17. the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
18. the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, and their ropes;
19. the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary – both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.’
20. Then the whole Israelite community withdrew from Moses’ presence,
21. and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
22. All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold jewellery of all kinds: brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments. They all presented their gold as a wave offering to the Lord.
23. Everyone who had blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen, or goat hair, ram skins dyed red or other durable leather brought them.
24. Those presenting an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the work brought it.
25. Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun – blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen.
26. And all the women who were willing and had the skill spun the goat hair.
27. The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
28. They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
29. All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.
30. Then Moses said to the Israelites, ‘See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
31. and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills –
32. to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,
33. to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts.
34. And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.
17. Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
18. They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit.
19. Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of other durable leather.
20. They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
21. Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
22. with two projections set parallel to each other. They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
23. They made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
24. and made forty silver bases to go under them – two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
25. For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, they made twenty frames
26. and forty silver bases – two under each frame.
27. They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
28. and two frames were made for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end.
29. At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike.
30. So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases – two under each frame.
31. They also made crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
32. five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
33. They made the centre crossbar so that it extended from end to end at the middle of the frames.
34. They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.