< Exodus 36 >
1 “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.”
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.
2 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.
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.
3 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.
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.
4 As a result, the skilled men who were doing various things to make the Sacred Tent came to Moses/me
And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they wrought,
5 and said, “The people are bringing more than we need to do the work that Yahweh has commanded us!”
and spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded to be done.
6 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.
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;
7 What they had already brought was enough to do all the work. [In fact], it was more than was needed!
for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much.
8 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.
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.
9 Each strip was (14 yards/twelve meters) long and (2 yards/1.8 meters) wide.
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for all the curtains.
10 They sewed five strips together to make one set, and they sewed the other five strips together to make the other set.
And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled he one to another.
11 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.
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.
12 They put 50 loops on the edge of the first set, and 50 loops on the edge of the second set.
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.
13 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.
And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.
14 They made a cover for the Sacred Tent from eleven pieces of cloth made from goats’ hair.
And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.
15 Each piece of cloth was (15 yards/13.5 meters) long and (2 yards/1.8 meters) wide.
The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain — one measure for the eleven curtains.
16 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.
And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.
17 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.
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.
18 They made 50 bronze clasps/fasteners and joined the two sets together with them. In that way it formed one cover.
And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.
19 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.
And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above [that].
20 They made frames from acacia wood and set them up [to support the covers for the Sacred Tent].
And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;
21 Each frame was (15 feet/4.5 meters) long and (27 in./66 cm.) wide.
ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;
22 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.
two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 The skilled workmen made twenty frames for the south side of the Sacred Tent.
And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;
24 They made 40 silver bases to go underneath them. Two bases went under each frame. The projections on each frame fit into these bases.
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.
25 [Similarly], they made 20 frames for the north side of the Sacred Tent.
And for the other side of the tabernacle, on the side toward the north, he made twenty boards,
26 They made 40 silver bases for them also, with two bases for under each frame.
and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.
27 For the rear of the Sacred Tent, on the west side, they made six frames.
And at the rear of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards;
28 They also made two extra frames, one for each corner of the rear of the Sacred Tent, [to provide extra support].
and he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear;
29 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.
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;
30 In that way, [for the rear of the Sacred Tent] there were eight frames, and there were 16 bases, two bases under each frame.
and there were eight boards, and their silver bases: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.
31 The workmen made 15 crossbars from acacia wood.
— And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
32 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.
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.
33 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.
And he made the middle bar in the midst of the boards reach from one end to the other.
34 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.
And he overlaid the boards with gold; and made their rings of gold [as] receptacles for the bars; and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 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.
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus: of artistic work he made it [with] cherubim.
36 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.
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.
37 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.
And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery;
38 [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.
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.