Exodus 35:4–19

Preparations for Making the Tabernacle

⁴Moses said to all the congregation of the Israelites, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded:^{* 5}Take from among you an offering to the Lord; let whoever is of a generous heart bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze; ⁶blue, purple, and crimson yarns and fine linen; goats’ hair, ⁷tanned rams’ skins, and fine leather;^u acacia wood, ⁸oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, ⁹and onyx stones and gems to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece.

¹⁰“All who are skillful among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded: ¹¹the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;^{* 12}the ark with its poles, the cover, and the curtain for the screen; ¹³the table with its poles and all its utensils and the bread of the Presence;^{* 14}and the lampstand for the light, with its utensils and its lamps and the oil for the light; ¹⁵and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance, the entrance of the tabernacle;^{* 16}the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin with its stand; ¹⁷the 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 finely worked vestments for ministering in the holy place, the holy vestments for the priest Aaron, and the vestments of his sons, for their service as priests.”^*