Exodus 36

1 And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom the Lord hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to do every manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall make all, just as the Lord hath commanded.

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 for Bezalel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, every one whose heart stirred him up to come near unto the work to do it:

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 the whole of the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it; and these brought unto him yet more free-will offerings morning after 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 then came all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, every man from his own work which they were doing.

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

5 And they said unto Moses, thus, The people bring more than is required for the service of the work, which the Lord hath commanded to make.

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 gave the command, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary: so the people were restrained from bringing [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 the stuff prepared was sufficient for all the work to make it, and there was some over.

They had more than enough materials for all the work.

8 And all the wise-hearted men, among those who wrought the work, made the tabernacle of ten curtains; of twisted linen thread, and blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, of weaver's work, made he them.

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

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

10 And he coupled together five of the curtains one to another: and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.

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

11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, which was the outside in the coupling: the like he made on the border of the curtain, which was the outmost on the second coupling.

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 Fifty loops made he on the one curtain, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain which was in the second coupling: the loops were fixed opposite to each other.

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 he made fifty hooks of gold; and he coupled the curtains together one unto the other with the hooks, and the tabernacle became thus one piece.

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

14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains made he the same.

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

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

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

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

17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was the outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain of the second coupling.

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 he made fifty hooks of copper, to couple the tent together that it might be one piece.

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

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

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

20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of shittim wood, standing up.

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

21 Ten cubits was the length of each board, and one cubit and a half was the breadth of each one board.

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

22 There were two tenons for every board, fitted in, one against the other: the like made he for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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

23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side, on the right.

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

24 And forty sockets of silver made he under the twenty boards; two sockets under the one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under the other board for its two tenons.

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 for the other side of the tabernacle, for the north side, he made twenty boards:

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

26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board.

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

27 And for the back wall of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards.

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

28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the back wall.

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

29 And they were closely fitting beneath, and they were closely joined together on the top, by means of one ring; thus he did to both of them, for both the corners.

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 so there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under every board.

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 he made bars of shittim wood; five, for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle;

Bezalel made crossbars of acacia wood—five for the frames of the one 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 for the back wall, westward.

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 he made the middle bar to pass through the midst of the boards from the one end to the other end.

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

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

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 he made the vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen; of weaver's work made he it, with cherubim.

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 he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, their hooks also were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

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 he made a hanging for the door of the tabernacle, of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen; the work of the embroiderer;

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 its five pillars with their hooks: and he overlaid their tops and made their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of copper.

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.