And you shall command the Children of Israel, and they shall take to you pure olive oil, crushed for lighting, to kindle a lamp continually.

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain that is before the Testimony, Aharon and his sons shall arrange it from evening until morning before the Eternal; it shall be an everlasting statute for their generations from the Children of Israel.

And you shall bring near to yourself Aharon your brother, and his sons with him, from among the Children of Israel, to minister to Me as priests: Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, Elazar and Itamar, the sons of Aharon.

And you shall make holy garments for Aharon your brother, for glory and for splendor.

And you shall speak to all the wise-hearted, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, and they shall make Aharon’s garments to sanctify him, that he may serve Me as priest.

And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash; and they shall make holy garments for Aharon your brother and for his sons, to minister to Me as priests.

And they shall take the gold, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

And they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of a skillful artisan.

It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined at its two ends, and it shall be joined together.

And the woven band of its ephod which is upon it shall be of the same workmanship, of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

And you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel.

Six of their names on one stone, and the remaining six names on the second stone, according to their birth order.

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in gold settings.

And you shall place the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Children of Israel; and Aharon shall bear their names before the Eternal upon his two shoulders as a remembrance.

And you shall make settings of gold.

And two chains of pure gold you shall make, braided work; and you shall attach the braided chains to the settings.

And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, skillfully woven; like the workmanship of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

It shall be square and doubled; a span shall be its length and a span its width.

And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: the first row shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald.

The second row: a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond.

The third row: a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

And the fourth row: a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their settings.

And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, each one with its name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

And you shall make upon the breastplate chains of braided work of pure gold.

And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and you shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

And you shall attach the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

And the two ends of the two chains you shall fasten in the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod at the front.

And you shall make two rings of gold and place them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its inner edge, toward the ephod.

And you shall make two gold rings and place them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod below, at its front, near its joining, above the woven band of the ephod.

And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it shall be above the woven band of the ephod, and the breastplate shall not be loosened from the ephod.

And Aharon shall bear the names of the Children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart when he goes into the Holy Place, as a continual memorial before the Eternal.

And you shall place in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Tumim, and they shall be upon Aharon’s heart when he goes before the Eternal; and Aharon shall bear the judgment of the Children of Israel upon his heart before the Eternal continually.

And you shall make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue.

And there shall be an opening at its top in the middle; it shall have a woven binding around its opening, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it shall not tear.

And you shall make on its hem pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet, all around its hem, and golden bells between them all around.

A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe all around.

And it shall be upon Aharon when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the Eternal and when he goes out, so that he will not die.

And you shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: “Holy to the Eternal.”

And you shall fasten it with a blue cord, and it shall be upon the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.

And it shall be upon Aharon’s forehead, and Aharon shall bear the iniquity of the holy things which the Children of Israel shall sanctify in all their holy gifts; and it shall be upon his forehead continually, that they may be accepted before the Eternal.

And you shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of an embroiderer.

And for Aharon’s sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for splendor.

And you shall clothe them—Aharon your brother and his sons with him—and you shall anoint them, ordain them, and sanctify them, that they may serve Me as priests.

And you shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh; they shall extend from the waist to the thighs.

And they shall be upon Aharon and upon his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they do not bear iniquity and die; it shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.

And this is the thing that you shall do to them to sanctify them to minister to Me as priests: take one young bull and two rams without blemish.

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; of fine wheat flour you shall make them.

And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

And you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

And you shall take the garments and clothe Aharon with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and you shall gird him with the woven band of the ephod.

And you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown upon the turban.

And you shall take the anointing oil and pour it upon his head and anoint him.

And you shall bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.

And you shall gird them with sashes—Aharon and his sons—and bind caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs as a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aharon and his sons.

And you shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull.

And you shall slaughter the bull before the Eternal at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

And you shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you shall pour out all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.

And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe above the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, and you shall burn them upon the altar.

But the flesh of the bull, its hide, and its refuse you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

And you shall take one ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.

And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it around upon the altar.

And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.

And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Eternal, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Eternal.

And you shall take the second ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.

And you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aharon’s right ear, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around.

And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aharon and upon his garments, and upon his sons and upon their garments with him; and he shall be sanctified, and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

And you shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat upon them, and the right thigh; for it is a ram of ordination.

And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Eternal.

And you shall place all of them upon the palms of Aharon and upon the palms of his sons, and wave them as a wave offering before the Eternal.

And you shall take them from their hands and burn them upon the altar, upon the burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma before the Eternal; it is an offering made by fire to the Eternal.

And you shall take the breast of the ram of ordination that is for Aharon, and wave it as a wave offering before the Eternal; and it shall be your portion.

And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering that was waved and that was lifted from the ram of ordination, from that which was for Aharon and from that which was for his sons.

And it shall be for Aharon and his sons as a perpetual statute from the Children of Israel; for it is a heave offering, and it shall be a heave offering from the Children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their heave offering to the Eternal.

And the holy garments of Aharon shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to be ordained in them.

Seven days shall the priest who succeeds him from among his sons wear them when he enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place.

And you shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

And Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

And they shall eat those things with which atonement was made to ordain and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

And if any of the flesh of the ordination or of the bread remains until morning, you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

And you shall do to Aharon and to his sons according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you shall ordain them.

And you shall offer a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement, and you shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.

Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.

Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.

And with the one lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and you shall offer it with a grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Eternal.

It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before the Eternal, where I will meet with you to speak there to you.

And there I will meet with the Children of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by My glory.

And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar; and I will sanctify Aharon and his sons to minister to Me as priests.

And I will dwell among the Children of Israel and will be their God.

And they shall know that I am the Eternal their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Eternal their God.

And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood you shall make it.

A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width; it shall be square; and two cubits shall be its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

And you shall overlay it with pure gold—its top, its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.

And you shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

And you shall put it before the veil that is by the Ark of the Testimony, before the cover that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.

And Aharon shall burn sweet incense upon it every morning; when he trims the lamps, he shall burn it.

And when Aharon lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it—a continual incense before the Eternal throughout your generations.

You shall not offer strange incense upon it, nor a burnt offering, nor a grain offering; neither shall you pour a drink offering upon it.

And Aharon shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations; it is most holy to the Eternal.

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt.

How he met you on the way and attacked your rear, all the stragglers behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

And it shall be, when the Eternal your God gives you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land which the Eternal your God gives you as an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

And Samuel said to Saul: The Eternal sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel; now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the Eternal.

Thus says the Eternal of Hosts: I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up from Egypt.

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

And Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.

And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.

And Saul said to the Kenite: Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the Children of Israel when they came up from Egypt. So the Kenite departed from among Amalek.

And Saul struck Amalek from Havilah as you go toward Shur, which is before Egypt.

And he captured Agag king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle, the fatlings and the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to destroy them; but everything that was despised and worthless, that they destroyed utterly.

Then the word of the Eternal came to Samuel, saying:

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My words.” And Samuel was distressed, and he cried out to the Eternal all night.

Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, and it was told to Samuel, saying, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself; and he turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Eternal; I have carried out the word of the Eternal.”

But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears and the lowing of cattle that I hear?”

Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the cattle, to sacrifice to the Eternal your God; but the rest we have utterly destroyed.”

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be still, and I will tell you what the Eternal spoke to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

And Samuel said to Saul: Stop, and I will tell you what the Eternal said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.

And Samuel said: Though you were small in your own eyes, were you not made head of the tribes of Israel? And the Eternal anointed you king over Israel.

And the Eternal sent you on a mission and said: Go and utterly destroy the sinners, Amalek, and fight against them until they are consumed.

Why then did you not obey the voice of the Eternal, but flew upon the spoil and did evil in the sight of the Eternal?

And Saul said to Samuel: I have obeyed the voice of the Eternal and have gone on the mission which the Eternal sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek and utterly destroyed Amalek.

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of what was devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Eternal your God in Gilgal.

And Samuel said: Has the Eternal as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Eternal? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Eternal, He has also rejected you from being king.

And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Eternal and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the Eternal.

And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the Eternal, and the Eternal has rejected you from being king over Israel.

And as Samuel turned to go away, he seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

And Samuel said to him: The Eternal has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

And also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor relent; for He is not a man that He should relent.

And he said: I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Eternal your God.

So Samuel returned after Saul, and Saul worshiped the Eternal.

Then Samuel said: Bring here to me Agag the king of Amalek. And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said: Surely the bitterness of death is past.

And Samuel said: As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Eternal in Gilgal.

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul.