31And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“See, I have called by name^a Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. ³And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill^b and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, ⁴to devise designs, to work with gold and with silver and with bronze, ⁵and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of craftsmanship. ⁶And, look, I have given with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, and I have put skill in the heart of all the skilled of heart, and they will make all that I have commanded you— ⁷the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony and the atonement cover that is on it and all the equipment of the tent, ⁸and the table and all its equipment, and the pure gold lampstand and all its equipment, and the incense altar, ⁹and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment, and the basin and its stand, ¹⁰and the garments of woven material, and the garments of the sanctuary^c for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests, ¹¹and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they will make it.

Provision of Rest from Work

¹²And Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, ¹³“And you, speak to the Israelites,^d saying, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, in order to know that I am Yahweh, who consecrates you. ¹⁴And you must keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; defilers^e of it will surely be put to death, because anyone who does work on it—that person will be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵On six days work can be done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of complete rest,^f a holy day^g for Yahweh; anyone doing work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death. ¹⁶The Israelites^h will pay attention to the Sabbath in order to fulfill the Sabbathⁱ throughout their generations as a lasting covenant. ¹⁷It is a sign between me and the Israelites^j forever, because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh he ceased^k and recovered.”^l

¹⁸And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God.

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Footnotes

aIn other words, “specifically chosen”
bOr “understanding,” “discernment,” “cleverness”
cLiterally “the garments of the holiness” or “the holy garments”
dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eOr “profaners,” those who treat it as common
fLiterally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’ ” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
gLiterally “holiness”
hLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
iOr “keep the Sabbath to do/observe the Sabbath”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
kOr “rested”
lOr “breathed freely,” “got his breath”