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Exodus 36
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1And 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.
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.”
2And 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.
2Moses 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.
3And they received from Moses all the offerings, which the children of Israel brought for all the works of the sanctuaryto do them; and they continued to receive the gifts brought, from those who brought them in the morning.
3They 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.
4And there came all the wise menwho wrought the works of the sanctuary, each according to his own work, which they wrought.
4All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
5And 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.
5They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”
6And 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.
6Moses 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.
7And they had materials sufficient for making the furniture, and they left some besides.
7For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
8And 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.
8All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
9And he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined .
9He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
10And 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;
10They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
11shoulder-pieces joined from both sides, a work woven by mutual twisting of the parts into one another.
11They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.
12They made itof 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;
12The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
13and 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;
13They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
14and he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, [as] stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.
14He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
15And 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 .
15He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
16They made the oracle square [and] double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, —double.
16It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double.
17And 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;
17They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
18and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphireand jasper;
18and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
19and the third row, a ligure and agateand amethyst;
19and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20and the fourth rowa chrysolite and beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and fastened with gold .
20and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
21And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their nameslike seals, each according to his own namefor the twelve tribes.
21The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
22And they made on the oracle turned wreaths, wreathen work, of pure gold,
22They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
23and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.
23They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
24And they put the two golden rings on both the [upper] corners of the oracle;
24They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
25and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the two wreaths into the two couplings.
25The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.
26And they put them on the two circlets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod opposite [each other] in front.
26They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
27And 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.
27They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
28And 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.
28They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
29And 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.
29He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
30And they made the tunic under the ephod, woven work, all of blue.
30He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
31And the opening of the tunic in the midst woven closely together, the opening having a fringe round about, that it might not be torn.
31The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
32And 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 .
32They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
33And they made golden bells , and put the bells on the border of the tunic round about between the pomegranates:
33They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
34a golden bell and a pomegranate on the border of the tunic round about, for the ministration, as the Lord commanded Moses.
34a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
35And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,
35They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
36and the tires of fine linen, and the mitre of fine linen, and the drawers of fine linen twined;
36the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
37and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.
37the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
38And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold;
38They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.
39and he wrote upon it graven letters [as] of a seal, Holiness to the Lord.
39They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40And they put it on the border of blue, so that it should be on the mitre above, as the Lord commanded Moses.
40Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.