Exodus Chapter 36
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Exodus 36:1 “Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded.”
Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
Exodus 36:3 And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,
Exodus 36:4 so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,
Exodus 36:5 and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do.”
Exodus 36:6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing,
Exodus 36:7 for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.
Exodus 36:8 And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked.
Exodus 36:9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.
Exodus 36:10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
Exodus 36:11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.
Exodus 36:12 He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another.
Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a single whole.
Exodus 36:14 He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains.
Exodus 36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size.
Exodus 36:16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Exodus 36:17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.
Exodus 36:18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole.
Exodus 36:19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.
Exodus 36:20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.
Exodus 36:22 Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
Exodus 36:23 The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side.