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.

“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 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 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.

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 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.

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

All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.

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.

They 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 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.

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.

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

For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.

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.

All the wise-hearted men amongst 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 skilful workman.

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, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.

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;

He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

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

He 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.

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 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.

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 clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.

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.

He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven 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 four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.

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

He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

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 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.

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

He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.

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

He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

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

He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

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.

Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

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

Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.

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

He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.

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

He 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.

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 boards

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 sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

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 far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

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 boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.

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.

They 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.

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

There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.

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.

He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards 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.

and 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.

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

He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.

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

He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

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

He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skilful workman.

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

He 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.

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 screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;

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

and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were 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.