1. Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, ‘These are the things the Lord has commanded you to do:
2. for six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.
3. Do not 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. from what you have, take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and bronze;
6. blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
7. ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;
8. olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
9. and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
10. ‘All who are skilled among you are to come and make everything the Lord has commanded:
11. the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
12. the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;
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1. So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.’
2. Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.
3. They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
4. So all the skilled workers who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left what they were doing
5. and said to Moses, ‘The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the Lord commanded to be done.’
6. Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: ‘No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.’ And so the people were restrained from bringing more,
7. because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.
8. All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.
9. All the curtains were the same size – twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
10. They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five.
11. Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set.
12. They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.