And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath commanded to be done:

²Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

³You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

⁴And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:

⁵Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass,

⁶Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats’ hair,

⁷And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood,

⁸And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet incense,

⁹Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational.

¹⁰Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the Lord hath commanded:

¹¹To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:

¹²The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is drawn before it:

¹³The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of proposition:

¹⁴The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:

¹⁵The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:

¹⁶The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:

¹⁷The curtains of the court, with the pillars and the sockets, the hanging in the doors of the entry.

¹⁸The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little cords:

¹⁹The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me.

²⁰And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from the presence of Moses,

²¹Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was necessary to the service and to the holy vestments,

²²Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.

²³If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine linen and goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,

²⁴Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and setim wood for divers uses.

²⁵The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,

²⁶And goats’ hair, giving all of their own accord.

²⁷But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,

²⁸And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.

²⁹All, both men and women, with devout mind offered gifts, that the works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the Lord.

³⁰And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold, the Lord hath called by name Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda,

³¹And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge, and all learning,

³²To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,

³³And in engraving stones, and in carpenters’ work. Whatsoever can be devised artificially,

³⁴He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan:

³⁵Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters’ work, and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all new things.

Chapter 36

Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded.

²And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom the Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered themselves to the making of the work,

³He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning offered their vows.

⁴Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,

⁵Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.

⁶Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier’s voice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the sanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,

⁷Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too much.

⁸And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:

⁹The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.

¹⁰And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five he coupled one to another.

¹¹He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,

¹²That the loops might meet one against another, and might be joined each with the other.

¹³Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.

¹⁴He made also eleven curtains of goats’ hair, to cover the roof of the tabernacle:

¹⁵One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all the curtains were of one measure.

¹⁶Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.

¹⁷And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another.

¹⁸And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.

¹⁹He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams’ skins dyed red; and another cover over that of violet skins.

²⁰He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood standing.

²¹The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one cubit and a half.

²²There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³Of which twenty were at the south side southward,

²⁴With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners.

²⁵At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the north, he made twenty boards,

²⁶With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.

²⁷But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,

²⁸And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:

²⁹Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went together into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners:

³⁰So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.

³¹He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

³²And five others to join together the boards of the other side; and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle towards the sea.

³³He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the boards from corner to corner.

³⁴And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of gold.

³⁵He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:

³⁶And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.

³⁷He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an embroiderer.

³⁸And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of brass.

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