Open English Translation EXO Chapter 35

35 Mosheh assembled all the Israelis and told them, “These are the things that Yahweh has instructed you to do. 2 Every week, you can work for six days, but the seventh day will be a sacred rest day, dedicated to Yahweh. Anyone who works on that day must be put to death.[ref] 3 Don’t light a fire[fn] in any of your homes on the rest days.”

4 Then Mosheh told all the assembled Israelis, “This is what Yahweh instructed: 5 Take up an offering for Yahweh—everyone who wants to participate should bring to Yahweh their contribution of gold, silver, bronze, 6 blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, finely-spun linen and goats’ hair, 7 reddened ram skins, sea-cow hides, and acacia wood, 8 olive oil for the lamps and spices to make the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, 9 and onyx and other gemstones for the priest’s sacred apron and chest pouch.

10 Everyone among you all who’s highly skilled should come and make everything that Yahweh has instructed— 11 the tent for the residence and its covering, its clasps and frames, its bars, pillars, and bases, 12 the box with its poles and the atonement platform to go on top, the curtain for screening it, 13 the table and its poles and all its utensils and the sacred bread, 14 the lampstand for light with its lamps and utensils and oil to burn, 15 the incense altar and its poles, the anointing oil and fragrant incense, the curtain for the entrance of the residence, 16 the altar for the burnt offerings with its bronze grate, its poles and all of its utensils, the washbasin with its base, 17 the courtyard curtains with their pillars and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard gate, 18 the tent pegs and ropes for the residence and the courtyard, 19 the finely-woven clothing for serving in the Holy Place, the sacred clothes for Aharon the priest, and the clothes for his sons to serve as priests.”

20 Then all the Israelis who’d been assembled in front of Mosheh went away, 21 and everyone who felt to do so came back bringing their contributions to Yahweh for the work on the sacred tent and all its components, and for the sacred clothes. 22 This included both men and women who were wanting to contribute, and they brought necklaces and earrings and ornaments—all made of gold. They held them up high as a raised offering of gold to Yahweh. 23 Many people who had blue or purple or scarlet yarn, or finely-spun linen or goats’ hair, reddened ram skins or sea-cow hides brought them. 24 Others who could, brought a contribution of silver or bronze to Yahweh, and those with acacia wood brought it for all the construction of the tent components. 25 All the women who were skilled at making cloth brought blue, purple, or scarlet yarn and fine, hand-spun linen thread, 26 and all those women who felt to do so spun goats’ hair. 27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other gemstones to be mounted on the sacred apron and for the sacred pouch, 28 along with the spices and olive oil to be used for the maps, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense. 29 Thus the Israelis brought a voluntary offering to Yahweh—every man and woman who felt to do so brought something for all the work which Yahweh had instructed them through Mosheh to do.

30 Then Mosheh said to the Israelis, “Listen, Yahweh has called Bezalel by name (the son of Hur’s son Uri, from the tribe of Judah) 31 and he has filled him with his spirit, with skill and understanding, and with knowledge and with all kinds of craftsmanship. 32 He can design designs, work in gold, silver, and bronze, 33 in cutting gemstones for setting, and in wood-carving—to do all kinds of design and crafting. 34 Yahweh has also given him the desire to teach, along with Oholiab (Ahisamak’s son from the tribe of Dan). 35 He’s given them both skills to do all the work of craftsmen and of skillful workmen and of embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and in the fine linen and of weavers—both as designers as well as the various, actual crafts.