Exodus 36
1 “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”
“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 called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
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 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him 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 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
As a result, the skilled men who were doing various things to make the Sacred Tent came to Moses/me
5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.”
and said, “The people are bringing more than we need to do the work that Yahweh has commanded us!”
6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.
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 For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
What they had already brought was enough to do all the work. [In fact], it was more than was needed!
8 All the wise-hearted men amongst those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skilful workman.
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 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
Each strip was (14 yards/twelve meters) long and (2 yards/1.8 meters) wide.
10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
They sewed five strips together to make one set, and they sewed the other five strips together to make the other set.
11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
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 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.
They put 50 loops on the edge of the first set, and 50 loops on the edge of the second set.
13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
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 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
They made a cover for the Sacred Tent from eleven pieces of cloth made from goats’ hair.
15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
Each piece of cloth was (15 yards/13.5 meters) long and (2 yards/1.8 meters) wide.
16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
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 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
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 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
They made 50 bronze clasps/fasteners and joined the two sets together with them. In that way it formed one cover.
19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
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 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
They made frames from acacia wood and set them up [to support the covers for the Sacred Tent].
21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
Each frame was (15 feet/4.5 meters) long and (27 in./66 cm.) wide.
22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
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 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
The skilled workmen made twenty frames for the south side of the Sacred Tent.
24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
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 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
[Similarly], they made 20 frames for the north side of the Sacred Tent.
26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
They made 40 silver bases for them also, with two bases for under each frame.
27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
For the rear of the Sacred Tent, on the west side, they made six frames.
28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
They also made two extra frames, one for each corner of the rear of the Sacred Tent, [to provide extra support].
29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
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 There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
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 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
The workmen made 15 crossbars from acacia wood.
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 hinder part westward.
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 He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the 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 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
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 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skilful workman.
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 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
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 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
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 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were 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.
