Vayakhel, Aliyah 5 ויקהל, חמישי

He made planks for the mishkon out of acacia wood; (these planks) stood upright (vertically).

Each plank was ten amohs long, and one and one half amohs was the width of each plank.

Each plank had two (square) pegs, exactly parallel to each other. In this manner he made all the planks of the mishkon.

He made these planks for the mishkon, twenty planks for the southern side.

He made forty silver sockets, (and placed them) under the twenty planks. There were two sockets under one plank (one) for each of the two pegs, and two sockets under the other plank, (one) for each of the two pegs.

For the second wall of the mishkon, to the northern side, he made twenty planks.

(He made) their forty silver sockets, two sockets under each plank, two sockets under each plank.

For the western end of the mishkon he made six planks.

He made two planks for the corners of the mishkon at the rear side.

They were coupled together on the bottom, and they were coupled together evenly on the top with one (square) ring. In this manner he made the two (planks) which were at the two corners.

There were eight planks, and their silver sockets, totaling sixteen sockets, two sockets, two sockets under each plank.

He made bars out of acacia wood, five for the planks of one wall,

and five bars for the planks of the second wall of the mishkon, and five bars for the planks of the western (back) wall of the mishkon.

He made the middle (center) bar to go through the planks, [reinforcing the planks] from one end to the other.

He overlaid the planks with gold, and made their rings out of gold to hold the bars. He (also) overlaid the bars with gold.

He made the paroches (partition) out of greenish blue wool, dark red wool, crimson wool, and fine, twined linen, the work of a craftsman, with figures of Cherubim (woven into it).

He made for it (the paroches) four acacia-wood pillars and he overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were also of gold. He cast for them four silver sockets.

He made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of greenish blue wool, dark red wool, crimson wool, and fine twined linen. It was the work of an embroiderer.

(He made) five pillars (to hold the screen), along with their hooks and he overlaid their caps and bands with gold. Their five sockets (he made of) copper.

Betzalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and one-half amohs long, one and one-half amohs wide, and one and one-half amohs high.

He covered it with pure gold from inside and out. He made for it a golden crown-like rim around (its top).

He cast four gold rings on its (the ark’s) four corners, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

He made two poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

He placed the poles in the rings on the sides of the ark, so that the ark can be carried with them.

He made a cover (for the ark) of pure gold, two and one-half amohs long, and one and one-half amohs wide.

He made two golden Cherubim. He hammered them out of the two ends of the (ark) cover.

One Cherub out of one end, and one Cherub out of the other end. From the (same piece of gold as the) cover itself, he made the Cherubim on its two ends.

The Cherubim had their wings spread upward, sheltering the cover with their wings, and they faced one another, the Cherubim’s faces were (inclined) toward the cover.

He made a table out of acacia wood, two amohs long, one amoh wide, and one and one-half amohs high.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a crown-like rim around it.

He made a ledge of a tefach around (the table), and he made a gold crown-like rim around the ledge.

He cast for it (the table) four gold rings, and placed the rings on the four corners that are on its four legs.

The rings were against the ledge as houses (receptacles) for the poles with which to carry the table.

He made the poles out of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold with which to carry the table.

He made the vessels that were on the table, its dishes (bread shapes), its spoons (incense bowls), its supports, and its half-hollow tubes by which they (the breads) are covered, out of pure gold.