Exodus 36:1-6 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. The Lord has given to Bezalel, Oholiab, and others the skills needed for building a place of worship, and they will follow the Lord's instructions.

2. Then Moses brought together these workers who were eager to work,

3. and he gave them the money that the people of Israel had donated for building the place of worship. In fact, so much money was being given each morning,

4. that finally everyone stopped working

5. and said, “Moses, there is already more money than we need for what the Lord has assigned us to do.”

6. So Moses sent word for the people to stop giving, and they did.

11-13. Then fifty loops of blue cloth were put along one of the wider sides of each curtain, and the two curtains were fastened together at the loops with fifty gold hooks.

14-15. As the material for the tent, goat hair was used to weave eleven sections thirteen metres by two metres each.

22-26. with two wooden pegs near the bottom. Then two silver stands were placed under each frame with sockets for the pegs, so they could be joined together. Twenty of these frames were used along the south side and twenty more along the north.

28-29. with two more at the south-west and north-west corners. These corner frames were joined from top to bottom.

31-33. Five crossbars were made for each of the wooden frames, with the centre crossbar running the full length of the wall.

Exodus 36