Exodus 36
1 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.”
“Bezalel and Oholiab, and all the other men to whom Yahweh has given ability and enabled them to understand how to do all the work to make the Sacred Tent, must make everything just as Yahweh has commanded.”
2 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.
So Moses/I summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and all the other skilled men to whom Yahweh had given special ability and who wanted to do some of the work.
3 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,
Moses/I gave them all the things that the people had brought as offerings to Yahweh for making the Sacred Tent. But the people continued bringing more things every morning.
4 so much so that all the craftsmen who were working on the sanctuary stopped what they were doing
As a result, the skilled men who were doing various things to make the Sacred Tent came to Moses/me
5 and went and told Moses, “The people have already brought enough to complete the work the Lord has ordered us to do.”
and said, “The people are bringing more than we need to do the work that Yahweh has commanded us!”
6 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,
So Moses/I gave the skilled men this message that was proclaimed throughout the camp: “No one should bring anything more as an offering to make the Sacred Tent!” When the people [heard that], they did not bring anything more.
7 since there was already more than enough to do all the work necessary.
What they had already brought was enough to do all the work. [In fact], it was more than was needed!
8 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.
All the most skilled men among the workmen made the Sacred Tent. They made it from ten strips of fine linen, and carefully embroidered it using blue, purple, and red yarn/thread to make figures that resembled the winged creatures.
9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long by four cubits wide, and they were all the same size.
Each strip was (14 yards/twelve meters) long and (2 yards/1.8 meters) wide.
10 They joined together five of the curtains as one set, and the other five he joined as a second set.
They sewed five strips together to make one set, and they sewed the other five strips together to make the other set.
11 They used blue material to make loops on the edge of the last curtain of both sets.
For each set, they made loops of blue [cloth] and fastened them on the outer edge of the strip, at the end of each set.
12 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.
They put 50 loops on the edge of the first set, and 50 loops on the edge of the second set.
13 They also made fifty gold clips and joined the curtains together with the clips, so that the Tabernacle was a single structure.
They made 50 gold clasps/fasteners, to fasten both of the sets together. In that way, the inside of the Sacred Tent was [as though it was] one piece.
14 They made eleven curtains of goat hair as a tent to cover the Tabernacle.
They made a cover for the Sacred Tent from eleven pieces of cloth made from goats’ hair.
15 Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long by four cubits wide.
Each piece of cloth was (15 yards/13.5 meters) long and (2 yards/1.8 meters) wide.
16 They joined five of the curtains together as one set and the other six as another set.
They sewed five of these pieces of cloth together to make one set, and they sewed the other six pieces of cloth together to make another set.
17 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.
They made 100 loops [of blue cloth]. They fastened 50 of them to the outer edge of the one set and they fastened 50 to the outer edge of the other set.
18 They made fifty bronze clips to join the tent together as a single cover.
They made 50 bronze clasps/fasteners and joined the two sets together with them. In that way it formed one cover.
19 They made a covering for the goat hair tent from tanned ram skins, and placed an extra covering of fine leather over that.
They made two more covers for the Sacred Tent. They made one from rams’ skins that had been (tanned/dyed red), and they made the top cover from goatskin leather.
20 They made an upright framework of acacia wood for the Tabernacle.
They made frames from acacia wood and set them up [to support the covers for the Sacred Tent].
21 Each frame was ten cubits long by one and a half cubits wide.
Each frame was (15 feet/4.5 meters) long and (27 in./66 cm.) wide.
22 Each frame had two pegs so the frames could be connected to each other. They made all the frames of the Tabernacle like this.
They made two projections at the bottom of each frame. These were for fastening the frames to the bases underneath them. Each frame had these projections.
23 They made twenty frames for the south side of the Tabernacle.
The skilled workmen made twenty frames for the south side of the Sacred Tent.
24 They made forty silver stands as supports for the twenty frames using two stands per frame, one under every frame peg.
They made 40 silver bases to go underneath them. Two bases went under each frame. The projections on each frame fit into these bases.
25 Similarly for the north side of the Tabernacle, they made twenty frames
[Similarly], they made 20 frames for the north side of the Sacred Tent.
26 and forty silver stands, two stands per frame.
They made 40 silver bases for them also, with two bases for under each frame.
27 They made six frames for the back (west side) of the Tabernacle,
For the rear of the Sacred Tent, on the west side, they made six frames.
28 along with two frames for its two back corners.
They also made two extra frames, one for each corner of the rear of the Sacred Tent, [to provide extra support].
29 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.
The two corner frames were joined from the bottom to the top (OR, joined at both the bottom and the top). At the top of each of the two corner frames they fastened a gold ring for holding the crossbar.
30 In total there were eight frames and sixteen silver stands, two under each frame.
In that way, [for the rear of the Sacred Tent] there were eight frames, and there were 16 bases, two bases under each frame.
31 They made five crossbars of acacia wood to hold together the frames on the south side of the Tabernacle,
The workmen made 15 crossbars from acacia wood.
32 five for those on the north, and five for those at the back of the Tabernacle, to the west.
Five of them were for the frames on the north side of the Sacred Tent, five for the south side, and five for the frames at the rear of the Sacred Tent, the west side.
33 They made the central crossbar which was placed halfway up the frames and ran from one end to the other.
The crossbars on the north, south, and west sides of the Sacred Tent were fastened to the middle of the frames. The two long crossbars extended from one end of the Sacred Tent to the other, and the crossbar on the west side extended from one side of the Sacred Tent to the other side.
34 They covered the frames with gold, and made gold rings to hold the crossbars in place. They covered the crossbars with gold too.
The workmen covered the frames with gold and fastened gold rings to the poles. The crossbars [were put] into the rings. The crossbars were [also] covered with gold.
35 They made a veil out of blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, embroidered with cherubim by someone who was skilled.
They made a curtain from fine white linen. Skilled craftsmen embroidered it with blue, purple, and red yarn/thread, making designs [that resembled] the winged creatures.
36 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.
They suspended/hung the curtain from four posts that were made from acacia [wood] and covered with gold. They set [each] post in a silver base.
37 They made a screen for the entrance to the tent using blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, and had it embroidered.
They made a curtain to [cover] the entrance of the Sacred Tent. They made it from fine linen, and a skilled weaver embroidered it with blue, purple, and red yarn/thread.
38 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.
[To support this curtain], they also made five posts from acacia wood and fastened gold clasps/fasteners to them. They completely covered the posts with gold. They also made a bronze base for each of those posts.
