, overshadowing with their wings over the the cover, with their faces one opposite another; toward the cover to shall be the faces of the Keruvim.

21and you(SG) must put the cover above on the aron/ark; and in the aron/ark shall you (sg) put this testimony which I will you(SG) give.

22and I will self there reveal to you(SG), and will speak with you(SG) from over the cover, from between the two Keruvim which are upon the aron/ark of testimony, all that which I will you(SG) command for the children of Israel.

23and you(SG) must make a table of food of acacia wood; two cubits its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

24and you(SG) must it overlay with pure gold, and make for it a gold border/garland around about.

25and you(SG) must make for it a frame of a handsbreadth around about, and make a gold border/garland for its frame around about.

26and you(SG) must make for it four golden rings, and put the rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

27beside the frame shall be the rings, for handles for the poles to carry the table of food.

28and you(SG) must make the poles of acacia wood, and them overlay with gold; and the table of food shall carried become with them.

29and you(SG) must make its dishes, and its pans, and its pitchers, and its cups, which with them shall be poured; of pure gold shall you (sg) them make.

30and you(SG) must put on the table of food the bread of The Presence before me continually.

31and you(SG) must make a lampstand of pure gold; hammered shall the lampstand made become, its base, and its shaft; its buds – its base and its flowers – shall be from it itself.

32and six branches shall go out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand from its second side.

33three almond blossom shaped cups of a bud and a flower on one branch, and three almond blossom shaped cups of a bud and a flower on other branch; in same way for the six branches, which go out from the lampstand.

34and on the lampstand four almond blossom shaped cups – its knobs and its flowers.

35and a bud under two branches of it, and a bud under two branches of it, and a bud under two branches of it, for the six branches which go out from the lampstand.

36their buds and their branches shall be from its one piece, in all one beaten out/hammered from pure gold.

37and you(SG) must make to you (PL) seven branch lights, and people shall burn its branch lights, and make shine light to its front side toward.

38and its small tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold.

39from a talent pure gold shall they it make with all the these vessels.

40and behold you(SG) must make according to their pattern/design, which you(SG) is shown on mount.

English word for word translation of Orthodox Yiddish Torah (OYTORAH) © Artists for Israel International, 2024
Published by: Artists for Israel International