Exodus 25

“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,” Naming Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,” The line’s distinctive content terms include blue, fine, goats. Its relationship to verses 3 and 5 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,” The line’s distinctive content terms include skins, badgers, dyed. Its relationship to verses 4 and 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,” Naming Oil keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.” Naming Onyx keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” The line’s distinctive content terms include dwell, sanctuary. Its relationship to verses 7 shows what work it does in this passage.

“According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of…” The line’s distinctive content terms include gold, overlay, crown. Its relationship to verses 10 and 12 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.” The line’s distinctive content terms include gold, overlay, shittim. Its relationship to verses 12 and 14 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.” The line’s distinctive content terms include borne, rings, sides. Its relationship to verses 13 and 15 shows what work it does in this passage.

“The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.” The number two makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two…” The number two makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.” The line’s distinctive content terms include gold, crown, overlay. Its relationship to verses 23 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border…” The line’s distinctive content terms include border, round, breadth. Its relationship to verses 26 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet…” The number four makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.” The line’s distinctive content terms include borne, gold, overlay. Its relationship to verses 27 and 29 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of…” The line’s distinctive content terms include bowls, cover, covers. Its relationship to verses 28 and 30 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.” The line’s distinctive content terms include alway, shewbread, table. Its relationship to verses 29 and 31 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the…” The number three makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.” The line’s distinctive content terms include look, mount, pattern. Its relationship to verses 39 shows what work it does in this passage.