Exodus 35–39

CHAPTER 35

The Sabbath Command

¹Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, “^aThese are the things that Yahweh has commanded you to ¹do:

²“^aSix days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, ^ba sabbath of complete rest to Yahweh; ^cwhoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

³“^aYou shall not kindle a fire in any of your places of habitation on the sabbath day.”

Willing Hearts Contribute to Yahweh

⁴And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, saying,

⁵‘^aTake from among you a ¹contribution to Yahweh; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as a ²contribution to Yahweh: gold, silver, and ³bronze,

⁶and ¹blue, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goats’ hair,

⁷and rams’ skins ¹dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,

⁸and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

⁹and onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the ¹breastpiece.

¹⁰‘^aAnd let everyone ¹wise at heart among you come and make all that Yahweh has commanded:

¹¹the ^1atabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

¹²the ^aark and its poles, the ¹mercy seat, and the curtain of the screen;

¹³the ^atable and its poles, and all its ¹utensils, and the bread of the ²Presence;

¹⁴the ^alampstand also for the light and its utensils and its lamps and the oil for the light;

¹⁵and the ^aaltar of incense and its poles, and the ^banointing oil and the ^cfragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the ¹entrance of the tabernacle;

^16athe altar of burnt offering with its ¹bronze grating, its poles, and all its ²utensils, the laver and its stand;

^17athe hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;

¹⁸the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court and their cords;

¹⁹the ^1awoven garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.’”

Contributions Brought by the People

²⁰Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel went out from Moses’ presence.

^21aAnd everyone whose heart ¹stirred him and everyone whose spirit was willing came and brought the ²contribution to Yahweh for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

²²Then all whose hearts were willing, both men and women, came and brought brooches and ¹earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold; so did every man who waved it as a wave offering of gold to Yahweh.

²³And every man, ¹who had in his possession ²blue and purple and scarlet material and fine linen and goats’ hair and rams’ skins ³dyed red and porpoise skins, brought them.

²⁴Everyone who could raise up a ¹contribution of silver and ²bronze brought the ³contribution to Yahweh; and every man ⁴who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

²⁵All the women ¹wise at heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, in ²blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

²⁶And all the women whose heart ¹stirred with wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

²⁷And the rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the ¹breastpiece;

²⁸and ^athe spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

²⁹The sons of Israel—all the men and women whose heart was willing to bring material for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded through the hand of Moses to do—brought a ^afreewill offering to Yahweh.

^30aThen Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

³¹“And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in discernment, and in knowledge, and in all ¹craftsmanship;

³²to devise ¹designs for working in gold and in silver and in ²bronze,

³³and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to do well in every work of thoughtful design.

³⁴“He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and ^aOholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

³⁵“^aHe has filled them with ¹wisdom in their heart to do every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in ²blue and in purple and in scarlet material and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as those who do every work and make designs.

CHAPTER 36

¹“Now Bezalel and Oholiab and every person ¹wise at heart, to whom Yahweh has given ²wisdom and discernment to know how to do all the work of the service of constructing the sanctuary, shall do in accordance with all that Yahweh has commanded.”

Making the Tabernacle

²Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every person ¹wise at heart to whom Yahweh had given ²wisdom, ^aeveryone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to do it.

³And they received from Moses the entire ¹contribution which the sons of Israel had brought ²to do the work in the service of the sanctuary. And they still continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.

⁴And all the ¹wise men who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from ²the work which ³he was doing,

⁵and they said to ¹Moses, “^aThe people are bringing much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded us to ²do.”

⁶So Moses commanded and a ¹proclamation was passed throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman any longer do the work for the ²contributions of the sanctuary.” Thus the people were restrained from bringing any more.

^7aIndeed, the ¹material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to do it.

^8aAnd all those ¹wise at heart among those who were doing the work made the ²tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and ³blue and purple and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skillful designer, ⁴Bezalel made them.

⁹The length of each curtain was ¹twenty-eight cubits and the width of each curtain four ²cubits; all the curtains had ³the same measurements.

¹⁰He ¹joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he ²joined to one another.

¹¹He made loops of ¹blue on the edge of the ²outermost curtain in the first ³set; he did likewise on the edge of the curtain that was ⁴outermost in the second ⁵set.

¹²He made ^afifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the ¹edge of the curtain that was in the second ²set; the loops were opposite each other.

¹³He made ^afifty clasps of gold and ¹joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so the tabernacle was one unit.

¹⁴Then ^ahe made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains ¹in all.

¹⁵The length of each curtain was ¹thirty cubits and four cubits the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had ²the same measurements.

¹⁶He ¹joined five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves.

¹⁷Moreover, he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the first ¹set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second ²set.

¹⁸He made fifty clasps of ¹bronze to ²join the tent together so that it would be ³a unit.

¹⁹He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins ¹dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.

^20aThen he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

²¹Ten cubits was the length of ¹each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

²²There were two tenons for each board, ¹fitted to one another; thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards ¹for the south side;

²⁴and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

²⁵Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

²⁶and their forty bases of silver; two bases under one board and two bases under another board.

²⁷For the ¹rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six boards.

²⁸And he made two boards for the corners of the ¹tabernacle at the ²rear.

²⁹And they were ¹separated beneath, but were together at their completion at the ²top, ³at the first ring; thus he did with both of them for the two corners.

³⁰And there were eight boards with their bases of silver, sixteen bases, two bases under every board.

³¹Then he made ^abars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

³²and five bars for the boards of the ¹other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the ²rear side to the west.

³³And he made the middle bar to pass through in the ¹center of the boards from end to end.

³⁴He also overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars and overlaid the bars with gold.

^35aMoreover, he made the veil of ¹blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skillful designer.

³⁶And he made four pillars of acacia for it and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four bases of silver for them.

³⁷And he made a ^ascreen for the doorway of the tent, of ¹blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a ²weaver;

³⁸and he made its ^afive pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their ¹bands with gold; but their five bases were of ²bronze.

CHAPTER 37

Making the Ark of the Testimony

^1aAnd Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half ¹cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

²and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.

³He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the ¹other side of it.

⁴He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

⁵He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the…