Exodus 36
36
1“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”
2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it. 3They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning. 4All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did. 5They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.”
6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing. 7For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. 9The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,#36:9 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure. 10He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. 11He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling. 12He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another. 13He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains. 15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure. 16He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling. 18He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. 19He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. 21Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board. 22Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way. 23He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 24He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards 26and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 27For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. 29They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners. 30There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 32and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward. 33He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other. 34He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman. 36He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them. 37He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; 38and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.
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Exodus 36
36
1“So Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other craftsmen with the necessary expertise, given skill and ability by the Lord, are to work out how to accomplish all the work of constructing the sanctuary as commanded by the Lord.”
2Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled people who had been given special abilities by the Lord, everyone willing to come and do the work. 3Moses gave them everything the Israelites had contributed to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. In the meantime the people went on bringing freewill offerings every morning, 4so much so that all the craftsmen who were working on the sanctuary stopped what they were doing 5and went and told Moses, “The people have already brought enough to complete the work the Lord has ordered us to do.”
6Moses gave the order, and an announcement was made throughout the camp: “Men and women, don't bring anything more as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were stopped from bringing anything more, 7since there was already more than enough to do all the work necessary.
8The skilled craftsmen among the workers made the ten curtains for the Tabernacle. They were made of finely-spun linen together with blue, purple, and crimson thread, embroidered with cherubim. 9Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long by four cubits wide, and they were all the same size. 10They joined together five of the curtains as one set, and the other five as a second set. 11They used blue material to make loops on the edge of the last curtain of both sets. 12They made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the last curtain of the second set, lining up the loops with each another. 13They also made fifty gold clips and joined the curtains together with the clips, so that the Tabernacle was a single structure.
14They made eleven curtains of goat hair as a tent to cover the Tabernacle. 15Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long by four cubits wide. 16They joined five of the curtains together as one set and the other six as another set. 17They made fifty loops on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the last curtain in the second set. 18They made fifty bronze clips to join the tent together as a single cover. 19They made a covering for the goat hair tent from tanned ram skins, and placed an extra covering of fine leather over that.
20They made an upright framework of acacia wood for the Tabernacle. 21Each frame was ten cubits long by one and a half cubits wide. 22Each frame had two pegs so the frames could be connected to each other. They made all the frames of the Tabernacle like this. 23They made twenty frames for the south side of the Tabernacle. 24They made forty silver stands as supports for the twenty frames using two stands per frame, one under every frame peg. 25Similarly for the north side of the Tabernacle, they made twenty frames 26and forty silver stands, two stands per frame. 27They made six frames for the back (west side) of the Tabernacle, 28along with two frames for its two back corners. 29They joined these corner frames at the bottom and at the top near to the first ring. This is how they made the two corner frames. 30In total there were eight frames and sixteen silver stands, two under each frame.
31They made five crossbars of acacia wood to hold together the frames on the south side of the Tabernacle, 32five for those on the north, and five for those at the back of the Tabernacle, to the west. 33They made the central crossbar which was placed halfway up the frames and ran from one end to the other. 34They covered the frames with gold, and made gold rings to hold the crossbars in place. They covered the crossbars with gold too.
35They made a veil out of blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, embroidered with cherubim by someone who was skilled. 36They made four posts of acacia wood for it and covered them with gold. They made gold hooks for the posts and cast their four silver stands. 37They made a screen for the entrance to the tent using blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, and had it embroidered. 38They also made five posts of acacia wood with hooks to hang the screen. They covered the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five stands were made of bronze.
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