Exodus 36

1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whom Jehovah had put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work of the service of the sanctuary — according to all that Jehovah had commanded.

So Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other craftsmen with the necessary expertise and given the 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.”

2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whose heart God had put wisdom, every one whose heart moved him to come to the work to do it.

Moses 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.

3 And they took from Moses every heave-offering that the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought him voluntary offerings morning by morning.

Moses 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,

4 And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they wrought,

so much so that all the craftsmen who were working on the sanctuary stopped what they were doing

5 and spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded to be done.

and went and told Moses, “The people have already brought enough to complete the work the Lord has ordered us to do.”

6 Then Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed through the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary! So the people were restrained from bringing;

Moses 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,

7 for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much.

since there was already more than enough to do all the work necessary.

8 And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubim of artistic work did he make them.

The 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.

9 The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for all the curtains.

Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long by four cubits wide, and they were all the same size.

10 And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled he one to another.

They joined together five of the curtains as one set, and the other five he joined as a second set.

11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.

They used blue material to make loops on the edge of the last curtain of both sets.

12 He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops at the end of the curtain that was in the other coupling: the loops were opposite to one another.

They made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the last curtain of the second set, lining up the loops with each another.

13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.

They also made fifty gold clips and joined the curtains together with the clips, so that the Tabernacle was a single structure.

14 And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.

They made eleven curtains of goat hair as a tent to cover the Tabernacle.

15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain — one measure for the eleven curtains.

Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long by four cubits wide.

16 And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.

They joined five of the curtains together as one set and the other six as another set.

17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.

They made fifty loops on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the last curtain in the second set.

18 And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.

They made fifty bronze clips to join the tent together as a single cover.

19 And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above [that].

They made a covering for the goat hair tent from tanned ram skins, and placed an extra covering of fine leather over that.

20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;

They made an upright framework of acacia wood for the Tabernacle.

21 ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;

Each frame was ten cubits long by one and a half cubits wide.

22 two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Each frame had two pegs so the frames could be connected to each other. They made all the frames of the Tabernacle like this.

23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

They made twenty frames for the south side of the Tabernacle.

24 and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board, for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

They made forty silver stands as supports for the twenty frames using two stands per frame, one under every frame peg.

25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, on the side toward the north, he made twenty boards,

Similarly for the north side of the Tabernacle, they made twenty frames

26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.

and forty silver stands, two stands per frame.

27 And at the rear of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards;

They made six frames for the back (west side) of the Tabernacle,

28 and he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear;

along with two frames for its two back corners.

29 and they were joined beneath, and were coupled together at the top thereof into one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners;

They 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.

30 and there were eight boards, and their silver bases: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.

In total there were eight frames and sixteen silver stands, two under each frame.

31 — And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

They made five crossbars of acacia wood to hold together the frames on the south side of the Tabernacle,

32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear, westward.

five for those on the north, and five for those at the back of the Tabernacle, to the west.

33 And he made the middle bar in the midst of the boards reach from one end to the other.

They made the central crossbar which was placed halfway up the frames and ran from one end to the other.

34 And he overlaid the boards with gold; and made their rings of gold [as] receptacles for the bars; and overlaid the bars with gold.

They covered the frames with gold, and made gold rings to hold the crossbars in place. They covered the crossbars with gold too.

35 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus: of artistic work he made it [with] cherubim.

They made a veil out of blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, embroidered with cherubim by someone who was skilled.

36 And he made four pillars of acacia[-wood] for it, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.

They 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.

37 And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery;

They made a screen for the entrance to the tent using blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, and had it embroidered.

38 and its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their connecting-rods with gold; and their five bases were of copper.

They 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.