Exodus 36

1 And Bezaleel, and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom YHWH has given wisdom and understanding to know to do every work of the service of the holy place, have done according to all that YHWH 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 calls to Bezaleel, and to Aholiab, and to every wise-hearted man in whose heart YHWH has given wisdom, everyone whom his heart lifted up, to come near 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 take from before Moses all the raised-offering which the sons of Israel have brought in for the work of the service of the holy place to do it; and still they have brought to him a willing-offering 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, who are doing all the work of the holy place, each come from his work which they are doing,

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

5 and speak to Moses, saying, “The people are multiplying to bring in more than sufficient for the service of the work which YHWH commanded [us] to do.”

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

6 And Moses commands, and they cause a voice to pass over through the camp, saying, “Do not let man or woman make anymore work for the raised-offering of the holy place”; and the people are 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 and the work has been sufficient for them, for all the work, to do it, and to leave.

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

8 And all the wise-hearted ones among the doers of the work make the Dwelling Place; he has made them [with] ten curtains of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [with] cherubim, the work of a designer.

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 [is] twenty-eight by the cubit, and the breadth of one curtain [is] four by the cubit; one measure [is] 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 joins the five curtains to one another, and the [other] five curtains he has joined to one another;

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

11 and he makes loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, at the end, in the joining; so he has made in the edge of the outmost curtain, in the joining of the second;

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

12 he has made fifty loops in the first curtain, and he has made fifty loops in the end of the curtain which [is] in the joining of the second; the loops are taking hold on 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 makes fifty hooks of gold, and joins the curtains to one another by the hooks, and the Dwelling Place is 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 makes curtains of goats’ [hair] for a tent over the Dwelling Place; eleven curtains he has made them;

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

15 the length of one curtain [is] thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of one curtain [is] four cubits; one measure [is] for the eleven curtains;

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

16 and he joins the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart.

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

17 And he makes fifty loops on the outer edge of the curtain, in the joining; and he has made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is joining the second;

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 makes fifty hooks of bronze to join the tent—to be one;

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

19 and he makes a covering for the tent of rams’ skins made red, and a covering of tachashim skins above.

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 makes the boards for the Dwelling Place of shittim wood, standing up;

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

21 ten cubits [is] the length of the [one] board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the [one] board;

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

22 two handles [are] to one board, joined to one another; so he has made for all the boards of the Dwelling Place.

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 makes the boards for the Dwelling Place; twenty boards for the south side southward;

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

24 and he has made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two handles, and two sockets under the other board for its two handles.

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 second side of the Dwelling Place, for the north side, he has made twenty boards,

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

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

and forty silver stands, two stands per frame.

27 and for the sides of the Dwelling Place westward, he has made six boards;

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

28 and he has made two boards for the corners of the Dwelling Place, in the two sides;

along with two frames for its two back corners.

29 and they have been twins below, and together they are twins at its head, at one ring; so he has done to both of them at the two 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 have been eight boards; and their sockets of silver [are] sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board.

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

31 And he makes bars of shittim wood: five for the boards of the first side of the Dwelling Place,

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 second side of the Dwelling Place, and five bars for the boards of the Dwelling Place, for the sides westward;

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

33 and he makes the middle bar to enter into the midst of the boards from end to end;

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

34 and he has overlaid the boards with gold, and he has made their rings of gold, places for bars, and he overlays 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 makes the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen; he has made it [with] cherubim—the work of a designer;

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 makes four pillars of shittim [wood] for it, and overlays them with gold; their pegs [are] of gold; and he casts four sockets of silver for them.

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 makes a covering for the opening of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, the work of an embroiderer,

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 also its five pillars, and their pegs; and he overlaid their tops and their fillets [with] gold, and their five sockets [are] bronze.

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.