36Exodus 36

1“Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other workers to whom the Lord has given skill and understanding, who know how to make everything needed to build the sacred Tent, are to make everything just as the Lord has commanded.”Select Exodus 36:1

The People Bring Many Gifts

2Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled men to whom the Lord had given ability and who were willing to help, and Moses told them to start working.Select Exodus 36:2

3They received from him all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for constructing the sacred Tent. But the people of Israel continued to bring Moses their offerings every morning.Select Exodus 36:3

4Then the skilled men who were doing the work wentSelect Exodus 36:4

5and told Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the work which the Lord commanded to be done.”Select Exodus 36:5

6So Moses sent a command throughout the camp that no one was to make any further contribution for the sacred Tent; so the people did not bring any more.Select Exodus 36:6

7What had already been brought was more than enough to finish all the work.Select Exodus 36:7

Making the Tent of the 's Presence

8The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of the Lord's presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures.Select Exodus 36:8

9Each piece was the same size, 14 yards long and 2 yards wide.Select Exodus 36:9

10They sewed five of them together in one set and did the same with the other five.Select Exodus 36:10

11They made loops of blue cloth on the edge of the outside piece in each set.Select Exodus 36:11

12They put fifty loops on the first piece of the first set and fifty loops matching them on the last piece of the second set.Select Exodus 36:12

13They made fifty gold hooks, with which to join the two sets into one piece.Select Exodus 36:13

14Then they made a cover for the Tent out of eleven pieces of cloth made of goats' hair.Select Exodus 36:14

15They made them all the same size, 15 yards long and 2 yards wide.Select Exodus 36:15

16They sewed five of them together in one set and the other six in another set.Select Exodus 36:16

17They put fifty loops on the edge of the last piece of one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other set.Select Exodus 36:17

18They made fifty bronze hooks to join the two sets, so as to form one cover.Select Exodus 36:18

19They made two more coverings, one of rams' skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, to serve as an outer cover.Select Exodus 36:19

20They made upright frames of acacia wood for the Tent.Select Exodus 36:20

21Each frame was 15 feet tall and 27 inches wide,Select Exodus 36:21

22with two matching projections, so that the frames could be joined together. All the frames had these projections.Select Exodus 36:22

23They made twenty frames for the south sideSelect Exodus 36:23

24and forty silver bases to go under them, two bases under each frame to hold its two projections.Select Exodus 36:24

25They made twenty frames for the north side of the TentSelect Exodus 36:25

26and forty silver bases, two under each frame.Select Exodus 36:26

27For the back of the Tent, on the west, they made six framesSelect Exodus 36:27

28and two frames for the corners.Select Exodus 36:28

29These corner frames were joined at the bottom and connected all the way to the top. The two frames that formed the two corners were made in this way.Select Exodus 36:29

30So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases, two under each frame.Select Exodus 36:30

31They made fifteen crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the Tent,Select Exodus 36:31

32five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames on the west end, at the back.Select Exodus 36:32

33The middle crossbar, set halfway up the frames, extended from one end of the Tent to the other.Select Exodus 36:33

34They covered the frames with gold and fitted them with gold rings to hold the crossbars, which were also covered with gold.Select Exodus 36:34

35They made a curtain of fine linen, woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered it with figures of winged creatures.Select Exodus 36:35

36They made four posts of acacia wood to hold the curtain, covered them with gold, and fitted them with gold hooks. Then they made four silver bases to hold the posts.Select Exodus 36:36

37For the entrance of the Tent they made a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery.Select Exodus 36:37

38For this curtain they made five posts fitted with hooks, covered their tops and their rods with gold, and made five bronze bases for the posts.Select Exodus 36:38