Terumah Haftorah

Exodus 25:1-27:19

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The following is the standard Haftorah for this week's Torah reading. However, various calendar-based considerations occasionally cause different Haftorahs to be substituted for the standard ones.

I Kings

Chapter 5

26. And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they both made a league together.

27. And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.

28. And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month alternately, a month they were in Lebanon, (and) two months at home, and Adoniram (was) over the levy.

29. And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains.

30. Besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.

31. And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, heavy stones, to lay the foundation of the house (with) hewn stone.

32. And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did hew (them), and they prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

Chapter 6

1. And it was in the four hundred and eightieth year after the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month Ziv, which (is) the second month of Solomon's reign over Israel, that he did (begin to) build the house of the Lord.

2. And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof (was) sixty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

3. And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits (was) the length thereof, before the breadth of the house, (and) ten cubits (was) the breadth thereof before the house.

4. And he made for the house windows broad within, and narrow without.

5. And against the wall of the house he built a chamber round about, (against) the walls of the house round about, (both) of the temple and of the sanctuary, and he made chambers round about.

6. The nethermost chamber (was) five cubits broad, and the middle (was) six cubits broad, and the third (was) seven cubits broad, for he made rebatements in (the wall of) the house round about on the outside, that (the beams) should not have hold in the walls of the house.

7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone finished at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe (nor) any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

8. The door of the lowest chamber (was) in the right side of the house, and with winding stairs they went up into the middle (chamber), and from the middle into the third.

9. And he built the house, and finished it, and he covered the house with panelling and joined planks of cedar.

10. And he built the chambers against all the house, (each) five cubits high; and he covered the house with timber of cedar.

11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon saying,

12. (Concerning) this house which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, and execute My ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

13. And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people, Israel.

Please note: These Haftorah texts follow Chabad custom. Other communities could possibly read more, less, or a different section of the Prophets altogether. Please consult with your rabbi.

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Haftorah for Terumah

Exodus 25:1-27:19

I Kings

Chapter 5

Chapter 6