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1 "Let Bezalel, Oholiab, and every other skilled worker whom the LORD has given skill, ability, and knowledge for the work of building the sanctuary do all that the LORD has commanded."
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Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful one to whom the Lord has given skill and understanding to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.
2 Moses then called together Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the LORD had given skill and who was eager to come and do the work.
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Moses then called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful one to whom the Lord had given skill, everyone whose heart was stirred to come to do the work;
3 Moses gave them all the gift offerings that the Israelites had contributed to the work on the sanctuary. They kept bringing him spontaneous gifts, morning after morning.
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and they received from Moses all the freewill offerings that the Israelites had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,
4 Finally, all the skilled workers building the sanctuary left their work that they were doing one by one to come
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so that all the artisans who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task being performed,
5 and say to Moses, "The people are contributing way too much material for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do."
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and said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do."
6 So Moses issued a command that was proclaimed throughout the camp: "Every man and woman should stop making gift offerings for the sanctuary project." So the people stopped bringing anything more
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So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp: "No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing;
7 because what they had already brought was more than enough to do all the work.
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for what they had already brought was more than enough to do all the work.
8 All the skilled workers made the dwelling out of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and deep red yarns, with figures of winged heavenly creatures worked into their design.
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All those with skill among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains; they were made of fine twisted linen, and blue, purple, and crimson yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
9 Each curtain was forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All the curtains were the same size.
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The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains were of the same size.
10 They joined five of the curtains to each other and joined the other five curtains to each other.
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He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.
11 They made loops of blue thread on the edge of the outer curtain of the first set. They did the same on the edge of the outer curtain of the second set.
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He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set;
12 They made fifty loops on the one curtain and fifty loops on the outer curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite each other.
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he made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.
13 They also made fifty gold clasps, and they used the clasps to join the curtains to each other so that the dwelling was one whole structure.
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And he made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains one to the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole.
14 They also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the dwelling. They made eleven curtains.
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He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
15 Each curtain was forty-five feet long and each curtain six feet wide. All eleven curtains were the same size.
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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were of the same size.
16 They joined five curtains together and the six other curtains together.
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He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 They made fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain of the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other set of curtains.
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He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.
18 They made fifty copper clasps to join the tent together so that it would be one whole structure.
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He made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together so that it might be one whole.
19 They also made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and an outer covering of beaded leather.
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And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and an outer covering of fine leather.
20 Then they made acacia-wood boards to stand upright as a frame for the dwelling.
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Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
21 Each board was fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.
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Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the width of each frame.
22 Each board had two pegs for joining them to each other. They did this for all the dwelling's boards.
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Each frame had two pegs for fitting together; he did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
23 They made twenty boards for the dwelling's southern side.
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The frames for the tabernacle he made in this way: twenty frames for the south side;
24 They made forty silver bases under the twenty boards, with two bases under the first board for its two pegs, two bases under the next board for its two pegs, and so on.
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and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under the first frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs.
25 For the dwelling's other side on the north, they made twenty boards
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For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames
26 and forty silver bases, two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
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and their forty bases of silver, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next frame.
27 For the back of the dwelling on the west, they made six boards.
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For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.
28 They made two additional boards for the dwelling's rear corners.
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He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.
29 They were spread out at the bottom but joined together at the top with one ring. In this way, these two boards formed the two corners.
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They were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; he made two of them in this way, for the two corners.
30 And so there were eight boards with their sixteen silver bases, with two bases under every board.
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There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.
31 They also made acacia-wood bars: five for the boards on one side of the dwelling,
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He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
32 five bars for the boards on the other side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards on the back wall of the dwelling on the west.
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and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
33 They made the middle bar, which was halfway up the boards, run from one end to the other.
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He made the middle bar to pass through from end to end halfway up the frames.
34 They covered the boards with gold. They made gold rings to house the bars and covered the bars with gold.
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And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made rings of gold for them to hold the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 They made the veil of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen, with figures of winged heavenly creatures worked into its design.
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He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
36 They made for it four acacia-wood posts covered in gold with gold hooks and cast four silver bases for them.
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For it he made four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.
37 They made a screen for the entrance to the tent of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen, decorated with needlework.
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He also made a screen for the entrance to the tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework;
38 They made its five posts with hooks. They covered their tops and bands with gold, but made their five bases out of copper.
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and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their bases with gold, but their five bases were of bronze.
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