Bible verse by verse

[_LittleNipper]

Yawn! Hmm, looking at the word yawn, I wonder if it has roots to the word Yahweh? Meaning GOD YOU ARE BORING?

Yeah, ask an interesting question or just accept everything as I see it.

[Guest]

Exodus 25:1-40 The Lord says to Moses to tell the people of Israel to collect up a gift for God. Receive from every person whose heart makes him willing. These are the gifts to receive from them: Gold, silver and brass, blue, purple and red cloth, fine linen, goat hair, rams’ skins made red, badgers’ skins, acacia wood, lamp oil, spices for the oil used in worship and for perfumes, onyx stones, and stones to be set in the clothing of the religious leaders. They will build a holy place God, so God may live among them. They are to construct the meeting tent and all that is in it like the plans God is going to provide. They will construct a special box of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits tall --- covering it inside and out with pure gold. And forge a piece of gold to put on it all around. forge four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet --- two rings on one side of it and two rings on the other. Cut long pieces of acacia wood for carrying poles and cover them with gold. Then put the pieces of wood through the rings on the sides of the box, for moving the box. The poles will stay in the rings of the box. They must not be removed. Put into the special box the Law which God will give. Then make a mercy-seat from pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. Make two angels out of beaten gold. Make them at the two ends of the mercy-seat. Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end. Make the top of the mercy-seat, with the cherubim at each end, of one piece. The wings of the cherubim should spread up over the mercy-seat. Their faces should face each other, and toward the mercy-seat between them. Put the mercy-seat on top of the box. Put the Law which God will give into the box. God will meet with Moses there. Between the two cherubim which are upon the special box of the Law, God will speak to Moses about all the Laws God will give Moses for the people of Israel. Construct a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits tall. Cover it with pure gold and make a gold piece around it. Make a piece around it as wide as a hand and put gold on the side of this piece all around. Make four rings of gold for it. Put them on the four corners that are on the table’s four legs. The rings will be close to the sides, to hold the long pieces of wood used to carry the table. Cut the long straight poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table will be carried with these. Forge its plates, its pots and its jars, for pouring your gifts of drink. Make them of pure gold. And set the holy bread on the table before Me all the time. Forge a lamp-stand of pure gold. The lamp-stand and its base are to be made of beaten gold. Its cups, its buds, and its flowers will be of one piece with it. Six branches will go out of its sides, three branches of the lamp-stand out of one side, and three branches out of its other side. Three cups will be made to look like almond flowers, each with bud and flower on one branch, and three on the next branch. This is to be done for all six branches going out of the lamp-stand. Four cups made to look like almond flowers, with their buds and flowers, will be put on the lamp-stand’s base. Make a bud under each of the six branches going out from the place where the lamp-stand is put. Their buds and their branches will all be one piece with the lamp-stand of pure, beaten gold. Then make the seven lamps and put them where they will give light to the space in front of it. The objects for putting out the light and their dishes will be of pure gold. Forge it and all the objects for it out of a piece of gold about half the weight of a man. They are to fabricate them by following the plan for them that was shown to Moses on Siani.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

2 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.

3 `And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,

4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],

5 and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

8 `And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;

9 according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it].

10 `And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

11 and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about.

12 `And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

13 and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold,

14 and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,

15 in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it;

16 and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee.

17 `And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

18 and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

19 and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends.

20 `And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another -- towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

21 `And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee;

22 and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which [are] on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

23 `And thou hast made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,

24 and hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, and hast made for it a crown of gold round about,

25 and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.

26 `And thou hast made to it four rings of gold, and hast put the rings on the four corners, which [are] to its four feet;

27 over-against the border are the rings for places for staves to bear the table;

28 and thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold, and the table hath been borne with them;

29 and thou hast made its dishes, and its bowls, and its covers, and its cups, with which they pour out; of pure gold thou dost make them;

30 and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.

31 `And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same;

32 and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side;

33 three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

34 `And in the candlestick [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knops and its flowers;

35 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, [are] to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick;

36 their knops and their branches are of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold;

37 and thou hast made its seven lamps, and [one] hath caused its lights to go up, and it hath given light over-against its front.

38 `And its snuffers and its snuff dishes [are] of pure gold;

39 of a talent of pure gold he doth make it, with all these vessels.

40 And see thou and do [them] by their pattern which thou art shewn in the mount.

[_PrickKicker]

Who'd have thunk,... God a home furniture / interior designer.

[_gdemetz]

Our Heavenly Father was not the one to design the human body, and by the way, how many teeth would you have put in assuming that you had such great power and intelligence? Three?

[_LittleNipper]

Who'd have thunk,... God a home furniture / interior designer.

Well, He is a wonderful exterior decorator...

[_ludwigm]

Well, He is a wonderful exterior decorator...

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[_LittleNipper]

Our Heavenly Father was not the one to design the human body, and by the way, how many teeth would you have put in assuming that you had such great power and intelligence? Three?

Well, all my teeth fit! God patterned us after the image of Christ and as triune (body, soul, spirit).

[_gdemetz]

Mine too Nipper!

[_Drifting]

Our Heavenly Father was not the one to design the human body, and by the way, how many teeth would you have put in assuming that you had such great power and intelligence? Three?

Well, all my teeth fit! God patterned us after the image of Christ and as triune (body, soul, spirit).

What's the difference between a soul and a spirit?

[_PrickKicker]

What's the difference between a soul and a spirit?

Good question... Subgenius was hinting at this in another thread... I was taught that the soul was the body and spirit combined?

But they seem to mean there is some 3rd element of the being?

It's not Mormon, but please do explain?