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Exodus 31

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¹ to devise artistic designs to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

² and in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, for work in every skilled craft.

³ He has also put in Bezalel's heart [the willingness] to teach [others the same skills], both he and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

⁴ He has filled them with skill to do the work of an engraver, of a designer, and of an embroiderer, in blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and in fine linen, and of a weaver; makers of every work and embroiderers of [excellent] designs.

⁵ "Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skilled person in whom the LORD has put ability and understanding to know how to do all the work in the construction of the sanctuary, shall work according to all that the LORD has commanded."

⁶ So Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the LORD had put ability, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to do the work.

⁷ They received from Moses all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for the construction of the sanctuary, to prepare it for service. And they continued to bring him freewill (voluntary) offerings every morning.

⁸ And all the skilled men who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came, each one from the work which he was doing,

⁹ and they said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the LORD commanded us to do."

¹⁰ So Moses issued a command, and it was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the sanctuary offering." So the people were restrained from bringing anything more;

¹¹ for the material they had was sufficient and more than enough to do all the work.

¹² All the skilled men among them who were doing the work on the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, with cherubim [worked into them], the work of an embroiderer, Bezalel made them.

¹³ Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were one size.

¹⁴ Bezalel joined five curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains he joined one to another.

¹⁵ He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set; he also did this on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second set.

¹⁶ He made fifty loops in the one curtain [of the first set] and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.

¹⁷ He made fifty gold hooks and joined the curtains together with the hooks, so that the tabernacle became a unit.

¹⁸ Then he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.

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1	to devise artistic designs to work in gold, silver, and bronze,
2	and in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, for work in every skilled craft.
3	He has also put in Bezalel's heart [the willingness] to teach [others the same skills], both he and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
4	He has filled them with skill to do the work of an engraver, of a designer, and of an embroiderer, in blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and in fine linen, and of a weaver; makers of every work and embroiderers of [excellent] designs.
5	"Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skilled person in whom the LORD has put ability and understanding to know how to do all the work in the construction of the sanctuary, shall work according to all that the LORD has commanded."
6	So Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the LORD had put ability, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to do the work.
7	They received from Moses all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for the construction of the sanctuary, to prepare it for service. And they continued to bring him freewill (voluntary) offerings every morning.
8	And all the skilled men who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came, each one from the work which he was doing,
9	and they said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the LORD commanded us to do."
10	So Moses issued a command, and it was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the sanctuary offering." So the people were restrained from bringing anything more;
11	for the material they had was sufficient and more than enough to do all the work.
12	All the skilled men among them who were doing the work on the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, with cherubim [worked into them], the work of an embroiderer, Bezalel made them.
13	Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were one size.
14	Bezalel joined five curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains he joined one to another.
15	He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set; he also did this on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second set.
16	He made fifty loops in the one curtain [of the first set] and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.
17	He made fifty gold hooks and joined the curtains together with the hooks, so that the tabernacle became a unit.
18	Then he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.

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