Exodus 35

1 And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.

Then Moses assembled the whole congregation of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.

3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

4 And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:

Moses also told the whole congregation of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

5 Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;

6 And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

7 And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

8 And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

9 And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.

and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;

Let every skilled craftsman among you come and make everything that the LORD has commanded:

11 The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

12 The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;

the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;

13 The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread;

the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;

14 And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;

the lampstand for light with its accessories and lamps and oil for the light;

15 And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

16 The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;

the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

17 The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;

the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;

18 The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, along with their ropes;

19 The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.

and the woven garments for ministering in the holy place—both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.”

20 And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.

Then the whole congregation of Israel withdrew from the presence of Moses.

21 And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.

22 They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.

So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.

23 And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them.

Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.

24 Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

And all who could present an offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the LORD. Also, everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the service brought it.

25 And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen.

26 And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.

And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.

27 And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag;

The leaders brought onyx stones and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

28 And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.

as well as spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

29 The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.

So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

30 And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

31 And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,

32 As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

33 Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.

34 And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.

And the LORD has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

35 To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.