Exodus 35

Chapter 35

The Sabbath Emphasized

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Tabernacle Workmen

¹⁰‘^aLet every skillful man among you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded:

¹¹the ^1atabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its ²sockets;

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 ³basin and its stand;

^17athe hangings of the court, its pillars and its ¹sockets, 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.’ ”

Gifts Received

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

^21aEveryone whose heart ¹stirred him and everyone whose spirit ²moved him came and brought the Lord’s ³contribution for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

²²Then all ¹whose hearts moved them, both men and women, came and brought brooches and ²earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold; so did every man who ³presented an offering of gold to the Lord.

²³Every 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 make a ¹contribution of silver and ²bronze brought the Lord’s contribution; and every man ³who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

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

²⁶All the women whose heart ¹stirred with a skill spun the goats’ hair.

²⁷The 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 ¹Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart ²moved them to bring material for all the work, which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a ^afreewill offering to the Lord.

^30aThen Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, the Lord 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 understanding and in knowledge and in all ¹craftsmanship;

³²¹to make designs 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 perform in every inventive work.

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 ¹skill to perform 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 performers of every work and makers of designs.