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The Book of Exodus 36

36 Bezalel and Oholiab will do this work along with all the other skillful people. Yahweh has made them skillful and able to know how to follow his instructions to build the sacred place.”

2 So Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and all the other people that Yahweh had made skillful who wished to come do some of the work. 3 They took all the gifts for building the sacred tent from Moses that the Israelites had brought to him. But the Israelites continued gladly bringing more gifts every morning. 4 As a result, each and every skillful craftsman who was working to make the sacred tent left their work and came to Moses. 5 The craftsmen told him, “The Israelites are bringing many times more than we need to build as Yahweh has commanded us!” 6 So Moses told them to proclaim a message throughout the camp, “Everyone should stop making and bringing material gifts for the sacred tent!” So the people stopped bringing gifts. 7 They had more than enough materials for all the work.

8 All the most skilled men among the workmen made the sacred tent, using ten long strips of finely twisted linen. A skilled craftsman took blue, purple, and red thread, and embroidered these strips with designs that represent the winged creatures that are above the chest. 9 Each strip was 14. 5 meters long and two meters wide. They were all the same size. 10 He sewed five strips together as one set, and sewed the other five strips together as another set. 11 For each set, he made loops of blue cloth and fastened them along the outer edge of the strip, at the end of each set. 12 He put 50 loops on the edge of the first set, and 50 loops at the edge of the second set so that the loops were opposite each other. 13 He made 50 gold fasteners and fastened both of the sets together with them to make the sacred tent one unit.

14 He made a cover for the sacred tent from 11 pieces of cloth made from goats’ hair. 15 Each of the 11 pieces of cloth was the same dimensions: 15 meters long and two meters wide. 16 He sewed five of these pieces of cloth together to make one set, and he sewed the other six pieces of cloth together to make another set. 17 He made 100 loops of blue cloth, and fastened 50 of them to the outer edge of a set and fastened 50 to the outer edge of the other set. 18 He made 50 bronze clasps for connecting the tent into one big piece. 19 He made another cover from red rams’ skins to go over the tent, and a top cover from fine leather hides.

20 He made a standing framework from acacia wood for the sacred tent. 21 Each frame was five meters long and three-quarters of a meter wide. 22 He made two pegs at the bottom of each frame to fasten them together. He made each frame for the tabernacle this way. 23 He made 20 frames for the south side of the sacred tent. 24 He made 40 silver bases to go underneath the 20 frames. He put two bases under each frame and fit their two pegs into the bases. 25 For the other side—that is, the north side—of the sacred tent he made 20 frames 26 and 40 silver bases for them. They put two bases under each frame. 27 For the rear of the sacred tent, on the west side, he made six frames. 28 They made two frames for the rear corners of the sacred tent. 29 He matched them to each other at the bottom and top. He secured the tops together with a ring. He did this for both, making them the corner pieces. 30 He made eight frames and 16 silver bases, two bases under each frame.

31 He made crossbars from acacia wood. He made five crossbars for the frames on the north side of the sacred tent, 32 five crossbars for the frames on the south side of the sacred tent, and five crossbars for the frames at the rear of the sacred tent, on the west. 33 He made the center crossbar, right in the middle of the frames, reach all the way from edge to edge. 34 He covered the frames and crossbars with gold. He made the rings for fastening the crossbars to the frames from gold.

35 He made a curtain from fine linen. A skilled craftsman embroidered it with blue, purple, and red yarn, making designs to represent the winged creatures that are above the sacred chest. 36 He made four posts from acacia wood for the curtain. He covered them and their hooks with gold. He formed four silver bases for the posts. 37 He made a curtain as the tent entrance. A skilled weaver made it from fine linen with blue, purple, and red yarn. 38 He also made five posts with hooks on them. He covered the tops of the posts and their connectors with gold and made a bronze base for each of those posts.

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