Exodus 36

1 And Beseleel wrought, and Eliab and every one wise in understanding, to whom was given wisdom and knowledge, to understand to do all the works according to the holy offices, according to all things which the Lord appointed.

So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom Yahweh has given skill and ability to know how to do any work in the construction of the holy place are to do the work according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”

2 And Moses called Beseleel and Eliab, and all that had wisdom, to whom God gave knowledge in [their] heart, and all who were freely willing to come forward to the works, to perform them.

Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skillful person in whose mind Yahweh had given skill, and whose heart stirred within him to come and do the work.

3 And they received from Moses all the offerings, which the children of Israel brought for all the works of the sanctuary to do them; and they continued to receive the gifts brought, from those who brought them in the morning.

They received from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought for constructing the holy place. The people were still bringing freewill offerings every morning to Moses.

4 And there came all the wise men who wrought the works of the sanctuary, each according to his own work, which they wrought.

So all the skilled people working on the holy place came from the work that they had been doing.

5 And one said to Moses, The people bring an abundance [too great] in proportion to all the works which the Lord has appointed [them] to do.

The craftsmen told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that Yahweh has commanded us to do.”

6 And Moses commanded, and proclaimed in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman any longer labour for the offerings of the sanctuary; and the people were restrained from bringing any more.

So Moses instructed that no one in the camp should bring any more offerings for the construction of the holy place. Then the people stopped bringing these gifts.

7 And they had materials sufficient for making the furniture, and they left some besides.

They had more than enough materials for all the work.

8 And every wise one amongst those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So all the craftsmen among them constructed the tabernacle with ten curtains made from fine linen and blue, purple, and scarlet wool with the designs of cherubim. This was the work of Bezalel, the very skilled craftsman.

9 And he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, the width four cubits. All the curtains were of the same size.

10 And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work;

Bezalel joined five curtains to each other, and the other five curtains he also joined to each other.

11 shoulder-pieces joined from both sides, a work woven by mutual twisting of the parts into one another.

He made loops of blue along the outer edge of the end curtain of one set, and he did the same along the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.

12 They made it of the same material according to the making of it, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, as the Lord commanded Moses;

He made fifty loops on the first curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. So the loops were opposite to each another.

13 and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;

He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together with them so that the tabernacle became united.

14 and he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, [as] stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.

Bezalel made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven of these curtains.

15 And they made the oracle, a work woven with embroidery, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain was four cubits. Each of the eleven curtains was of the same size.

16 They made the oracle square [and] double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, —double.

He joined five curtains to each other and the other six curtains to each other.

17 And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;

He made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain of the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain that joined the second set.

18 and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;

Bezalel made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be one piece.

19 and the third row, a ligure and agate and amethyst;

He made for the tabernacle a covering of ram skins dyed red, another covering of fine leather to go above that.

20 and the fourth row a chrysolite and beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and fastened with gold.

Bezalel made vertical frames out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

21 And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.

The length of each frame was ten cubits, and the width of each frame was one and a half cubits.

22 And they made on the oracle turned wreaths, wreathen work, of pure gold,

Each frame had two wooden pegs for joining the frames together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.

23 and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.

He made the frames for the tabernacle in this way: twenty frames for the south side.

24 And they put the two golden rings on both the [upper] corners of the oracle;

Bezalel made forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames. There were two bases under one frame to join the frames together, and also two bases under each of the other frames to join frames together.

25 and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the two wreaths into the two couplings.

For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames

26 And they put them on the two circlets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod opposite [each other] in front.

and their forty silver bases. There were two bases under the first frame, two bases under the next frame, and so on.

27 And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two projections on the top of the oracle, and on the top of the hinder part of the ephod within.

For the back of the tabernacle on the west, Bezalel made six frames.

28 And they made two golden rings, and put them on both the shoulders of the ephod under it, in front by the coupling above the connexion of the ephod.

He made two frames for the back corners of the tabernacle.

29 And he fastened the oracle by the rings that were on it to the rings of the ephod, which were fastened with [a string] of blue, joined together with the woven work of the ephod; that the oracle should not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.

These frames were separate at the bottom, but joined at the top in one ring. He made two of them in this way for the two corners.

30 And they made the tunic under the ephod, woven work, all of blue.

There were eight frames, together with their silver bases. There were sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first frame, two bases under the next frame, and so on.

31 And the opening of the tunic in the midst woven closely together, the opening having a fringe round about, that it might not be tore.

Bezalel made crossbars of acacia wood—five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,

32 And they made on the border of the tunic below pomegranates as of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

five crossbars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the frames for the back side of the tabernacle to the west.

33 And they made golden bells, and put the bells on the border of the tunic round about between the pomegranates:

He made the crossbar in the center of the frames, that is, halfway up, to reach from end to end.

34 a golden bell and a pomegranate on the border of the tunic round about, for the ministration, as the Lord commanded Moses.

He covered the frames with gold. He made their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and he covered the bars with gold.

35 And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,

Bezalel made the curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen, with designs of cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

36 and the tires of fine linen, and the mitre of fine linen, and the drawers of fine linen twined;

He made for the curtain four pillars of acacia wood, and he covered them with gold. He also made gold hooks for the pillars, and he cast for them four silver bases.

37 and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.

He made a hanging for the tent entrance. It was made of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, using fine linen, the work of an embroiderer.

38 And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold;

He also made the hanging's five pillars with hooks. He covered their tops and their rods with gold. Their five bases were made of bronze.

39 and he wrote upon it graven letters [as] of a seal, Holiness to the Lord.

40 And they put it on the border of blue, so that it should be on the mitre above, as the Lord commanded Moses.