CHAPTER 36

²And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every wise-hearted man in whose heart the LORD had given wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him, to approach the task to do it. ³And they took from before Moses all the donation that the Israelites had brought for the task of the holy work to do it, and they on their part brought more freewill gifts morning after morning. ⁴And all the wise people who were doing the holy task came, each man from his task that he was doing. ⁵And they said to Moses, saying, “The people are bringing too much for the work of the task that the LORD charged to do.” ⁶And Moses charged, and they sent word through the camp, saying, “Let each man and woman do no further task for the holy donation,” and the people were held back from bringing. ⁷And the task was enough to do all the task, and more.

⁸And every wise-hearted man among the doers of the task made the Tabernacle—ten panels of twisted linen, and indigo and purple and crimson, two cherubim, designer’s work, they made them. ⁹The length of the one panel twenty-eight cubits and a width four cubits to the panel, a single measure for all the panels. ¹⁰And they joined the five panels one to another, five panels they joined one to another. ¹¹And they made indigo loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the set, and thus they did on the outermost panel in the other set. ¹²Fifty loops they made in the one panel, and fifty loops they made in the outermost panel which was in the other set, the loops opposite one another. ¹³And they made fifty golden clasps and joined the panels to one another with the clasps, and the Tabernacle became one whole. ¹⁴And they made goat-hair panels for a tent over the Tabernacle, eleven panels they made them. ¹⁵The length of the one panel, thirty cubits, and a width of four cubits to the panel, a single measure for the eleven panels. ¹⁶And they joined five of the panels by themselves and six of the panels by themselves. ¹⁷And they made fifty loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the set, and fifty loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the other set. ¹⁸And they made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent to become one whole. ¹⁹And they made a covering for the tent of reddened ram skins and a covering of ocher-dyed skins above. ²⁰And they made boards for the Tabernacle of acacia wood, upright. ²¹Ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of the single board. ²²Two tenons for the one board linked to each other, thus they did for all the boards of the Tabernacle. ²³And they made the boards for the Tabernacle, twenty boards for the southern end. ²⁴And forty silver sockets they made beneath the twenty boards, two sockets beneath the one board for its two tenons and two sockets beneath the one board for its two tenons. ²⁵And in the other side of the Tabernacle at the northern end, twenty boards. ²⁶And their forty silver sockets, two sockets beneath the one board and two sockets beneath the one board. ²⁷And at the rear of the Tabernacle to the west they made six boards. ²⁸And they made two boards for the corners of the Tabernacle at the rear. ²⁹And they matched below, and together they ended at the top inside the one ring, thus they did for the two of them, at the two corners. ³⁰And there were eight boards with their silver sockets, sixteen sockets, two sockets beneath the one board. ³¹And they made five crossbars of acacia wood for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle. ³²And five crossbars for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and five crossbars for the boards of the Tabernacle at the rear to the west. ³³And they made the central crossbar to shoot through the boards from end to end. ³⁴And the boards they overlaid with gold, and their rings they made of gold, housings for the crossbars, and they overlaid the crossbars with gold. ³⁵And they made the curtain of indigo and purple and crimson and twisted linen, designer’s work they made it, with cherubim. ³⁶And they made for it four acacia posts and overlaid them with gold, their hooks gold, and they cast for them four silver sockets. ³⁷And they made a screen for the entrance of the tent, indigo and purple and crimson and twisted linen, embroiderer’s work, ³⁸and its five posts and its hooks, and they overlaid their tops and their bands with gold, and their five sockets with bronze.