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Exodus 39

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Exodus 39 Overview

Exodus 39 completes the priestly garments and the tabernacle project. The craftsmen make the ephod, breastplate with twelve stones, robe, coats, mitre, bonnets, linen breeches, girdle, and the golden plate engraved “HOLINESS TO THE LORD,” repeatedly doing “as the LORD commanded Moses.” The finished tabernacle and all its furnishings are brought to Moses. He inspects the work, sees that the people have made everything according to the LORD’s command, and blesses them.

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Before you read Exodus 39

Coming from

Exodus 38 completes the bronze altar, laver, court, and material accounting.

In this chapter

The final garments are made, all sanctuary pieces are assembled for inspection, and the project is certified as faithfully completed.

Leads into

Exodus 40 erects and arranges the tabernacle, consecrates it, and ends with the glory of the LORD filling the finished sanctuary.

Key understanding

Exodus 39 completes the priestly garments and the tabernacle project. The craftsmen make the ephod, breastplate with twelve stones, robe, coats, mitre, bonnets, linen breeches, girdle, and the golden plate engraved “HOLINESS TO THE LORD,” repeatedly doing “as the LORD commanded Moses.” The finished tabernacle and all its furnishings are brought to Moses. He inspects the work, sees that the people have made everything according to the LORD’s command, and blesses them.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

The repeated phrase “as the LORD commanded Moses” is the chapter’s central evaluation of successful worship work.

Truth 2

The priestly garments visibly preserve tribal representation, holiness, beauty, and office exactly as ordered earlier.

Truth 3

Completion is not self-certified by the craftsmen; Moses inspects the work against the divine command.

Truth 4

Faithful obedience can be publicly recognized and blessed.

Truth 5

The chapter brings months of instruction and craftsmanship to the threshold of divine indwelling.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Exodus 28 gives the garment designs now completed here.

Connection 2

Leviticus 8 will place these garments on Aaron and his sons during consecration.

Connection 3

Hebrews develops the priesthood theme by presenting Jesus as superior to Aaronic priests.

Connection 4

2 Timothy 2:15’s call to approved workmanship offers a later verbal resonance with careful work before God, though the ministry context differs.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

The repeated obedience formula should not be reduced to external legalism; these are redeemed covenant people carrying out the worship God prescribed.

Keep this clear 2

Moses’ blessing recognizes faithful completion but does not make craftsmanship a saving work.

Keep this clear 3

The garments belong to Aaronic priests and do not create a dress code for New Testament pastors.

Keep this clear 4

The chapter’s detailed repetition is intentionally evidentiary: what was commanded has actually been done.

Read Exodus 39 watching for…

Every occurrence of “as the LORD commanded Moses.”

The twelve stones in the breastplate.

“HOLINESS TO THE LORD” on the golden plate.

The moment all pieces are brought to Moses.

Inspection, approval, and blessing at the end.

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Chapter outline6 sections
1The cloths of service are made2-7The ephod is made8-21The breastplate is made22-26The robe of the ephod is made27-31The other priestly garments and holy crown are made32-43The tabernacle work is finished and Moses inspects it
1

And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

2

And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

3

And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.

4

They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.

5

And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.

6

And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

7

And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

8

And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

10

And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

11

And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

12

And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

13

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

14

And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

15

And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.

16

And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.

17

And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.

18

And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.

19

And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.

20

And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

21

And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.

22

And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

23

And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.

24

And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

25

And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;

26

A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.

27

And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

28

And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

29

And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.

30

And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

31

And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.

32

Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

33

And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,

34

And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,

35

The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,

36

The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,

37

The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,

38

And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,

39

The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

40

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

41

The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.

42

According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

43

And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

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