3/16/2017

Parashat 23 Portion 74 Shemot 39:1 – 40:38 Yesh 33:20 – 34:8 Eph 2:11-22


Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.)

This is the last part of the last parashah (portion) for the book of Shemot we call Exodus – Pekudei.
It is possibly more significant than we realize that this final portion is dedicated to the priestly garments and the various components of the Tabernacle that are directly part of the priestly environment and function. The priests were called by YHVH and not man. The priests were called to bring all those whom YHVH had called and chosen to full maturity and thus bring restoration to those  Jews and gentiles who flee from mixture and idolatry and survive YHVH’s end time judgment.
In this final Torah portion  the refrain “ all YHVH commanded they did” (or something similar) is repeated some 18 times. Perhaps never before, and never again until Yahshua returns, would the nation as a whole function in such an obedient way.

Exo 39:1  And of the blue and purple and scarlet material they made woven garments, to do service in the set-apart place. And they made the set-apart garments which were for Aharon, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:2  And he made the shoulder garment of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material, and of fine woven linen.
Exo 39:3  And they beat out sheets of gold and cut it into threads, to work it in with the blue and purple and scarlet material, and the fine linen, the work of a skilled workman.
Exo 39:4  They made shoulder pieces for it to join it, it was joined at its two edges.
Exo 39:5  And the embroidered band of his shoulder garment that was on it was of the same work of gold, and blue and purple and scarlet material, and of fine woven linen, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:6  And they made the shoham stones, set in plated work of gold, engraved as signets are engraved, according to the names of the sons of Yisra’ĕl.
Exo 39:7  And he put them on the shoulders of the shoulder garment, stones of remembrance for the sons of Yisra’ĕl, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:8  And he made the breastplate, a work of a skilled workman, like the work of the shoulder garment, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material, and of fine woven linen.
Exo 39:9  It was square, they made the breastplate double, its length a span, its width a span, doubled.
Exo 39:10  And they filled it with four rows of stones: a row of ruby, a topaz, and an emerald was the first row;
Exo 39:11  and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
Exo 39:12  and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exo 39:13  and the fourth row a beryl, a shoham, and a jasper – set in plated work of gold in their settings.
Exo 39:14  And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Yisra’ĕl, twelve according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes.
Exo 39:15  And they made braided chains of corded work for the breastplate at the ends, of clean gold.
Exo 39:16  And they made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exo 39:17  And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
Exo 39:18  And the two ends of the two cords they fastened in the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the shoulder garment in the front.
Exo 39:19  And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was on the inward side of the shoulder garment.
Exo 39:20  And they made two gold rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces, underneath the shoulder garment, on the front of it, close to its seam above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment.
Exo 39:21  And they bound the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the shoulder garment with a blue cord, so that it would be above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, and that the breastplate would not come loose from the shoulder garment, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:22  And he made the robe of the shoulder garment of woven work, all of blue.
Exo 39:23  And the opening of the robe was in the middle, like the opening in a scaled armour, with a woven binding all around the opening, so that it would not tear.
Exo 39:24  And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material, twined.
Exo 39:25  And they made bells of clean gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates:
Exo 39:26  a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, for the service, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:27  And they made the long shirt of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aharon and his sons,
Exo 39:28  and a turban of fine linen, and the turban ornaments of fine linen, and short trousers of fine woven linen,
Exo 39:29  and a girdle of fine woven linen with blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of an embroiderer, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:30  And they made the plate of the set-apart sign of dedication of clean gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving of a signet: SET-APARTNESS TO יהוה.
Exo 39:31  And they put on it a blue cord, to fasten it above on the turban, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Exo 39:32  And all the work of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting was completed. And the children of Yisra’ĕl did according to all that יהוה had commanded Mosheh, so they did.
Exo 39:33  And they brought the Dwelling Place to Mosheh, the tent and all its furnishings, its hooks, its boards, its bars, and its columns, and its sockets,
Exo 39:34  and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering,
Exo 39:35  the ark of the Witness with its poles, and the lid of atonement,
Exo 39:36  the table, and all its utensils, and the showbread,
Exo 39:37  the clean lampstand with its lamps, the lamps to be put in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for light,
Exo 39:38  and the altar of gold, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the covering for the Tent door,
Exo 39:39  the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin with its stand,
Exo 39:40  the screens of the courtyard, its columns and its sockets, the covering for the courtyard gate, its cords, and its pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the Dwelling Place, for the Tent of Meeting,
Exo 39:41  the woven garments, to do service in the set-apart place: the set-apart garments for Aharon the priest, and his sons’ garments, to serve as priests.
Exo 39:42  According to all that יהוה had commanded Mosheh, so the children of Yisra’ĕl did all the work.
Exo 39:43  And Mosheh looked over all the work and saw they did it as יהוה had commanded, so they had done. And Mosheh blessed them.
Exo 40:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Exo 40:2  “On the first day of the first month, you are to raise up the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,
Exo 40:3  and shall put in it the ark of the Witness, and screen the ark with the veil.
Exo 40:4  “And you shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it, and bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.
Exo 40:5  “And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Witness, and put up the covering of the door to the Dwelling Place.