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1 "Bezalel and Oholiab, along with everyone whom God has given the skill and know-how for making everything involved in the worship of the Sanctuary as commanded by God, are to start to work."
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Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
2 Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab along with all whom God had gifted with the ability to work skillfully with their hands. The men were eager to get started and engage in the work.
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And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
3 They took from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought for the work of constructing the Sanctuary. The people kept on bringing in their freewill offerings, morning after morning.
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And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
4 All the artisans who were at work making everything involved in constructing the Sanctuary came, one after another,
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And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
5 to Moses, saying, "The people are bringing more than enough for doing this work that God has commanded us to do!"
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And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
6 So Moses sent out orders through the camp: "Men! Women! No more offerings for the building of the Sanctuary!"
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And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
7 There was plenty of material for all the work to be done. Enough and more than enough. The Tapestries
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For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
8 Then all the skilled artisans on The Dwelling made ten tapestries of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric with an angel-cherubim design worked into the material.
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And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
9 Each panel of tapestry was forty-six feet long and six feet wide.
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The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
10 Five of the panels were joined together, and then the other five.
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And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
11 Loops of blue were made along the edge of the outside panel of the first set, and the same on the outside panel of the second set.
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And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
12 They made fifty loops on each panel, with the loops opposite each other.
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Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
13 Then they made fifty gold clasps and joined the tapestries together so that The Dwelling was one whole.
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And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
14 Next they made tapestries of woven goat hair for a tent that would cover The Dwelling. They made eleven panels of these tapestries.
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And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
15 The length of each panel was forty-five feet long and six feet wide.
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The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
16 They joined five of the panels together, and then the other six,
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And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 by making fifty loops along the edge of the end panel and fifty loops along the edge of the joining panel,
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And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
18 then making fifty clasps of bronze, connecting the clasps to the loops, bringing the tent together.
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And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
19 They finished it off by covering the tapestries with tanned rams' skins dyed red, and covered that with dolphin skins. The Framing
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And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
20 They framed The Dwelling with vertical planks of acacia wood,
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And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
21 each section of frame fifteen feet long and two and a quarter feet wide,
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The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
22 with two pegs for securing them. They made all the frames identical:
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One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 twenty frames for the south side,
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And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
24 with forty silver sockets to receive the two tenons from each of the twenty frames;
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And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
25 they repeated that construction on the north side of The Dwelling.
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And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
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And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
27 For the rear of The Dwelling facing west, they made six frames,
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And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
28 with two additional frames for the rear corners.
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And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
29 Both of the two corner frames were double in thickness from top to bottom and fit into a single ring
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And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30 - eight frames altogether with sixteen sockets of silver, two under each frame.
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And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
31 They made crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of The Dwelling,
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And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
32 five for the other side, and five for the back side facing west.
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And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
33 The center crossbar ran from end to end halfway up the frames.
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And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
34 They covered the frames with a veneer of gold, made gold rings to hold the crossbars, and covered the crossbars with a veneer of gold.
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And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 They made the curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. They wove a design of angel-cherubim into it.
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And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
36 They made four posts of acacia wood, covered them with a veneer of gold, and cast four silver bases for them.
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And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
37 They made a screen for the door of the tent, woven from blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen with embroidery.
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And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
38 They framed the weaving with five poles of acacia wood covered with a veneer of gold, and made gold hooks to hang the weaving and five bronze bases for the poles.
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And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
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