35And Moses assembled all the community of the Israelites,^a and he said to them, “These are the words that Yahweh has commanded for us to do them. ²On six days work can be done, and on the seventh there will be for you a holy day,^b a Sabbath of complete rest,^c for Yahweh; anyone doing work on it will be put to death. ³You will not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath.”

⁴And Moses said to all the community of the Israelites,^d saying, “This is the word that Yahweh has commanded, saying, ⁵‘Take from among you a contribution for Yahweh, anyone willing of heart, let him bring Yahweh’s contribution—gold and silver and bronze, ⁶and blue and purple and crimson yarns, and fine linen and goat hair, ⁷and red-dyed ram skins, and fine leather,^e and acacia wood, ⁸and oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, ⁹onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece.

¹⁰“And let all the skilled of heart among you come and make all that Yahweh has commanded: ¹¹The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering; its clasps and its frames;^f its bars, its pillars, and its bases; ¹²the ark and its poles; the atonement cover and the curtain of the screen; ¹³the table and its poles and all its equipment; and the bread of the presence; ¹⁴and lampstand of the light and its equipment and its lamps and the oil for the light; ¹⁵and the altar of incense and its poles; and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense and the entrance curtain for the entrance of the tabernacle; ¹⁶the altar of the burnt offering and the bronze grating that is for it, its poles and all its equipment; the basin and its stand; ¹⁷the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the courtyard gate; ¹⁸the pegs^g of the tabernacle and the pegs^h of the courtyard and their cords; ¹⁹the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary—the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.”

²⁰And all the community of the Israelitesⁱ went out from before Moses. ²¹And they came—every man whose heart lifted him and every man whose spirit impelled him—they brought Yahweh’s contribution for the work of the tent of assembly and for all its service and for the holy garments. ²²And they came, the men in addition to the women, all who were willing of heart; they brought brooches and jewelry rings and signet rings and ornaments—every variety of gold object—every man who waved a wave offering of gold for Yahweh, ²³and every man with whom was found blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen and goat hair and red-dyed ram skins and fine leather brought it. ²⁴All who were presenting a contribution of silver and bronze brought Yahweh’s contribution, and all with whom was found acacia wood for all the work of service brought it. ²⁵And every woman who was skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn—the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen. ²⁶And all the women whose heart lifted them with skill spun the goat hair. ²⁷And the leaders brought the onyx stones and stones for mountings for the ephod and for the breast piece ²⁸and the balsam oils and the oil for light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense. ²⁹Every man and woman whose heart impelled them to bring for all the work to be done that Yahweh had commanded by the agency of^j Moses—the Israelites^k brought freely to Yahweh.

³⁰And Moses said to the Israelites,^l “See, Yahweh has called by name^m Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. ³¹And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skillⁿ and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, ³²and to devise designs, to work with the gold and with the silver and with the bronze, ³³and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of design craftsmanship. ³⁴And he has put it in his heart to teach—he and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has filled them with skill of heart to do every work of a craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple, with the crimson yarns and with the fine linen and a weaver; they are doers of every kind of craftsmanship and devisers of designs.

36And Bezalel and Oholiab and everyone who is skilled of heart in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and skill to know and to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary—they will do it, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”

Making the Tabernacle

²And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and everyone skilled of heart, in whose heart Yahweh had put skill, all whose heart lifted him to come near to the work in order to do it. ³And they took from Moses all the contributions^a that the Israelites^b had brought for the work of the service for the sanctuary in order to do it, and they still brought to him voluntary offerings every morning.^c ⁴And all the skilled workers who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came, each^d from his work that they were doing. ⁵And they said to Moses, saying, “The people are bringing more^e than enough for the service of the work that Yahweh has commanded to be done.”^f ⁶And Moses commanded, and they proclaimed the message^g in the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman again make anything for the sanctuary contribution.” And so the people were restrained from bringing. ⁷And the material was enough for doing all the work, and it was left over.

⁸And all who were skilled of heart among the doers of the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim; he made them, the work of a skilled craftsman. ⁹The length of the one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measurement was for all the curtains. ¹⁰And he joined five of the curtains one to another,^h and five curtains he joined one to another.ⁱ ¹¹And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; so he did on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. ¹²He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite^j one to another.^k ¹³And he made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains one to another^l with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was one.

¹⁴And he made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made them eleven curtains. ¹⁵The length of the one curtain was thirty cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measure was for the eleven curtains. ¹⁶And he joined five curtains together and six curtains together. ¹⁷And he made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. ¹⁸And he made fifty bronze clasps for joining the tent to become one.

¹⁹And he made a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skin and a covering of fine leather to go above.

²⁰And he made the frames^m for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.ⁿ ²¹The length of the frame^o was ten cubits, and the width of the one frame^p was one and a half cubits. ²²He made two pegs^q for the one frame^r for joining one to another^s and likewise for all the frames^t of the tabernacle. ²³And he made the frames^u for the tabernacle with twenty frames^v for the south^w side. ²⁴And he made forty silver bases under the twenty frames,^x with two bases under the one frame^y for its two pegs^z and two bases under the next^a frame^b for its two pegs.^c ²⁵And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames^d ²⁶and their forty silver bases, with two bases under the one frame^e and two bases under the next^f frame.^g

²⁷And for the rear of the tabernacle on the west^h he made six frames.ⁱ ²⁸And he made two frames^j for the tabernacle corners at the rear. ²⁹And they were double at the bottom, and they were completely together on its top to the one ring; he did likewise for the two of them, for the two corners. ³⁰And there were eight frames^k and their sixteen silver bases, two bases, two bases under the one frame.^l

³¹And he made five bars of acacia wood for the frames^m on the one side of the tabernacle, ³²and five bars for the framesⁿ on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames^o at the rear on the west.^p ³³And he made the middle bar to run in the midst of the frames^q from end to end. ³⁴And he overlaid the frames^r with gold, and he made their rings of gold as holders^s for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold. ³⁵And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of a craftsman; he made it with cherubim. ³⁶And he made for it four acacia pillars, and he overlaid them with gold, with their gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

³⁷And he made for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, ³⁸and the five pillars and their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their connections with gold, and their five bases were bronze.

Making the Ark of the Covenant

37And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. ²And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and he made for it a gold molding all around. ³And he cast for it four gold rings on its four feet; and two rings were on its one side, and two rings were on its second side. ⁴And he made poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. ⁵And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

⁶And he made an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. ⁷And he made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. ^8…

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Footnotes

aLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
bLiterally “holiness”
cLiterally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’ ” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eThe particular kind of leather is uncertain
fOr “boards” or “planks”
gLiterally “hands”
hLiterally “hands”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “by the hand of”
kLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
lLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
mIn other words, “specifically chosen”
nOr “understanding,” “discernment,” “cleverness”
aHebrew “contribution”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cLiterally “in the morning in the morning”
dLiterally “man man”
eLiterally “making much to bring”
fLiterally “to do it”
gLiterally “caused a voice to cross through”
hLiterally “one to one”
iLiterally “one to one”
jOr “interlinked” or “matching”
kLiterally “one to one”
lLiterally “one to one”
mOr “boards” or “planks”
nLiterally “standing”
oOr “board” or “plank”
pOr “board” or “plank”
qLiterally “hands”
rOr “board” or “plank”
sLiterally “one to one”
tOr “boards” or “planks”
uOr “boards” or “planks”
vOr “boards” or “planks”
wOr “southward southward”
xOr “boards” or “planks”
yOr “board” or “plank”
zLiterally “hands”
aLiterally “one”
bOr “board” or “plank”
cLiterally “hands”
dOr “boards” or “planks”
eOr “board” or “plank”
fLiterally “one”
gOr “board” or “plank”
hOr “westward,” literally “seaward,” toward the Mediterranean Sea
iOr “boards” or “planks”
jOr “boards” or “planks”
kOr “boards” or “planks”
lOr “board” or “plank”
mOr “boards” or “planks”
nOr “boards” or “planks”
oOr “boards” or “planks”
pOr “westward,” literally “seaward,” toward the Mediterranean Sea
qOr “boards” or “planks”
rOr “boards” or “planks”
sLiterally “houses”