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Terumah (parashah)

Terumah, Terumoh, Terimuh, or Trumah (תְּרוּמָה‎—Hebrew for "gift" or "offering," the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the nineteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Exodus. The parashah tells of God's instructions to make the Tabernacle and its furnishings. The parashah constitutes Exodus 25:1–27:19. It is made up of 4,692 Hebrew letters, 1,145 Hebrew words, 96 verses, and 155 lines in a Torah Scroll (Sefer Torah). Jews in the Diaspora read it the nineteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in February and rarely in early March.

In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות‎, aliyot.

In the first reading, God instructed Moses to tell all Israelites whose heart so moved them to bring gifts of gold, silver, copper, colored yarns, fine linen, goats' hair, tanned ram skins, acacia wood, oil, spices, lapis lazuli, and other fine stones to make a sanctuary—the Tabernacle (Mishkan, מִּשְׁכָּן‎)—and its furnishings, so that God could dwell among them. God instructed them to make the Ark of the Covenant of acacia wood overlaid with gold in which to deposit the tablets setting forth God's commandments.

In the second reading, God told them to make two cherubim of gold to be for the ark's cover over the mercy seat. God promised to impart commandments to Moses from between the two cherubim above the cover of the Ark. God instructed them to make a table of acacia wood overlaid with gold, on which to set the bread of display or showbread.

In the third reading, God instructed them to make a six-branched, seven-lamped lampstand or menorah of pure gold. God instructed them to make the Tabernacle of ten curtains of fine twisted linen, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, with a design of cherubim worked into them. God instructed them to make 11 cloths of goats' hair for a tent over the Tabernacle, and coverings of tanned ram and taḥash skins (תְּחָשִׁים, possibly dugong).

In the fourth reading, God instructed them to make boards of acacia wood and overlay the boards with gold for the Tabernacle.

In the fifth reading, God instructed them to make a curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, with a design of cherubim, to serve as a partition obscuring the Holy of Holies. God instructed them to place the Ark, the table, and the menorah in the Tabernacle. God instructed them to make a screen for the entrance of the Tent, made of coloured yarn and fine twisted linen, worked in embroidery, and supported by five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold.

In Exodus 26:31, God instructed Moses: "You shall make a curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen; it shall have a design of cherubim (Biblical Hebrew: כְּרוּבִים, romanized: kərūḇīm worked into it." The Chazal relayed an oral tradition that the sense here is to the work of an artisan skilled in motifs and woven directly onto the fabric from the loom, rather than being embroidered. See also the Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 72b.

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