Exodus 35

1 Moses/I gathered all the Israeli people together and said to them, “This is what Yahweh has commanded you to do:

And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.

2 [Each week] you may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. It is a sacred day, dedicated to Yahweh. Anyone who does any work on the seventh day must be executed.

Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

3 Do not [even] light a fire in your homes on days of rest.”

No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

4 Moses/I also said to all the Israeli people, “This is [also] what Yahweh has commanded:

And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:

5 Make offerings to Yahweh. Everyone who wants to should bring to Yahweh an offering. [These are the things that they may offer]: Gold, silver, bronze,

Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

6 fine white linen, blue or purple or red cloth, [cloth made from] goats’ hair,

And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

7 rams’ skins that are (tanned/dyed red), fine leather made from goatskins, wood from acacia [trees],

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,

8 oil for the lamps, spices to put in the olive oil for anointing and in the sweet-smelling incense,

And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

9 [valuable] onyx stones or [other] valuable stones to fasten onto the [priest’s] sacred apron and put on his sacred chest pouch.

And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.

10 “All the skilled workers among you should come and make all the things that Yahweh has commanded:

And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;

11 The Sacred Tent and its covering, its fasteners and its frames, its crossbars, its posts, its bases,

The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

12 the sacred chest with its poles and its lid, the curtain that will separate the Holy Place from the Very Holy Place,

The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;

13 the table with the poles [for carrying it] and all the things that will be used with the table, the sacred bread that will be offered to God,

The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread;

14 the lampstand for the lamps with all the things that will be used to take care of them, the oil for the lamps,

And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;

15 the altar for [burning] incense, and the poles [for carrying that altar], the oil for anointing and the sweet-smelling incense, the curtain for the entrance of the Sacred Tent,

And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

16 the altar for offering [sacrifices that will be completely] burned and its bronze grating, the poles [for carrying] that altar and all the things that will be used with it, the washbasin and its base,

The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;

17 the curtains [to surround] the courtyard and the posts and bases [for the posts from which to hang the curtains], the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard,

The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;

18 the pegs and ropes for the Sacred Tent and for the courtyard,

The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

19 and the beautiful clothes that Aaron and his sons are to wear when they do their work in the Holy Place.”

The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.

20 Then all the Israeli people returned [to their tents].

And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.

21 Everyone who wanted to brought an offering to Yahweh. They brought some of the things that would be used to make the Sacred Tent and all the other items that would be used in the rituals, and the materials to make the sacred clothes [for the priests].

And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

22 All the men and women who wanted to brought gold ornaments, earrings, rings, necklaces, and many other kinds of things made of gold, and they dedicated them to Yahweh.

They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.

23 And many [HYP] people who had blue, purple, or red cloth or fine white linen or cloth made from goats’ hair or rams’ skins that were (tanned/dyed red) or leather made from goatskins brought some of these things.

And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them.

24 All those who had silver or bronze brought them as offerings to Yahweh. All those who had some acacia wood that could be used for any of the work brought it.

Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

25 All the women who were skilled to make cloth brought fine linen thread and blue, purple, or red yarn/thread that they had made/spun.

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

26 And all the women who wanted to made/spun thread from goats’ hair.

And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.

27 All the leaders brought valuable onyx stones and other valuable stones to be fastened to Aaron’s sacred apron and his sacred chest pouch.

And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag;

28 They also brought spices [to put in the sweet-smelling incense], and they brought olive oil for the lamps and for the oil for anointing and for putting in the sweet-smelling incense.

And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.

29 All the Israeli men and women who wanted to brought these things to offer them to Yahweh, for doing the work that he had commanded Moses/me to do.

The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.

30 Moses/I said to the Israeli people, “Listen carefully. Yahweh has chosen Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.

And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

31 Yahweh has enabled his Spirit to completely control Bezalel and has given him ability and enabled him to know how to do very skilled work.

And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

32 He can engrave skillful designs in gold, silver, and bronze.

As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

33 He can cut (jewels/valuable stones) and enclose them [in tiny gold frames]. He can carve things from wood and do other skilled work.

Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

34 Yahweh has also given to him and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach their skills to others.

And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.

35 He has given to them the ability to do all kinds of work that is done by craftsmen—those who create artistic things, those who make fine white linen, those who embroider designs using blue or purple or red yarn/thread, and those who make other cloth. They are able to do many [HYP] kinds of skillful work.

To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.