Exodus 35
1 Moses gathered the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the words the LORD commanded to be carried out:
2 Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be holy for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
3 Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”
4 Moses said to the whole community of the Israelites, “This is what the LORD commanded:
5 Take from among yourselves a contribution for the LORD. Everyone whose heart is generous shall bring the LORD’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;
6 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, and goat hair;
7 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, and acacia wood;
8 oil for the lighting, spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;
9 onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece.
10 Everyone among you who is skilled shall come and make everything the LORD commanded:
11 the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases;
12 the ark and its poles, the atonement cover, and the screening curtain.”
13 “The table and its poles, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;
14 the lampstand for the lighting, its utensils, its lamps, and the oil for the lighting;
15 the incense altar and its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the entrance curtain for the entrance to the tabernacle;
16 the altar for burnt offerings and its bronze grate, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;
17 the courtyard curtains, its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard gate;
18 the tent pegs and the courtyard pegs, and their cords;
19 the service garments for ministering in the holy place, the sacred garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.”
20 The whole community of the Israelites left Moses’ presence.
21 Then everyone whose heart moved them, and everyone whose spirit stirred them, came and brought the LORD’s contribution for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
22 The men came along with the women. Everyone whose heart was generous brought brooches, earrings, rings, and pendants, every kind of gold object. Every person who presented a gold offering to the LORD brought it.
23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather brought them.
24 Everyone who presented a contribution of silver or bronze brought the LORD’s contribution, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.
25 All the skilled women spun with their hands and brought what they had spun: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
26 All the women whose hearts moved them spun goat hair with skill.
27 The leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece,
28 and the spices and oil for the lighting, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
29 Every man and woman whose heart moved them to bring something for all the work the LORD had commanded through Moses brought a freewill offering to the LORD from among the Israelites.
30 Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the LORD has called Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, by name,
31 and has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, understanding, and knowledge in every kind of work,
32 to devise designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,
33 to cut stones for setting, to carve wood, and to do every kind of skillful work.
34 He has also put it in his heart to teach, both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35 He has filled them with skill to do every kind of work: the craftsperson’s work, the designer’s work, and the embroiderer’s work in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, as well as the weaver’s work. They can do every kind of work and devise designs.”
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