Exodus 36

1 And Beseleel wrought, and Eliab and every one wise in understanding, to whom was given wisdom and knowledge, to understand to do all the works according to the holy offices, according to all things which the Lord appointed.

So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

2 And Moses called Beseleel and Eliab, and all that had wisdom, to whom God gave knowledge in [their] heart, and all who were freely willing to come forward to the works, to perform them.

Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

3 And they received from Moses all the offerings, which the children of Israel brought for all the works of the sanctuary to do them; and they continued to receive the gifts brought, from those who brought them in the morning.

And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

4 And there came all the wise men who wrought the works of the sanctuary, each according to his own work, which they wrought.

Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;

5 And one said to Moses, The people bring an abundance [too great] in proportion to all the works which the Lord has appointed [them] to do.

And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

6 And Moses commanded, and proclaimed in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman any longer labor for the offerings of the sanctuary; and the people were restrained from bringing any more.

So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.

7 And they had materials sufficient for making the furniture, and they left some besides.

For the material they had was enough and more than enough for all the work which had to be done.

8 And every wise one among those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

9 And he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

10 And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work;

And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together.

11 shoulder-pieces joined from both sides, a work woven by mutual twisting of the parts into one another.

And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group.

12 They made it of the same material according to the making of it, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, as the Lord commanded Moses;

Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another.

13 and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;

And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.

14 and he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, [as] stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.

And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made.

15 And they made the oracle, a work woven with embroidery, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

16 They made the oracle square [and] double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, —double.

Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.

17 And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;

And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group,

18 and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;

And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.

19 and the third row, a ligure and agate and amethyst;

And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.

20 and the fourth row a chrysolite and beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and fastened with gold.

And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

21 And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.

The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

22 And they made on the oracle turned wreaths, wreathen work, of pure gold,

Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.

23 and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.

They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:

24 And they put the two golden rings on both the [upper] corners of the oracle;

And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.

25 and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the two wreaths into the two couplings.

And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards,

26 And they put them on the two circlets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod opposite [each other] in front.

With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board.

27 And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two projections on the top of the oracle, and on the top of the hinder part of the ephod within.

And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,

28 And they made two golden rings, and put them on both the shoulders of the ephod under it, in front by the coupling above the connexion of the ephod.

And two boards for the angles at the back.

29 And he fastened the oracle by the rings that were on it to the rings of the ephod, which were fastened with [a string] of blue, joined together with the woven work of the ephod; that the oracle should not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.

These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles.

30 And they made the tunic under the ephod, woven work, all of blue.

So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board.

31 And the opening of the tunic in the midst woven closely together, the opening having a fringe round about, that it might not be tore.

And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,

32 And they made on the border of the tunic below pomegranates as of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west.

33 And they made golden bells, and put the bells on the border of the tunic round about between the pomegranates:

The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other.

34 a golden bell and a pomegranate on the border of the tunic round about, for the ministration, as the Lord commanded Moses.

All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

35 And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,

And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

36 and the tires of fine linen, and the mitre of fine linen, and the drawers of fine linen twined;

And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

37 and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

38 And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold;

And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

39 and he wrote upon it graven letters [as] of a seal, Holiness to the Lord.

40 And they put it on the border of blue, so that it should be on the mitre above, as the Lord commanded Moses.