Exodus 35–39

¹And Moses assembleth all the company of the sons of Israel, and saith unto them, ‘These are the things which Jehovah hath commanded—to do them: ²Six days is work done, and on the seventh day there is to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in it is put to death; ³ye do not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day.’ ⁴And Moses speaketh unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, ⁵Take ye from among you a heave-offering to Jehovah; every one whose heart is willing doth bring it,—the heave-offering of Jehovah,—gold, and silver, and brass, ⁶and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats’ hair, ⁷and rams’ skins made red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, ⁸and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume, ⁹and shoham stones, and stones for settings, for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

¹⁰‘And all the wise-hearted among you come in, and make all that Jehovah hath commanded:

¹¹‘The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its hooks, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets,

¹²‘The ark and its staves, the mercy-seat, and the vail of the covering,

¹³‘The table and its staves, and all its vessels, and the bread of the presence,

¹⁴‘And the candlestick for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light,

¹⁵‘And the altar of perfume, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the spice perfume, and the covering of the opening at the opening of the tabernacle,

¹⁶‘The altar of burnt-offering and the brazen grate which it hath, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,

¹⁷‘The hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the covering of the gate of the court,

¹⁸‘The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

¹⁹‘The coloured garments, to do service in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to act as priest in.’

²⁰And all the company of the sons of Israel go out from the presence of Moses, ²¹and they come in—every man whom his heart hath lifted up, and every one whom his spirit hath made willing—they have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²²And they come in—the men with the women—every willing-hearted one—they have brought in nose-ring, and ear-ring, and seal-ring, and necklace, all golden goods, even every one who hath waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah. ²³And every man with whom hath been found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins made red, and badgers’ skins, have brought them in; ²⁴every one lifting up a heave-offering of silver and brass have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah; and every one with whom hath been found shittim wood for any work of the service brought it in. ²⁵And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen; ²⁶and all the women whose heart hath lifted them up in wisdom, have spun the goats’ hair. ²⁷And the princes have brought in the shoham stones, and the stones for settings, for the ephod, and for the breastplate, ²⁸and the spices, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume; ²⁹every man and woman (whom their heart hath made willing to bring in for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses) of the sons of Israel brought in a willing-offering to Jehovah.

³⁰And Moses saith unto the sons of Israel, ‘See, Jehovah hath called by name Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, ³¹and He doth fill him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work, ³²even to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, ³³and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design.

³⁴‘And to direct He hath put in his heart, he and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; ³⁵He hath filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work, of engraver, and designer, and embroiderer (in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in linen), and weaver, who do any work, and of designers of designs.

Chapter 36

¹And Bezaleel, and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath given wisdom and understanding to know to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, have done according to all that Jehovah commanded. ²And Moses calleth unto Bezaleel, and unto Aholiab, and unto every wise-hearted man in whose heart Jehovah hath given wisdom, every one whom his heart lifted up, to come near unto the work to do it. ³And they take from before Moses all the heave-offering which the sons of Israel have brought in for the work of the service of the sanctuary to do it; and still they have brought in unto him a willing-offering morning by morning. ⁴And all the wise men, who are doing all the work of the sanctuary, come each from his work which they are doing, ⁵and speak unto Moses, saying, ‘The people are multiplying to bring in more than sufficient for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make.’ ⁶And Moses commandeth, and they cause a voice to pass over through the camp, saying, ‘Let not man or woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary;’ and the people are restrained from bringing, ⁷and the work hath been sufficient for them, for all the work, to do it, and to leave.

⁸And all the wise-hearted ones among the doers of the work make the tabernacle; ten curtains of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubs, work of a designer, he hath made them. ⁹The length of the one curtain is eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure is to all the curtains. ¹⁰And he joineth the five curtains one unto another, and the other five curtains he hath joined one unto another; ¹¹and he maketh loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end, in the joining; so he hath made in the edge of the outmost curtain, in the joining of the second; ¹²fifty loops he hath made in the one curtain, and fifty loops hath he made in the end of the curtain which is in the joining of the second; the loops are taking hold one on another. ¹³And he maketh fifty hooks of gold, and joineth the curtains one unto another by the hooks, and the tabernacle is one.

¹⁴And he maketh curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he hath made them; ¹⁵the length of the one curtain is thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain is four cubits; one measure is to the eleven curtains; ¹⁶and he joineth the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart. ¹⁷And he maketh fifty loops on the outer edge of the curtain, in the joining; and fifty loops he hath made on the edge of the curtain which is joining the second; ¹⁸and he maketh fifty hooks of brass to join the tent—to be one; ¹⁹and he maketh a covering for the tent of rams’ skins made red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above. ²⁰And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up; ²¹ten cubits is the length of the one board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the one board; ²²two handles are to the one board, joined one unto another; so he hath made for all the boards of the tabernacle. ²³And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward; ²⁴and forty sockets of silver he hath made under the twenty boards, two sockets under the one board for its two handles, and two sockets under the other board for its two handles. ²⁵And for the second side of the tabernacle, for the north side, he hath made twenty boards, ²⁶and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board; ²⁷and for the sides of the tabernacle, westward, hath he made six boards; ²⁸and two boards hath he made for the corners of the tabernacle, in the two sides; ²⁹and they have been twins below, and together they are twins at its head, at the one ring; so he hath done to both of them at the two corners; ³⁰and there have been eight boards; and their sockets of silver are sixteen sockets, two sockets under the one board. ³¹And he maketh bars of shittim wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ³²and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle, for the sides westward; ³³and he maketh the middle bar to enter into the midst of the boards from end to end; ³⁴and the boards he hath overlaid with gold, and their rings he hath made of gold, places for bars, and he overlayeth the bars with gold.

³⁵And he maketh the vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of a designer he hath made it, with cherubs; ³⁶and he maketh for it four pillars of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold; their pegs are of gold; and he casteth for them four sockets of silver. ³⁷And he maketh a covering for the opening of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer, ³⁸also its five pillars, and their pegs; and he overlaid their tops and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets are brass.

Chapter 37

¹And Bezaleel maketh the ark of shittim wood, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height; ²and he overlayeth it with pure gold within and without, and maketh for it a wreath of gold round about; ³and he casteth for it four rings of gold, on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side; ⁴and he maketh staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold, ⁵and he bringeth in the staves into the rings, by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. ⁶And he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth; ⁷and he maketh two cherubs of…