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1 Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things the LORD has commanded you to do:
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And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.
2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.
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Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.
3 Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
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No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
4 Moses said to the whole Israelite community, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
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And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:
5 From what you have, take an offering for the LORD. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the LORD an offering of gold, silver and bronze;
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Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;
6 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
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And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,
7 ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather ; acacia wood;
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And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,
8 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
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And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.
9 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
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And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.
10 “All who are skilled among you are to come and make everything the LORD has commanded:
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And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;
11 the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
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The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;
12 the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;
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The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;
13 the table with its poles and all its articles and the bread of the Presence;
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The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread;
14 the lampstand that is for light with its accessories, lamps and oil for the light;
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And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;
15 the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
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And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;
16 the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils; the bronze basin with its stand;
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The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;
17 the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
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The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;
18 the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, and their ropes;
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The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;
19 the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”
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The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.
20 Then the whole Israelite community withdrew from Moses’ presence,
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And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.
21 and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
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And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.
22 All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold jewelry of all kinds: brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments. They all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
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They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.
23 Everyone who had blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen, or goat hair, ram skins dyed red or the other durable leather brought them.
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And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them.
24 Those presenting an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the LORD, and everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the work brought it.
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Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.
25 Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun—blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen.
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And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.
26 And all the women who were willing and had the skill spun the goat hair.
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And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.
27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
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And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag;
28 They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
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And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.
29 All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the LORD freewill offerings for all the work the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
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The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.
30 Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
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And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—
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And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;
32 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,
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As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;
33 to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts.
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Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.
34 And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.
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And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.
35 He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers—all of them skilled workers and designers.
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To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.
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