1. Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the words the Lord has commanded to be observed.
2. On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be holy to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on that day shall be put to death.
3. You shall not even light a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.”
4. Moses said to the whole Israelite community, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
5. Receive from among you contributions for the Lord. Everyone, as his heart prompts him, shall bring, as a contribution to the Lord, gold, silver, and bronze;
6. violet, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
7. rams’ skins dyed red, and tahash skins; acacia wood;
8. oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
9. onyx stones and other gems for mounting on the ephod and on the breastpiece.
10. “Let every artisan among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
11. the tabernacle, with its tent, its covering, its clasps, its frames, its bars, its columns, and its pedestals;
12. the ark, with its poles, the cover, and the curtain veil;
13. the table, with its poles and all its utensils, and the showbread;
14. the menorah, with its utensils, the lamps, and the oil for the light;
15. the altar of incense, with its poles; the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the entrance curtain for the entrance of the tabernacle;
16. the altar for burnt offerings, with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin, with its stand;
17. the hangings of the court, with their columns and pedestals; the curtain for the gate of the court;
18. the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the court, with their ropes;
19. the service cloths for use in the sanctuary; the sacred vestments for Aaron, the priest, and the vestments for his sons in their ministry.”
20. When the whole Israelite community left Moses’ presence,