January 29
Exodus 35:1 —
37:29
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Later Moses called the entire assembly of the sons of Israel together and said
to them: “These are the words that Jehovah has commanded, to do them:
2 Six
days may work be done, but on the seventh day it will become something holy to
YOU, a sabbath of complete rest to Jehovah. Anybody doing work on it will be put
to death.
3 YOU
must not light a fire in any of YOUR dwelling places on the sabbath day.”
4 And
Moses went on to say to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel: “This is the
word that Jehovah has commanded, saying,
5 ‘From
among yourselves take up a contribution for Jehovah. Let every willing-hearted
one bring it as Jehovah’s contribution, namely, gold and silver and copper
6 and
blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material and fine
linen and goat’s hair
7 and
ram skins dyed red and sealskins and acacia wood
8 and
oil for the luminary and balsam oil for the anointing oil and for the perfumed
incense
9 and
onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
10 “‘And
let all the wise-hearted ones among YOU come and make all that Jehovah has
commanded,
11 namely,
the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, its hooks and its panel frames,
its bars, its pillars and its socket pedestals;
12 the
Ark and its poles, the cover and the curtain of the screen;
13 the
table and its poles and all its utensils and the showbread;
14 and
the lampstand of illumination and its utensils and its lamps and the oil for
illumination;
15 and
the altar of incense and its poles; and the anointing oil and the perfumed
incense; and the screen of the entrance for the tabernacle’s entrance;
16 the
altar of burnt offering and the copper grating that is for it, its poles and all
its utensils; the basin and its stand;
17 the
hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its socket pedestals; and the screen
of the gate of the courtyard;
18 the
tent pins of the tabernacle and the tent pins of the courtyard and their cords;
19 the
garments of knitted work for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for
Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for acting as priests.’”
20 Accordingly
all the assembly of the sons of Israel went out from before Moses.
21 Then
they came, everyone whose heart impelled him, and they brought, everyone whose
spirit incited him, Jehovah’s contribution for the work of the tent of meeting
and for all its service and for the holy garments.
22 And
they kept coming, the men along with the women, every willing-hearted one. They
brought brooches and earrings and rings and female ornaments, all sorts of
articles of gold, that is, everyone who presented the wave offering of gold to
Jehovah.
23 And
all those with whom there were found blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple
and coccus scarlet material and fine linen and goat’s hair and ram skins dyed
red and sealskins, brought them.
24 All
those contributing the contribution of silver and copper brought Jehovah’s
contribution, and all those with whom there was found acacia wood for all the
work of the service brought it.
25 And
all the women who were wise of heart spun with their hands, and they kept
bringing as yarn the blue thread and the wool dyed reddish purple, the coccus
scarlet material and the fine linen.
26 And
all the women whose hearts impelled them with wisdom spun the goat’s hair.
27 And
the chieftains brought onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and the
breastpiece,
28 and
the balsam oil and the oil for illumination and for the anointing oil and for
the perfumed incense.
29 Every
man and woman whose hearts incited them to bring something for all the work that
Jehovah had commanded to make by means of Moses did so; the sons of Israel
brought a voluntary offering to Jehovah.
30 Then
Moses said to the sons of Israel: “See, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel
the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah.
31 And
he proceeded to fill him with the spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding and
in knowledge and in every sort of craftsmanship
32 and
for designing devices, for working in gold and silver and copper,
33 and
in working of stones to set them and in working of wood to make ingenious
products of every sort.
34 And
he has put it into his heart that he should teach, he and Oholiab
the son of Ahisamach
of the tribe of Dan.
35 He
has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of a craftsman and an
embroiderer and of a weaver in blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple, in
coccus scarlet material and fine linen, and of a loom worker, men doing every
sort of work and designing devices.
36
“And
Bezalel
must work, also Oholiab
and every wise-hearted man to whom Jehovah has given wisdom and understanding in
these things in order to know how to do all the work of the holy service
according to all that Jehovah has commanded.”
2 And
Moses proceeded to call Bezalel
and Oholiab
and every wise-hearted man into whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, everyone
whose heart impelled him to approach the work in order to do it.
3 Then
they took from before Moses all the contribution that the sons of Israel had
brought for the work of the holy service so as to do it, and, as for the latter,
they still brought to him a voluntary offering morning after morning.
4 And
all the wise ones who were doing all the holy work began to come, one man after
another, from their work that they were doing,
5 and
to say to Moses: “The people are bringing much more than what the service needs
for the work that Jehovah has commanded to be done.”
6 So
Moses commanded that they should cause an announcement to pass through the camp,
saying: “Men and women, do not produce any more stuff for the holy
contribution.” With that the people were restrained from bringing it in.
7 And
the stuff proved to be enough for all the work to be done, and more than enough.
8 And
all the wise-hearted among those doing the work went making the tabernacle, the
ten tent cloths of fine twisted linen and blue thread and wool dyed reddish
purple and coccus scarlet material; with cherubs, the work of an embroiderer, he
made them.
9 The
length of each tent cloth was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each tent
cloth four cubits. There was one measure for all the tent cloths.
10 Then
he joined five tent cloths one to another, and the five other tent cloths he
joined one to another.
11 After
that he made loops of blue thread upon the edge of the one tent cloth at the
junction end. He did the same on the edge of the outermost tent cloth at the
other place of junction.
12 He
made fifty loops on the one tent cloth, and he made fifty loops on the extremity
of the tent cloth that was at the other place of junction, the loops being
opposite one another.
13 Finally
he made fifty hooks of gold and joined the tent cloths to one another by the
hooks, so that it became one tabernacle.
14 And
he went on to make tent cloths of goat’s hair for the tent upon the tabernacle.
Eleven tent cloths were what he made.
15 The
length of each tent cloth was thirty cubits, and the width of each tent cloth
four cubits. There was one measure for the eleven tent cloths.
16 Then
he joined five tent cloths together by themselves and the six other tent cloths
by themselves.
17 Next
he made fifty loops upon the edge of the outermost tent cloth at the place of
junction, and he made fifty loops upon the edge of the other tent cloth that
joined with it.
18 After
that he made fifty hooks of copper for joining the tent together to become one
piece.
19 And
he proceeded to make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and a
covering out of sealskins up on top.
20 Then
he made the panel frames for the tabernacle out of acacia wood, standing on end.
21 Ten
cubits was the length of a panel frame, and one cubit and a half the width of
each panel frame.
22 Each
panel frame had two tenons fitted one to the other. That is the way he did to
all the panel frames of the tabernacle.
23 So
he made the panel frames for the tabernacle, twenty panel frames for the side
toward the Negeb, to the south.
24 And
he made forty socket pedestals of silver for beneath the twenty panel frames,
two socket pedestals beneath the one panel frame with its two tenons and two
socket pedestals beneath the other panel frame with its two tenons.
25 And
for the other side of the tabernacle, the northern side, he made twenty panel
frames
26 and
their forty socket pedestals of silver, two socket pedestals beneath the one
panel frame and two socket pedestals beneath the other panel frame.
27 And
for the rear sections of the tabernacle to the west he made six panel frames.
28 And
he made two panel frames as corner posts of the tabernacle on its two rear
sections.
29 And
they proved to be duplicates at the bottom and together they came to be twins to
the top of each one at the first ring. That is what he did to them both, to the
two corner posts.
30 So
they amounted to eight panel frames and their socket pedestals of silver to
sixteen, two socket pedestals next to two socket pedestals beneath each panel
frame.
31 And
he went on to make bars of acacia wood, five for the panel frames of the one
side of the tabernacle
32 and
five bars for the panel frames of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars
for the panel frames of the tabernacle for the two rear sections to the west.
33 Then
he made the middle bar to run through at the middle of the panel frames from one
end to the other.
34 And
he overlaid the panel frames with gold, and he made their rings of gold as
supports for the bars, and he went on to overlay the bars with gold.
35 And
he proceeded to make a curtain of blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple and
coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen. With the work of an embroiderer
he made it with cherubs.
36 Then
he made for it four acacia pillars and overlaid them with gold, their pegs being
of gold, and cast four socket pedestals of silver for them.
37 And
he went on to make a screen for the entrance of the tent out of blue thread and
wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the
work of a weaver,
38 and
its five pillars and their pegs. And he overlaid their tops and their joints
with gold, but their five socket pedestals were of copper.
37
Bezalel now
made the Ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit
and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
2 Then
he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside and made a border of gold round
about for it.
3 After
that he cast four rings of gold for it, for above its four feet, with two rings
on its one side and two rings on its other side.
4 He
next made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
5 Then
he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the Ark for carrying the Ark.
6 And
he went on to make the cover of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length,
and a cubit and a half its width.
7 He
further made two cherubs of gold. Of hammered work he made them on both ends of
the cover.
8 One
cherub was on the end over there, and the other cherub on the end over here. He
made the cherubs on the cover on both of its ends.
9 And
they came to be cherubs spreading out two wings upward, screening over the cover
with their wings, and their faces were one to the other. The faces of the
cherubs proved to be toward the cover.
10 And
he proceeded to make the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, and a
cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
11 Then
he overlaid it with pure gold and made a border of gold round about for it.
12 Next
he made for it a rim of a handbreadth round about and made a border of gold for
its rim round about.
13 Further,
he cast four rings of gold for it and put the rings upon the four corners that
were for the four feet.
14 The
rings proved to be near the rim, as supports for the poles for carrying the
table.
15 Then
he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold for carrying the
table.
16 After
that he made the utensils that are upon the table, its dishes and its cups and
its bowls and its pitchers with which [libations] would be poured, out of pure
gold.
17 Then
he made the lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work he made the lampstand. Its
sides and its branches, its cups, its knobs and its blossoms proceeded out of
it.
18 And
six branches were running out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand
out from its one side and three branches of the lampstand out from its other
side.
19 Three
cups shaped like flowers of almond were on the one set of branches, with knobs
and blossoms alternating; and three cups shaped like flowers of almond were on
the other set of branches, with knobs and blossoms alternating. That is the way
it was for the six branches running out from the lampstand.
20 And
on the lampstand there were four cups shaped like flowers of almond, with its
knobs and its blossoms alternating.
21 And
the knob under two branches was out of it, and the knob under two other branches
was out of it, and the knob under two more branches was out of it, for the six
branches running out from the lampstand.
22 Their
knobs and their branches proceeded out from it. All of it was one piece of
hammered work, of pure gold.
23 Then
he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its fire holders out of pure gold.
24 Of
a talent of pure gold he made it and all its utensils.
25 He
now made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. A cubit was its length and a
cubit its width, it being foursquare, and two cubits was its height. Its horns
proceeded out of it.
26 Then
he overlaid it with pure gold, its top surface and its sides round about and its
horns, and he made a border of gold round about for it.
27 And
he made for it two rings of gold down below its border upon two of its sides,
upon two opposite sides of it, as supports for the poles with which to carry it.
28 After
that he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
29 He
made additionally the holy anointing oil and the pure, perfumed incense, the
work of an ointment maker.