Exodus 36

1 “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with
every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding
to know how to do all the work for the
service of the sanctuary, according to all
that Yahweh has commanded.”

2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and
every wise-hearted man, in whose heart
Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone
whose heart stirred him up to come to the
work to do it.

3 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had
brought for the work of the service of the
sanctuary, with which to make it. They
kept bringing free will offerings to him
every morning.

4 All the wise men, who performed all
the work of the sanctuary, each came from
his work which he did.

5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough
for the service of the work which Yahweh
commanded to make.”

6 Moses gave a commandment, and they
caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor
woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were
restrained from bringing.

7 For the stuff they had was sufficient to
do all the work, and too much.

8 All the wise-hearted men among those
who did the work made the tabernacle
withtencurtains offine twinedlinen, blue,
purple, and scarlet. They made them with
cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

9 The length of each curtain was twentyeight cubits,† and the width of each curtain
four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.

10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

11 He made loops of blue on the edge
of the one curtain from the edge in the
coupling. Likewise he made in the edge
of the curtain that was outermost in the
second coupling.

12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain,
and he made fifty loops in the edge of the
curtain that was in the second coupling.
The loops were opposite to one another.

13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the
clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.

14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a
covering over the tabernacle. He made
them eleven curtains.

15 The length of each curtain was thirty
cubits, and four cubits the width of each
curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.

16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

17 He made fifty loops on the edge of
the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge
of the curtain which was outermost in the
second coupling.

18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.

19 He made a covering for the tent of
rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea
cow hides above.