Exodus 35–36

Sabbath Regulations

35Then Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them, ^a“These are the words which the Lord has commanded you to do: ²Work shall be done for ^bsix days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to ^cdeath. ^3dYou shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

Offerings for the Tabernacle

⁴And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, ^e“This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying: ⁵‘Take from among you an offering to the Lord. ^fWhoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord: ^ggold, silver, and bronze; ^6hblue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and ⁱgoats’ hair; ⁷ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood; ⁸oil for the light, ^jand spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense; ⁹onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.

Articles of the Tabernacle

^10k‘All who are gifted artisans among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded: ^11lthe tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; ^12mthe ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering; ¹³the ⁿtable and its poles, all its utensils, ^oand the showbread; ¹⁴also ^pthe lampstand for the light, its utensils, its lamps, and the oil for the light; ^15qthe incense altar, its poles, ^rthe anointing oil, ^sthe sweet incense, and the screen for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle; ^16tthe altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles, all its utensils, and the laver and its base; ^17uthe hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; ¹⁸the pegs of the tabernacle, the pegs of the court, and their cords; ^19vthe ¹garments of ministry, for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.’ ”

The Tabernacle Offerings Presented

²⁰And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. ²¹Then everyone came ^wwhose heart ²was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they ^xbrought the Lord’s offering for the work of the tabernacle of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²²They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought ^yearrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all ^zjewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord. ²³And ^aevery man, with whom was found blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, goats’ hair, red skins of rams, and ³badger skins, brought them. ²⁴Everyone who offered an offering of silver or bronze brought the Lord’s offering. And everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. ²⁵All the women who were ^bgifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun, of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. ²⁶And all the women whose hearts ⁴stirred with wisdom spun yarn of goats’ hair. ^27cThe rulers brought onyx stones, and the stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate, ²⁸and ^dspices and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. ²⁹The children of Israel brought a ^efreewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring material for all kinds of work which the Lord, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.

The Artisans Called by God

³⁰And Moses said to the children of Israel, “See, ^fthe Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; ³¹and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and understanding, in knowledge and all manner of workmanship, ³²to design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze, ³³in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of artistic workmanship.

³⁴“And He has put in his heart the ability to teach, in him and ^gAholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has ^hfilled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver—those who do every work and those who design artistic works.

36“And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every ^agifted artisan in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the ^bsanctuary, ¹shall do according to all that the Lord has commanded.”

The People Give More Than Enough

²Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, everyone ^cwhose heart ²was stirred, to come and do the work. ³And they received from Moses all the ^doffering which the children of Israel ^ehad brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning. ⁴Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing, ⁵and they spoke to Moses, saying, ^f“The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the Lord commanded us to do.”

⁶So Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.” And the people were restrained from bringing, ⁷for the material they had was sufficient for all the work to be done—indeed too ^gmuch.

Building the Tabernacle

^8hThen all the gifted artisans among them who worked on the tabernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of cherubim they made them. ⁹The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all the same size. ¹⁰And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. ¹¹He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set; likewise he did on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set. ¹²ⁱFifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain on the end of the second set; the loops held one curtain to another. ¹³And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps, that it might be one tabernacle.

^14jHe made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains. ¹⁵The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were the same size. ¹⁶He coupled five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. ¹⁷And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain of the second set. ¹⁸He also made fifty bronze clasps to couple the tent together, that it might be one. ^19kThen he made a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of ³badger skins above that.

²⁰For the tabernacle ^lhe made boards of acacia wood, standing upright. ²¹The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board a cubit and a half. ²²Each board had two ⁴tenons ^mfor binding one to another. Thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle. ²³And he made boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side. ²⁴Forty sockets of silver he made to go under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons. ²⁵And for the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards ²⁶and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under each of the boards. ²⁷For the west side of the tabernacle he made six boards. ²⁸He also made two boards for the two back corners of the tabernacle. ²⁹And they were coupled at the bottom and ⁵coupled together at the top by one ring. Thus he made both of them for the two corners. ³⁰So there were eight boards and their sockets—sixteen sockets of silver—two sockets under each of the boards.

³¹And he made ⁿbars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, ³²five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle on the far side westward. ³³And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other. ³⁴He overlaid the boards with gold, made their rings of gold to be holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

³⁵And he made ^oa veil of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen; it was worked with an artistic design of cherubim. ³⁶He made for it four pillars of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.

³⁷He also made a ^pscreen for the tabernacle door, of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a ⁶weaver, ³⁸and its five pillars with their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their rings with gold, but their five sockets were bronze.